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One day as I was laying down listening to quiet thoughts roaming through my mind, it occurred to me what a terrible price we Christians have had to pay for the long Season of Apathy we have been in. We have shown apathy over our responsibility to be a Light in a world full of darkness. We have demonstrated apathy in answering the prayer of our Savior that we would become one body of believers having different labels (members), yet united by Love, with Christ alone as the Head of the body (not some dumb “Religious” label) . We are guilty of apathy in being a witness to those in the bondage of “religion.” We have failed to demonstrate that sons and daughters of God have within the “power” to live daily in “Relationship,” not religion (with God), as His redeemed sons and daughters.

Sadly, we have shown to God apathy over the use of our wonderful gift of Faith, even though warned that Faith without works is dead. Lastly, and most importantly, we have succumbed to apathy in seeking to gain, and once gaining, to use the power of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire. This Season of Apathy has allowed satan opportunities to deceive spirits and claim souls on a level as never before. This has happened not only in America but in countries around the world. I can best relate to that which has occurred in my own country. However, I am certain readers in other countries will find the problems to be similar, because it is the same prince of darkness who we, by our apathy, have allowed to corrupt the spirit and soul of our brothers and sisters living with us in this world.

The list is long, so I will mention only a few of the problems our apathy has permitted to permeate throughout our society. Let’s start off with immorality. Sources of immorality abound in America today like never before. Sex for self gratification only, having nothing to do with love, commitment, procreation and marriage, is being preached from every pulpit (media) satan can find. In far too many movies, on television, radio, music, and on college campuses - satan has become an honored guest speaker. Our college students, supposedly being taught to be smart, are being told there is no “scientific evidence” to prove God exists. But “great” is the evidence of evolution. To the student who all of his or her life has been taught only “powerless religion” and/or “bigoted label worship;” to whom the Ten Commandments are just words written on blocks of stone; the sound of such ignorant teaching appears to ring true (even though it is a lie straight from satan).

Losing belief that God and His Commandments are relevant to their life, students go in for binge drinking, and other immoral acts. Without being taught or willing to crucify the lust of the flesh; satan has his way with those who lack a loving relationship with Father God, and the indwelling presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit. To any who might choose to scoff at this as a joke, please allow me to enlighten you? Allowing satan to lead you around by the nose is not a sign of intelligence! Listening to self proclaimed “experts” teaching lies as truth - is a game played by dummies! Worse yet are parents willing to pay salaries to ignorant people whose goal and desire is to destroy their sons’ or daughters’ belief in that which is important, true, and necessary to their successful entry into eternity.

Even our little children are daily exposed to seeing and hearing on television and in movies, cartoon characters that talk with the mouth of spiritual morons. Ignorant foul-mouth cartoon characters would never have been tolerated by parents when I was growing up. Neither would all the satanic (”music”?) groups and immoral lyrics in would be “songs.” Why would this not be tolerated by parents then, yet widely accepted by parents today? I believe it is because my parents, when they were growing up, were taught to have a strong sense of giving worship, praise, and honor to God; actually fearing God (giving Him the reverence He is due). I am speaking of the God under Whose authority and guidance America’s founders sought in establishing the greatest country in the world. In the founding days of America, satan’s little phony gods were not prevalent in society, as they are today. The Founders of America believed correctly in their heart, the One True God is and should be the ONLY source of America’s strength and protection.

Today we have parents who have had drummed into their head the motto, “it’s a free country! Duh, what can I do?” Their belief in this slogan allows them to feel “free” to have an attitude of apathy over diseases of immorality, violence, and crime being spread by those whose lives are in service to satan. Diseases having a devastating effect on the quality and happiness of not only their own life, but the life their children will live. Diseases such as casual sex, which leads to unwed mothers, AIDS, venereal diseases and acceptance of the idea of an “alternate lifestyles” (homosexuality) which God calls an abomination in His sight. Equally an abomination are mothers willing to pay a “hit man or woman” to murder the innocent little baby in their womb. None of these diseases will give your child an abundant life, neither here or in eternity! As satan desires, such diseases will only steal an abundant life from them.

When I was a child there were many childhood diseases; polio perhaps being one of the worst. But thanks be to God, people chose to fight back against such diseases. Money was donated for research, and dedicated doctors and scientists sought out a cure. These efforts were not in vain, for one day God provided a man by the name of Jonas Salk.

Polio, that horrible disease was still out there, lingering, looking for opportunity to harm its victims. But it was unable to harm me and millions of other kids like me. You see, my parents loved me. Because of their love, they made sure I received the necessary medical help to make me immune to the ravages of polio. Not just me, they also loved those less fortunate. My parents, like millions of others, donated money, helping raise funds for poor children to receive the same immunity I had.

Today satan has many devastating diseases affecting the lives of men, women, and children of all ages. But these diseases are not physical, they are spiritual. They harm the mind, heart, soul, and spirit of those whose life a Holy God created to be His children. You need to understand this well…God Loves His Children! He has provided in His Word not only a cure, but also a way to immunize and protect His children from every immoral disease satan would try to attack them with. God’s cure is the Blood of Jesus. His immunization plan is as follows: to all receiving Jesus as their Savior, He sends the power of His Holy Spirit to dwell within. Under the Holy Spirit’s guidance we are able to recognize and reject every foul plan of satan to destroy our spiritual health. We receive immunity from being a slave to sin, as we were before becoming born again.

Yes parents, today the diseases are of a spiritual and not just physical nature. But just as in fighting physical diseases, my parents needed more than love and money. They needed someone possessing the proper training and skills to administer the medication needed to make me immune. In spiritual warfare there is a difference. You do not need to hire one with special training and skills. God makes it possible for you to become the one with the skill to administer that which is needed. You need only to diligently study God’s Word asking the Holy Spirit Who dwells within, to teach and use you, as He makes your body His temple. You also must faithfully attend and support a Spirit Filled Church, one not offering powerless “religion,” but the POWER of having the Kingdom of God within! (The Kingdom of God consists of Righteousness, Peace, and Joy, in the Holy Spirit).

The Holy Spirit is not for hire. But still there is a price each must be willing to pay to become immunized. You must crucify the will of your flesh and yield your spirit (your will) to the wisdom and guidance of the Holy Spirit (God’s Will). Once you do this, you will no longer be suppressed by a powerless “religion.” You will come to share a powerful and loving “relationship” with your Father in Heaven. You will come to understand the meaning of “God is Love.” The power of His Love will be within you 24 hours a day. This Love will give you not only the training and skill to immunize yourself, but also help you pass it along to your children as well. This Love will give you the drive and desire to see that children whose parents give no love or spiritual guidance to them, will be treated with the kind of Love which will make them immune as well.

For those of you who are in need of a diagram, I’m saying--wake up! Speak Out! Come out of your apathy and take a stand for morality! When I was a child, parents loved their children. They would never consider saying, “Duh, it’s a free country - what can I do?” They would have sent immorality back into hell, where it belongs! So called “music” consisting of sick and satanic messages would not have been tolerated being sold in stores. My parents would have seriously boycotted doing business with stores wishing to sell this kind of garbage. Store owners knew the quickest way of going out of business would be trying to distribute this junk to little Carlote and other children. My parents and other parents would have seen to it! NO IF’S, AND’S, OR BUT’S!

My question to the parents of today is - do you really LOVE your children? If you truly LOVE your children and your neighbor as yourself, you won’t run away from your responsibility. Insist that immorality be sent back into the pits of Hell! America was founded to be a nation under God. But today, God has been told in so many ways to “get lost!” Apathy has permitted false “empty headed” gods of satan and man, to try to usurp the authority which was given to the One True God alone! This APATHY, and the cost of it, has caused God to take His hand of Divine Providence off of America. What will it take to shake America out of its apathy? For awhile, the heinous acts of evil in September of 2001 caused many in America to turn back to God. Churches began to fill empty pews. As time passed, the fickleness of man caused complacency to set in. Apathy is once again the norm. I have seen in dreams what lies ahead and it’s not pretty. You will see this is so, as you read chapters eight and twelve of this book. See for yourself what reward the lukewarm shall receive.

The Love of God holds the cure to every form of evil in this world. God’s Love, offered through Jesus, His Son, can minister the necessary immunization to keep evil from spreading. The Love of God must be seen in our life. Being born again is not some cute slogan. It is a powerful way of life, which no “religion” on earth can give you. It is the wisdom and the power needed to follow the path of Jesus as you share a loving “Relationship” with your Heavenly Father. If we are born of the Spirit, let us then walk in the Spirit! (Galatians 5, vs. 22-25) Love was the factor motivating my parents to see that I and other children were immunized against devastating physical diseases. Back then, that same love helped prevent satan from spreading spiritual diseases at will. Parents of today your love (the kind which comes from your love and reverence toward God) is needed to immunize your children and others from the devastating spiritual diseases now harming so many lives in our country.

We have paid, and are paying, so heavy a price for our season of apathy. It is time for that season to come to a rapid end! Let those in America and around the world see a new season, one without end. A new season of the power, majesty, and the Love of God being made manifest in the lives of His redeemed sons and daughters. It is time we by the power of love, put these immoral disease carrying brothers and sisters in their place. Their place is not in our movies, on T.V., radio, in our books, music, nor in our college campuses! Their place is a place of repentance, because they will see how Holy is our God and Father. Their place is at the altar of repentance, being cured by the redemptive power of Jesus!

Our colleges need young men and women capable of teaching truth to teachers and fellow students who have believed in the lies of satan. Men and women whose lives, more than just their voice, say to those in darkness--God Is! He lives inside of me! God “evolved” into my life the day I kicked satan and his lying demons out. The day I welcomed Jesus, and the Spirit of Truth into my life to be Lord, Savior, Deliverer, Healer, Conqueror, and source of Wisdom; was the best day of my life!

You teachers who so proudly put your faith in “evolution,” I challenge you! Can you sincerely make the effort to allow God to “evolve” into your life? I realize for some it is a difficult thing to believe there could possibly be a God who knows more than you. Yet satan, whom you also do not believe exists, has already proven he knows more than you. He knows how to feed your ego, causing you to reject knowing and loving your Heavenly Father, who created you. Finding if God is real is actually a simple thing. First, you must believe God exists. God has made this easy for you: to everyone God has given the gift of faith. You may have foolishly tossed it away or hidden it in some dark closet of your mind. But if you will just use your gift, you will be half way there. The only other step is to believe God is a rewarder of those who will diligently seek Him.

The only way to put what I have said to the test will require you to diligently pursue God. Get a copy of a Christian (beware of cult) Bible. Study it (especially the New Testament) just as you studied to receive certification in your chosen field. You may run across some things you find hard to understand. If you do, simply get in touch with one of those “Spirit Filled,” “born again” Christians you have in your class. Ask him or her to help explain the meaning of what you are having difficulty understanding

Perhaps you have no “born again” Christian to ask or it might seem a little too embarrassing to ask a student to enlighten you. If this is your predicament, do not despair. All you need do is humble yourself before God. Go to your knees and pray for the Holy Spirit, Who inspired the writing of God’s Word, to reveal its meaning to you. Sound foolish to you? Come on, go ahead and try it! But you must ask sincerely, as one truly seeking to know the Truth. Remember it is the Spirit of Truth you are seeking answers from. If pride or unbelief keeps you from being sincere, you will not receive the answer.

If in your prayers you sincerely request wisdom and knowledge from above, as you study God’s Word and faithfully attend a Spirit filled church; I can promise you will be blessed beyond your wildest dreams. I speak from experience. How do you think I get the material for my books? I can tell you it’s certainly not from the limited wisdom of my flesh. All of the spiritual books I have been granted privilege of writing, came in answer to a simple prayer and plea from my heart. “Please Lord, before I must die, use me for Your honor and glory.”

The challenge I bring to everyone engaged in the profession of being a teacher is clear. If you take pride in wearing the label “teacher,” you must know that to be worthy of respect you must always strive to teach only the truth, never falsehoods. With the Spirit of Truth residing within you, this will be no difficult task. However, apart from Him you will be open to receive and pass along the lies and deceptions of satan. You worked so diligently to seek a diploma which certifies that you are qualified to teach. Yet that diploma is flawed in its statement if you are unable to teach the truth. Also, that diploma will eventually perish. But if you will work as diligently seeking the Spirit of Truth, you will end up having a power and a wisdom no piece of paper could ever grant to you. Far beyond that, the warm loving relationship with your Father God you will come to know will follow you into eternity.

My friends, it is time for all of us to be diligently seeking wisdom, power, and guidance from the Holy Spirit to rule and reign in our lives. You cannot have apathy and diligently seek God. You cannot have apathy toward the lies of satan, when you are filled with the Spirit of Truth. You also cannot watch helplessly as the soul of your brother is drowning in sin - if you have the Love of God “alive” within your heart. Today is the time for the Bride of Christ to shine as “one,” united in love, body of believers! I feel as if God has chosen to use me as a second generation John the Baptist. He is using me to SHOUT this message to both the church and the lost: JESUS, the Messiah, will soon be returning to claim His Bride! Make STRAIGHT the path of the LORD!

There will be those who will listen and be motivated to act on these warnings. There will be those who will hear only, get briefly excited; but then quickly fall back into Apathy. Sadly, there also will be those who will choose to laugh and scoff at these warnings. These last two are the ones I have seen in the darkened cell in my dreams. May God help them keep the gift of Faith alive during their days of persecution! Lastly, there will be those who hate the Word of God being made manifest by the Spirit of Truth. From darkened hearts that have waxed cold, they have made the decision to call the prince of darkness - master. Yet the writings in every one of my books reach out to them in God’s Love, offering them a chance to reject death and darkness and come to the Life and Light of God and His Love while there is still time to do so.

To every reader I would ask that you pray to God for me. The journey He has given me is not an easy road to travel on. Please pray for God to strengthen my spirit to withstand the attacks of satan. Also, to guide my steps, least I stray in any way from the path He has given me to follow. My job is to attack satan and his kingdom of darkness. My goal is to use the Light of God’s Love to free lost spirits from the kingdom of darkness. I hope and pray everyone choosing to wear the label “Christian,” realizes this job is not mine alone. It is your job, and should be your goal as well. God has given us all of the defensive protection we need in battle. He has entrusted us with the Sword of the Spirit, whereby we can smite demons! Why wait by helplessly for satan to attack? We are soldiers of Light! Mighty in battle through our Faith in Jesus Christ! It’s time to awaken from our apathy toward satan and his works of evil. It’s time for demons to tremble in fear whenever a “born again” Christian invades their space. They know they are about to get whacked by the Sword of the Spirit and thrown back into Hell!

I am aware many do this far better than me. I also know there are others who do not try as hard as they should. We Christians are all in the same boat. Sometimes we all get weak and weary. We sometimes fail. But that should never stop us from seeking more power from the Holy Spirit, so our times of weakness are far outweighed by our times of strength. Our successes far surpass our failures. What we need to always remember is this: when we are in the boat and the storm rages, Jesus is in the boat with us! When we are running the good race – if we ask and yield to Him, the Holy Spirit will help us run and not be weary!

My brothers and sisters let us all seek the power of God in our lives as never before! Let the Son of man be able to find the kind of FAITH He will be looking to find upon His return (Luke, chapter 18, verse 8). Let the Bride of Christ be the most BEAUTIFUL and RADIANT BRIDE the world has ever seen; without the spot of “label worship” or the wrinkle of “religious bigotry.” The answer is to be found in the desire of our hearts. Whom do we wish to call Master, worship, listen to, and obey? Where are we wishing to store up treasure? In Heaven will you be living in a Place, or a Palace?