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“Demons & Fire Trucks”
“As I watched,
thrones were set in place; and the Ancient One
took His seat. His clothing was
white as snow, the hair on
His head was like pure wool. His throne was fiery
flames,
with wheels of burning fire.” Daniel 7:9 Complete Jewish Bible
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Dear family of friends,
My wife Laurie began her 13th year on staff at the Calvary
Development Center this August of 2013. In addition to being a grandma of her
own six, she also is one to 10-12 new kiddos each year. All of those will become
two year olds during that school year. (Imagine that, those who have raised one
or more two year olds.) I highly commend my good wife for her dedication and
faithfulness. She touches many lives.
Every August, at the start of each new school year, the daycare teachers
have a moment during the Calvary Church Sunday morning service when they are introduced
and acknowledged. Thus we attended this church gathering that morning, rather
than our usual Antioch International Church. It was a bit different to say the
least, for the following reason.
Calvary Church in Charlotte, NC
The meeting was to have started promptly at 9:45 am. After saving our
seats in the proper section, with about ten minutes to spare, I went to the
bookstore, as custom would have it, to check out the latest. I was glad to find
birthday and thank you boxed cards, which I always need. The “Tabernacle & Ark of the
Covenant” pamphlet would also come in handy as a resource Bible study tool, so that
got put on the check-out counter too. If they had a Snickers candy bar sitting
there next to the cash register, it would have been added to the purchase. Gotta
have that mid-morning energy, as I figure.
Just before the nice elderly lady rang up the fourth item, the fire alarm
went off. It was a different sound than what I would have known, but it brought
the intended reaction. Everyone started moving. I calmly asked her to finish my
transaction, so I wouldn’t have to come back later. She did, even as the
security man said we needed to evacuate. I was thankful for his patience with
me.
Three thousand people filed out the doors in orderly fashion, The fire
trucks came. False alarm.
#24 to the rescue!
Back into the massive, beautiful and glorious sanctuary we went. Seven
minutes later - the fire alarm went off again. As one later asked me in a
text, “Was that part of the sermon message?” “I didn’t think so,” I responded.
Growing up as a believer in the 1970s and onward, I was privileged to sit
under the Bible teaching of Derek Prince,
Don Basham, Charles Simpson, Ern Baxter and Bob Mumford. I am to this day very thankful for them and their shared lives. We were taught well,
and along with all their other foundational, bedrock lessons for our daily Christian walk, we were also
introduced to the reality of demons and their menacing, hateful activity. We
weren’t “looking for a demon behind every rock” as some critics would have
thought, but we did learn to develop spiritual eyes and discernment, and be
aware of that which the human eye cannot detect.
So when the fire alarm went off that second time, my mind kicked into a
higher level of awareness, wondering what the Lord had going on here, and what
was He trying to say to myself, and others who may have been asking. And no, I
didn’t think it was a demon standing by the alarm switch pulling on it for a
good time.
My actual thought was, “Lord, are you saying we need to get out of our comfortable
pews and into the world that is on fire (both in the natural and the spiritual),
and this is just another way how You are speaking? Trying to be loud and clear
about it?”
I think so. The alarms are sounding all over in the nations. People are
dying and going to hell without the saving knowledge of the only living Messiah, Jesus
Christ (His Hebrew name being Yeshua HaMashiach.)
Will this just be another routine week for each of us? Or will we become more aware of the "fire trucks", the demon activity, and the spiritual warfare
happening all around us, and take our part in fulfilling His purpose that He has called each of us to? Time is fast coming to a close as we know it.
Ahava (love in
Hebrew) to my family of friends,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
P.S. On the east end wall of the very large foyer at Calvary Church is this display. May we also be one impacting the world with our light that the Lord has given each of us to carry where we are at. And where we are going to.
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Ahava Love Letter #69
“Demons & Fire Trucks” ©2013 Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord
2013 (08/19/13 Monday at 5:45 am in Charlotte, NC)
All previous editions of Ahava
Love Letter can be found on this Blog:
Here are the last few:
I Like Mike (#68)
Disappointed with Small
Beginnings? (#67)
Rise Again (#66)
The Cities (#65)
How can You Mend A Broken Heart
(#64)
Anxious (#63)
Hidden (#62)
Get Back in the Boat (#61)
Need Money? (#60)
Rejected? (#59)
In Your Building – Guard
Against Distractions (#58)
Connections (#57)
Your Name (#56)
Lost, But Not Forgotten Friends
(#55)
Yes!
