John,
Thank you for sending the Father and Son excerpt on the Temptation. I love this part of the book.* Yesterday, I was reading through this (skipping around in the sections) and I had already read the part where you explained the influence of unclean spirits over the nations before I read footnote 6 in “A new kind of warfare”. When I read that footnote, all of those thoughts together sparked something in me. It was like another reinforcement of the message “it isn’t me.” This is our warfare, too, and those unclean spirits are not us. That was so good to me.
I loved the part of Darren’s song this weekend that talked about our sins being forgiven when we were baptized by the holy Ghost and spoke in tongues. Who we were before then is irrelevant. Jesus washed all my sins away. I am not the person I was before. 🙂
I woke up this morning hearing a song that Sister Barbara Pendergrass sung in the meeting the last time she was here, “There is power in the name of Jesus…to break every chain.” Amen!
Lyn
*God Had a Son before Mary Did, Section II The Temptation