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Ding dong. "Hey, Beth, what happened to the Tundra, not a
mouse house anymore?" Mel grinned as she opened the door to go into the house.
"Hey, come in coffee's on and the amaretto creamer is out
on the countertop, good to see you! How did Josh do in the soccer game Friday,
Melissa?"
"Well, he's had better nights but he did make one goal."
"It is so exciting to see those guys play, isn't it? Micah's
team lost but they are getting better each game".
"Beth, I have been thinking about what you said about power
sources, you know, where we get our power from. It reminded me of when we were
in Germany and I tried to use my hair dryer. Even with the supposedly right
converter, what a mess that was.I was plugged into a power source but it sure
wasnt the right one."
"Interesting, Mel, guess that brings us right back to what
we were talking about regarding the Owners Manual."
"Yeah, and I am beginning to see why it would be not really
very smart to go to a psychic or card reader to find out about your future. If
God created me and put all my interesting parts together and has a plan, why
would I want to go to someone I don't even know for advice about my life? I was
doing a bit of reading in your Owners Manual and found something that fits
here, I think. It is in Isaiah 8:19-22 (New International
Version) 19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper
and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on
behalf of the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak
according to this word, they have no light of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry,
they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become
enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. 22 Then they
will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful
gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness. I wrote it down because I
wanted to ask if this is what you were talking about last week?"
"Mel, that is a great passage for what we were discussing,
I'm glad you wrote it down! God knows us so well, He also knows the unseen
things we shouldn't be dabbling with. Some things are not as they appear to be.
This takes us back to the power source. Basically, what power source is behind
some of the seemingly innocent things out there for us to pursue?"
"I was thinking about that too, what we talked about
regarding electricity and not seeing it but it was there and could be wonderful
and it could also kill us if we didn't use it properly. I have learned enough to know that besides
the world we see and function in there is, well, a spiritual world. When we
talked about Satan coming like an angel of light.I was thinking about that."
"What thoughts did you have?"
"Does that mean that he can appear as something or someone
good, yet really be trying to pull us in with lies and deception or maybe that
he appears to be something wonderful to drag us in?"
"I sure have found that to be true in several ways. Little
things that just seem like games; tarot cards, Ouija boards, seeing a fortune
teller, consulting a psychic.... they can all seem like something to do at the
fair or a like a party game but you can be opening the door to entities you never
dreamed were there or were interested in you. They are very real and not what
they are posing to be."
"Do you think that is why I began having nightmares after
going to that psychic? I just did it as a kick, for something to do with Zach
when we were in New York City for the afternoon. I sure didn't mean anything by
it but those awful nightmares began right after that".
"You might have a point there would you like to pray about
that now?"
"Do you think I could get a good nights sleep again if we
did pray, Beth?"
"Mel, there is so much to learn and Jesus wants us to be
FREE. Have you asked Him to forgive you for the things you've done to break His
heart and to be your savior and Lord?"
"Well, I thought that might be a direction I wanted to go
but there were so many other things in life which seemed to be presenting The
Answer guess I have gone down a few rabbit trails since I was at the point
of praying to ask God, Jesus, to be my savior. I know I have made kind of a
huge mess of my life."
"It isn't something to be done without thought, Melissa.
Jesus is fully God and fully man he lived here among us and was sinless,
thats why he could pay the penalty that I owed and that you owed. Something
about the wages of sin is death."
"Yah, that's one payday I wouldnt mind missing.oh, Beth,
my tears are like a faucet but they don't make me clean. Besides God, I have
hurt so many I love by my words and actions; things I have done that were just
flat out wrong."
"Mel, lets talk to the Lord about all of this."
I think today definitely ended up being more than a coffee
time for the two friends. We will be able to have time with them again soon.
Stay plugged in for Part 3 of the Owners Manual.
2 Chronicles 33:6
Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of
Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and
consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke Him to anger.
Psalm 18:17
He rescued me from my powerful
enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
Psalm 37:17
for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the
righteous.
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the
Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
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