LOST OPPORTUNITIES!--Don't Give Up the Fight!    DFO 1425         28/2/83

         1. WE DON'T LIKE TO TALK SO MUCH ABOUT THE NEGATIVE & THE DEVIL'S WORK, but we've almost had to in order to expose him, & to forewarn these people & forearm them against his dirtywork, so we would not be ignorant of his devices, so we'll know how to pray, how to get the victory & how to keep it! (See the "Talisman" & "Ashraf" series.) (Nos. 1369 & 1403)
         2. NOT EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR LIFE IS NECESSARILY ALL GOING TO BE PLEASANT! We're at war, & there are some pretty ugly aspects to a war, especially your enemy, the worst enemy of all, evil spirits that try to plague us! But to be forewarned is to be forearmed & to not leave yourself open to attack!--To know that the Devil is active & to keep fighting!
         3. THANK YOU JESUS FOR SEEING US THROUGH! We've spoken the Truth, Lord, & we have come out in the open & attacked evil as You have shown us. We know the Devil's angry & he has tried to attack us in various ways, but Lord, we have stayed close to Thee & You have blessed us & kept us & protected us & prospered us & made us more prolific & fruitful than ever!
         4. HELP US NOT TO GIVE UP THE FIGHT, NOT TO GIVE UP THE BATTLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT GETS HOT, LORD. Give the Family great courage & great faith to keep fighting.
         5. ARE YOU WILLING TO KEEP FIGHTING? IF WE KEEP FIGHTING, WE CAN'T LOSE! We do get some attacks & tests & sometimes it may even look like defeat, but that's when Jesus gets some of His greatest victories, when we refuse to quit, even when it looks like we've lost.

         6. MY MOTHER REFUSED TO DEAL WITH THESE SUBJECTS, SHE SAID, "YOU SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, YOU BRING HIM UP!" Although she knew plenty about it, she didn't like to talk about it & she never preached much along this line. I think one reason my Mother didn't like to attack this subject is for the same reason it was a battle for her to ever give her testimony, & for the same reason that she didn't like to battle the [ACs].--Because when you hit the Devil head-on, you come out & start attacking, you go over the top & start shooting & trying to invade his territory & conquer, naturally he gets mad & he gets angry! He's trying to defeat you before you even get started.
         7. IN 1927 OR '28 WHEN AL CAPONE WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER in Chicago & was looking for a place to retire, he picked Miami & bought his home there on Palm Island. That's when he heard my Mother on the radio & came over & tried to give her the money she'd appealed for to build a sidewalk. He must have been really inspired by her radio talks to come roaring over there with his bodyguards & beamingly hand her this cheque, "Well, here's the answer to your prayers!" But she was at the height of her Miami career & she was afraid to be connected with him, that it would spoil or besmirch her, so she turned his cheque down!
         8. BUT JUST BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT THE STIGMA OR ANY CRITICISM FOR RECEIVING THAT MONEY, SHE NOT ONLY LOST THE MONEY BUT SHE LOST HIM & HE LOST HIS LIFE & SERVICE & WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A TESTIMONY FOR THE LORD! She also lost a friend too, who could have befriended her there. It's just one of those lost golden opportunities that we'll only know over there just how much we missed & what he missed & what we all missed because she really didn't get him all the way through! What a blessing she could have been to him in those last years after he got saved in prison!
         9. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES SADLY LOST, & "The clock of time is wound but once!" That one little cheque, though it seemed so insignificant, was so important, that that might have turned the whole tide, not only for his life but hers too! What a sensation that would have been if Al Capone had come out really wide open saved, serving God, preaching the Gospel, defending Mother & fighting with the [ACs]!
         10. COME TO THINK OF IT, FROM THE TIME MY MOTHER REFUSED TO FIGHT THAT FIGHT WITH [A PARTICULAR] ASSOCIATION IN MIAMI, EVERYTHING BEGAN TO GO DOWN HILL FOR HER THERE! The FBI came to her & said, "We've got the culprits! (Who tried to kill her) But you're going to have to be a witness, & it's going to mean a lot of publicity. It's going to be a fight because some of these people who are involved are bigshots here in Miami, City Councilmen, etc."
         11. THEY SAID, "IT REACHES SOME PRETTY HIGH-UPS HERE IN MIAMI, SOME BIGSHOT[S]! We don't want to get into it unless you're willing to fight it through & see it through. You'll be our star witness & it will be dangerous, but we can get'm if you'll fight with us!"
         12. BUT SHE GAVE UP THE BATTLE, SHE GAVE UP THE FIGHT! She said, "I don't want to fight any more, it's costing too much & I've suffered too much already & they nearly killed me several times already." And from the time she refused to go on with the battle & finish exposing that outfit & taking them to court & prosecuting them, her whole work & ministry in Miami dwindled to nothing! The Lord sort of withdrew His blessing from her ministry there.
         13. YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH THE DEVIL! YOU CAN'T DECLARE A TRUCE WITH SATAN & SAY, "OKAY, YOU LEAVE ME ALONE & I'LL LEAVE YOU ALONE!" The Lord doesn't approve of that at all! That's one reason the Lord's blessed us, we've come out in the open & really been fighting'm & exposing'm now for years!
         14. MAYBE THE LORD WANTED HER TO REALLY FIGHT TO THE DEATH IF NECESSARY! If she'd have died a martyr, that would have been quite a testimony!--Especially if it had exposed that outfit then! Who knows? It might have delayed their plans for years if the FBI had put some of those [ACs] in jail & exposed their dirtywork & how they worked! But now they have taken over the U.S.!

         15. JUST THINK WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IF SHE HAD ACCEPTED AL CAPONE'S GIFT & MADE FRIENDS. HE COULD HAVE REALLY FOUGHT FOR HER THERE! It could have been a different story instead of ending in humiliating defeat with the forces of Antichrist totally victorious! What a different story it could have been if she had really won him over & gotten him healed & inspired to serve the Lord & fighting for her on her side! Boy, I tell you, he knew all the tricks!
         16. WHO KNOWS HOW MUCH HAS BEEN LOST THROUGH SUCH NEGLECTED OR LOST OPPORTUNITIES! Well, we'll know some day! That's why some are going to be ashamed, some even in contempt! I'm sure we'll all have a few tears to shed for the things we missed, opportunities we lost, mistakes we made. Well, praise the Lord anyhow! He's going to wipe away all those tears, & there will no longer be any sorrow or pain, so He'll make up for it all somehow! (Rev.7:17) Amen? But may God help us to learn from our mistakes!


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