THANK GOD FOR THE VICTORY!       7/84     DO 1817
--Over Our Vicious Enemies!

(Dad's Prayer:)
         1. LORD, THIS PERSECUTION (FROM DEB'S BOOK) IS BOUND TO DO SOME GOOD! IT ALWAYS DOES! It means we're still being effective somehow, still having an influence, or they wouldn't hate us & fight us & attack us so! We must still have some kind of powerful testimony even back in the U.S.A., still have some influence there or they wouldn't still hate us. And of course the Devil knows we have influence all over the World, so he's trying to destroy that too. But we know that some good is going to come from it somehow, & amongst the good will be persecution that will drive the sluggards & laggards & slowpokes out of countries where they've been too long & need to flee to where they should be, busy for You, Jesus, because the time is so short!
         2. AND WE KNOW YOU'LL CONTINUE TO PROTECT US, LORD, AS LONG AS WE'RE USEFUL TO THEE & OBEDIENT, SERVING THEE FAITHFULLY & LOYALLY DELIVERING THY WORD TO THY CHILDREN & LEADING & GUIDING THEM IN THE RIGHT WAY! TYJ! So we don't have to worry about ourselves either, Lord, You'll take care of us. You've continued to protect us & provide for us for all these years in spite of many millions of enemies, literally, including the Devil & all his angels! You have kept us & kept us beautifully, Lord, & at peace & rest most of the time, in tranquil places where we could continue Thy work & work for Thee & continue Thy Word, Lord, to feed Thy children. We know You'll continue to do so as long as You want us to. You'll take care of us & protect us & provide for us!
         3. IT'S ALL YOUR WORK, LORD, IT'S ALL YOUR DOING & IT'S ALL YOU, JESUS, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DEFEND OURSELVES! We don't have to rise up & try to answer every charge & every attack of the Enemy. We don't have to stoop to the gutter to fool around with the Enemy's garbage.
         4. WE'RE NOT TO BE DELAYED BY THE DEVIL'S TACTICS, LORD, & HIS DELAYING, STALLING, HINDERING ATTACKS! He's called the Hinderer by You. He's just trying to hinder Your work by these attacks, & if we can't conquer him in a certain situation, if we can't win that particular battle with him, if he wins any kind of victory at all, which it looks like he has done with this attack of his through our enemies & our Judases, then we just have to make a little detour & go around him into the next field & to another front & just avoid any confrontation & avoid allowing him to get us embroiled in this sort of hindrance.
         5. LORD, WE HAVE DELIVERED YOUR WORD, WE HAVE TOLD THEM THE TRUTH, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT, whether they like the doctrines or not, that doesn't matter except to them. They would have been better off if they had believed & received & followed & obeyed, but if they don't, that's their funeral, Lord, & You will take care of them accordingly. But we've done our part, done our job, delivered our souls, delivered Thy Message & washed our hands of their blood, we're not guilty of it. They're condemning themselves, they're defeating themselves, they're literally killing themselves & their own souls, their own ministry, whatever they might have been. So we're not worried about them, Lord, they're in Your hands & You'll certainly take care of them!
         6. AND YOU LET IT ALL HAPPEN FOR A REASON, TO WAKE US UP & SHAKE US UP TO REALISE HOW BITTER OUR ENEMIES ARE & HOW FRANTIC THE DEVIL IS, how desperate he's getting to try to stop us because we have done such a great work for Thee!--All of us, because we have done such a great work for Thee! All of us, Thy children Worldwide, are having such great victories, Lord, he's doing his damnedest to try to defeat us, just another attack of the Enemy! But You're going to defeat this one too, Lord, & it's going to work out for good somehow.
         7. SO WE JUST ASK THEE TO LEAD THY CHILDREN AS THESE EVENTS OCCUR & AS WEAKER BRETHREN ARE DECEIVED & FALL AWAY. You said the love of many in the last days would wax cold & there shall come a great falling away first, & then that man of sin shall be revealed, the Antichrist. (Mat.24:12; 2Thes.2:3) And we believe it, Lord, that this is a part of it. The love of many waxes cold first before they can fall away, & these enemies, if they ever had any love, it was a pretty cold love to begin with, especially these backsliders & betrayers & Judases! Now they have fallen away & that's their funeral!
         8. BUT YOU'RE CLEARING THE WAY FOR THE ANTICHRIST TO ARISE AS THE LAST GREAT PERSECUTION, the last great trial, the last great sifting of Thy disciples, the last great testing of Thy children to see if they really love Thee & really are determined to serve Thee no matter what, even die for Thee & for souls, if necessary, as their final witness for Thee, Jesus!
         9. THANK YOU LORD FOR THE FAITHFUL, THANK YOU FOR THE LOYAL, THANK YOU FOR THE TRUE! Thank You for those who will not be shaken by these lies & deceptions & distortions, not even by the Truth! Thank You Lord for those who will be firm & determined & stand firm & strong, Thy mighty men & women of God who will serve Thee to the End no matter what!--And whether they serve Thee, Lord, with me or someone else, that's up to Thee. If they don't like me, they're welcome to go someplace else.
         10. BUT HELP THIS PERSECUTION NOT TO SHAKE THEM, LORD, NOT TO WORRY THEM IN ANY WAY, THAT THEY NOT FRET & DOUBT OR DISOBEY IN ANY WAY, LORD! Rebuke the lies of the Enemy, Lord! You said, "Resist the Enemy & he will flee from thee!" (Jam.4:7) Help them to reject these lies of the Devil, refute them & refuse to believe them, Lord, because they have the Truth!
         11. SO THANK YOU JESUS! PRAISE YOU LORD FOR THY TRUTH! THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US THY WAY & THY WILL & HELPING US TO DO IT! Lord, You've blessed us hand-over-fist, year-after-year now with more & more publications & more & more souls & more & more fruit, more & more for Thy Kingdom, Lord, & great blessing & protection & provision, even prosperity, Lord! Thou hast made it easy for us to be good & do Thy will. Thank You for it! We realise the days are now going to get harder as the End approaches, it will not be so easy any more. There will be more lies & more enemies & more deceit & more betrayers & deniers, more attackers, more falsehood & more persecution to sift us & purify us, as Thy Word says, & make us white, to purge out any dross in us, to make us wholly, totally dedicated to Thee & Thy service unto the death! (Dan.11:35; 12:10)
         12. YOU SAID, "BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH & I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE!" (Rev.2:10)--And we know that those who are faithful will be faithful all the way, even to death, Lord, & therefore You'll give them a glowing, glittering, shining crown of light & life as a reward for their loyalty & their faithfulness, their diligence, their obedience, their hard work, their self-sacrifice & the good work they've done for Thee & for others, the souls they've won, Lord, & the souls they've saved from perdition & Hell, the precious souls that they've saved for Heaven, Lord! It'll be eternally worthwhile, eternally nothing but joy & happiness in the future to see our reward for being faithful to the End & receiving that great crown of life so that we shine as the stars! "He that winneth souls is wise & they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars", & surely our children have, Lord! (Pro.11:30; Dan.12:3)
         13. AMEN, THANK YOU FOR HOW YOU HAVE ANSWERED PRAYER & KEPT US & KEPT US GOING! In spite of everything & what everybody said & what the enemies predicted, Lord, we're still going stronger than ever!--Perhaps sometimes fewer, but stronger & more loyal, more obedient, more faithful & more fruitful, more fruit-bearing! Hallelujah!--With stronger disciples, Lord! This is a purging, no doubt of Thine own design, Lord, a sifting, to purge & purify & make us white, as You said there in Daniel.--That even some of them of understanding, who do know their God & who shall instruct many & do exploits, yet even some of these shall fall, to try them & to purge them & make them white! (Dan.11:33-35)
         14. WE REALISE, LORD, THAT THIS IS A PURIFYING, PURGING & STRENGTHENING OF THE FAITHFUL & THE TRUE & THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SHAKEN, but at the same time it purges away the dross & the false & the weak that are shakey & doubtful & can't take it.
         15. SO LORD, IF THERE ARE ANY WHO THINK THEY CAN FIND SOMETHING BETTER, LET'M GO! If there are any who prefer something else, Lord, help'm to find it! For those who don't realise they have the Truth or have found it or want it or want to stick with it, we'd be better off without'm, Lord. Shake'm loose! If there's any rotten fruit on the tree, Lord, shake it loose & get rid of it so that the good fruit might thrive & flourish & ripen & be ready for Thee!
         16. WE BELIEVE, LORD, THE WINDS OF THY ADVERSITY ARE SHAKING THE TREE EVEN NOW, THY RIGHTEOUS TREE THAT HAS BORNE GOOD FRUIT! If amongst it anywhere there are any foul birds or rotten fruit, You'll get rid of it & get rid of them, Lord, so that we can be purified & purged & made white & pure & shining & true in Thy eyes, Lord, if nowhere else! TYJ!
         17. PRAISE YOU LORD EVEN FOR PERSECUTION! Praise You Lord for the opposition of the Enemy that purges us & scourges & purifies us & makes us white, like a poison or like a purgative or like a laxative, something the body rejects & cleans us out! And though it temporarily may weaken us, it gets rid of the crap & the poison & the rubbish & the refuse & the evil & the disease so that we will then be healed & grow stronger than ever for Thee! Hallelujah! We believe it, Lord, in Jesus' name. TYJ!
         18. BLESS & KEEP THY TRUE CHILDREN, LORD, WHOM WE KNOW WILL NOT BE DECEIVED. They know Thy voice & they will follow Thee no matter what, & a stranger they will not follow! They will not believe the lies of the Devil, they will not be deceived, because they have the love of the Truth! Thank You for every one of them who loves You, Lord, & loves Thy Word & Thy Truth, even loves bad old me, Lord, as bad as You know I am. Perhaps many of the things they've said about me are true, just as many of things that they said about Thy old King David were true, & he did some wrongs, Lord. Nevertheless, he repented & he came through as pure gold, better than ever, Lord, & You said after that he was a man after Your Own heart, the dearly beloved of the Lord, as You have said of Thy servant, in spite of all my sins. TYJ! PYL! (Acts 13:22)
         19. BRING THESE EVIL ACCUSERS TO JUSTICE, LORD! Have mercy on them if they deserve it, but justice, & refute their evil lies! Confound their politicks, confuse their knavish tricks & expose them as the evil hypocrites & liars & children of the Devil that they are, & judge them accordingly in order to vindicate Thy Truth, Lord, & Thy Word & Thy servants throughout the World!
         20. CONTINUE TO PROTECT THY CHILDREN, LORD, & PROSPER THEM & PROVIDE FOR THEM & CAUSE THEM TO HAVE GREAT FRUIT, LORD, GOOD FRUIT, MANY SOULS FOR THY KINGDOM! Don't let this stop them at all, Lord! Don't let this delay'm, don't let this even cause them to even miss a step, but to keep right on marching for You, Jesus, till all the World is ours, Lord, & we win the victory, in Jesus' name, as You have promised! Do give us the inheritance, even the heathen, to the uttermost parts of the Earth, Lord! We know You're doing it right now & You'll do it in the future to the very End & into the beginning of the Millennium & forever! TYJ! PYL! Hallelujah!
         21. WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO WIN THIS WAR, LORD! We may have a few battles that it may look like we have lost, Lord, but even those are for a purpose, to in some way make us better soldiers for a greater victory in the End!--That we may enter Thy presence, Lord, & Thou shalt say unto all of us who faithfully served Thee & obeyed & have done what You told us to do: "Well done, thou good & faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" (Mat.25:21) You didn't say "good & perfect servant", Lord, & You didn't say "good & successful servant", You just said, "good & faithful", Lord, & if we hear nothing more than that we'll be happy to know that You count us as being good, in spite of what the Enemy says, & faithful, because of what You say. And that's Thy promise, that we will enter Thy joy forever, in Jesus' name! Amen! TYL! Hallelujah! PYJ! TYL!
         22. YOU PROMISED THAT "THEY CANNOT STOP OUR RAIN!" (No.128), LORD, & WE KNOW IT'S TRUE.--And it's proven true! We have gone on in spite of everything, in spite of all the defections & backsliders & betrayers & deniers & opposition & attacks of the Enemy, Lord! They haven't been able to stop us yet & never will, Lord, You promised that, till we enter the Gates of Glory in victory, in Jesus' name! Hallelujah! PTL! TYJ! Amen!


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