Proverbs 26 |God Demonstrates
Proverbs 26: 1,2

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Proverbs 26: 1,2
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

    To give a little background, when the Lord brought this group together in Kansas some years ago, He revealed that it would become much smaller than when it originally started; and that He would demonstrate everything He was teaching us. He has been faithful to do that. This article reveals a demonstration of the Holy Spirit teaching, comparing Spiritual with spiritual, about being under a curse and protection we can have from the enemy of mankind. It is a "picture of protection" from matters that are in our everyday lives.
    This group did become small, enabling the Lord to deal with us in a better way. The Lord told us in the beginning that our lives would become an open book. I think you can see that my life is pretty much exposed in the articles I write. It is necessary for this to happen so people can see what they haven't seen. This article continues to expose my life and exposes part of another person's life, who is a part of this ministry. I will call this person, Person B.
    Because of the size of this group and the disobedience of some people who were to give to this ministry, I found myself in the low income bracket and eligible for Earned Income Credit. This meant that I was entitled by law to receive some compensation from the government. Person B is a single mother and she was also entitled by law to receive Earned Income Credit compensation. I have stressed "entitled by law" because I want to make the point that we are not here to discuss welfare - right or wrong - but to get a picture. The money that Person B and I were entitled to by law must be seen as something that is ours legally, and it belonged to us.
    Before we get into the move of God to reveal and demonstrate protection from troubles, let me bring this scripture into the picture. In Malachi, chapter three, God is telling His people that they and their nation are robbing Him, by not tithing correctly. In verse eleven God reveals some of what He will do for the people when they do what He says.

Malachi 3:11
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

    From this part of the scripture (neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field) I had always known that the enemy had the power to cause timing to be fouled up when it comes to the fruit of our hands, what we produce. God makes a promise here that if we tithe correctly He will keep the enemy from destroying the fruit of our ground and He will see to it that our fruit will be on time.
    Towards the end of 1998, the Lord had me preach concerning tithing and the payment of the back debt. Person B decided to try God so she did what she was to do, as far as the back debt, and began to tithe correctly. It never fit into her budget but she did it anyway. Things went really well at first and she said God was blessing her in many ways. But soon it got hard and she saw absolutely no way to pay her bills so she quit tithing. She knew she would have money coming from the government and intended to catch up then. The following is a Flow Chart of the chain of events, with input of the "things of the Spirit" as God gave them.

February 21,1999:
    The Lord reveals that some writing of mine was going to be made clear. The writing had a gray background and with a click of the computer mouse the gray was gone. The words were now black and white!

February 23, 1999:
    I was shown that Person B and her daughter were going to see weight being added to an invisible power. That weight was also protection.

February 25, 1999:
    The Lord shows me a scene of my car that had the original manufacturer's red paint (covenant). It had bumpers and was complete. It was facing another man's car that was red but not of the original red paint (man's interpretation of the covenant). The other man's car had no bumper. It was shown in the scene that if my car was hit above the windshield, crushing the metal, that the windshield would not break. God was showing me (by His Spirit) that I had protection that the other man didn't have.

March 1, 1999:
    Person B mailed in her federal and state income tax. I had helped her prepare both of these.

March 15, 1999:
    I filed my federal and mailed my state two days later, March 17, 1999.

    We both received our federal tax moneys on the same day; I had filed mine electronically and she had mailed hers. Some time before either had arrived, Person B had decided to go ahead and spend her federal money and use the state to catch up on her tithe. I try to render God's tithe first (after all, it is not ours to use), although I don't make this a hard core thing.

April 16, 1999:
    I deposited my money from the state of Kansas. Person B had been expecting to get her money from the state and because I had received mine she started to earnestly ask God about her money. She had sent her tax forms in 17 days earlier than I and I already had mine. She was then asking my wife and me to pray to find out what was happening with her money. Person B finally got an answer. She was told, "He's got it." She told this to my wife and she wondered, "Who's got it?" Person B indicated that she thought that the Lord had control of it and was doing something. Person B continued to pray concerning the money.

April 23, 1999:
    Person B is given a dream. I have condensed it, but you will get the picture. In the dream she was being offered, by someone who is not tithing and not married but living with the opposite sex, their trailer house to live in. In the scene, Person B walked into the trailer house to see that it had no interior wallboard, no insulation, and the floor had no covering in the living room. The kitchen had holes in the floor and the bedroom and the bathroom had been added onto the trailer house. She said the point in the dream that stood out was the fact that she knew, herself, how to fix it up and make it livable.
    During all this my wife had been talking with Person B and one time asked her if she knew of anything she might have done to cause her money to be delayed? Person B revealed that she thought it might be because she hadn't paid her tithe. My wife and I had thought this might be the case but had not told her. (People don't like being told something happened in their life because they didn't pay their tithe, even if it is true. They build up walls. All I can say to that is, look at what happened to people in the Old Testament when they didn't!)

Between April 23^rd and April 30, 1999:
    Person B comes to my house and is talking about her check from the state. She was seeking the reason why she didn't have it. Somehow she mentioned the dream and told me about it. I explained to her what it could mean. (I'm revealing just a little here of what I told her about the symbolisms in the dream.) I told her I wasn't sure but that it most certainly fit the picture of the situation. I told her the trailer house provided no protection at all, even from hot and cold. I told her that in the dream it was revealed that she knew how to fix all the problems. She already knew she hadn't paid her tithes, which God has shown this ministry to provide protection in certain situations. I made it clear that it sure fit the picture, but that I wasn't wanting to interpret it that way simply because of what we had been taught. I told her we needed confirmation from God that what we were thinking was right. At that point I wasn't sure to whom "He's got it" referred.

April 30, 1999:
    The Lord gave me a scene of two gray pictures coming together. The two pictures came together under a heading to a single picture. The gray picture then became sharp, losing its gray background, and revealing a clear picture under those words of the heading. It was the upper part of the picture of my dad's field, which I have used before - the one when God revealed the concrete wall of protection from the enemies' floods. I have inserted the whole picture here with some heading or title letters to represent the heading I saw.

Headline XXXXXXXXXXX
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    (It is important to note that God was saying what He was bringing into clarity at this point was only a part of the total protection He provides. The headline is for all of the picture of protection. What He is really revealing is that this is important enough to make the headlines.)
    Before this experience was all over the Lord dealt with me about "He's got it!" I was informed that the God Head never speaks of each other that way, when referring to each other.  That it was Satan who had it!
    I woke up from the scene and knew we had our confirmation. I searched back into the Flow Chart to see all that I have shared with you to this point. When I saw all this, I knew God had presented and demonstrated a protection which I had, that Person B didn't have. It was a protection from troubles.

May 1, 1999:
    Person B received her money from the state. It took less than 30 days for me to get my money and it took Person B 60 days. I wouldn't pretend to know how the enemy detained Person B's funds. Were the papers misplaced or was there a particular thought given to someone to check something out? Actually, that is not important here. The picture of protection is important so we can understand the types of protection in our daily lives that God will provide. But God wasn't done yet!

May 2, 1999:
In the night I was shown three sentences with fire around the words. These were covenant sentences, words in red. I was given Proverbs 26: 1,2 and putting this all together, I knew I was to share at church what the Lord had revealed to me about protection from troubles. I remember reminding the group that this portion of the following scripture was given to us in the beginning, when God first brought us together. . . the curse causeless shall not come. We have always known from that Word that there is a reason for everything - that a curse just doesn't come on its own, that there is a reason it came!

Proverbs 26: 1,2
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

What is the curse?
    As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest.... This doesn't say you won't have a harvest or a summer. It says you'll experience hardships in them.... As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying... Have you ever encountered a barn swallow dive bombing your head? It's an annoyance!... so the curse causeless shall not come. God is saying there is a reason for all these annoyances. There is a reason they came!
    What happened to Person B and her daughter in all of this? Remember what God revealed to me concerning Person B on

February 23, 1999:
I was shown that Person B and her daughter were going to see weight being added to an invisible power. That weight was also protection.

    Well, that's what happened to them. Weight was added to the importance of tithing correctly. That weight was the revealing of a protection of an invisible power!
    This writing reveals how God can protect us in the matters of everyday life. He's big enough. It is time we believe (trust) Him! You and I don't know Satan's plans to steal, kill and destroy in our everyday lives. Yes, God gave us authority over the devices of the devil, but if we don't know and can't see his daily activities (represented by our backside) how can we come against what we don't know is going on? Our foundational faith must be in God to protect us, not solely in our abilities to use His name. We must come into covenant, into the right position, on this important issue in order for Him to legally perform His part. He wants to protect us!

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