I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants (Deuteronomy 30:19 NASB)

For decades now, America (and most of the western world) have been in the icy-cold grip of the Curse. Ever since liberal secularist judges on the United States Supreme Court created a clause of whole cloth, from the “emanations of the penumbra” of the US Constitution (Roe vs Wade), the Soul of America was lost. Almost forty years of the devaluing of human life, through the abomination of Abortion, has wrought the bitter fruit we see time after time, such as what just happened in Aurora, Colorado.

We can trace the beginnings of the Decline of not just morality, but Spiritual decline, way back to the late 1800’s when European socialist thinking crept into the mainline churches. We can trace it back to acceptance of Darwin’s THEORY of evolution and the racist Margaret Sanger’s creation called Planned Parenthood. But we can really trace its acceleration to as recently as the 1940’s post-World War II America, when prosperity overwhelmed the Gospel of Christ in importance.

As America became wealthier and left for the comfort of the suburbs, it left the fire in the belly for the Ways of the Lord to a few in the Bible Belt of America – the South. Still, men up north like the great Illinois preacher A.W. Tozer began to warn Christians of what was coming, and gave the prophetic clarion call to return to the Lord. The young Billy Graham was urging millions to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. But the seeds of destruction were already sown by men like Supreme Court Justices and former Ku Klux Klan turned liberal, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas – men who hated God with a passion and had the power to shut down His Church.

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THE HOLY SPIRIT

 AMAZING POWER FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE

BY SUSAN ROHRER

Strange but true—despite the availability of computers, I continued to hang onto my familiar typewriter into the early 1990s. It seems silly now, but I convinced myself that I didn’t need the hi-tech tools so many of my colleagues were using. Fact was: I was computer phobic. I was afraid of what I didn’t understand, fearful that I’d never learn how to use one. Finally, my boss plunked a computer on my desk. He asked me to start using this power tool, promising it would increase my productivity for him. Resisting progress was no longer an option. He left me alone with that thing. Gulp! I didn’t even know how to turn it on.

That’s pretty much how it goes for a lot of us when it comes to the supernatural manifestations of the Spirit. That’s how it went for me. Even after reading all about the power gifts in the Bible, I didn’t trust God to distribute them to me as He willed, despite their potential for increasing my effectiveness in serving Him. After all, I was just a spiritual babe and babies need milk, right? Power gifts were for the mature. They seemed way too meaty for spiritual nobodies like me. Surprise! Just like my boss with that computer, God gifted me with the power tools I feared most, some while I was still in spiritual infancy.

Why did I write this book? I found out that I was not alone in initially fearing what was rarely, if ever, taught in traditional settings. Sure, there was plenty of talk (even arm-twisting) about the importance of using what seem to be our natural gifts in service, but what exactly were those enigmatic spiritual gifts, and did they go beyond things like musical or administrative abilities to the kind of spectacular wonders that characterized the earthly

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AUTHOR BIO:  

A multiple award-winning writer, producer, and director specializing in redemptive fare in the entertainment industry, Susan Rohrer’s credits include: God’s Trombones; Another Life; Emmy winner Never Say Goodbye; Terrible Things My Mother Told Me; The Emancipation of Lizzie Stern; No Earthly Reason; Mother’s Day; Sweet Valley High; Book of Days; Another Pretty Face; If I Die Before I Wake; as well as Film Advisory Board & Christopher Award winner ABOUT SARAH.

Rohrer is also the author of ” IS GOD SAYING HE’S THE ONE?”