Casting Pearls- Have you been arguing with an ass?

If we look in Numbers 22:20-36 we will see Balaam a wise seer who speaks the word of God as it comes to him. He hears the Lord speak and tells you God’s words. He had been sent for by Balak and those with him to put a curse on Isreal so they wouldn’t take over the land he was in and destroy his little kingdom. Balaam told Balak repeatedly, God will not curse them. Balak would not listen though. He thought maybe if I had Balaam right here in front of me,  he would have to go ahead and curse them. Balak then sent some of his men to have Balaam come to him.

When we get to the passage starting in verse 20, God speaks to Balaam and tells him if the men come and ask you to go with them to Balak, go with them. The men had already asked him to go, and as Balaam was willing to go with them and had permission from God, he went. God was angry with Balaam for going and Balak for asking him to come, but Balaam went anyway. God sent an angel to stand in the way of the Donkey, and it gave the angel a wide berth. It even left the road and went into a field to get away from the angel. Then the angel stood in a place where the road was walled on both sides and the donkey crushed Balaam’s foot trying to give the angel as much room as possible. Each time the donkey tried to get away from the angel, Balaam got angry because he couldn’t see the angel and he beat the donkey for disobeying. 

Finally, the angel stood in a spot in the road that was too narrow for the donkey to get around him, and the donkey just stopped and would go no farther. Balaam was very angry and began to beat the donkey with a stick. God then began talking through the donkey. The donkey[or ass] says to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you,Why have you beat me these three times?’. The ass continued, ‘ Am I not your ass, that you have ridden for a long time? Have I ever acted this way with you?, No.’ Balaam then spoke back to the ass saying, “ If I had a sword or a spear in my hand I would kill you.” Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes and he was suddenly able to see the angel, who had a sword drawn in his right hand, and he heard the angel speak, “ I was to block your way and kill you if you tried to pass, but these three times, the donkey saw me and shied away. If she had not turned away, I would have Killed you.” 

If we ever find ourselves arguing with someone that will not see the our opinion of the truth, no matter what we say, we should just stop. God may have placed them in our way to help us see ourselves and the real truth. Or they could be teaching us something we need to learn, about being humble and forgiveness. Not that they need to be forgiven because they are wrong, but we might need to be forgiven for the pride of thinking we are not wrong. We should see them as being a teaching tool that God is using to teach us the right way to act. 

Casting Pearls- Television, bad, Internet, Bad,

Television, when it first came out was said to be a evil influence on our children by many Christians.  As the devil loves it when we leave a vacuum for him to fill, he loved it when Christians left television free for him to influence. When radio became a viable thing for people to listen and be influenced by, Christians supported it fully and started many Christian radio stations that are still around today. We did not leave it to be open for the Devil to attack.

Just like back then with television, we now are dealing with another new form of information source, the internet, through computers, ipads, cell phones, etc. Again we have started out shunning this new information source. We have a choice, do we want to be a good influence on this new medium, or do we want to continue to leave it open to the devil.  By doing nothing, we make it to be open for the devil’s influence. I am  doing all I can from where I am to make it something that is a good influence on those who read what I put online for them to read. 

Ultimately, the individual user has the choice of my good information, or the bad information you can find out there. With television there is a rating system that we have started as an attempt by Christians to slow down the evil influence of television. I believe we should do the same thing on internet posts so that users could know before they go to a site if it contains something that would offend some people, or if our children should stay away. This would be simple for some people to make. Many web surfing programs can show a small preview of a site before we go to it, so how far fetched is it to think of something that would ‘broadcast’ a warning, if a site has questionable content,that the program could pick up. 

We can, right now, prevent internet surfers from going to sites that we know are bad, but we cannot block sites that are unknown to us prior to visiting them. Also some perverted people out there have took normal random misspellings of sites that children would go to and make sites that they will stumble on by misspelling their site. The evil one and the ones he controls have very much filled in the vacuum we left open for them.  As Christians we should continue to use what the devil has meant for evil for good, so that every day we get up the devil will say oh no, not him again!

Casting Pearls- Have you cleaned out your temple?

Our bodies are temples in which God lives. Not only are we supposed to be living temples of God, and a representative of God to the world around us. In 1 John 3:24 we see this proof. God dwells in us who dwell in Him. The Holy Spirit reveals to us whenever we begin to stray into things which will make our temple defiled in the sight of God. The Spirit’s conviction lets us know God lives in us. 

We all become agitated with others in some way or another in our lives, we talk meanly to our children, to our co-workers, to our neighbors, to our family members. We are god’s temple and representative in this world, and we may feel as though we are justified since we are told by the Bible to be righteously angry at sin, and to not ‘spare the rod’ with our children. 

What we must remember, is that as we are temples in our bodies, the other people we are agitated with are temples of God too. Our children are temples as well. Everyone is a temple in some state of being built just as we are not yet built. The temple of our lives is still under construction. We need to fight not to be overcome with pride or selfishness that our temple is further along with construction than someone else's. The devil will use any opening we give him to attack us. we must always stay under the protection of The Lord. 

As we are temples, and they are temples, what are we to do? Well as always I refer to the Bible for all the answers. In Romans 12:1-2 the Bible tells us to present yourself both to God and to man as a Holy Acceptable temple, not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the Word of the Lord, so that we may be acceptable to the Lord. We only have control over ourselves. We cannot make anyone else do what we think is right. 

The key word in the previous sentence is ‘think’. In our minds, we see things one way, in their minds they see things another way. We are responsible only to do what is right in our minds, not their minds. If we feel we need to excuse what we have done, it probably is wrong. If we feel that what we want to do is wrong to our own conscience it is probably wrong. Everyone sees things in a different way, they will react differently. What we must do is be willing, as God is, to be understanding of others seeing things differently and act accordingly. 

What we need to do is to ‘crucify the flesh’ as is spoken of in Galatians 2:19-20. We need to be dead to the flesh and the desires of the flesh. The flesh is controlled by the Law of God that can never be lived up to. The Lord gives us the Holy Spirit to live inside us when we are saved so we will be acceptable to  the Lord and to others as a representative of God. The problem comes when we have more than one face we show to the world. We come to Church and say ‘God Bless You’ and ‘Praise the Lord’ but when we go home, we are totally different. A ‘poor at best’ representative of Christ. It is common in people to be this way. We put our best face on when in public, but our real face when we think no one is looking. That is why a persons true character is shown when no one is watching. The whole world would be better off if we all realized that God is always watching, He sees everything we do and knows everything we think. We can hide nothing from God.

We also need to take into account how our representation of Jesus will appear to other people or our children. Will we influence others or our children to be good temples for God to inhabit in the future? That is exactly what God wants us to do. Make them acceptable vessels for God to inhabit. The best way to make others an acceptable vessel is to make ourselves an acceptable vessel and show them how wonderful it could be.

Casting Pearls- Are you the Temple Of God?

Our bodies are temples in which God lives. Not only are we supposed to be living temples of God, and a representative of God to the world around us. In 1 John 3:24 we see this proof. God dwells in us who dwell in Him. The Holy Spirit reveals to us whenever we begin to stray into things which will make our temple defiled in the sight of God. The Spirit’s conviction lets us know God lives in us. 

We all become agitated with others in some way or another in our lives, we talk meanly to our children, to our co-workers, to our neighbors, to our family members. We are god’s temple and representative in this world, and we may feel as though we are justified since we are told by the Bible to be righteously angry at sin, and to not ‘spare the rod’ with our children. 

What we must remember, is that as we are temples in our bodies, the other people we are agitated with are temples of God too. Our children are temples as well. Everyone is a temple in some state of being built just as we are not yet built. The temple of our lives is still under construction. We need to fight not to be overcome with pride or selfishness that our temple is further along with construction than someone else's. The devil will use any opening we give him to attack us. we must always stay under the protection of The Lord. 

As we are temples, and they are temples, what are we to do? Well as always I refer to the Bible for all the answers. In Romans 12:1-2 the Bible tells us to present yourself both to God and to man as a Holy Acceptable temple, not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the Word of the Lord, so that we may be acceptable to the Lord. We only have control over ourselves. We cannot make anyone else do what we think is right. 

The key word in the previous sentence is ‘think’. In our minds, we see things one way, in their minds they see things another way. We are responsible only to do what is right in our minds, not their minds. If we feel we need to excuse what we have done, it probably is wrong. If we feel that what we want to do is wrong to our own conscience it is probably wrong. Everyone sees things in a different way, they will react differently. What we must do is be willing, as God is, to be understanding of others seeing things differently and act accordingly. 

What we need to do is to ‘crucify the flesh’ as is spoken of in Galatians 2:19-20. We need to be dead to the flesh and the desires of the flesh. The flesh is controlled by the Law of God that can never be lived up to. The Lord gives us the Holy Spirit to live inside us when we are saved so we will be acceptable to  the Lord and to others as a representative of God. The problem comes when we have more than one face we show to the world. We come to Church and say ‘God Bless You’ and ‘Praise the Lord’ but when we go home, we are totally different. A poor at best representative of Christ. It is common in people to be this way. We put our best face on when in public, but our real face when we think no one is looking. That is why a persons true character is shown when no one is watching. The whole world would be better off if we all realized that God is always watching, He sees everything we do and knows everything we think. We can hide nothing from God.

Casting Pearls- Is America like Jezebel and Ahab?

The King of Isreal,  Ahab was seeking the help of Jehoshaphat, the King of Judah, in going up against the Syrians in Ramoth-Giliead and the King of Judah said he wanted to check with his prophets for the Lord first. The King of Isreal said that was fine, only that the prophet Micaiah always prophecied bad things to happen to him. The kings both met with all the prophets who were around Jerusalem at the time and they all prophecied that the Syrians would be delivered up into their hands.

The only one who disagreed was Micaiah, who said the Lord revealed to him that when called upon by the prophets, one Angel( or spirit) came to Him and said he would be a lying spirit in the mouths of all the prophets, to get Ahab to attack the Syrians and lose. Not only would Ahab lose, but he would be killed and lose his life. Because Ahab hated the prophet Micaiah and what he said, he ignored the warning and had his troops and those of Jehoshaphat go up against the Syrians. This was the only known case of an Angel (or spirit) ever lying to men on God’s behalf. 

What was so bad about Ahab that God would lie to him? Ahab had been one of the worst kings of Isreal, he had raised up alters and temples to many different gods and refused to follow the other laws of God the Creator as well. Ahab had been the husband of the Queen Jezebel, who had openly defied God and tried to kill the prophet Elijah who took on some 450 of her priests of Baal on Mount Carmel, and killed them all after the true God had brought fire down from Heaven to burn up his sacrifice. Jezebel had done all she could to work against God and His plan for Isreal. She eventually met her end by being thrown out of a upstairs window, trampled by horses, and her broken flesh devoured by dogs before she could be buried, just as prophecied by the prophet of The Lord. 

If we continue to go against all the things that have been proclaimed as abominations to God, we to will face the final destruction of a angry God. We kill our children before they are even born, like the Molech worshippers sacrificed their children to their god. We acknowledge a lifestyle choice as being alright, if not acceptable in our eyes, that God calls unnatural and an abomination to Him. We raise up idols in our countries from moneys to film stars to even preachers of the supposed gospel. All these things are a direct slap in the face of God. Jesus told us to turn the other cheek, and I believe God is, but I am not sure He will continue to forever. 

The Lord is very forgiving, however, as with humans, He has a memory, and remembers the way we have ignored and abused the gifts He has given us. God will not always forget the wrongs we have done. Eventually God will grow tired of protecting us from ourselves and remove His protective hand. Are we ready for that?

Casting Pearls- Have you received or taken?

                         There are many different words in the Bible, and some are written in Hebrew, some in Arabic and some in Greek. Most of the New Testament was written in Greek. One of the reasons was that in the time the Old Testament was written Hebrew was the most descriptive and common language that was used, and most of it's authors were Hebrew. When the New Testament was written the same was true of Greek. Now some words were written in Hebrew or Arabic to get the true meaning across. One of those words was ABBA, it was written in Arabic because there was no word in Hebrew or Greek that expressed the same meaning. It means Daddy.
                         There is a word for Father in Hebrew and in Greek but no word for Daddy. Just like that there was a word that in Greek was used more than once, but was translated into English differently each time. In Mark 12:8 it is translated took "And they TOOK him and killed him and cast him into the vineyard" and in John 19:6 "you TAKE Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him" In both of these situations the Greek word LAMBANO which that you have "actively" received something. The idea here is that when you receive grace from the Lord, you must take it not just sit back and complacently receive it. God wants us to have an active relationship with Him, not a stagnant religion.
                        As Christians we must evidence our salvation by good works not by sitting back and receiving salvation. The works will not get you into Heaven, but any true salvation is evidenced by good works. If you have true salvation through the blood of Jesus, you will show it by your works and wanting to spread the gospel of Jesus. The greek word for 'gospel' by the way is 'Good News'.

Casting Pearls- Milk or Meat?

A child, when it is first born, craves the milk from it’s mother. Just as a baby, the children of God first crave the knowledge of the milk of the word of the Lord. If the Lord was to give them meat to eat at that age, they would only get sick. As we grow in  our relationship to Christ, we are able to take more solid parts of the word. Only after some time are we able to partake of the meat of God’s Word. Just as a child must grow older to be able to eat the meat it is given. Just as with early man, who did not have the baby food and formula we have today, who had to teach their children to eat of the meat when they were still very young, we must teach very young Christians the meat of what is in the Word of God, before they are really ready. 

Some of these people are still young Christians, because they have been tied up in the things of this world for so long that they haven’t taken the time to learn the truth. Others are still like newborns, because they have never tried to take their faith any farther. I do not know or pretend to tell anyone where they are in their faith. I only attempt to show everyone the truth of the meat of God’s Word while there is still time.

If we look in 1 Corinthians 3 the whole chapter Paul is trying to teach the Corinthians, who were very much like us today, who lived in a port town and were surrounded by peoples who lived very worldly lives, about the things of Christ and how through Jesus they could overcome the various temptations they were faced with. Corinth was a very wicked place where people were taught from a very young age to care only for themselves and not to worry how their actions affected others. This was much as it is in America today. Whatever I want, I must have, even if others are affected, as long as no one else is hurt physically by it. At least to my knowledge. 

  There are some things accepted in this world that hurt others, and even kill others, without my knowledge. So, these things have become acceptable.As Christians, we should be outraged by these things, but as with Eve, in the Garden of Eden, the truth has been spun by the master of spin, Satan, and made acceptable to most baby Christians. We have brought about a time when the babies in the faith must begin to eat the meat of the Word at a very young age. It is imperative that we teach the truth to as many as possible, while there is still time.That is what I am attempting to do.

Now, if we look at 1 Corinthians 3:4-6, the Corinthians had divisions in their church, much as we have different denominations in our church today, and are through our own squabbles and disagreements, doing Satan's work for him. We should not let our differences define us, rather let our agreements bind us together. One of the most important things I have learned is, that if it does not affect our salvation, it is not worth arguing about. We can argue over whether Sunday or Saturday is the sabbath, or if we should sprinkle or dunk someone in baptism, the disagreements of these things do not change our combined belief that we must have a personal relationship with Jesus if we are to be saved.

Ultimately each of us has the responsibility to God for what we do with this knowledge once we have it. Some will attempt to tell their neighborhood about Jesus, others will reach out to surrounding neighborhoods, others will reach out to the world with the gospel. I am attempting to reach out to as many as possible in the most efficient way I have available to me, this Blog. Whatever we have in our hands, it is a gift from God, and with some imagination can be used to spread the word of salvation. In the next part of the chapter, 1 Corinthians 3:8-15, we see this spoken about. Each man’s work will be rewarded to him, and whatever we build for the Lord, will be rewarded. Each man’s building for God will be refined by fire, the part that is not for God and is only for ourselves will be burned away, The part that is built for God’s kingdom will remain and be stronger for it.

The next part of the chapter, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, tells us that our bodies are the temple that God resides in now. we are responsible to the Lord for caring for it and making it as an acceptable a place for the Lord to live as possible. Ultimately, we are responsible for the things we do with His Temple, God will destroy the temple if it is defiled by what we have done with it.We should hold to ourselves the responsibility to care for God’s Temple, and make sure that it is never defiled.

Then in 1 Corinthians 3:18-20, Paul warns us to not be fooled by the arguments of men, they are wise in the ways of this world, but foolishness in the eyes of God. Whenever we see the phrase, ‘as it is written’ in the New Testament,It refers to a passage in the Old Testament. Paul was a very learned person in the scriptures, which refers to the Old Testament books as they were the only thing they had back then, In verse 19, it is referring to Job 5:13, Which states, ‘He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the council of the wily is swept away’. Paul had a way of connecting his teachings in the New Testament to the teachings of God in the Old Testament. The people who appear to be wise in the things of this world, are considered by God to be foolish in the things of The Lord. 

Next in 1 Corinthians 3:21-23, Paul exhorts us do not be proud of the things the Lord has revealed to you through the spirit. Whoever, as man you follow the teachings of, do not be led astray by their teachings or their beliefs. Everything is ours through the adoption into the family of God by the blood of Jesus. We now hold part of the inheritance of Jesus and are co-heirs with Him in Eternity. 

Casting Pearls- My Testimony

I had a rough day at work, it was very hot and sticky, and I wasn’t feeling the best. Suddenly I realized that I had lost all hearing in my right ear. I thought that it might be having too much wax buildup in my ear, and I would clean it out when I got home.  I only had two stores left on my route that day so I kept working like nothing was wrong. I finished pulling the order I was working on and then went to my last store and serviced it. I then returned to the warehouse and loaded my truck for the next day.

After I returned home I proceeded to boil my ear out with peroxide to no avail and went to bed still unable to hear.  In the middle of the night I got up to go to the bathroom and almost fell down. I had to hold onto the bed, then the door and wall to get to the bathroom to pee. I knew right then that my inability to hear was the least of it. The next morning, I  called my boss and let him know that I would not be in as I was too dizzy to drive much less walk. I believed it must be an inner ear problem caused by a ear infection or sinus infection and that is what I told the Doctor who saw me at Tanner Emergency Room in Carrollton, GA. I went there and the doctor there agreed with my beliefs despite my bloodpressure being very high.

When I got the Cortical Steroids he prescribed, and had taken them for three days with no lessening of the symptoms, I thought we should try another emergency room, so I had my wife drive me up to Rome, GA, to go to Redmond Hospital there as it was where my father had gone for his heart problems. They had taken good care of him there, and he could only say good things about their patient care. It took the doctors on duty only 15 minutes to say, I had a stroke and never take the steroids again as they were probably the worst thing someone could prescribe to a patient that had just had a stroke. The doctors there then admitted me for treatment.

After some time waiting in the room they had put me in in the emergency room, I was moved to a private room in the hospital. I stayed in this room for several days as they treated my bloodpressure and stroke problems and did several tests on me and my blood. I was treated by a visiting neurologist and he later told me that the stroke was caused by narrowing of the arteries due to my increased bloodpressure. The stroke had left me deaf in one ear and in  the tests they had discovered some other problems in my arteries. They set me up for angioplasty and found three blockages in the arteries surrounding my heart. I had told the heart doctor about my father having stints put in to open up his blockages, and clotting on the stints because he had a high clotting factor in his blood. They did tests and discovered that I had the same high clotting factor so refused to use stints on me in the angioplasty.

After finding the blockages, two at 80% and one in the back of my heart at 95%, they scheduled me for a bypass. They wanted me to go home for a while and come back in about a month for the surgery, since it would call for them to use copious amounts of blood thinners and wanted my stroke to heal first. so after being in the hospital for two weeks, I went home.  I was at home for two days before I had another heart attack and had to return to the hospital. The doctors didn’t want to wait so long for my bypasses, so they went ahead and scheduled my bypass surgery for two days from then. I made my peace with God and my wife and got ready for the surgery.

Throughout both stays in the hospital, all I could talk about to anyone who came near was my newborn son only three or four months old, at the time, and show everyone the picture I had of him. He was the one thing that kept me wanting to live and make it through the things that were to come.  These things were bad, but looking back now, they helped me to understand the help I received from God to have the strength to make it through.

During the bypass surgery, as the doctors were afraid I would, I suffered another stroke. This stroke affected one of my vocal cords and my ability to swallow correctly, as well as making the right side of my face permanently numb. I was unable to swallow and feed myself, so they put a feeding tube in through my nose down my throat. According to my nurses and my doctor, I had a bad problem with pulling out the tube from my nose whenever I woke up or was left alone very long.  Even as an adult, we can act like children sometimes.I was forced to go through physical therapy to learn how to swallow without choking and talk again as well. It was a very humbling experience.

Having learned how to swallow and talk again, I then had to relearn how to walk correctly.  All in all I went through about three months of rehab. After I was released from the hospital the rehab went on as an outpatient for two months in Cedartown, GA. Through all this, I worked hard because I wanted to get better and be able to play with my son and teach him right from wrong, and also because, as most men, I connected my worth with my ability to work and provide for my family. I got my drivers license back at the end of December and was able to return to work January 15th.  It was hard to return as they had changed over to a new system of ordering and receiving product while I was out sick. All of this that I went through only enhanced the feeling I had that Jesus had a great purpose for me and the testimony that I  now had. Little did I know it would even become greater.

Before I went back to work my wife had began withholding any physical attention from me and even took to sleeping in my sons room with him. She claimed it was because she was going through a change in her physical wants. That was just a lie I found out later. during this time she traveled on the roads all day and spent money we didn’t have to buy things for herself. My wife became angry when I had to ask her to give up the charge cards to me. I started back to work but was unable to effectively do the job as the stroke had slowed me down even more. I put in the hours needed to complete the job even though it meant I got home late each night. I ended up putting in around 65 hours a week in just trying to complete the job asked of me.

While I was struggling with all this, my wife took it upon herself to go down to south Georgia where  she is from and go see some family friends. One of the people she saw while there was my best friend, Jeremy. He was married and had two young children, about 6 and 9, and was into horses and farming as was my wife. According to my best friend Jeremy, while he had been drinking a little bit and talking with my wife, my wife made a pass at him and pretty much tried to seduce him. Jeremy, bless his heart said that he could not do that to his best friend. I found out about this after she came back and forgave her for the slip, saying go and sin no more. It didn’t work though. Later that spring I was told by my wife, right after she broke up with him finding out he was abusive, that she had been having an affair with another guy who I thought was my friend.

She openly admitted to me that she had had an affair and I think that she thought that I would be angry and go ahead and file for divorce, so she was surprised when I didn’t. I kept trying to deal with the problems I was going through at work, and deal with her selfish and sometimes even hateful nature at home. I continued to try my best to deal with the difficulties I faced day to  day and deal with the difficulties at home too. It worked out great until I became angry over being lied to one to many times. My wife wanted to confront her son with some things that I knew he did like stealing my car and others, the problem came when Her son told me that He had stolen my car and went driving when intoxicated, after breaking into the car and searching it for his mother, because she was looking for some proof I was doing anything that she could use against me in court. As I learned from my wife herself, about a former fiancee of hers, If accused of something falsely by someone, it is most likely they are doing it themselves.  As I said, I became angry and made my first mistake, I told her and her 23 year old son that they had three days to get off my property. I immediately went and got my son from his room and took him to my wife’s sister’s house. I sat there and talked with my brother-in-law as my sister-in-law was not at home.When I left there I went to meet with an attorney and discuss getting a legal separation.

With all this going on, my father who was 75 years old passed away. I was upset, but not to the point of taking anything out on anyone else. I never raised my hand to a woman or child and I  never would. Any claims my ex-wife may have made are lies that can be added to her lies she has told so well throughout the situation. 

When I had returned my wife had called the police and claimed to them that I had just taken off with her son.  She started from the very start lying to the police and the court, later, to make me out a bad and hateful man all because I didn’t like being lied too. She got my son because I didn’t put up a fight as I was attempting to be nice. Later i learned that being nice to someone who only wants to hurt you will gain you very little, but after a while it will add up against the one who does you wrong. I pity her for the damage she has done to herself and her soul if she doesn’t repent and beg God and me to forgive her. She did ask me if I forgave her for lying to me and having the affair, but she has never asked me to forgive her for all the lies she has told about me to try and demonize me and make her out the victim. At this point I am more than willing to forgive her of she asks.

We went forward with me attempting to file for legal separation and her filing for divorce first so I could only file in response. She admitted her guilt of adultery but otherwise made me out to be a monster. She claimed many falsehoods against me and filed TPO after TPO that she had to drop for lack of evidence, but made it extremely difficult for me to make it to all the court dates, and still be able to work 65 to 80 hours a week. The last two weeks U was with Frito- Lay I worked over 80 hours and received no assistance from my supervisor. To make a long story short, I got angry with my supervisor after he had openly been playing favorites amongst the route people, and then asked me to falsify a document for him so he wouldn’t have to work late.  After all the lies my ex-wife had told about me, I was somewhat sensitive to someone lying to me or asking me to lie for them.I had been done wrong enough.

Needless to say, my supervisor, Brandon Vinson from Douglasville, GA lied to the company and told them I never gave notice. It was a very difficult thing for me to live with, but I finally found an attorney that was willing to file a case against Frito- Lay for not allowing me unemployment because they claimed that I never gave notice. To this date, I have only been living off the gifts and goodness of friends and family.

I have been forced to file bankruptcy due to the legal costs and lack of support I have received from the people and the company I used to work for, Frito-Lay, and my former bosses lies, have been designed by satan to attempt and keep me from being able to tell the world about my testimony of all that I have been through and the strength God has given me to overcome. Anyway, my ex-wife at the divorce hearing proceeded to continue to tell lies about me and her attorney did the same. The judge made a ruling against me based on these lies and ruled that I should have to pay an outrageous amount of child support and approximately 4000.00,of her legal fees. In all, it came to over 6000.00.

It was ridiculous as there was no way I could pay anything with my being unemployed and without any income because, after I left Frito-Lay, I tried to go to work for an alarm company and an Insurance company.  The alarm company let me go due to lack of sales, and the Insurance company laid me off due to lack of sales. Throughout my employment with both the United States was going through a recession and there was no one purchasing anything they didn’t have too.

I did get some sales, but didn’t get enough to keep from being laid off. During all this time I did whatever I could to continue paying my Child support despite the fact that it was based on my former larger income with Frito-Lay, and I had developed Sciatic nerve problems from years of servicing lower shelves in my job with Frito-Lay. Despite the problems I faced, I found a lawyer that was willing to file a disability case for me, and did so.

While waiting for my disability hearing, I had to get medicine for my bloodpressure and heart problems whereever I could, and get medical care by claiming that I was indigent. Even while doing this, the attorney for my wife came after me for her court costs and the Judge in the case would not let me present the evidence I had of the attorney’s and my ex’s lying. According to him, only an attorney could file perjury charges.The attorney for my divorce David Basil, of Carrollton,GA, quit representing me after the divorce hearing even though he never allowed the judge to hear the truth from me or was willing to see my proof of their lies. After the divorce hearing, he simply refused to represent me at all because he knew without a copy of the hearings words, I could not prove that he failed to represent me fully. It was my word against his.

Needless to say the judge who heard the case of my not paying the lawyers fees, proceeded to throw me in jail even though he had refused to hear all the facts. I spent four months in jail and during the time I was in there I was able to witness to several different people I met including a man that had been convicted of child molestation against his own daughter, and started a Bible study that many others wanted to join. Not long after I got the Bible study popular enough that several people that could not join us in it were wanting to join us, I was released because  some land I had had before the marriage and was supposed to be in the bankruptcy, was never taken over by the attorney that had responsibility for my assets. The land was sold to my cousin and the money used to get an attorney to represent me in the case and file a case to change the divorce ruling.

At this time I am awaiting my disability hearing and at a stalemate with my ex-wife since she and her attorney know that I have evidence of their lies and can charge them both with purgery if they try to take me back to court. It has been an energy draining experience to say the least. Most people would have been upset with God for not bringing this to an end and continuing to cause upset to my son, But I have only grown stronger in my faith in Jesus and strength through God my Father. 

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