The Fire of Faith Within Me Won't Let You Deny Me
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (9/7/2013)
“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)” (Ephesians 3: 16-20; 4: 5-10, King James Version, The great love of Christ; Paul exhorteth to unity).
In the fire of faith, in the Name of Jesus,
I come before you today, my brothers and sisters, to speak truth of Christ, in the measure of Christ. Today, we stand before those who seek to take all for themselves by denying rightful ownership. In the multitude of nano-seconds that filled time, in the course of the last two months, I have been denied rightful ownership to my horse, since fighting a four year court battle, only to have a sheriff who decided to take my horse again, a second time, cleverly give my horse to someone else in his authority and then have the someone else give my horse to yet another someone else. The corrupt sheriff knowingly took my horse, again and this was done to laugh in the face of the decision it took four years to get and in the face of the judge, district attorney, and court proceedings that scrutinized documents for four years, which decided they could not deny me my horse because of the evidence presented proved doubt in the theory that my horse belonged to someone else (prevailing justice). I have been told a lot of the problems of the deep south is illiteracy.
It does not take a rocket scientist, to see, truth, yet we live and learn everyday and by this we know that there are those who are still rooted in the darkness of death, who did not receive the good news and who are not in the marvelous light of Christ Jesus. They are still lost. The sheriff cannot deny my rightful ownership to my horse. The sheriff cannot take my horse. We are one body.
We find in days of unbelief in Christ, we have workers of iniquity, foot soldiers of Satan, in municipalities, towns, communities, and neighborhoods, who are dark forces that stand against the words of God and the gospel of Christ. We are, indeed, on the battlefield, fighting the good fight of faith. The fire of faith within me won't let you deny me my horse. If, I let you deny me my horse, then, you will deny me all my property rights, which is not a decision that a sheriff can make without unrest. We are still in rest, here, in America, in spite of the civil unrest that is an affliction to the peoples of the world, in distant lands and neighboring lands.
We know, as unsettling as it might sound, there are forces of darkness that aspire to take (overthrow) America, so that they might, in turn, take all properties in America. I am not talking about strangers, for we know the terrorism intentions, I am talking about your neighbors in our neighborhoods and your friends in our fellowship, who do not honor Christ and all that Christ stands for in distribution of wealth. I am talking about those folks who see themselves as better than other folks and more entitled to your property than you are; those who deny your rightful ownership and take
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property (justice denied). I stand with Paul, who was a sheriff, himself, named Saul, before he was changed on the road to Damascus, to work in the Office of Christ, as an apostle, believing on the promise of Christ, “That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:” (Ephesians 3: 6, KJV [The great love of Christ]).
Now, if, the taking of my horse, then, did not put an insult on an already injury, the office worker in the farm service office is denying checks. She said, “You would only get a headache doing all the things you need to do to get the little money you would get.” Let me be the judge of that. I did not call her to discuss medical, I called because the USDA sent me an email to respond before the deadline to receive DCP benefits. Personally, I do not think she cared one bit whether I suffered a headache or not, she merely practiced denying me my rightful check (She told me it was the last check going out since Congress failed to approve a new Farm Bill. The last check the office worker spoke of, was the first check, since in the 10 years I am resident of the state of Georgia, I have not received a check).
I am not the first to complain of farm service denying checks, especially to those out of the loop, who do not get the information, to sign up and now even though you are signed up, they place roadblocks in front of you, saying everyone in your family must also sign up (absentmindedly, leaving those behind who live in the county with their family farm and only sending checks out to folks linked to the farm in name only who do not even work the farms or live on the farms). I am the only one in the county of our family farm and I have not received a first check and she is talking about a last check. I will not be denied my rightful check. This is just like the malpractices of voting, placing roadblocks, so citizens give up on exercising their right to vote. Recent studies, show the farm bill monies paid out to only a few in farm communities because of the malpractices of farm service office workers denying checks and placing roadblocks to receiving check distribution, which is a disservice to the communities they serve. The fire of faith within me won't let you deny me.
You should not have to go to the neighboring sheriffs to get resolution of community issues, due primarily because untrained workers, given to subjective judgments, harbor resentment and deny rightful ownership to property and benefits. You should not have to call the Justice Department of the United States of America, to investigate the malpractices of a corrupted community, which seemed to allow corrupted workers run amok, denying property rights and benefits, taking property and distributing the property they take to whomever they choose, without court proceedings and denying property rights and benefits, taking property and distributing property to whomever they choose after court proceedings proved their line of thought wrong and corrected the injustice. The rogue sheriffs are not modern day Robin Hoods taking from the rich giving to the poor, they are giving to the rich and even if they were giving to the poor, then, they cannot, in their warped, slanted, bent conscious, deliver evil practices for the good and just law of the land and the Constitution of the United States of America. A community should not deny those with common sense, education, intelligence, and leadership skills, to boot, a rightful voice, in community affairs to sort through what needed to be sorted through so communities are not rendered incapable of conducting their own affairs and needed oversight of the justice department, just because of they have allowed a few illiterate (ignorant) bullies to takeover the leadership in their community.
I tell you, the fire of faith within me will not let you deny me. The problem is those who are without education (illiterate or minimal education) and training wickedly plot and scheme to takeover leadership, so they can take from good and decent citizens, prancing around pretending to care and have the interests of citizens, in mind. Just the blind leading the blind, when there are folks in the community, who clearly see and are not delusional. It makes no sense for a community to operate in illiteracy and injustice, blindsided, in corrupt power of authority, when qualified people are available to help. The fact is they planned to deny and they do deny, with grandiose delusions of what distribution
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of wealth, should be.
The results of such acts of illiteracy (ignorance) have emerged as insults, coming from my neighboring kin folks bringing gifts from neighbors in landlocked towns to demonstrate opinions held, of men underwear (old, torn and used underwear, drawers, briefs) given. The other used hand-me-downs, a dress and shirts were nice enough but my kin folk did not like to receive the gifts (acts of kindness) and brought them to me to sort through for him. His wife will not let him bring them in her house. He brings the things from his own house for me to sort through, for him, as well because I felt it was better for me a doctor of education to stoop low than for them to see the family as high and mighty, not in need of anything. My kin folk said, “His daughter came from Atlanta with a lot for them to go through as well”. He also said the message that came with the gifts from the landlocked town was, “They came from their son-in-law and daughter.”
Interestingly enough, the sheriff gave my horse to a family of whom the daughter-in-law gave the horse to someone else, so, I guess they sent some old men drawers from another in-law from their neck of the woods, to my family to comfort us for the lost of the horse. No one laughed. Of course, my kin could take everything to the community dumpster and I directed him to do so. I know my kin hated to receive hand-me-downs but he loved to distribute them out, it was his way of showing he felt superior; many folks are still in a delusional state, carrying baggage from the days of Jim Crow and Jane Crow, oppression in the deep south.
In the Name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit. The Lord be with you. May the Spirit be with you. Amen.
