Questions from you to me

I obtained these from a person in California I met through blogging. Click here for his blog.

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album

(B) Ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. Answers will be posted next week–great time for strangers to say hi.

(C) Then go back to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything; say that you stole it from me.ask me anything.. i’ll answer it.. maybe

Thoughts from the last couple of days

Hey there.
The last couple of days have been spent either around the house or running errands. I worked a ten hour shift two days ago at Norampac again, gluing boxes, and then was called by Manpower yesterday to be told things slowed down at Norampac and they didn’t need me there until further notice. I’m not sure how the work part of being in Canada is going to go, I’m believing God for some kind of factory work to show up thru a temp agency like this, and that way I don’t have to go through the process of handing out zillions of resumes and waste valuable time I could be working for someone already.

So yesterday I went to a computer place to get my laptop checked out but they told me it’s toast. Something about how whenever I open and close it, the tiny wires are being pinched over and over again to the point they got destroyed (hence the sparking I mentioned in a previous entry). So since it would be really expensive to have it fixed, since it’s a laptop and not a pc, I’m basically laptop-less unless I find work right away to afford a cheap new one in a few months. I have internet access on my parents’ computer, but the laptop afforded me the luxury of writing revelations and words from the Lord down on my own time as they came to me, as well as preparing blogs entries for next time I was online. But it’s a blessing in disguise because having to share a computer helps me manage my time and not be online too much, and be more disciplined with my schedule, which has produced the fruit of being able to spend more time reading the Word, as well as the big green Smith Wigglesworth book.

As for fundraising for Holland, I went over to Rick Kirschner’s office, which is now located at the Kaos Radio station he started and directed. He wasn’t there, but I made an appointment to meet with him or his go-to person for Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. As a result of stopping in, I got to get a tour of the station, so that kind of made my day. But man was it ever snowing out! You know you live in Canada during winter when you spend more time warming up your car, scraping the ice off the windows, and brushing the snow off of it than you do actually driving to your destination! And, I had to have only been a half hour at the station, and crossing the street to get a French Vanilla Cappacino from the Tim Horton’s I parked at, and I had like two more inches of snow piled on the car again to wipe off–in only approximately half an hour! But it seems to have stopped, and I got to listen to a good Kenneth Hagin tape on the Holy Spirit while shoveling my parents’ driveway this afternoon.

I love Kenneth Hagin’s teaching actually. Someone tried telling me all the things wrong with what he teaches, so I find myself actually doing the research for myself, and there actually is nothing wrong with these tapes or the book I read this summer. Maybe there’s some bones to spit out when chewing the meat like ANY other preacher/teacher/author. If you’re reading this and you’ve been told who not to listen to or what not to read, ignore it. Go do your own research and figure out what to believe cuz almost everything I’ve been told not to listen to has been what has profoundly impacted me. If I listened to my youth pastor in high school, as well as the Brethren Bible College students tell me not to go to Selwyn (one guy actually told me that they “hypnotize you at Selwyn and manipulate your emotions by worshipping so long you’ll believe what anyone says”–yeah, that makes sense–worship “hypnotizes” the believer–we better backslide and cancel our ticket to heaven then because the Bible says we’re going to worship God for eternity–I’d hate to get hypnotized there!!!!), I never would have made some of the friends I made or gotten to know Rick Kirschner and never woulda heard about the Brownsville Revival, which birthed the school I wound up going to and just graduated from–if I never went out to Selwyn for myself to see if these accusations were true.

I also never woulda gotten baptized in the Holy Spirit [eventually as a result of going to FIRE]and entered this whole new realm of stuff in the Holy Spirit that I’d been taught “isn’t for today”. In fact, the tape I was listening to today, by Hagin, was probably the clearest and best explanation of the difference between the Holy Spirit indwelling the believer, vs. empowering the believer for service. Whoever told me this guy doesn’t use Scripture must not have actually listened to him or read anything by him but merely thinks it’s so, because the book I finished reading, which was on spiritual warfare, and the tapes I’m going through by him—all had an almost overwhelming amount of Scripture that he merely expounds on. Anyway, for faith teaching or things on the Holy Spirit and healing and so forth (all the stuff that the non-charismatic half of the Body of Christ tells themselves and each other not to listen to or believe is for today) literature like this guy’s is a must. Other people may teach it “better”, but definitely I like how simple Hagin teaches things and when you’re done, you *get it*.

Anyway, my wrists are hurting due to this keyboard and the desk I use it on. I’m not used to typing for so long on something other than a laptop.

Be blessed, please don’t hesitate to keep in touch just cuz I’m not online as often. I will still try to keep up on blogging as often as I have been.

Steve