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To: Grantcw who wrote (31)	4/10/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: Jane Hafker	Respond to of 14396

There is a compelling need for all to pray for the devastations being visited upon almost every part of the country almost every week by almost every known natural disaster which was a once a year blip, maybe, in a little town in one state for years and years, and years until l982. And then it just builds every year and right now I think my mind is a little blown as it is all catching up with me what's going on. The tornado thing is totally off the wall, and was limited for centuries to one or two houses in Kansas. Now in two weeks there is more Job-like total devastation of human life and property than my mind is able to grasp. It is incessant anymore. These people wake up to no possessions, no pets, no cars, no life, no hope. And many of them are Christians, and perhaps tithing, praying Christians who somehow escaped the miracle of the devastation literally picking itself up and jumping over one house in a block, as proven on CNN during hurricane Andrew. There was one house and not even the mailbox was knocked over, and all around them was bombed out rubble. It was a couple who had gone on a missionary thing to somewhere in South America, and were praying for the house and the teenagers at home when Andrew struck. It was so wild even the pagans on CNN did a story on it. BUt I look at the film and it is just blanket rubble like after a bombing raid in a war. Nothing. Now, at first they are glad to be alive, of course, and all of the nice things they say to the camera. But I am almost knocked out thinking what this means in human misery, Christian especially, since that is of course the ultimate test of faith--the Job experience. The Job experience is becoming national and daily. I know its hard enough for me to forget a dead goldfish I liked, let alone every single known detail of my existance. Anyway, the Lord has put this matter on my heart and there is hardly a place to even begin to think about how to pray. Of course for those who pray in tongues, please do. I don't know how I feel about it, but I'm catching on that there is more undeserved misery out there than we are acknowledging, and it is exactly the same as being under the attack of an agressive army with tanks and bombs, and hundreds of people are getting that treatment almost every month now, either from hurricane, tornado or flood. For sure if it keeps up it will only be a matter of time until famine follows. And then plagues. We are in tribulation, and I think the denial is very dangerous for us all. Anyway, I am compelled to pray as the Lord has set that poem in my mind now for some time, and this past week it undeniable. That I do not seek to know for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for me. And I think I'm beginning to understand Donne's poem, which most certainly must have been written during one of the zillions of wars in Europe, about "if a clod of dirt be washed away from the promentary (cliff) is not Europe the less?" Anyway, I think we have many matters to pray about. Right now we are all frogs slowly boiling in the same pot, and it's time to pray. I will just pray for this situation in heavenly tongues, as words are just escaping me. But the Lord has my attention in this matter. Perhaps someone else has some wisdom in how to pray for the tribulation which is now upon so many and no one notices that it indeed The Tribulation in first gear. Father God, most of all I give you thanks that you have kept me from all these things, and it is without merit, but I truly thank you. For those not so fortunate, I bring them now to your remembrance, and pray that that for just caught in the rain that falls on the unjust that the miracle of the Holy Spirit to overcome the world will be brought into their lives in such a way that it was all worth it. And for those that shake their fist at heaven and rail at you, God, I pray that the rest of us will escape the things that must come to pass as a result. I think you for your mercy in my life, and pray for those who were not spared, and sit now like Job.