FOR THE PAST 35 YEARS, I have shared a lot of Prayer Requests
and a lot of Blogs with you, both Christian and Political.
Why Christian? Because I have been a Christian believer since
1987 and a Christian writer for the past 35 years. Several
years before I was saved, God prepared me for the Christian
Writing Ministry He would called me to circa 1989 and if I do
not follow my calling, I will be disobedient.
Why political? Because I believe that an informed American
will have a strong knowledge of what is happening in the
political offices which govern our city, state, and federal
governments. And while being a Christian is not a criteria
nor gating factor for one serving in a government office, I
would hope that many are Christian believers and that America
will always have Christian influence within all our branches
of government.
But until today, I have never shared a Prayer Blog. Today I
want to do that - for a very special Christian Brother/Friend
who I believe has been especially gifted by God - but has
currently lost his way spiritually.
Why am I asking prayers for such a man?
FIRST, he has been a Christian brother for many years and I
know he will not lose his eternal salvation. But he has been
under heavy attack from Satanic spirits and he really needs
our prayers. We all, to some degree, may experience a
weakening of our faith in times of stress and trouble. If we
were perfect, we could avoid those experiences - but I will
admit that I am not perfect, nor as strong all the time as I
would like to be. Are you?
My Friend and Christian brother,
Nathan, has experienced major backsliding twice. He recovered
once, but Satanic spirits doubled their efforts and Nathan
needs our prayers to beat them this time.
Because of his outstanding business acumen, he has been
financially successful in almost all his business ventures,
amassing a sizable fortune. But the greater his financial
success, the more anxiety he had, and the more it tore at the
seams of his personal life. Business success and money became
his gods, causing him to stop depending upon God. He began to
look toward his own God-given strengths and attributes, which
allowed him to be successful, as the cause of his financial
successes.
In Nathan's words about giving God control of his life, "Once
I had gotten everything I wanted in life, I would give
God control. This made perfect sense to me! Get to
where I wanted to be and then let God have control. My
thought was if I made just a bit more money, then I
could spend more time with my family and develop my
relationship with God. But the more I made and the
bigger my companies grew the more time I spent away from
my family and the more miserable I became."
His anxiety over business and wealth, his
addiction to pain medications from heath issues - brought
personality changes which were eating away at his relationship
with his wife and young daughter - bringing it close to
breaking. But praise God, this time, like the prodigal son,
Nathan found his way back to God and family.
Nathan tells us of that Moment of Truth, "I knew
beyond a doubt I needed God in my life. I needed to let
God lead, guide, and direct me. But I was struggling.
Then one day in the fall of 2014, . . . Suddenly
I saw, with perfect clarity, I was serving myself and my
own carnal desires, worshiping material things and
success. I was practicing a contemporary form of
materialistic idolatry. I was a saved, religious
hypocrite who only wanted God involved when I needed
Him.
Then it really hit me, I knew I was going to stand in
front of God and give an account of my actions. I would
give an account of the testimony I had with others. I
would answer for the husband and father I had been.
Then it really hit me. My daughter would likely marry
the type of man I had become. I was not the man of God
that I wanted to be and I certainly wasn’t the man of
God I had been created to be. It was time to change."
The backsliding son had returned, to God, and to his family.
He was backsliding no more.
BUT the Satanic spirits were not through with my Christian
brother, Nathan. They doubled their spiritual attack and
Nathan once again was pulled from trust in God and this time
slid into the dark world of the paranormal, began depending
upon Satanic ways and seductive spirits.
In Nathan's own words: "I was
an accomplished athlete in high school, especially in
basketball, and as you know when you are young, nothing
hurts for long. Unfortunately, by the age of 16, I was
visiting a chiropractor weekly and had knee surgery, and
by my late 20’s I was having legit neck and back pain.
Entering my 30’s, I was diagnosed with degenerative disk
disease and mild spinal stenosis.
To control the pain,
I had steroid shots in my spine, trigger point
injections in my muscle, and pain meds. By the time I
turned 40, I was on 240 milligrams of morphine a day and
getting over a dozen trigger point injections every 8-12
weeks. . . . In
October 2016, I was unfortunately rear-ended by another
driver. The effects of the wreck caused massive nerve
damage and muscle atrophy that forced me to have an
anterior cervical fusion of my c5-c7 disks."
As he was becoming more and more addicted to medications
and drugs to soften his pain, the Satanic
spirits launched a more deceptive, dark, and evil attack
against Nathan. His marriage was finally broken, he was alone
- then the Satanic spirits introduced New Age dark religion
into his life.
From childhood we have envisioned Satan and his Satanic
spirits as being gross, angry red beings with horns, holding a
three pronged spear (trident). But that is far from the
truth. Satan and his angels can appear in any form they
choose, i.e., before I became a believer, Satanic
spirits appeared to me as my maternal grandfather who
supposedly committed suicide, but I was uncovering evidence
that led me to believe he was murdered. Satanic spirits played
on that desire to prove the report wrong.
Here I can truly relate to the Satanic spirits attack on
Nathan - because for about 10 years before I became a
believer, I was very much involved in the
Psychic/Paranormal/New Age world of darkness. During that 10
years, I had a number of up close and personal encounters with
those dark spirits. Trust me, they know our hot buttons - and
they know how to reach us through those weaknesses.
Example: From childhood I was told that my maternal
grandfather committed suicide. As an adult I questioned that
and began examining the evidence, concluding that he was
murdered. I was, and am, still very convinced that he was
murdered. In the early 1980s demonic spirits appeared to me
appearing to be my grandfather. I will discuss those up close
and personal encounters with Satanic spirits in another blog.
But I will emphasize this: I DO KNOW the dark world of doubt
and backsliding which Nathan is experiencing now - and I know
that our prayers are the only way to bring him back to his
real Father and family - and to push Satan's spirits away from
him.
In the late 1990s, after becoming a Christian believer, Dory
and I were working with a friend on an international project
and transaction. One day he excitedly shared with us the
fantastic book he was devoutly reading, highlighting much of
the text - treating it like a Bible.
In effect it was a bible
to him, for it was a book written by one of the leading New
Age authors, psychics, and influencers of that time, Doreen
Virtue. At that time, if anyone mentioned New Age influencers
to me, my mind automatically went to Doreen Virtue. That is
how prevalent her occultic writings and public exposure were
at that time.
Our friend offered to lend his New Age bible to me to read. I
accepted - for one reason. I would rather have that book and
have it hidden away, rather that having him worshiping at the
alter of the New Age guru, Doreen Virtue. That is how evil I
saw her and her influence at that time.
When I began my research for this Prayer Blog, I came upon a
new revelation which really blew my mind, and I give a really
Big Praise To God. For He had changed that lady, Doreen
Virtue, who, through her books, speaking engagements, New Age
products, and influence - had lured thousands, if not
millions, away from the path to God and onto the path into
Satan's world.
God took her from the depths of New Age
darkness - and brought her into the family of God. In 2017
she rejected her New Age spiritual beliefs - and became a born
again Christian. Now she writes and speaks for God, not
Satan.
My immediate thought? If Doreen Virtue could be brought to
God by the radio teaching of Pastor Alistair Begg - then my Christian brother, Nathan, most certainly can be
brought back into His arms. By our prayers!
A
moment of insight!
Isn't it amazing how often New Age Occultist - such as
Doreen Virtue was before God stepped in - come to us
as Pretty Women - reminiscent of the 1990 movie, Pretty
Woman, where a prostitute and a wealthy
businessman fall for one another, forming an unlikely
pair?
Then Satan can use such attractive blonde
exteriors such as Doreen Virtue was during most of her
New Age career, to lead vulnerable people into the dark world
of psychics, witchcraft, tarot cards, sorcery, Wicca,
and the dark Satanic world? Satan sure knows how to
deceive.
We know that
God is Omnipotent, all powerful, nothing can overcome Him -
and there is nothing He cannot overcome - if only we will turn
to Him. In my mind and heart, I can picture many people
around the world, leading up to her moment of decision in
2017, praying for Doreen Virtue to be saved from the dark
world of the Paranormal.
And on that day in 2017, God
answered their prayers, He made it happen for Doreen. He can
make it happen for my brother, Nathan, also, if we all lift
him in prayer.
I am asking for prayers from around the world, that what
happened to Doreen Virtue in 2017 - will happen for my
Christian Brother/Friend, Nathan now. I am asking that your
prayers will become so great that God will reach down and lift
Nathan from the pigsty of the psychic and drug world - and
like the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), fully restore him to
God and to his family. If you will pray, God can make it
happen, just as He did with Doreen Virtue.
Let me tell you a bit more about Nathan Tabor. In 2007 I met and became
close Friends, and an even closer Christian brother, with
Nathan. I have long respected his Conservative Christian
Values, his Patriotism - and his deep knowledge of our
political process, and his knowledge and wisdom on who is
governing America, who is governing the United Nations, and
how that is affecting all the world.
When we met in 2007,
Nathan had recently, 2004, run for Congress in North
Carolina's 5th Congressional District with an impressive list
of supporters. His first attempt to run for the high office
of Congressional House of Representatives was outstanding,
even though he did not win that time.
On the other hand, I personally benefited by
his not going to Congress in 2004, for in 2007 when I met
Nathan he had founded "The Conservative Voice," an
online newspaper. And he invited me to be a guest
columnist. I wrote in The Conservative Voice,
mostly in the Faith & Family section, but at times
visiting the Politics section, for several years, posting
about 500 articles. That was a true blessing and a great
learning experience.
In my own Christian Writing
Ministry, my Friends Ministry eNewsletter,
Facebook Notes, our Bill & Dory Gray Christian
Ministries blog site, and in the TimesDaily
Religion Forum where Nathan and I met - while varying,
my list of
readers probably
never exceeded 2000 worldwide, predominately Christian.
On Nathan's The Conservative Voice, I was now
writing to reach about 250,000 readers worldwide -
covering a much broader spectrum of beliefs and ideas.
That was a challenge which I know God gave to me, through
Nathan.
Nathan Tabor was an entrepreneur,
businessman, speaker, business consultant, life coach, real
estate investor, commercial real estate broker, author, Liberty
University adjunct professor, and founder of Handling Life.
Since 1999, he has founded and operated more than two dozen
businesses, grossing over $150 million in sales.
Along the way,
he has had some amazing successes, and some failures, in the
areas of commercial real estate, automobile financing, direct
product sales, web-based marketing, strategic partnership
facilitation, consulting/coaching firm, and online educational
courses.
