Chag sameach Rosh Chodesh kol beit Yisra'el and welcome to the beginning of the ninth month of the biblical year in the current prophetic season of the Penultimate Judgment.

Two or three years ago, or maybe longer, at least the summer before my heart operation in January 2019, when I was getting really, really tired standing and preaching at the puplit on the Sabbath and at Rosh Chodesh, I told Yahweh I needed a tall stool on which to sit while I ministered as we had nothing high enough that I could use at home. The next time we went to town to do our weekly shopping we drove up to the garbage dump to dispose of some things and standing next to a container (skip) on the road was this beautiful, brown-stained wooden, and smooth brown leather-padded, stool in immaculate condition (see picture above).

For some reason the owner disposing of it didn't bother to throw it into the container for if she or he had, and had I spotted it, I would not have been able to reach down into the 10 feet or more deep container to recover it. Moreover, I had never known the Swedes, who are very clean and tidy, to dump anything next to the container before, as they are trained to be socially responsible, so this was a unique occurrence. As soon I saw it, I knew this was an answer to prayer, and that this was no coincidence. And had a worker at the rubbish dump spotted it standing there, as he would have every time the container was emptied, it would have been thrown right in and I probably would never have seen it. So when I got home, the splendid stool went behind the pulpit where it was not only turned out to be exactly the right height but very comfortable too, tailor-made, as it were, to my needs. If it had been hard and not upholstered I would not have been able to sit on it. Looking at me behind the pulpit you wouldn't have known I was sitting on a stool at all.

Some months later I had my heart operation and for six months I was pretty ill recovering and certainly unable to write or preach for a while, and when I was better enough, I sat down and recorded videos nearer the ground on an ordinary chair with cushions to preclude any accidents. The stool lay forgotten behind the pulpit which hadn't been used by then for over two years. Since that time my chronic fibromyalgia has worsened and an accident at the chiropractor snapped a muscle in my derrière making it impossible to sit down without being in agony. On the few occasions I forced myself to preach sitting down I was not only in agony at the time, but I afterwards suffered dreadfully and quickly realised I would have to write and preach standing up again or not at all. That worked for a while until I became so exhausted and my legs and back so painful I could not stand up for long periods of time any longer.

One day about four sermons ago I asked Yahweh what I should do and I distinctly felt I should get that stool behind the puplit and bring it to the place where I had been making videos standing up. Immediately I heard I voice say, succinctly, and in the way I am familiar with and know to be Elohim's (God's), "Sit on it." I knew it was Yahweh speaking otherwise I would have hestitated to respond, so I sat on it, and do you know what? I didn't feel any pain at all - not that time nor the subsequent times I have made videos sitting down. What's interesting, is that when I went to sit down anywhere else, the pain instantly returned, and still does. So Yahweh provided a way for me to continue ministering.

Yesterday I decided to use it while preaching on the sabbath, and the same thing happened (sadly the video recording failed to produce audio so I'll be re-recording it later this afternoon). Though I was preaching for an hour, I did not feel so much as a hint of pain while seated, which is a miracle, and for a moment I actually believed I had been healed. In the sermon I called it my "magic stool" which my wife didn't like at all because of the occult connotations of the word 'magic' so I changed it to my "blessed stool" to make her happier. In the afternoon I worked sitting on it with the same result but as soon as I sat elsewhere, no matter how soft and comfortable the seat was, the pain returned instantly.

I don't know why Yahweh hasn't healed me or indeed the many believers more worthy than I who have had to suffer unspeakable pain. I have a whole list of people whom I pray for every day who go through unspeakable suffering, people far worse off than myself, though in desperate moments I am tempted to believe I am a 'special case' deserving 'special attention'. I think of the late Ravi Zacharias, a sweet and kind soul who had a tremendous ministry with a huge impact, who suffered excruciating pain much of his life after having an operation in which a metal rod was inserted in his spine. Then an aggressive cancer attacked him and within a few very short weeks he was gone, leaving behind a devastated family and ministry partners. The tears he used to shed over the years ... again Yahweh alone only knows the purpose, for the one thing we do want assurance of is that our pain is at least not purposeless when we aren't actually guilty of the kind of major sinful behaviour (like taking dangerous drugs, smoking, etc.) that does lead to disease and sometimes death. I do get very angry when I hear some Christians accusing all the sick of being sinners because they are sick and in pain, as though it's always their fault, a reason I loathe and vigorously oppose the vile and false 'Prosperity Gospel' or 'Health-and-Wealth Teaching' which has needlessly guilted tens of thousands of souls, making them suffer needlessly even more, as well as being used to extract money from them by faith-healers. A brother in Norway once took a seeker who was a cripple in a wheelchair to such a 'Prosperity' meeting in Oslo and that poor man was told by some indoctrinated young members theere that the reason he was an invalid was because he was a sinner and that he eneded to repent! Had it not been for the tremendous respect that poor man had for my brother he would have rejected Christianity unhestitatingly.

The fact of the matter is, we don't know why Yahweh heals some and not others, and occasionally very dramatically, as with the story I told yesterday of the Filipino evangelist who raised a woman from the dead and was unaffected by poison he had been given. Paul was left with an unspecified but distressing sickness which he called his 'thorn in the side' and when he asked Yahweh to remove it, He would not, and told him it was to keep him humble and that His daily grace was sufficient (2 Cor.12:7-19). And so, apparently, it is, He himself wrote by way of explanation:

"And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Master three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Messiah may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Messiah's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor.12:7-10, NKJV).

The story of Job you know well and he was permitted to suffer terrible disease to vindicate Yahweh's righteousness as well as to expose his friends' false philosophy and theology which has been recorded for our benefit and read in the Bible by millions of people over the centuries who have been blessed by his testimony. I have been accused many times of being a terrible sinner for otherwise, they said, I would have been healed long ago. Indeed recently a minister said the reason I needed heart surgery was because of some terrible sin he believed I was committing even though my condition was congenital and had never been in my control since the day I was born. The ingnorant should best hold their tongues and not add more misery to the lives of those already suffering, especially those who are fine believers. There have been moments when I have realised that my own physical suffering has been to prod me into seeking Yahweh when otherwise I might not have. And I'll admit, I have complained a lot and doubted a lot over the years. But here I still am and my faith remains strong. I know in whom I am trusting.

So when little miracles occur, I appreciate them. I try always to be grateful for small miracles and mercies and thought I would share the story of my 'magic stool' with you today to encourage you a little, as I have not been given a specific prophetic message by Yahweh for this month unless something is given later today or unless this is it.

The Judgments are underway and it simply remains for the people of Elohim (God) to join in intercessory prayer and to make sure they are prepped and out of the cities before things start shutting down and getting even more violent because it will start there and the worst will take place there. When those in the countryside see what's happening in the cities they'll know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that they're in the right place.

There are some big surprises around the corner, both pleasant and exceedingly unpleasant, so you need a robust spiritual armour on and an open prayer channel to Heaven if you are going to prosper in these hard times. Maybe this is a reason why we are sometimes allowed to suffer, to toughen us up and give us some 'grit'. Ezekiel was given a brow 'like brass' to endure the attacks of his enemies.

And, please, be careful of all the pretender 'prophets' out there. We're half way through November and already many of the 'prophecies' they have been making, which I have recorded on my calendar, have failed. I'm not saying there aren't some authentic ones out there in the mix, because there are, but if you have been following my recent sermons on Spiritual Equipping you'll know who to be very careful of without me having to name any names.

Yahweh is in overall control of the big picture but we must take responsibility for our own actions. There's no chickening out of personal responsibility when we have been given free will. That means you must be obedient to His instructions to you in your personal circumstances which aren't necessarily the same as your neighbour's or your friend's with whom you shouldn't necessarily compare yours because our respective situations are often very different. This isn't the Final Gathering, not quite yet, but we are getting training for the Last Exodus which has begun.

Do not, I repeat - do not take any RNA-type vaccines, which are completely new, another reason you need to be prepped, as self-sufficient as possible, and to be ready to homeschool your children for an extended period of time if you are denied access to the various institutions as a 'refusenik'.

Yahweh bless you all and keep you along the Way and supply your every need as you walk with Him true and faithful. Until next time, then. Amen.

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