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Prayer Request: Chinese Downloading my Chats Enmasse – Tallbill

TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
I really don't know whether to make this a prayer request or a praise report, but just this morning I discovered that someone using China Telecom, from the Sichuan province network has begun downloading the contents of my Chats directory enmasse. As those of you who listen to them know, my Chats are mostly devotional in nature, so pray that they would bear fruit in China.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

JeTSpice
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That's great! Whoever's doing it, may it change their lives! May you get a big "Well done!"
TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
And then this morning, when I went to look at the logs from yesterday, I find them looking as though the log-recording software had had a stroke, with the log entries all jumbled up, and nothing recorded for most of the day. If I believed in coincidence, I'd probably say that it's just coincidence, but I don't believe in coincidence, so, someone's been effected.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

TallBill

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Posts: 298
From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
I thought I should give a little update on this neat little event.

As I've already recounted in another thread, someone in Stockholm has downloaded my Chats as well.

In addition, specifically because someone of some prominence in the Amiga community has been engaging in artful slander against me (almost stealth-like slander, in fact), I sent the “Short Note” to that person, and announced the recording to the Amiga Community. That way, since the person involved does read the forum where I posted, they would know why the recording was sent to them, but no one else would unless that person announced it themselves. Of course, I also deleted that person's mirror from my site. Although I never announced that deletion to anyone, it is known because people have been trying to access the mirror since then.

The point of all the stuff in the previous paragraph is that all of the pieces to the puzzle are available to anyone who wants to know what's really going on: 1) the recording; 2) the announcement of the recording; and 3) the sudden absence of the mirror (publicly known because of all of the failed accesses since its closure—it was never so popular when it was there ). And yet, if you read the thread where the announcement was made, it would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. It is such a clear picture of people not wanting to know. It is such a clear fulfillment of John 3:19-21 that it makes my soul cry out in praise. When it comes to the cup of God's wrath against sin, it is such a clear case of them filling that cup themselves against themselves, and as a result God’s Word is proven true—and God is glorified—yet again. All praise, glory and honor be unto His name, for He is worthy!

Since God is all-powerful, all things that happen have been ordained by Him (if something should ever happen that was not ordained by Him then that would be proof that someone else is controlling things and not Him—which would render Him less than all-powerful—but we know that He is all-powerful), so whenever anything happens that does not fit in with your concept of God it is your concept that is in error and not God. Your reaction to such things should not be to question His character, but your own, and to figure out why He has brought such a thing into your life, so that you may be taught by His divine reasoning—learning at His feet.

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Never Forget to Pray!

“...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer—pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart—all broken and cast down—is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, “Effective Prayer”

Realm Master

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thats awesome tallbill
(that is a LOT of l's... conisdering a normal user-name account... thing...)

I know the message is reaching (and/or teaching) those people who have downloaded it.
but considering why and who downloaded it, the next steps are up to them)

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