Ghost Busting Analysis

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Ghost Busting
Being part of a pastoral family exposes preachers kids - “Pks” - to all different kinds of experiences. While much ministry is confidential, they can put two and two together when they see a certain packsack come out. “Dad is going ghost busting tonight!” I prepared for this ministry very carefully and prayerfully and never took it lightly nor travelled alone if possible. These moments opened the way to introduce “Jesus” to families who had no spiritual background and show them the way to a personal relationship with Him. Often when one family received ministry, they would quietly pass the word on to others who were looking for help in some area of their lives. In these cases, there was not a thing I could offer them, humanly
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She had been betrayed by those she considered friends. In my spirit, I was prompted to ask her if she knew about the history of the property where she lived. Interestingly, this had at one time been an Aboriginal settlement or campsite. In the spring of the year (about the same time as then), the men had gone off to do some hunting, leaving their families behind. When they returned, they found their village destroyed by neighbouring white invaders and their families were gone. Imagine the anger and resentment of being betrayed that would have permeated that land! The spirit of this land was identifying with her personal spirit in anger and a hunger for revenge. Together we looked at her circumstances first and then I helped her come to a place of repentance and forgiveness releasing her perpetrators unconditionally. She had some Aboriginal blood in her history, and so I asked her to stand in for the Aboriginal community that had once been betrayed, and I would take responsibility for the wrong perpetrated by white men upon her people. I repented of this atrocity and asked for her forgiveness, and she extended

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