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Tomorrow, we were supposed to help a good friend paint and begin the process of moving into His new office space in Spartanburg.
And there came to be a problem.
No water. Painting is made more difficult when there is no water.
He writes
FRIDAY EVENING
Today started well. I slept deeply last night and awoke with joy.
I met the landlord at 8:00 a.m. as intended and got keys. And from then on, things went sideways all day.
Short version is that he apparently has a pretty serious negative 6th head problem. He talked at length about his difficulties with moving out (which he has not completed yet) and all the other complications in his life.
From his perspective, it was just a run of bad luck. I heard it though different ears, piecing together a lack of flow that went back for years.
So we now have to overcome THAT and leave a new imprint on the land and the building.
After several fairly unproductive hours, I stopped and pondered what to do to break the hold of his stuff.
I ended up cleaning up the dump behind the garage. It is one of the things that he was supposed to have done by now, and has not, and said he would get it “soon.”
There is clearly a portal there. I don’t think it is a fragrance portal, or an earth gate, or a time portal. I don’t know what it is, but it was pretty rough.
And I felt (rightly or wrongly) that it was exacerbating the stuff he left on the land. So even though it was counter intuitive, when we are supposed to be prepping offices, I felt it was the most strategic thing I could do, to clean it up, get that trash off the property, and then sanctify the portal.
I waded in with a variety of tools and got the pickup filled with trash from the past few years that had been dumped there. It was hard work and hot in the natural, as well as draining from the demonic mess.
I got about 90% done and then simply ran out of gas. I will finish loading the truck tomorrow morning, and make a run to the land fill.
In the midst of that, I discovered that the landlord has shut off the water this afternoon. I have placed an order for water service in our name, but did not get it in in time, and it won’t be on until sometime on Tuesday.
So that creates a very awkward situation with a group of people coming in tomorrow to help clean and paint, and we have no water.
I have worked out a plan to get enough water for us to get by, but it will definitely slow us down and make things harder.
In a situation like this where there is human error (mine) and demonic junk (his) I take two steps. One is to dial back the scope of the project. The second is to focus on relationship.
We are clear that this will make a hard job harder. And all the volunteers coming need to have an extra dose of the Fruit of the Spirit so that the enemy does not win through leaving people bruised.
Tonight I am resting and working through options for tomorrow and Sunday.
And tomorrow we will go forward, understanding that the core objective is to earn authority against the 6th head and imprint that on the land. Any work that actually gets done, is secondary.
So that said, Class, what attitudes and actions do we need to engage in, with fierce intentionality, in order to leave a deposit there?
How does one change the spiritual climate from negative to positive, for the 6th head of Leviathan?
And yes, this is a test!
The idea with the 6th head is that it can gum up the works and create choppy flow so that things do not have smooth transitions.
The negative 6th head is empowered by consistently behaving in such a way that intentionally believes and acts as though, in every situation, there must be a clear winner and a clear loser.
It is easy to craft a Win/Lose situation. The artform is in crafting a Win/Win, and acting in such a way in your interactions with others that enables them to come away with the satisfaction of a Win and you as well.
Find the Win/Win between the One and the Many or the One and the Other, and work your strategy in such a way that you move toward those goals, even if they are small interactions.
There are plenty of opportunities in the construction industry to hunt for those Win/Wins, and it is easier to bowl over other people so that you get what you need to accomplish done, and forget caring about whether or not the others in your midst get done what they need to get done.
Using the analogy of a Scrabble game, he continues.
Here we have very few Scrabble letters to play with, so it will be a complicated process to find a win in any direction, much less a win/win.
But the harder we work for a score, the more it counts in the heavenly bookkeeping.
That is part of the reason I am spending time on this post. Instead of just being whupped, I can leverage the problem for a teaching moment, for those who are coming and those who can’t come but are following us.
So for those of you who are offsite, the core prayer is for creativity — for us to see the opportunities God brings to the table that we might not normally see.