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Dear Walk Show friend,

I had intended to write a commentary on the mortgage markets and how The Walk Show “Loan Watch Program” can right now help you save big money and get full disclosure in the mad dash Americans are making to refi their mortgages before it’s too late, but another subject has become so pressing that I will restrict our Loan Watch offer to a P. S. at the bottom of this message, which is of an infinitely higher priority: “Christians Cursing Fellow Christians.”

CAN CHRISTIANS CURSE OTHER CHRISTIANS?

My wife, Robin, was surfing the Internet a few weeks ago and suddenly had a book title fairly jump out at her: Breaking Christian Curses: Finding Freedom from Destructive Prayers, by Dennis Cramer. She felt compelled to order it for me to read. It arrived on the very day when I received one of my life’s stark reminders that there was the very real possibility that I had been cursed in some major ways by fellow Christians, and that such “Christian cursing” had precipitated some major interferences in the quality of my walk with the Lord, my ministry to others, and certainly also my business dealings in the church.

But, I’m getting ahead of myself. First, I must tell you a short story.

About two decades back I was leaving a meeting in a non-profit corporation, and half-way down the hallway to the exit, I ran into an elderly lady Named Jean Kenoyer, to whom I introduced myself. We spoke for about thirty seconds. Come to find out later, this septuagenarian was a full-time intercessor for five key pastors in our nation. Subsequently Jean summoning Robin and me to her apartment, where she made the most surprising announcement: “When I met you in that hallway that day, Ken, instantly the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘Jean, I want you to put your other intercessions on the back burner, and put Ken Talbott and his family on the front burner until further notice.’” Wow!

Accordingly, Jean invited me to an open-ended session every Monday morning for what proved to be one full year. At the end of that time, she informed me that the burden to intercede for me had been lifted, but that she had three things to tell me as the fruit of her year of unceasing, day-and-night prayers for me and my family. Some other time I’ll have to tell you about the first two startling, but right-on things she told me, but the third thing speaks right to today’s subject. Yet, it has taken me over 20 years to come into an understanding of the full import of her words, so I really couldn’t have done an adequate job of writing to you about this critical subject matter of “Christian cursing” until now.

The fruit of one whole year’s intercessions came to me in these words: “You must daily pray against false prayers being made against you!” She then explained that it was her perception that fellow Christians — certainly including some that were very close to us — were seeking to manipulate us and God by praying that we should conform to their soulish ideas of what we should be doing in our life and ministry on this earth. In essence, because these prayers were not being birthed in and from the Holy Spirit, they were issuing from another spirit – a spirit of darkness, a destructive spirit, or perhaps even a demonic spirit.

THE 20-YEAR-LONG CURSING “ACID TEST”

Oh, that I had fully comprehended the seriousness of what our dear Jean was saying! It has taken me about 20 years of failing to take her counsel seriously until the Christian-generated curses have been fully identified and shown to be no less serious than witchcraft. In fact, Breaking Christian Curses by Dennis Cramer will most certainly identify them Biblically as witchcraft! As Cramer explains, the goals of Christian cursing through false prayers were an attempt to pressure him in the following directions:

–To undermine my spiritual authority, my self-confidence, and my love for God’s people.
–To turn me into a weak, insipid, fearful, insecure, skeptical, calloused, hardened, unloving individual.
–To cause me to retreat, hibernate, disappear.
–To make me become a spiritual recluse, forever isolating myself from God and His people.
–To capture me dead or alive — but it would have preferred me dead!
(Breaking Christian Curses, p. 194)

Over the past twenty-some years since Jean Kenoyer’s warning, I have not remembered to daily pray against false prayers. During that time I have recently discovered how real, wicked, and effective have been the curses that have been prayed against Robin and me. I suppose it would be too much to ask of you to believe that what I am confessing is not just paranoia, bitterness or anger-generated. In fact, one of the fruits of discovering how effectively and consistently we have been cursed is that Robin and I have discovered ways in which we, too, have cursed fellow believers in our own misinformed, misguided prayers! Wow again!

Every culture on earth acknowledges that cursing issues from an evil source – except, perhaps, the culture of the modern American church. If you’re having a difficult time believing that Christians can through their prayers actually unleash demonic power as effective as other cultures recognize in their pins stuck in voodoo dolls, please don’t take my word for it: just order Breaking Christian Curses here. Of particular encouragement to me was that it took author Dennis Cramer a full 13 years before he fully recognized that Christians can and do curse with their prayers, and that he had been actually cursed by the Senior Pastor and minions of his own local church!

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHRISTIAN CURSE?

Oh, brother or sister, “Have you been a victim of another Christian’s hate, pride, bigotry, and prejudice? Have you felt the damning effect of the ‘Raca spirit’ (Matthew 5:21-22)? Have any unrighteous judgments been passed against you by other Christians? Have destructive words been spoken against you? Have other Christians wanted your ruin? Have any Christians attempted to ‘pray down fire’ on you? Do you have knowledge of such spiritual attacks?

“If you do, this knowledge can be of great value. This knowledge, combined with the correct action, will produce for you total freedom and release from all curses. Be encouraged! God has answers for you!” (Dennis Cramer, Breaking Christian Curses, p. 139)

One last hint of what you will find in this book: You will discover that “bitterness is logical.” Yes, people, indeed, do stinking rotten things to you – they steal from you, lie to you, defame you and even pray false prayers against you — in essence, curse you.” The book proves that this is an unfortunate, but Biblically described pattern of abuse in the church. So what are you going to do in turn? Are you going to follow the iron-clad “logic” of bitterness, cursing back those who have cursed you until both parties are destroyed? Needed is the power to overcome the iron-clad logic of bitterness. That power comes through the blood of the Lamb of God applied to your heart and responses. The ultimate hint?: Curses are effectively overcome by at least two fundamental necessities: (1) enthusiastically blessing and praying for those who have cursed you, and (2) getting the help of other Christians (like intercessor Jean Kenoyer and author Dennis Cramer), who will stand with you and support you as you apply God-authored power to demolish the satanic influence of Christian cursing through false prayers.

I know. Robin and I have helped greatly by my fellow servants, Jean Kenoyer, Dennis Cramer, and others, to spring us free from the bondages that Christian curses had effected in our lives. Hallelujah!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ken (& Robin)

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Dear Walk Show family,

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, one day my 90-year-old “spiritual grandpa,” Norman Grubb, set me on edge with this passing comment: “I thank God for the communists!”
With a family background in the anti-communist movement, I must admit that I was stunned!

“Why on earth would you ever say that, Norman?!” I exclaimed.

“Because the communists have helped create a vacuum that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.” His words proved prophetic, as the gospel flooded across many borders with the fall of the Soviet empire.

Today I thank God for Barack Obama, because this very day he is helping create the political and spiritual vacuum that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Politics Reflect Culture, Not the Other Way Around 

This campaign season I have received emails and phone calls from professing Christians who are championing opposing members of multiple political parties. For each, their particular candidate is the “right” one, and the others are “wrong.” It could easily baffle us as to how such Christians could come up with such radically opposing views — as if God were a Democrat, Republican, Independent or so forth. What is the source of all of this confusion carried out in the name of Christ?

In her epic worldview-analyzing book, “Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity,” author Nancy Pearcey makes an important observation concerning politics and culture. She says, “ . . . evangelicals often put all their eggs in one basket: They leaped into political activism as the quickest, surest way to make a difference in the public arena—failing to realize that politics tends to reflect culture, not the other way around. . . . Politics is downstream from culture” (p. 18).

Pearcey was once told by a member of Congress, “I got involved in politics after the 1973 abortion decision because I thought that was the fastest route to moral reform. Well, we’ve won some legislative victories, but we’ve lost the culture” (p. 19).

It is my observation that not only has the culture taken a downward spiral, but in the main American Christians have almost been totally assimilated by that disintegrating culture. Take, for example, our divorce rate. Chuck Colson points out that the number one divorce rate now belongs to Pentecostal Christians, with the atheists having better luck in their marital relationships. And, the worst (and best) business dealings I have experienced on this earth have been with professing Christians, so that when the pressure gets on, many have gotten revelations in the night to make their contractual yes’s into no’s. The word has even gone out in the secular culture: “Don’t do business with Christians: they expect forgiveness for anything they can do to you!” Should we also mention anything about the number of Christians who are getting abortions themselves? And, many American Christians have most obviously become assimilated into the political chaos.
 
Consequently, many American Christians’ lifestyles are largely disconnected from the Truth and hitched to the cultural lies that have become the idols of our age. It is only natural, then, that our “downstream politics” are all over the map, as we find ourselves reflecting the most diverse of often-opposing political opinions in the name of our small-“t” “truths” — a la the “What’s true for you is not true for me” relativism of this age.

“We the People” Get the Kind of Leaders We Deserve

The old maxim, “People get the kind of leaders (and government) they deserve” comes to mind when I witness the kinds of flawed political leaders many church-going believers are willing to settle for and even champion.

Do the bugs create the polluted swamp, or does the polluted swamp create the conditions that attract the bugs? According to the germ theory of disease, we are led to believe that “the bugs create the polluted swamp.” In other words, the bugs — whether they be germs, mosquitoes, con men or corrupt politicians — are seen to be the problem. Yet, is it not the other way around?  The polluted swamp attracts the bugs! If the germ theory were correct, how do we account for those people who spend their whole lives without catching a cold? Won’t a strong immune system slough off the bugs — whether physical, social or political? Yes, a sound body politic will “throw out the bums.” Such does not appear to be the case in this election. . . yet.

A Case in Point: Barack Obama, the Neo-Eugenicist

Take the people (including “Christians”) who by their polluted cultural swamp are now attracting a professing “Christian,” Barack Obama, the neo-eugenicist. As you may recall, eugenics sprang from Darwinism, in its teaching that natural selection was accommodated by a process of “the survival of the fittest,” where the strong overcome the weak. Eugenics is the philosophy and practice of self-directing human evolution in such a way as to positively affect the outcome — such as “purifying” the “fittest” Arian race by cleansing the gene pool of six million “weaker” Jews. Actually, the Darwinian eugenics bug first emerged in America with our involuntary sterilization programs for the weakest members of our society. But America eventually cleaned up its swamp and the bugs soon migrated to the polluted Nazi swamp of the Third Reich.

As Ben Stein discovered in his brilliant “Expelled” documentary on intelligent design (now on DVD), the experimental butchery of “inferior” Jews was carried out by German physicians out of a spirit of altruism, for they were, after all, “creating a better world by improving the human gene pool.”

Then there was Margaret Sanger, editor of the eugenics publication consulted by Hitler and the Nazis. After accomplishing her objectives in Nazi Germany, she moved to America and founded Planned Parenthood, operating under the identical eugenics philosophy.

If you look in the dictionary, you will find that “eugenics” was discredited in scientific circles due to the abuses of the Nazi holocaust. Yet, it is actually alive and well, having morphed into the abortion, infanticide and euthanasia movements of our time.

As Barack Obama recently promised to Planned Parenthood, his FIRST PRIORITY in office will be to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act,” which will extend federal abortion protection to all possible extents in America. You must see Obama’s statement to this effect at: http://beltwayblips.com/video/barack_obama_planned_parenthood_and_foca/

This is added to Obama’s past infanticide legislative initiatives in Illinois, and, if we were to follow a logical progression, I suppose we might easily expect Obama to someday announce his whole-hearted support of euthanasia. Perhaps unwittingly, the Obama focus appears to be upon a culture of death. We would be wise to be mindful of this focus as we entertain his proposals in other sectors, from his terminal fiscal policies to his declared intentions to curtail our civil liberties.

This would mean that the only difference between Hitler’s eugenics and Obama’s is that Hitler waited until he got into the highest office to murder his masses, whereas Obama has already facilitated the murder of his masses a long time before running for our highest office.

As Del Taggart says in his www.TheTruthProject.com series: “So, why does evil bother you, if you have a philosophy of survival of the fittest? Under the philosophy of the survival of the fittest, the mighty’s responsibility is to destroy the weak.” What a day we have arrived at where politicians are carrying out this agenda while calling themselves “Christian”! Actually, they are anti-Christs.

Given Obama’s neo-eugenicist war on the weak, I sincerely wonder just why it is that so many members of our society think that an Obama administration would not victimize them, if given the opportunity. He has already, for example, both declared and demonstrated his intent to undermine the Constitution in numerous areas—including our First and Second Amendment rights for starters. For me, that would mean the likely end of my career as a talk show host . . . if Obama gets his way under the misleading propaganda term, “The Fairness Doctrine.”

As Jacques Ellul pointed out in his book, Propaganda, the propagandist soon comes to despise the object of his manipulations—like the John despises the hooker after the deed is done. And, I sincerely wonder what the top political propagandist of our time has in store for us should we discover that we have been shafted on November 4th.

It’s Not About the Candidate; It’s About “We the People”

“For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God” (I Peter 4:17).

In my book, INPUTS: A Matter of Lifestyle or Deathstyle, I told the story of little Peter Mahoney, whose mom never fed him refined sugar throughout the first three years of his life. Then, at age three, he went to a Sunday school picnic, where some well-meaning lady fed him Kool-Aid. As fast as he drank it down, he vomited it right back up! Physicians have confirmed for me that such a reaction would be considered normal for someone not acclimated to a junk food diet.

As few as ten years ago most Americans would have immediately “vomited up” a Black Liberation Theology Marxist if he tried to promote his neo-eugenics and redistributive Robin Hood agenda for our nation. Yet, today I heard someone say, “So what if he’s a Marxist?” Many Christians are now even overlooking Obama’s diehard commitment to abortion and euthanasia — in essence, to eugenics. Indeed, the culture has shifted, and the politics of our culture have shifted with it. Much of the church has drunk the Kool-Aid not just once, but over a long period of time. Thus desensitized by the junk-food diet of sugar coatings, we no longer throw it up when we encounter the poison hidden within. And now we are looking at the consequences — spiritually, socially, and politically.

God Spanks the Church

The church in America may need a spanking, and I believe Barack Obama could well become just the man to do it. What happens when you demand a king? Well, if Samuel’s story is any indication (1 Samuel 8:10-22), you incur the King of King’s wrath. At the same time, God nevertheless granted the people their wayward wish anyway, along with its egregious consequences—which include the king ripping off the people, their wealth and their children.

It could be that America needs a good spanking. Perhaps the spanking is already underway, for in case we didn’t notice it, our country was largely nationalized in the past month. We are likely to soon become a full-blown socialist nation, which means a majority of our nation’s resources will go to the governmental leach, which has no concern whatsoever for the life of its host. . . “We the people.”

If this election keeps going the way the pollsters say it’s going, we can pray for mercy one more time, but we certainly deserve the spanking that it looks like is in store for us. Consequently, we may soon have the opportunity to thank the Lord not only for Barack Obama, but again for the communists — all in one.

Rebuilding the World-View Foundations after the Election

Nancy Pearcey, author of the must-read Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, gave us a key to renewing our political future in response to the congressman’s comment that “We’ve lost the culture.” She said: “The most effective work . . . is done by ordinary Christians fulfilling God’s calling to reform culture within their local spheres of influence—their families, churches, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, professional organizations, and civic institutions. In order to effect lasting change . . . we need to develop a Christian worldview” (p. 19). This is the only true means of filling the vacuum presently being created by our assimilation into the Godless culture and the opportunist politicians it attracts.

The purpose of a worldview study is nothing less than to liberate Christianity (most certainly including its politics) from its cultural captivity, thereby releasing its power to transform the world. Two building blocks Robin and I have discovered for this post-election rebuilding process are:

1) The Truth Project DVD Series: In September of this year, Robin and I were privileged to take a one-day training in Focus on the Family’s Truth Project.  This turned out to be an exceptional set of training DVDs used once a week for twelve weeks with a home group interested in developing a Kingdom worldview. You can get a sneak peak of this at www.thetruthproject.org, where you can click on the trailer box.

2) Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity book: Everyone has a worldview. It governs your thinking, even when you are unaware of it. In Nancy Pearcey’s new book, Total Truth, she so aptly describes it: “Genuine worldview thinking is far more than a mental strategy or a new spin on current events. At the core, it is the deepening of our spiritual character . . . . It begins with the submission of our minds to the Lord of the Universe. The driving force in these studies should be a commitment to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind” (Luke 10:27). God is not just the Savior of souls, He is also the Lord of creation. One way we acknowledge His Lordship is by interpreting every aspect of creation in the light of His truth.  “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2).

Praying and pulling for you this election week,

Ken

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One of the big influences in my life was one of my “spiritual grandpas,” the late Norman Grubb, for a generation the International Secretary of the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade (or WEC). Not only was I influenced by his many amazing books, including Rees Howells: Intercessor; Once Caught, No Escape (his autobiography); God Unlimited; Who Am I? ; The Spontaneous You; The Law of Faith; Touching the Invisible; and Yes I Am (available at TheWalkShow.com), but I was personally impacted by his amazing life. He worked 20-hour days, and at age 90 when he last stayed in our house, he could still work circles around any four or five guys my age in our 40’s, speaking four or five times a day as for years he travelled extensively throughout the United States and England.

NORMAN GRUBB’S SECRET

Norman had a secret to living that made his life so contagious that all of my kids — including even one “rebellious teenager” at the time — came to me individually and corporately, veritably begging me that Norman be adopted as our grandpa and “live with us forever!” I believe Norman’s secret unquestionably contributed to his eventual 98-year longevity. Norman’s secret was really not a secret, however, for he declared it from the rooftops for several decades, yet it was at the same time a mystery that was extremely difficult for thick-skulled people like myself to grasp.

Yet, his life also demonstrated his secret, as when he first walked into my sunken living room without perceiving that it was sunken and did a complete somersault flip! Thinking I would have one busted-up, upset 90-year old on my hands, you can imagine my surprise when Norman bounded to his feet with a grin on his face and a spontaneous joke springing from his lips?!

Although there might be many ways to state Norman’s secret, perhaps one way was, “He recognized he was the cup and not the coffee!” He saw himself as a container, or channel, of divinity, not as divine — as “Jesus in the Norman form,” as he would often say. In essence, his secret was the same as the Apostle Paul’s: the “mystery of the gospel, which is Christ in you” (Colossians 1:27).

Accordingly, Grandpa Norman said he woke up every morning for decades with this prayer on his lips:

“What are you up to today, God, and how can I be a part of it?”

After several years of periodically and mechanically imitating Norman’s prayer when I awoke, recently I found the prayer itself welling up from within me without effort as my first waking thought. What a joy! And, let me tell you: when the Holy Spirit pours that prayer through your “container” and back up to God, there is so much of a flow left over that it spills out on the situations and people your life touches!

The overflow turns the seen unreality all around us into the unseen reality. It takes the flips into the “sunken living room of life” and converts them into hilarity! Why, it has even messed with my interpretation of the Scriptures, for I distinctly thought I heard the Holy Spirit say, “You have heard it said, ‘Where there is good, evil lurks close at hand’ (Romans 7:21) but I say unto you, ‘Where there is evil, good lurks close at hand,’ as well!”

So, let’s not be altogether esoteric here; let’s convert this mysterious secret into the life of the common day — today . . . er, in this case, my yesterday!:

When I first awoke yesterday morning, there it was: “Lord, whatcha up to today, and how can I be a part of it?” The next thing the bank called me and said that all night someone in France had been making charges on one of my business credit cards! Uncharacteristically the words welled up within my spirit, “Hallelujah! What an opportunity to see God move!” I had no idea what God was up to here, but by faith I could be certain it included conforming me in my responses to the image of His Son in me. I am also grateful that the Holy Spirit guided me to pick a bank with a robust fraud-alert system, plus Pre-Paid Legal’s Identity Theft Shield that can clean up all the mess that my bank might not be able to.

In the meantime, by day’s end the bank had actually done a favor for me that helped me solve a cash flow challenge I had been pondering the night before. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep like a baby that night before had I not long-since learned that Christ in me was not worried about either the economy or my finances. There it is again – that secret mystery of Christ in me! I am, after all, Jesus in the Ken form, and where there is evil, God’s greater good “lurks” close at hand!

Hey, that was but the first of several volleys of good and evil that hit Jesus Christ in me yesterday. The long-anticipated implosion of the Lakeland, Florida, healing revival (predicted on our July 14^th radio show at the TheWalkShow.com archives) required that I now switch gears from a ministry to the deluded to the devastated and disillusioned. The legal notice that I was not allowed to state the clear and evident truth on The Walk Show about the healing effects of various nutritional products provided the embryo for a whole new strategy for returning to freedom of speech in the midst of the medical despotism of our government. And on and on. In each of that one day’s challenges, our Lord Jesus Christ proved faithful to live His life through me to the degree that I would just remain a container and let His life flow through mine.

I admit that several times during yesterday’s long day with its multitude of problems, I felt very weak, overwhelmed or confused. Yet, as I walked forward by faith and not by sight — passing through what I like to call “the weakness threshold” — problems gradually morphed into breakthroughs, and sometimes almost irrationally I actually felt myself becoming excited when I got hit with yet another really bad-looking volley! “Wow! The power of the universe backs me as I (a little Christ in Him) convert each evil into God’s good, better and best!”

The day that started out in weakness with “Lord, whatcha up to today, and how can I be a part of it?” progressed with a living demonstration that “Through Him who strengthens me I am able for anything,” and ended up with the prayer, “Thank you, Lord! You certainly do ‘work all things together for good’ for those who love you and are called according to your purpose!”

Listener Response to: “Tyranny of the Urgent”

You said below, “Apart from my judgmentalism, I’m afraid the number one thing I’m most ashamed of is the degree of my prayerlessness and personal devotion to Jesus Christ. And, what little progress I have witnessed in my own life and ministry is in direct proportion to my prayerfulness and personal devotion to Jesus Christ.”  Ken, those are my words, or, rather, they are the words of confession I should have uttered long before now.  I have allowed the tyranny of the urgent to overcome the truly important (prayer and focused extensive devotion to the Lord Jesus) for more years than I care to enumerate, years that the locusts have eaten.  Yet I know by faith in Him that the Lord of Creation and Master of all can restore the years the locusts have eaten.  Oh, Lord Jesus, please cause me and Ken to repent and reap the blessings of obedience to You our Master, blessings which spring from prayer and devotion to our God and which glorify You and our Father. Amen.