11/01/2007

The fight over the MP3 Players

Joel Akin

 Imagine a world we are now in without MP3’s. Imagine none of us had Mp3’s to listen to. Would you feel faint or weary? What if I told you I’ve been in spiritual war over this for months although until today I could not label it.

 I was bothered in a way I cannot explain. I felt as if we as a culture have reached a place where the MP3 is a battle for the will and the body and the mind of the individual.

 You may not know it but I am not a crackpot. I sometimes write things weird or strange but if you knew how I fought you might not want to be me. I fight with prayer and I fight hard. I sometimes miss going into battle but that is because battle hits me everywhere. I could list trouble but probably you’ve had your own share. It is something which bothers me deeply. And something I’m seeking God over.

 The MP3 players are part of the puzzle. Only part. We are in an age where everything is becoming small. And small is not sin. Being small is a good thing. Making things light and easy to keep is also a good thing. I struggle with having enough room for my books. I love reading and enjoy stories and pictures and words. I search often for new ideas and new ways to write. And it is the title which I have found is half the battle. For people want to see and if the battle is over other titles I write according to other rules. Only I tend to go outside the boundary of what is written. And thus in a way I didn’t want to be a drone.

 A drone is part of a bee and its life in the hive. A hive is where we all buy certain products as advertised. For as hard as it is to believe we have gone from items which are clunky and solid to things which are light and easily breakable. Warranties are dropping to less then a month on returns and if you want repairs you have to purchase a warranty extra or send it off via the mail and as I have learned the mail is getting slower and things vanish.

Now it isn’t about conspiracy of things yet. But it is about quality. And quality is the price I pay for this in prayer. I pay with prayer and I pay in prayer with God. God is the only one who knows how I fight. I fight with you only in the sense of sin. I am fighting with God in the make and model of that truck which hit and left me to die on the side of the road. For I was hit a few years back and I haven’t been able to fight or hear properly.

Now we live in a world under authority of man. Man is the bite and the store and the li of it. Li is a word which is of Heaven. Once there was Truth in two parts. Part one was Wisdom and Wisdom was the Li which you could not see. Li was part of a ship craft which was invisible and it was a type of shield and buckler. The purpose was to craft the ship so it could go fast for Heaven was part of a ship. Study scripture because it is so clear that we have refused to see it. Think about Elijah first and quick trying to turn wheel within wheel into some exotic creature. It isn’t some snapping and biting dog running in circles but a box shaped wedge of life called a craft which carries life up. It is given to those who cannot fight what is coming. And if I cannot get a breakthrough you might hear of me having to be rapture. And that could be soon. For it seems that Sin, the big Sin we know nothing of, the great dragon, may be put to sleep by some wizard who is manipulating the great dragon.

It seems hard to accept and you say it isn’t scripture but I’ll just say ‘you are so ignorant of life that if you went into prayer without ceasing, and that means a minimum of an hour a day, your life would be helping instead of hindering. And that is putting it nice.

The fact is there are witches, wizards warlocks, craft of war and so on. They were men of old who fought with God using the converse language. It is a language crafted to find a way to build up army after army of the dead. Only they were dead when they were raised up and the dead men fought and fought without ceasing. I don’t speak of normal armies but I do speak of men in the church who refuse to pardon men for their insight but go out and smoke and booze and think themselves wiser then me.

 So lets deal with the MP3. It is part of the story of life of this age. We have created entire laws built around music. Music is part of the craft of the enemy. He takes the best of it and puts it into a box. He calls it freedom but instead they take it and give it to men as a gift. I see it with Columbia House. They give you freedom in exchange for purchasing items later on. Only they charge high prices usually double for what you would pay in the store. And those prices change slowly.

 Now I do live in Canada and they are one of the few places you can order music as a club. There are others I know but they are probably one of the most well known. It becomes an issue or charge upon charge. And it is those charges which become the age we live in.

 I know it is a long time ago but when I first tried to buy a car from a dealership it seemed I was ready to walk half a dozen times. I went in with intent to get a deal like in the paper. Showing me a truck for we’ll say about $8,000. This was in 1991 which does seem long ago. Now it was a Mazda and I like the truck and its stood me well. Only problem is those bumpers. It wasn’t included in the price. I wanted a covering and that was extra to the tune of $700. Then what about undercoating? I chose not to and am glad I did for it has stood the test without it. But the fact is they threw at me a dozen extra’s which sounded essential. I was ready to scream and the salesman convinced me I was a tough customer when he said the neighboring couple were charged an extra couple of grand for pretty much the same vehicle. It was as if I fought like a tiger to get that off by refusing to bend or plow with the bull in charge. And that is the bull called consumerism.

Consumerism is a ploy. There is nothing they have which I cannot find elsewhere if I am willing to wait. Take for example the MP3 player. I found one at a garage sale for $5 bucks with tapes that are small. I have yet to figure it out but I tried it and it works. But I didn’t pay the high price for a product guaranteed not to last.

Now I am going somewhere with God as my witness. I have this desire to shout for I know that God is with me in it. The fact is some people want the latest gadget. I don’t mind waiting only at garage sales people lie. I’ve been lied to dozen plus times over electronics they have which do not work. I get them home and find there is always something wrong. I do better with garbage then I do with some folks. They are people who lie by lying with junk or by hiding it by admiring it to others. “Isn’t this nice? I paid a fortune.”

 Of course the problem is the fortune. The fortune is what they paid. They paid up to $1000 for a new model digital camera. It was guaranteed to wow your friends. I got one and I wanted to wow only I found it can’t focus. So I have it waiting for a miracle. One is coming and it will change things as we know it.

The other issue is a video camera. This one is small and it is the one I want only it may be the battery pack. If so it is one which cannot be found out there. So what do you do when you may have a prize video pack but no way to charge it? I think I said it wrong but hopefully you’ll get what I mean.

 I go to sales and I am told “This was cheap” and so the cheap of it is one where they guarantee it to last for a year. And somehow if you buy a warranty it survives for three years. But the only warning for the portables is never drop them. That has to change. Everything drops and falls and slips from hands. Except for dishes which will break there isn’t much you can do when even the electronics are little more then china.

Now God has a plan. He knows I am upset with consumerism. He knows people have gotten off track. He knows there are extra’s for everything. But from now on God wants them to tell why there should be extra’s on a product. Of course I know some people like funny cars and like to spice them up but we are speaking the average consumer. He doesn’t want a funny car and if he does he’ll build one. It is his right to do so. What I’m saying is its time we take the funny car market and call it art work. People who want to create art work need a chance to explore their talent and do so with wealth. People who make money on the wealth should do so with joy. And people who have a talent of prayer should have time to write and be recognized. For people who pray and write are rare in this world. Perhaps only a few if that.

So the fact is if you want to know why I talk about consumerism its because God is returning. He isn’t tired of me though He did get mad. He got enraged today at a spirit of Sin and took a whomp on his hide. It is the spirit of Sin and it is spirit which is of men. Men play with Sin and Sin likes it. He goes out and plays with men and they play with him. Only they play in his mind where he creates a world of lie. And this is the dragon we call Satan. So when you as a Christian play with sin you are playing with Satan directly in his mind.

 As one who is there still and was there especially then I am one to tell you it is a world of lie. It will take time to unravel. I hope to have rest but you can fight by prayer. Prayer is the key to open life doors. So pray and wait and live and hope and give and do things that you can.

Now I am not dying. I am not giving up. I am fighting for a fight of life. I am trying to hold on as best I can. I am hoping for a major breakthrough. And if it comes it comes with life of prayer. And if prayer is to have her victory we must have time to relax free of sin and Sin and Satan and evil spirits. This world is so filled up with them they just see as as toys. We are children to the children of sin.

I will try to remain strong for your sake. I have been a spiritual war in progress. God gave me authority over sin and Sin and Satan but there is part of their nature we call corruption. And that is the spirit of the air. It is this part which we call ti on or t with ion. Tion is a word which is everywhere at the end of words. When you read it there is a connection to air. The connection is based on t and if t is with ion after it means it is also possible to be in or under authority of ion air. You’ve heard of it and it is real. God wrote it for us so we would fight against spirits of the air. They are powerful demon spirits of air which give men problems. They can case a tooth or break a wind in your face and stink up your life by praying you out of life. They can take air from you and shorten your breath and they can steal life from your heart to slow it or steal the air and try to destroy it. They have will and can use it as a play station of the mind. They do this by charging first and entering you with a battery charge of thought put there by others around you. And if you carry anger they take it and give it to people who freely feel it. And that feel is so real to them they are afraid of you.

 So the gift of God is to go to sleep in peace and not in rage. For when you sleep on anger you provide ample room for a demon to come in and partner with you in thought. And then it becomes a war with God to overcome it.

So here is the key to overcoming them. Prayer. Pray in quiet and in silent places of the heart and mind and body. Find a cove where you won’t be interrupted every day and pray. If an hour is impossible try for 30 minutes. I do an hour and now it is ‘easy’ but it is still warfare. And when I say easy there are days I’m looking every ten minutes at the clock. It isn’t lack of faith in God but trying to make sure I reach the goal post. For God has given me a goal of one hour and I’ve tried to be faithful.

Now to end this I close with a prayer. You who listen know that God isn’t lost. He is free. He is God. He has had tough times in His life but He gives with hope. So think of a future where men care for you. Where you have all things you want and need and are satisfied. Where you can see things that were and say “Why did we cast those things away?” For people of this age need to know that with my son Joel I am planning to build the 19th and 20th century over. It was and is the perfect life for men of age when there was a mix of auto and horse and carriage and street cars and old and new mix. This age is ripe for change. It is ripe for life. It is ripe for love.