An Opening
Before you read these stories, I want you to know something. I'm not writing about ghosts. I write about spirits.
A ghost, the way folks mean it, is just a haunting. A spirit is something different. A spirit still has a consciousness. It knows what it's doing. It knows it's here. It knows it needs to go on to the light, or go on down to hell where it's being judged to go. But it gets trapped here, and people don't understand that. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. But the more you get to know God, the more He's going to tell you the truth.
Because we are His friends. And when you say you are a friend of God, He tells you. Just like He told Abraham what was going on — "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" (Genesis 18:17) — and why He went over there and saved Lot. He didn't have to go over there and tell him Lot was over there swimming in a cesspool of sin. But that's His friend. He wanted to tell him.
So God tells His friends what's going on. He's not going to leave us blind. He's going to shine a light on you so we can see you, the same way He lights up our path with a lamp. (Psalm 119:105) He's going to light you up so that His children can see you.
That is the whole goal of this book. To shine a light on evil, so that those who are blind to it can see it — and learn to sense it — and gain in spiritual discernment.
That they learn how to hone their weapons. The sword, which is the word of God. The helmet. The breastplate. The shod feet. To put on their battle armor, to get on the battlefield and fight this evil with everything in them. With all the weapons that God gave them to fight with. (Ephesians 6:14–17)
The only way evil can thrive and exist the way it is existing is because we who are calling ourselves children of God are not on the battlefield fighting against it. We're not on our knees praying, meditating on the word of God, seeking God's face.
This book is a clarion call. To all of those who are sitting back thinking that if I do nothing, it's all going to be okay. No. Prayer is action. Meditation is action. Fasting is growing in strength. You can always be doing something to advance the kingdom of God.
And after all, isn't the end result you want to hear our Father say, "Thou good and faithful servant, well done"? (Matthew 25:21)
