BLACK, WHITE, SHADES OF GRAY

Some time ago Dion Robert sent hundreds of Cell Leaders in a long line of buses from Abidjan to Bouake in the Ivory Coast to counsel conversions in a giant crusade. When the cults in Bouake heard of the crusade they sent a threat: a heavy curse would be placed on all who participated.

Dion called all the Cell Leaders in the mother church in Abidjan and told them of the curse and offered to excuse any workers who did not want to go forward with the crusade counseling None backed out!

At the end of all the buses streaming over a narrow road through the jungle, Pastor Dion rode in a van accompanied by several American visitors.

Halfway up, they found one of the buses had been hit head on by a lumber truck. It sheared the cabin from the frame and it rolled down a steep embankment, killing 29 Cell Leaders. Pastor Dion scrambled down the embankment, prayed over the scene, left instructions for the bodies to be returned to Abidjan, and continued to go directly to the stadium in Bouake where he preached the appeal for people to come to Christ.

Several hundred made decisions to follow the Master and were counseled by the team from Abidjan. After the meeting ended, one of the American pastors said to Pastor Dion, "I am amazed that you could continue to preach after seeing the terrible tragedy of all those who had died in the wreck!"

Dion tapped his finger into the chest of the American and said, "The difference between you Christians from the United States and us is very clear: you see black and white separated by many shades of gray between them. You see Satan and God and a lot of varying shades of good and bad. Here we know we are in a battle: there is only God and Satan and a war going on. I am a General in the Army of God and this day we entered the battle. Satan took 29 of our army but we took hundreds from his power to know  the power and presence of Christ!"

I have just come back from the Ukraine where theynhave the same understanding that there is only black and white, no shades of gray. I have seen Christians set free from demonic oppression, delivered by a word demanding the person be set free. In the USA a Christian would go to a counselor to be helped for depression or suicidal thoughts; in other parts of the world there is a spiritual battle won as the believer is delivered from the oppression of demonic control.

We still war not against flesh and blood but rather principalities and powers!