- [Terry] This is David.

David asks,

"Why is Jesus allowingthe conflict, disasters,

"and innocent peopledying across the world?

"I thought He was supposed tokeep all God's children safe."

- Well, I think there'snothing I know that says

He's supposed to keep allof God's children safe,

but Paul said, in this worldyou'll suffer persecution,

but be of good cheer,I've overcome the world,

that's what Jesus said.

So, we are unfortunately,

Paul used to term thlipsis,

we are subject to pressure,and God's allowing this.

Why, I don't know.

I mean we wish it were easy,but He just thought that way,

and God has ordained in asense that, we have struggle,

and out of struggle would come success.

And so, we have struggle,but why does God do it?

There's a devil, there's evil, and this is

the way He's overcoming that evil.

- This is Sigrid who says,

"Dear Pat, I'm reading Acts 10:9-16,

"and it says that a greatsheet of animals came down

"from heaven and then theanimals were taken back up.

"I think there are other animals in heaven

"besides only horses as you always say."

What do you think?

- Well this was a vision,he didn't say it actually,

I mean he had a visionof a sheet coming down

with all these crawlycreatures, and snakes,

and stuff like that,

and the words that arise, kill and eat,

he said no, they'reunclean, I can't do it,

and God used that to showhim that the Gentiles

were to come into the church.

But instead he saw a sheetcoming down, it was a vision.

But it didn't actually come down,

it was in his mind seeing it, okay?

- Do you think there are other animals

in heaven, besides horses?

- How could there possibly be?

(laughs)

- What do you think happened

to all those dogs you brought on?

(laughs)

- The Book of Ecclesiastes,the soul of man goes up,

the soul of the beastgoes into the ground.

(laughs)

- There you go.

This is Robin who says,

"Long story short, my grandkidswere abused by their mother.

"She got three years felony child abuse

"and is off probation now.

"She married her girlfriend,and now she wants custody back.

"They want to raise them gender neutral.

"The father doesn't want them.

"My question is, how canI stand in front of God

"and explain how I couldn't stop it?

"Legally, I don't have a leg to stand on.

"Please help."

- Well, I think you can.

I mean, if it's a question of child abuse

and apparently there is, you can

come in as a friend of the court,

and bring some kind of action.

There are a lot of waysto do it, and you know,

it's amazing how lawyersare able to stall stuff.

I mean, you start throwingmotions, then the defense has

to answer the motion, then youhave to answer their answer,

and the thing could be delayed a long time

til the people who are tryingto do this will give up.

So there are ways towork in the legal system

to slow things down, all right.

- This is Kathy who says,

"Pat, you said that tarot card reading

"is the work of the devil.

"Is seeing a medium alsothe work of the devil?"

- It absolutely is, youknow there are movies

about mediums, but who's a medium?

A medium is supposedlydealing with dead spirits.

And I just think that there's no question

this stuff is demonic.

You know, the so-called familiar spirits,

you think you're in touch with your dead

departed grandmother or something,

and it's actually a demonic power.

And that's the way the devil can use

to overcome the goodnessof God in your heart.

You just don't want that.

- This is Eva who says,

"I grew up in a cult, and Iconverted to Christianity.

"My family will have nothing to do with me

"because I'm a Christian.

"They have mourned my deatheven though I'm not dead.

"How do I forgive andforget them for good?"

- Well how do you forgive anything?

You just say God, I turn them over to you.

You know the best way,when somebody hurts you,

instead of saying, Goddeliver me from hatred,

you start praying for them.

Lord, I pray for thesepeople, they're in delusion,

and I ask you to bring theminto the knowledge, the truth.

And if you begin to pray for them,

something will happen to you and them.

But you know they hurt you, you're a cult,

they were in a cult,and then you don't want

to have anything to do with it.

And you don't have to associatewith somebody like that.

You just don't, all right.

- This is Resh who says,

"I am born again, baptized,and started speaking

"in tongues around age 16.

"I'm 43 now, but recentlyI've been questioning

"whether I'm truly speaking in tongues.

"How do I know that I trulyam speaking in tongues?"

- I haven't got a clue, Idon't know how you know.

The Bible says though,I speak with the tongues

of men and of angels, Paulsaid, I speak in tongues

more than you all, and he that speaks

in a tongue edifies himself.

But how do you know it?

I mean, how do you know whether

what you say is a language or not?

I have no idea.

I really don't know.

- Yeah, I wonder what would make a person

question that after so many years of?

- You're doing this, you're thinking,

am I just babbling or is it for real?

And there really isn't anyway of knowing, honestly.

(laughs)

It's just, I mean I'd like to give you

an answer, but thething is, he that speaks

in a tongue edifies himself.

And when there's an interpreter,then it edifies the church.

But if you're in, by yourself praying,

just go and go in faith,

and speak by faith, and let the Lord

take care of the rest of it, all right?