THE LION TAMER
After 13 years of pain and struggle culminating in an excruciating 2016, perseverance has finally “lead to character and character to a hope that does not disappoint.” I went from setting a psychiatry appointment as a last resort on August 11th 2016 to never experiencing another DAY of anxiety, depression, condemnation or shame since 1/17 (even though the struggle has even intensified over the last 2.5 years)! I am free and have since experienced an explosion of revelation, visions and miracles from the uber rich to the impoverished across a myriad of cultures and backgrounds. My wife and I stopped documenting after the first 100 in 2017.
A vision God showed me: A circus with a lion tamer in the center of a caged ring with lions surrounding him on their respective pedestals. He cracked his whip at any attempt to escape or even move positions on the pedestal. At times he would whip the lions even if they remained on the pedestal in perfect position. I felt the truth of this vision as I have been assaulted by the devil, my lion tamer, all my life with his threats, lies, accusations, confusion, chaos and condemnation. I then heard in my heart, “Randy, YOU are the LION.” I then saw the lion leave the pedestal and receive the lashes but realize they only “struck down but did not destroy” and actually serve to intensify the focus of the lion’s energy and anger towards the lion tamer. I watched the lion defy the orders of the enraged lion tamer by leaving the circus. The audience was also disappointed and attempted to jeer the lion back to its place in the circus. But it was too late. He was free. He was in the wild, never to return to the circus.
This is my best explanation of our life now. We left the circus to the chagrin of many people and terror of the devil. We are in the wild now and have come back to the circus only to tell others what it is like: to see multi-millionaires pray to receive Christ because I was not ashamed to tell them that Jesus set me free and he could for them as well, to see a demon leave a homeless man in the middle of a Waffle house, to see countless servers cry at our table at restaurants because we spoke Truth over their addictions, suffering, loss, etc… followed by a large tip.
The lion tamer is a distant memory for me. Sure he cracks his whip…but it only causes me to fight harder to destroy his works. He cracked his whip this morning and now look, FACEBOOK POST of God’s power to free for all to see…OOPS!! “Squeeze an orange, you get orange juice. Squeeze a Christian and you should get Jesus all over you.” Leave the circus and enter the wild. Persevere under the whip and it WILL eventually lead to a hope that does not disappoint. Join us in the wild – it is way more fun.