Kingdom Clash 2: Fighting for France
Until our weakness becomes ground that drinks rain from heaven, it may well invite the reign of hell. Such is the case for persons with gender identity problems who enlist the help of nations in destroying any who open to Jesus in their brokenness.
The French government last week interrogated Claude and Werner, leaders of Living Waters France, and accused them of violating homophobia laws, mandates they insisted would become fiercer in the future. ‘You can do what you want in America, not in France,’ warned one member of the tribunal.
A little history: ten-years-ago, an LGBT+ activist group in Toulouse France caught wind of the Living Waters (Torrents de Vie) group there and began to raise hell, pummeling this national network of healing groups with a host of virtual and media assaults.
Like all Living Waters expressions around the world, Torrents de Vie offers integration for all willing adults through immersion in God’s mercy. Only a fraction come with same-sex attraction. Still, the audacity of claiming that Jesus can heal homosexuality provoked national rage. Torrents de Vie has since faced countless rounds of slander, including a virtual global petition against myself and Torrents de Vie, which resulted in my being barred from the country (now lifted).
The French healers soldiered on like real Christians. Journalists invaded groups and trainings. Last year, a young reporter, pretending to be an LGBT+ seeker, secretly filmed the training and weekly Living Waters group meetings with his iphone, violating the dignity of all persons who poured out their lives to Jesus. He wrote a book—God is Love—and falsely described all the dangerous, coercive conduct he encountered (I mean, really, we sing to Jesus, tell our stories via the teachings, and pray for each other…)
The book was released just before the interrogation and has been the subject of media outlets throughout France intent on maligning Torrents de Vie and any notion that homosexuality can or should be healed.
The French government took this criminal journalist at his word and treated the Torrent de Vie leaders as criminals, accusing them of endangering the well-being of ‘gay’ people. Werner wisely asked the tribunal who had been damaged by Torrents de Vie (just as we asked the Kansas City Council to name the clients who had been subject to ‘therapeutic torture’; there were none to name). The tribunal responded that participants were too beaten down to tell the truth.
So much for journalistic and political integrity. We now live in a day where persons once trained to tell the truth are made heroes for fabricating lies that support their skewed vision. Satan rages through such vessels: eliminating therapeutic and moral choice, enlisting national protection for their injustices, and criminalizing the saints.
Please pray for the saints of Torrents de Vie throughout France who still meet weekly seeking wholeness in Jesus. Pray that their strength and anointing would increase through resistance. Pray that their example might inspire us to stand firmly and boldly in this hour as we refuse to bow to darkened humanity. And please join us tomorrow, Thursday the 14th at 2pm on the steps of City Hall in Kansas City, as we prayerfully await the Council vote at 3pm.
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