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Bertha had told the Lord every problem that she had down to the common cold. She did not want to leave anything out, for fear of not receiving any deliverance.
Grandma spoke,"Now Baby, you got to ask God to forgive anything that you had done wrong. It is called repenting to the Lord and it helps get rid of anything that will get in the way of our prayers."
Bertha did as requested and dead to her flesh by repenting of her sins. He repented of all the
things she had ever done, even the things that she had never even remembered that she had done.
Grandma spoke,"Now, all you have to do is thank Him for doing the work and He will do it!
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A bit of time goes by and Bertha was starting to break through to touch God's Spirit and the woman folk around her start to jump and shout for Joy. They were praising God, so that they would invite the Holy Ghost upon the young woman And it did not take long for It to fall upon Bertha.
Bertha started to speak with stammering lips as she received the Spirit. The whole church leaped for joy when they heard the Holy Ghost take up residence with the young woman. She was just lost in the moment as she cried out in tongues.
Praying in tongues, as Bertha was doing was a genuine phenomenon that was out of practice(or never practiced at all). It was a scary thing to a lot of people since they had felt God in this way. There is a lot to obtain with receiving the spirit of the Lord within one's feeble flesh, since it leads us to all truths that we need to live our lives honestly before the Lord.
The men of the church had prayed over Joe as the strength of the Lord fell strong upon him, so hard that Joe had never felt stronger before in his entire lifespan.
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Bertha was slain in the Holy Ghost to the point, where Joe had carried her back in his right as a father held his baby while Grandma was sitting on his left forearm as a bench leaning against her grandson's muscled chest.
Grandma spoke,"That service was wonderful and I was glad that Bertha got the Holy Ghost. She needed it so bad after all her recent heartaches. I have just one problem though."
Joe spoke,"What is that?"
Grandma spoke,"I had to bring to bring a pillow to protect my rump from the hard seat."
Joe smiled.
He said,"The local doc says that I am under four percent body fat, despite eating all the supposed low quality eats!"
Grandma laughed,"Boy, there is no drop of a fat on you! You are built like a big black tank!"
Joe laughed to the comment and took Bertha to the neighbor's house where she had been staying. Joe put the woman to bed as one would care for a small child. Joe and Grandma then walked home and went right to sleep.
Joe knew that he needed to go to work early so that he could go pick up his paycheck. He also had to see if he had a job waiting for him. He had peace with it but it was still a moment of curiosity, since he did not know what was going to him or how he was going to support his grandmother if he had been fired. The family had no phone line or any of those in the local hood had one ether.
Joe entered one of the side door to the factory when one of his supervisors stopped in his tracks.
The supervisor speaks,"Joe, come with me. The boss wants to see you and see you right now."
The worker speaks,"Let me put my bag up and I will be right there."
The supervisor speaks,"No, we got to go now! He is waiting for you!"
Joe was led up to where one of the factory bosses were at. He walked in and saw a whole group sitting in the large office. It was the office of the man who wanted Joe to fight for a living. But he had four men with him, three of which Joe had never seen before. The fourth man, he knew all too well.
It was the local police chief that Joe had slapped after all the gangland slayings.
The supervisor speaks,"This is the worker that you had wanted boss!"
The boss was sitting at his metal desk leaned down upon it.
The factory boss spoke,"I would give you a seat but as you see I have none your size, so you will have to pardon me of not caring for my staff properly."
Joe could not help, but set out a smirk at the comment.
The supervisor speaks,"What are we gonna do with him, boss?"
The boss spoke,"That is none of your concern! Do you not have work to supervise? Shut the door on the way out and do not let the door knob hit you on the way out!"
The supervisor's jaw hit the floor out of sheer shock of what he had just been told. Yet, the man did as he was asked and went back down to the floor.
Joe cut the ice and said,"Gentlemen if I can be so bold, what is this party all about? I did not know that I was so popular."
All the men sitting down laughed, as Joe had told the best joke in the whole world.
Joe did not find it so funny as his facial expression of complete seriousness.
Joe spoke,"Do I look like a clown to you all? Am I here just for your amusement?"
The factory worker started to act like a clown while still in his work overalls. This time the onlooking men saw no humor in what Joe was doing. the room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop to the floor.
The twenty something factory boss stood up to his feet and said,"You are no clown, Mr. Joe. I meant no disrespect to you and your largeness."
Joe spoke,"Why have you all gather to see just little old me?"
The police chief had to bite his lip to keep from laughing at the joke.
Joe spoke,"I am here to pick up my check and to see if I have a job left here."
The boss spoke,"I have your check here on my desk in this envelope. But, your services here are no longer wanted, unfortunately. We all will miss you working here.
Joe looked concerned, but he was not surprised by the action since he had absent from work so long.
Joe spoke,"Boss, I can make up the work with overtime. It won't take me more than a few days and I will be caught back up."
The police chief spoke,"That will not be possible, since you are a dangerous individual to this city!"
Joe broke out hysterics with a deep belly laugh.
The police chief's face turned bright red as an apple, due to the insult by Joe.
Joe spoke,"You think that I am dangerous element in this city? What a joke you and the police force here in this trash pile of a city are! You had allowed the gangs to murder my parents right in front of own eyes. Then, they try to kill me and my disabled grandmother, that was forced to work until her body broke down, I transform into the man you see before you. Then and only then you get scared, just because somebody finally defended themselves. Was you mad that I didn't just lay down and die like all the others?
