As I travelled to the office this morning I listened with wrapt attention to BBC 5 Lives radio coverage of the unfolding events at Dale farm in Essex. It was fascinating to listen to the reports of how riot police broke into the illegal travellers site to ensure that the will of the courts was carried out and the travellers evicted.
My blog today is not to make any political commentary on the rights or wrongs of Basildon Councils insistence on carrying out these evictions, I will leave that to those who are more knowledgeable about the situation. Today I just want to pick up on a comment made by one of the female travellers who was interviewed by the BBC correspondent at the Dale Farm site.
While being interviewed about the unfolding situation this female traveller made a Comment about Mr Tony Ball the leader of Basildon Council and public enemy number one as far as the travellers are concerned. She said ‘I hope he doesn’t see Christmas Night, I have put my curse on him’. Not the sort of thing you expect to hear someone saying on your way to work on the BBC. In a later interview ‘5 Lives’ Nicky Campbell played the comment to Mr Balls while interviewing him to get his reaction. Mr Balls very professionally side-stepped the issue of the curse on him but I had a feeling by a change in the tone of his voice that the comment had shocked him.
The travelling community has long been associated with the occult practice of cursing people. I can remember as a child listening to people talking about ‘gypsy curses’. I’m not sure what, if any, involvement this particular lady has with witchcraft but if she does and if this is genuine I would ask that God’s people pray for several things.
1. Pray that God in His mercy would ensure that Tony Balls lives past Christmas Night to prove to this lady that there is a greater power in the world than those that she may be relying upon, open her eyes to His power and that He would save her lost soul.
2. Pray also for Tony Balls. I don’t know anything about this man or the state of his Soul before God. If he is not a man of faith this ladies comments may very well play on his mind in the run up to Christmas. Pray that this will cause Him to turn to the Lord for Salvation.
Thank you
‘There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.’ Deuteronomy Chapter 18 v10-11
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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