Ahhhh! My life was changed ,my sense of confidence grew when I heard about the Anna Nicole scandal with the Minister of Housing in the Bahamas. I was living there at the time.
I kid you not, my life was threatened regularly & the police was harassing me mercilessly. One threatened me with a shotgun. I knew that it was because of the connection my former pastor had within that administration. I prayed & felt within that the only way I would survive (my clothes were hanging on me, my pants had to be tied to me) was if they were put out of office. I told people that we needed God to send the media from around the world to bring judgment & shame on them so they could be voted out of office, That was how they had lost power after 25 years for the first time. We , the Bahamas, was in every news paper & the pun of every late night show. Bahamians were embarrassed!
I turned my hardship into a 40 day fast, not hard to do when you have no food. I prayed a prayer of imprecation, like David. I read through Nehemiah constantly who was distressed at the spiritual & physical distress of his people. Chuck Swindoll, whom I normally don't listen to, came on the radio the next day when I started fasting doing a series on Nehemiah. Almost every week someone came on teaching on fasting & prayer & Nehemiah. 'When there is nothing you can do, God can bring change in government.' I'll never forget it, it was as if He was cheering me on every day. I prayed for a spotlight to be shone on the nation. I prayed that the country & it's super religious people would be called what they are, very corrupt, by the International Media. I had no television. On the last week I turned from the Baptist radio station, to the local talk show to hear what was going on.
I heard one excited person after the other, talking about the large number of news people on Bay Street from around the world!! I heard people say how embarrassed they were at the way they were being portrayed.. Finally people were calling in & instead of talking about how God loved the Bahamas so much & how blessed we were as a nation that the whole world wanted to come there, some elderly people were calling for us to come to repentance. Ha Ha Ha.
Didn't I laugh!!!! I listened a Sunday radio show after I went on a fast for the 2nd time... & the lady said, people there is a spotlight on this nation, be careful how you act. Awesome!!!
Well, after the second round in the new year when Anna Nicoles' son died from a drug overdose, all Bahamians knew it was the slackness & corruption in the government run institution that contributed to this latest bad news, that government was gone.
Just before coming to Florida to my mother, I picked up a paper that had an excerpt from Wikileaks about the then Ambassador John Rood wrote about the storm of controversy that hit the Bahamas that he believed would leave the government in ruins concerning the Anna Nicole/Minister Shane Gibson scandal.
I laughed again !!!!!