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look, and what people thought of me. I’ve wasted my life working for the wrong kingdom. Help me to value things that are lasting, the things that You say are valuable. Help me to live wholeheartedly for Your eternal Kingdom with the time I’ve got left. I know it’s not much, but I want to give it all to You
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    Joel turned to Malta and smiled. “Father never lets a prayer like that go unanswered. We’ll be very busy with Sarah.”

C HAPTER 6

     
    “The Only hope of a decreasing self is an increasing Christ.”
F.B. Meyer 1
     
    “They that know God will be humble, and they that know themselves, cannot be proud.”
John Flavel 2
     
     
    Sarah had never read the Bible growing up so she didn’t even have a grid for God being active in anyone’s life. She certainly didn’t understand what the Lord was going to do in hers. The Lord, in His mercy, was helping her to redeem her wasted time, enabling her to spend the last of her life serving His Kingdom, and preparing her for a good death. She didn’t fully understand the principle of heavenly rewards, and she certainly had no way of knowing that she would reap more eternal rewards than most people who are Christians all their lives.
    She couldn’t see Joel and Malta, who had taken up permanent residence with her. At night, they stood on either side of her bed, vigilant against the enemy’s attacks. They needed no sleep and spent the night hours praying for Sarah and joining in the continuous heavenly worship around God’s throne. In the spiritual realm, both angels glowed brightly with the Lord’s glory,lighting Sarah’s bedroom like a thousand candles. Since Sarah’s natural eyes were unable to gaze into the spiritual realm, she could see only darkness.
    “The Lord really enlightened her today through Paul’s joke,” said Malta. “I think she understands now that the Lord’s Kingdom has nothing to do with status or possessions.”
    “Pride drives humans to fight for all those temporal things,” replied Joel. “Satan’s deception is so great. It’s all a bankrupt system that is passing away. It’s like fighting for a first class cabin on the
Titanic
. The whole thing is going down.”
    “His Kingdom is about being a servant to the least on earth and being exalted later. Humility fixes its eyes on God’s Kingdom, and never wavers.”
    That night Sarah had a dream. She saw herself walking around her neighborhood. Her neighbors’ houses were painted black; even the bushes, flowers, and grass were black. There were no lights on inside any of the houses, even though it was dusk. She walked around the block and arrived back at her house, which was painted its normal color, but a blindingly bright light was shining out from every window. It was so bright she almost couldn’t look toward it.
It’s like the sun has been captured and squeezed inside my house
. Then she woke up.
    Sarah had the same dream the next night, too. Tuesday night before dozing off she prayed,
God am I going to have this dream every night? Please show me what it means
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    That night Sarah had the same dream, except this time she was pulling a child’s red wagon filled with brightly burning, antique kerosene lanterns. She walked to each neighbor’s house and left a burning lantern on each porch. She woke up with the following sentence in her mind. “Prayer walk—do this while you are able.”
    I just read about prayer walking in my women’s missionary magazine. Now I understand. Thank You, Lord, for showing this to me. My neighbors are lost and I must help them
. She wasted no time putting on her walking shoes, the broken-in brown loafers, grabbed her shawl, and headed outside.
    The fall winds scattered dried leaves across the sidewalk, and her shuffling footsteps crunched them as she walked. She headed counter-clockwisearound her block speaking out loud, “Lord, bless the Smith’s, let them come to know You. Lord, bless the Stephens; let them come to know You. Lord, bless the