I received this email back in October of 2008, before the election. I have heard that Sarah Palin is planning on being the conservative candidate for President in 2012; with her recent resignation from being Govenor of Alaska, I can only hope that is the reason! She's not one to shy away from attacks. Go "ESTHER"!!!
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Dear Friend:This past Tuesday, the McCain / Palin Bus came through a little town called, Lebanon, Ohio. The LORD allowed me to go to the Rally giving them a message that He wanted me to personally deliver.Sunday Night - a burden hit me that would only shake me to my knees - I prayed and wept for our Nation. Never has my heart been so broken before God. I literally interceded for these wonderful people who do not deserve all the hate against them. The GOD-Haters are going to try everything to stop them, but they will not succeed! God is not pleased with the "bashing" in the News of this "Anointed" person. He has called her for this time! I promised God that I would pray and hold them up in prayer. I would "listen" out and be mindful of where they were. The following day is important in this time-line...because I didn't even know until God spoke to me...Monday and into Monday Night - the burden of prayer was so heavy that I was literally shaking and could not stop weeping. I didn't know that they were coming to Ohio. I prayed and walked and wept and walked. I prayed and prayed and wept and prayed...Tuesday at 2:00 A.M. - God spoke these words to me - "...Go turn the Radio on!" Immediately the the Reporter's Words were - "McCain & Palin Bus to be in Lebanon later this morning for a 10:00 A.M. Rally!"Immediately on hearing that news, I heard God again...God said, "You are to go. You will meet them and give them a message for Me!"I prayed as an intercessor and went to a place in prayer that I don't think I've ever been...because he LORD had just visited me...and I knew I was on a "Mission." I had now been up since Sunday NIght...and now it's Tuesday and I've got to go on the "WORD of the LORD." He sure became My Strength as this unfolds...I didn't stop praying until I drove over to the town and parked the car. The News would later report they were expecting 5,000 people and the actual head-count of those who had been scanned was more than 10,000 people. I simply obeyed...and God actually told me where to stand, who to talk to....and when to be on the move. I had sure learned on the Mission Field, when God wants to open a door, He will do it at the appropriate time. He always has someone to assist...and even those standing beside you may just be an Angel. I struck up a conversation with an agent on the ground - he simply said, "I can't allow you to stand here!"Here is where the bus was going to actual pull up to. They had to make a much larger perimeter so the entire area was now being moved back several blocks. The only other thing he told me to do was to go through the metal detector zone and just watch from the back. So, that's what I did. Due to sensitivity of the internet...I can't share much of the story as to what happened next was a definiteGOD THING ALL THE WAY. Looking over the shoulders and backs and heads of all those people...I knew it would take a miracle for what GOD told me to do. As I was standing there, two Boy Scouts came running up my back...literally, they almost knocked me to the ground because they were running so fast behind me...up my back and over to the right. These Boy Scouts were about Junior High Age. Their Scout Leader and several others were behind them...but as the two out front was trying to push through the crowd, saying they were late...the smaller scouts were left in their dust. The Scout Leader who was with a McCain Rep from the State grabbed me and told me bring the other Scouts up front as they try to keep up with the first two that just came through. I just became the leader of the rest of the Scouts to lead them right up front and center. As the Rep was shouting back at me...to bring the Scouts forward...the people parted just like God parted the Red Sea. I marched them boys right up front and to the right of the stage as one was looking from the back. When I got there I was fifteen feet from the podium. GOD said, "Stand here, and don't move from this spot." Within five minutes...the bus pulled up and around the other side McCain, Sarah Palin and her husband Todd stepped up and the speeches took off. I was where God placed me...and even Sarah Palin and Todd were standing on my side of the stage. I made eye contact, I gave them thumbs up gestures...and I knew they were just happy to see me standing there. Ha Ha
When they came around the podium and started on the other side, I knew they were coming right toward me, a little lady who stood by me, reached up and told the Rep that they had promised a Picture with her because she was the one who had lost a son in Iraq, recently. The Rep confirmed she would get a pic with them and they would talk to her. When McCain came to hug her...he immdiately shook my hand and following his moment with her, I shook his hand as he grabbed my hand, now for the second time, and I said, "God wants you to know that I'm praying for you, Sir!" He thanked me and kept smiling. I repeated that phrase to him five times. He grabbed my hands and looked right into my eyes and said, "I won't make it without prayer. Sir, Thank You for praying for me, and don't let one day go by that you don't pray for me. I need all the prayers that I can get. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!"As he moved to my right, Sarah Palin, came over to my left side...standing over the crowd and then looking at the little lady who had lost the son. It took a moment for her to shake some hands and people were pushing in all around. Sarah came and got on her hands and knees on that side of the stage and hugged that little Mom, telling her, "...it was not in vain." She promised her support. It was at this moment Sarah Palin, reached out for me to help her up and as I was assisting her to stand I was now face to face with her and GOD said, "Open up your Mouth and I will fill it." Here is what came out... "God wants you to know that you are a present day Esther!" [She immediately began to cry!]"God wants to tell you that you are Chosen for such a time as this! You are called, and chosen to be a leader. Don't lose heart and don't fear man. The news and nay-sayers and criticizers are going to be very hateful toward you... and in the days ahead they are going to turn up the heat...but do not fear. You are a present day Esther. You are an Esther. You are an Esther! Keep your eyes on GOD and know that He has chosen you to Reign! Stay strong...be strong...don't tire. Don't be weary in well-doing. Be strong."Her husband Todd came over and I told him what I told her. He began to cry. I emphasized the fact that he was to guard her at this time...and know that "...she is GOD-CALLED and GOD-ANOINTED." "..this is a GOD-THING and your wife is a Present day Esther...she is for God to use at this time...She is an Esther...she is an Esther...she is an Esther." "You will be hated...but stand strong...GOD has called both of you to stand!" "We are praying and I am praying for you...!" At this moment, McCain came right to where I was finishing talking to Todd and I told Mr. McCain exactly what I told to Sarah and Todd Palin. "Mr. McCain, ...they are called of God and she is an Esther. Don't lose hope and don't lose heart We are praying for all of you!" He shook my hand and with a deep look of understanding what I had just said, he said, "Thank you for your prayers and support...I really do mean that!" And he turned and shook more hands...and I watched them as they went through the crowd. When I got to my car I sat there for quite a long time...knowing the GOD of the Universe had just used me to deliver a message confirming to Sarah and Todd to realize they are truly chosen vessels of God. I wept. I have not stopped praying and crying. My heart is full knowing they had to have all the staging and all the hype and all the crowd...but the GOD of Heaven and Earth...wanted to give them a Divine-God-Appointment! To God be all the GLORY and HONOR. If anyone wants to know if I believe God can speak. Yes...Absolutely, is my Answer! Be praying for me...and let me know what you think about all of this. Burdened for all of our Leaders!Pastor Mark Arnold
Confirmed by googling Pastor Mark Arnold - one of numerous ferences http://mjwsjw.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/pastor-mark-arnold-talks-with-todd-sarah-palin/A Faithful Steward 4 A Faithful GodSeptember 22, 2008
Pastor Mark Arnold talks with Todd & Sarah PalinFiled under: Uncategorized � mjwsjw @ 7:38 pm
I received this e-mail this evening and called and visited with Pastor Mark Arnold. This is not an internet scam and it really did happen He has heard from people in 23 states this weekend and today CBN News spent 90 minutes on the phone with him and reported on this event. He is calling Christians everywhere to prayer for the upcoming election. Pastor Arnold pastors Covenant Christian Church which is just north of Cincinnati, OH. He gave me permission to post this on my blog and says this can be shared with anyone.
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Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 9:33 PMSubject: Pastor Mark�s Meeting with McCain & PalinDear Pastor Clagg: Thank you for contacting me with your words of encouragement regarding my recent face-to-face meeting with John McCain and Todd and Sarah Palin - when they were on their Bus Tour in Lebanon, Ohio.The meeting was a Divine Appointment with a definite message that God wanted me to share with all of them. Meeting John McCain was a tremendous honor simply as I respect anyone with the track record of being a POW and for his years of leadership in Washington. Upon sharing with Sarah Palin the message that she is a �present day Esther� was a very humbling and moving ministry opportunity for me. Her receptivity of the Truth was very evident as she was moved to tears and that she shook her head in a positive manner, thanking me for giving her the words that she will think about and stand on in the coming days. Both her and her husband, Todd, received the words that the Lord allowed me to share. They are a very strong team of integrity, honesty, confidence and an allegiance to God that will truly change the face of politics. While so many nay-sayers and complainers and criticizers want to hunt them down, and destroy their destiny and purpose they will not be able to remove the fact that God was grooming Sarah Palin in a little town called Wasilla, Alaska and at the appropriate time, God birthed her ��for such a time as this.�Brother Ron, I want you to know that while I preached a Revival in your home town at your Church in Idaho, more than 15 years ago, you shared with me your heart regarding �Taking Our Cities for God� and �Spiritual Warfare� and as a Pastor/Evangelist like myself, I turned up the �heat� when I got home and began to call our Congregation to prayer�not just to pray - but to pray until answers came! We stormed the �gates of hell� and we decidedthat we would do what it takes to be a people that God could use and �believe God for anything!�Now, all of the preaching and teaching and believing has surely been recognized in Heaven by our God - who really is interested - in the Leadership of our Country. My Heavenly Father spoke to me�and I heard His Voice!In this Truthful - real - definite - Ministry event that the LORD called me to in meeting McCain/Palin, in the little Ohio town recently, I share the event and exactly what happened with you as a Testimony of Praise to God for allowing me to �hear the voice of God� and then �carry out His message in a timely fashion.Use this story in Email form. Please know that you can send it to the ends of the earth to anyone who has ears to hear! I know this is true�because I experienced it. I will never be the same. When the Anointing shows up�things change�and my prayer is that God will move in the hearts and lives of anyone who reads this email story. Oh God, let the prophets who have been hiding out in the caves and dens of the earth come out - for it�s time to guard one another and spiritually �fight� the good fight of faith! And for anyone who needs to verify or confirm this story that follows, please Email me or call me at the following numbers: MEA31975@aol.com (513) 291-0425Be Blessed!Pastor Mark Arnold
Marlene, Praise the Lord you are wiliing to pray! That is probably the most effective work you can do in/for this coming election and our nation! I know that God does speak to believers in this way, sometimes giving them directions "to go and say" -- we have had that happen to us, and we see it numerous times through the Bible -- Elijah, Elisha, Nathan, and even in the New Testament. His word says, "I do not do anything without telling my prophets first." Since we serve the same God who is the "same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow," listen up, blievers, God may have a word for us through you as well! As you know, shortly after Allison's heart attack and all the cardiologists told him that his heart was enlarged/elongated and said they would just send him home with medication. I said, "We'll see what the Lord allows. We began to pray for God to give him a strong heart, a new heart. In the next 2 weeks three different ministers from three different ministries who are not in touch with each other, came to say, "I was praying about you and God said to tell you, "This is not your time to die. I have more young men for you to mentor. I am not finished with you yet." Then came the heart surgeon who said, "We think you're a candidate for a new technique -- cutting away the bottom half of your heart, sewing it up, so it can pump from the top half." But, as you know, when the surgeon opened his chest after just doing another echo cardiogram before opening his chest which was exactly like all the others they'd done, he found his heart was normal size and healthy tissue! So he did a 4 way bipass while inside and sewed him up. The God of us all is still speaking to all of us everyday if we stop to listen! You guys are a blessing! By His grace, Lola
