"Yes! I need help!"
I pulled her lower lip down with my thumb, "Then let that bubbling spring of life flow forth in Jesus name."
No sooner had I said the words than her lips began to form words of inexpressible meaning.
Her eyes were panicked and I quickly said, "It's okay! You're not going to understand what is being said. It's your spirit conversing with God what you can't express with your given language that you can comprehend. The Holy Spirit is not going to overwhelm you or control you, rather just flow through you and communicate to the Father what needs to be said. You are completely in control and it's your choice for it to happen or not happen. No demon or fallen angel is speaking through you or can interject into your private conversation with God so be strengthened and have faith."
I stepped away from her as sweet words continued to pour forth from her lips. It was odd given the situation, but this new act of spiritual maturity on Maria's part had me wanting to stay by her side, as something beautiful was born from within.
I wanted to kiss her so badly, but I had darkness to deal with so I left her to empower the air to be sweet with the sound of the Holy Spirit triumphing in the heart of this dark storm that had befallen a righteous man's family.
I took Flint's hands and I led him to one of the large portico pillars. I placed both of his hands on the pillar. He looked to me for direction as the howling grew louder all around us.
"Whose house and lands are these?" I asked.
"Mine." He responded with looking puzzled.
"Wrong answer. The Earth is the Lord's and the cattle on a thousand hills."
Flint looked shaken, but I wasn't done.
"Your wife and children, whose are they?"
He swallowed reflexively before saying, "God's."
"Is there anything you possess, even your own life which is not God's?" I asked.
"No."
"Then as you are fully given over to the God of creation make your case known to Him, even as Job did in the midst of his trial, but do not make his mistake. As all that you possess is the Lord's, even the breath that holds you together know also that He has the authority to bless or destroy you at His good pleasure. Whether He blesses or curses He is forever righteous. He is not a man that He might be questioned as to His actions. Are you prepared to praise God in whatever state you are given?"