Submission Number: 28
Submission ID: 7459
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Created: Sun, 05/19/2024 - 22:44
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First Name MICHAEL
Last Name GLASS
Email Jmglass@costran.com
Mobile Phone 9198369021
Address
Birth Month June
Birth Day 23
Birth Year 1956
Why are you interested in pursuing this initiative? Firstly, men are dying trapped in their emotions, never able to reach their full capacity within God’s Kingdom of God. Men are being killed by the enemy in higher numbers, from addictions, suicide, blue-collar accidents, homicide, heart disease, and gluttony in unmatched numbers.
Another reason for pursuing this initiative is that I believe it is my calling to try to stop the enemies’ unsought of men and turn the tide by freeing those taken captive. I thought I would try to join you in the fight.
Tell us about your family: I have been married for 32 years and have a 25-year-old daughter from that marriage. I was married for 5 years and had 3 children prior. I have two grandchildren.
What is your experience with Zoweh events and/or resources? I just attended the April Warrior Heart Encounter and read THOAW and Kind Me. I had two medical meetings during the Warrior Heart Encounter. I have watched all four Elder-Sage Initiative Video Conversations.
How did you first connect with Jesus in a personal way? I was about 12 years old when I read the gospels where Jesus said if you have seen me, you have seen the Father. I then began to read everything Jesus said and did as looking at God. I saw Jesus as the way God communicated with me, talked to me, and demonstrated how to be in a relationship with others, especially how I was to view my relationship with evil. My father was young, alcoholic, and violent. But I wanted a father like Jesus. So, I was baptized.
Tell us about a time when you shared your Jesus story. I lost my first family due to being engulfed in shame, powerlessness, and lack of attachment pain. I spent 7 years using drugs and alcohol. I was at the point where I judged myself useless. I was going to end it with a 357. A voice woke me out of the delusion. I believe that voice was Jesus. I was told, “There is more, and I'm not done yet.” I have been sober for 36 years. Some of my family came back. When I do the heart work, the power of the mercy that only Jesus’ story can deliver in a world of darkness and pain allows for the disconnect from the heart.
Explain your familiarity with the following terms: wounds, vows and agreements. A childhood wound can be formed from experiences with caregivers such as mothers or fathers. It is not the event itself, but the unresolved emotional effects carried into adulthood from the event. Implicit learning is perceived as true but is a lie. When these wounds do not heal satisfactorily, they quickly open again, and can result in disastrous relationships. Men are often unaware of the effect of these wounds, hidden behind a self-constructed amnesic wall within them pushed down in their psyche.
An agreement is made based on a lie, and a vow is an oath, usually in someone's name at someone's will, often with some object or person used as an exchange. There has to be a gain-and-loss bond in the vow. There is always a payoff for the vow. Some vows were made with blood.
Tell us about a significant wounding moment that you experienced. It was show-and-tell in Ms. Jefferson’s 2nd-grade class, and I was up, so I dove into fabricating another exciting excursion with my father and me. Last week, we went skydiving. This week, it was racing cars. The teacher interrupted me to tell me that if I kept lying, she would make me sit down. But I had to lie because I did things like learning to open a steel beer can with a church key and making myself worthwhile on Saturday mornings as Dad listened to stock car races. So, I kept lying. She told me to sit down. She said she would send me to the principal's office if I continued my lying. So that weekend, our family went on a road trip to my grandparent's home. My father drove this old car, and the headlights would randomly short out, so he put me on the hood of the car with a big flashlight tied to me, and I would hold on with one hand and shine the light down on the white line so he could see to drive at night. By the time the lights began to short out, he was a full six in and had started taking pulls off the 5th he had with him. His hands were steady, the car swerved, and I was blamed for not holding the light steady. Finally, he just stopped the car and put the useless failure in the vehicle. Well, that following week, when it was show-and-tell time, I wanted to please my teacher but still share with the class and be seen and known. So, I turned from my sinful ways and told the truth. As I told the story about my trip to my grandparents' house, not leaving out one incident, my teacher stopped me and sent me to the principal's office. She was distraught with me, and the class laughed at me as I walked out of the room to go to the principal's office. That experience was filled with the shame of not being enough, the pain of being alone and being ostracized, and the powerlessness and fear of not being able to do anything about it because there was no one and nowhere for my real story to land and be heard. I was a wandering pilgrim reaching for a place or a person to know me.
Explain your personal familiarity with spiritual warfare. I grew up in a family involved in the occult through a public yet secret organization. Also, at the age of 31, I was taken under the wing of a Jesuit who indoctrinated me in the occultism of the Rosicrucian philosophy.
I am on the board of directors of an organization that counsels victims of trauma-based mind control who have often been enticed by a church masquerading for Intelligent Evil (IE). Paul exposes IE in Eph 6, which comes through “strongholds,” as Paul outlines in 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 that take hold of the minds of God’s image-bearers, thus taking the temple hostage. The prize is our minds and hearts to separate us from God and each other. IE wants to utilize us and maneuver us by crippling our lives and effectiveness to bring about the Kingdom of God on earth.
God has delivered me of these IE strongholds mentioned above, and I have a measure of faith that allows me to face this systematic IE.
Spiritual warfare is done on this side of the unseen realm with what Paul mentioned in Eph. 6 to rescue the hearts and minds of men. Here is how a good friend and Army major describes rescue warriors: "So That Others May Live" is the motto of the search and rescue units. That is how I view what spiritual warfare in the biblical sense of the word is attempting to do.
Give an example of how you have heard from God. Once, I asked God, “How do I go forward from here?” This phrase quickly came to my mind: " Feed my lamps.” I don’t know if the words came from God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit; I can't prove it, but I believe they are trustworthy enough to guide my life.
Have you had any training in listening and/or engaging in another man's story? I have an undergraduate degree in psychology from Campbell University and 112 credit hours of Biblical studies and education from Mid-Atlantic Christian University. I have operated a licensed private practice as an alcohol and drug addiction counselor for the past 28 years and have been an NC-certified alcohol-drug counselor since 8/25/1994. I operated domestic violence programs, anger management programs, and alcohol and drug education programs. I have spent 1,000s of hours listening to 1,000 men’s stories from atheists, agnostics, and followers of Christ. In the past 10 years, I began to focus on the wounded hearts of men, helping them take down the barriers and conditioning used to protect their wounds, deterring them from their calling from God.
Which of the following books have you read? King Me, The Heart of a Warrior, The Screwtape Letters, Bondage Breaker, Victory over the Darkness, Mere Christianity
How did you discover the Elder-Sage Initiative? Scott Anderson, Joe Stone and Rob Ferguson
What is the best time to call you? Monday through Friday between 10 and 4 or Sunday and Sunday after 2pm.
First Name Rob
Last Name Ferguson
Email rferguson@hbusinc.com
Phone 9197304348