How Are Lettuce, Tuna, and Pa Thom's Sanity Related?
If you have been following FCOP, you are aware of the fact that we have believed that for several months that people have been cursing the FCOP leadership here in Cambodia. We also believed we had a very upset territorial spirit at our Balang rice farm, and that these were very nasty, demonic attacks.
On August 2nd, FCOP Int. Board President Sonny Weimer, arrived in Cambodia to find a very agitated Pa Thom. He was ranting about the rice crop dying and church property being stolen. He was barking and chopping off heads all over the place! Even Naret, the best lawyer in Cambodia, was afraid to talk to him! Now, Pa Thom was so agitated, it started to manifest with various and sundry afflictions: uncontrollable vomiting, chills and constipation followed by diarrhea. He was a mess! Dr Lina, our staff doctor and the best doctor in Cambodia, lived with Pa Thom giving him multiple I.V.'s. Though all this, Pa Thom thought he was a victim of demonic attack so, he reacted in anger. Poor Pa Thom! He was happy as long as long as he could be angry and yell at people. Mr. Sonny had to be very careful around Pa Thom.
Poor Mr. Sonny; he left Pa Thom on August 15th thinking Pa Thom really was crazy. Pa Thom's body started to reject some foods and obsess on others. Dr. Lina, desperate for a solution, gave Pa Thom a Covid test on August 19th, a big red positive manifested.
Pa Thom got sicker and angrier. His prostate swelled up so tight he could not pee without great difficulty and he would convulsively vomit up all his favorite foods and drinks. He could only eat and drink two combinations; head lettuce with tuna and blue cheese dressing, washed down with green tea and honey. Mak Sou thought he could die in a few days. Pa Thom knew he would die if he did not get his prostate fixed. He also knew he could not get wedge salad with blue cheese and tuna on the plane, but left for the USA on September 8th with his surgery scheduled for September 9th, praying for a miracle!
Poor Pha Thom! He was only happy when he was angry.
He honestly thought he had lost his mind. It got to the point where he would raise his hand before he would ask questions and interrupt anyone. The chief operating officers of Sonny's company, his daughters, very seriously called Pa Thom to the side and told him it was ok to interrupt, they liked him the way he was. Now, Pa Thom was really feeling crazy and remained in that state until he landed back in Cambodia on September 28th. Mak Sou and all the staff told him that they had been earnestly praying for his life and that they were afraid of his return. Pa Thom's change of heart was a big relief to them!
As he enters his 76th year, Pa Thom is renewed in mind and spirit! All of this much to the relief of the staff, but, their biggest shock was, Pa them returned to them renewed in body as well! With his invigorated prostate implant,
given windage and elevation, he can hit a moving target at 3 yards!
He can leap to the top of a short footstool in a single bound;
able to run 7 miles in a single hour,
more powerful than a mighty Bull Mastiff!
Yes, Pa Thom can pray three hours in Holy Spirit without stopping! In addition Pa Thom's formerly, second best friend, Sonny, got promoted to first best friend because he noticed Pa Thom's neck sounded like an un-oiled Halloween door hinge. Sonny paid for an injection of frozen stem cells in Pa Thom's creaking neck. His head now swivels with enough eze to make an owl self conscious.
To those who think Pa Thom unfit to serve, he simply reminds them of his implied thoughts (not his direct words) from his previous monthly epistle, ‘I am well able to take on the demonic mountains of Cambodia as I am more fit today that I was 40 years ago'! He was actually co-opting Caleb's words from Joshua 14, but here is a direct quote from his buddy, Paul in 2 Corinthians 12: 10, "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Now, Pa Thom and all the staff know that territorial spirits are real. Believe it or not?
The end.
Pa Thom