MARCH 2025 NEWSLETTER

 MARCH 2025 NEWSLETTER

ROBERT LINDENBERGER  

405 INDIAN RIVER AVE.  504 

TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA 32796

God is good all the time; all the time, God is good!

When you finish reading this Newsletter, you will say, “This is more like a February newsletter.”  You are correct.  Let me explain: I had my biological sisters in my mind and heart when I wrote the February newsletter.  Both went through a crisis in their lives.  Mary had to see the loss of her home.  She worked until she was 90 years old to keep that home going; she had a fall, went to a nursing home, and had to sell her house.  Irene, who is 100 years old, lost two children to death and just recently had to say goodbye to her 101-year-old husband.  It is March, and the Newsletter is a remembrance of a crisis in my life and was written to/for my Bible fellowship meeting in February.

I am an old man - 90 years old; I am slow to speak, hear, and walk, but I’m not too old to praise the Lord!  I have my hearing aids on- it was the first thing I did this morning.

I come before you today, not in fear and trembling, but as a man who has been delivered from an evil spirit.  You asked, “What spirit is that, Bob?”  THE SPIRIT OF INTIMIDATION!  Let me explain: I have already told you how I came to live at the Towers.  I prayed for a roommate and got an answer to that prayer, but the roommate did not like living with me and went into an assisted living room and sold them the trailer I was living in.  These people were not old enough to live in the trailer court, so they sold the trailer, and I went to live in a room for assisted living.

During my second month living in this room, I confided in a friend and told him I had an eviction notice.  His response was so off base I could hardly believe what he was saying.  It’s your fault, Bob; you are a very self-centered and egotistical old man.  You only live for yourself and want your own way or the highway.  Do you hear me, Bob?  If you hear me, do you accept what I said?  (This was not coming from my friend.  It was the spirit of intimidation.)  As soon as I brokenheartedly said yes, the spirit entered.  It did not enter my spirit, but it did enter my body and soul.

I’ve met the conditions and the room for another month.  It was a terrible month in my life.  My caregiver told me I was no good, and all I do is stink up the house.  I got to the place I wanted to die.  I went to a mental hospital and came back to the room and went three days with no one who would talk to me.

I left that room and went into a nursing home and now here at the Towers.  I love it here, and I love you guys for loving me and helping me see that I had a spirit of intimidation living in me.  I was told we don’t want Fellowship in one of our fellowship meetings.  We want Bible study.  I returned to my room and prayed for the Holy Spirit’s help with Bible study.  The Wonderful Counselor whispered in my ear, “Bob, you’re addicted to TV, Facebook, and email.  You don’t have time for Me to help you do your Bible study.”  I turned off the computer, started to read, and threw myself into Bible study.  I felt delivered.  I was in a Biblical state of euphoria, but I loved being delivered.

Two weeks ago, I spent a lot of time studying and feeling good reading.  I went back to my studies and Bible Fellowship, but I was told it was too long and was all about me and nothing to talk about.  I came back to my apartment and cried, and I could hear the spirit of intimidation say, “What good is all that study?  You are so busy you want everything your way or the highway!”  And I cried some more.  God has never given me the gift of “speaking in tongues,” but he has given me the “the gift of interpretation.”  This came to me and I heard, “You stop crying.  I have a surprise for you.  You must trust me.”

Last week, I studied hard, and in the morning, I was reading and studying for the fellowship meeting; I came down with fear and trembling and forgot my hearing aids.  You know, the rest, it was a disaster.  I came back to my room, and I cried again.  I said, “Lord, I am so happy reading your Word.  Why is this happening to me?”  Again, I heard Him say, “You stop crying.  I have a surprise for you.  And read.”  I looked on my bookshelf and saw a book, BREAKING INTIMADITION, by John Bevere.

My adopted son and daughter(my Angel unaware) took me to church two days later.  I thought it was a class fellowship luncheon, but it was a party for my 90th birthday.  I was overwhelmed, to say the least.  After I blew out the candles and was opening all the wonderful good gifts, the Holy Spirit whispered in my ear, “Jesus loves you, and so do all these people.”

Greg brought me home, and after I unpacked all the gifts and food, I thought I should thank my Angel for the Party and tell her how much it meant to me.  I’ll do it on Facebook and send her a funny pic to make her laugh before I write.  So I sent her a pic of peanuts walking, but I hadn’t read the caption before I sent it.  As I was looking at the pic, it read EVERYONE HATES ME.  I finished the thank you and sent it off.  Oh, how did “the spirit of intimidation” use that against me?  It stole my joy.  – I couldn’t sleep; I came to my Angel table, read, and finished the book.  The book’s last paragraph was how to deal with the spirit of intimidation: CAST IT OUT IN THE NAME OF JESUS.  I did that, and now I am FREE, yes, FREE INDEED.  Free to be happy (Blessed) by THE CROSS and enjoy Jesus Life in me as the Holy Spirit, and giving me power over the old man living in me.  Jesus died to provide me with life, and He rose again to give me life more abundantly.  (to live with Him in heaven forever and ever). 

He did it for me, and He did it for you too.  Ask Him to come into your life today.

                                                                                                             Jesus loves you, and so do I.

                                                                                                             ‘Ol Uncle Bob, storyteller