Riding on the Red

Riding on the Red

Ronald Pritchard

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Foreword

Overnight Jesus took our home and possessions, leaving us living in a van.

I thought He’d deliver us by nightfall, as He usually did in other situations, but it was four and a half grueling years later, when he saved us.

The angels taught us to survive on nothing, fast everything, to hear, obey and be holy.

This book is born from pain. The same pain that results in growth as we submit to trials and they do their work in us.

We’re bringing a warning to the U.S., as Jesus used us to test Christians.

We were horribly treated by the church for being the poorest.

This derived many prophecies, like the rising gas prices, companies’ great loses, and individual’s futures.

He slowed our lives to where each moment was a hell to survive, teaching us thousands of years of knowledge in a few months.

Jesus showed me how to pray in the woods, after searching for Him for years.

He gave us trial after trial, building our faith as He delivered us from each one.

He allowed us to live by his desires, which weren’t ours, and were very hard on our flesh, health and our rules.

Learn in here of silent prayer, healing kingdom rest, the wilderness, suffering for perfecting, the ancient ways, change, obedience to the spirit, praise, apostleship, and Jesus’ presence.

Our comfort and security almost made us miss meeting Jesus in the wilderness.

Dedication

Thanks to my wife, who wasn’t overtly called to go through my wilderness with me, but did anyway. This was much harder on her not having a vision for it.

Thanks to my mom, Mabel Pritchard, who suffered so much in her life for me.

Thanks to all who opened their homes to us and helped us on our way. They inadvertently became case studies.

Thanks to my writing teacher Rosiland Miller for her publishing tips. Her class is in Gulfport, Florida.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Dedication

Chapter 1: BEGIN THE JOURNEY

Chapter 2: PREPARE FOR THE JOURNEY

Chapter 3: Disney

Chapter 4: CATHY LECHTNER

Chapter 5: THE COMING SHAKING

Chapter 6: THE SECOND SHAKING

Chapter 7: YOU DON’T WORK, YOU SHOULDN’T EAT

Chapter 8: C.A.P.

Chapter 9: CLINTON’S LYING DEMON

Chapter 10: SPIRIT LEADING

Chapter 11: MANY ARE CALLED, FEW ARE CHOSEN

Chapter 12: LIVING WITH PEOPLE(HOUSEHOLD ORDER)

Chapter 14: THE DANGER OF FANTASY

Chapter 15: PS. 133 — UNITY

Chapter 16: PRAYER

Chapter 17: HEALTH

Chapter 18: PROJECTION

Chapter 19: LEARNING THE GOD WALK

Chapter 20: ANGELS

Chapter 21: THE REVIVAL OF OBEDIENCE

Chapter 22: ECONOMIZING

Chapter 23: SPIRIT NUDGINGS

Chapter 24: SOUL SEARCHIN

Chapter 25: I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR, BUT DON’T WANT TO FIND

Chapter 26: INSURANCE

Chapter 27: WITNESSING

Chapter 28: CHURCH GROWTH

Chapter 29: COVERING

Chapter 30: DON’T DESIRE POSITION … POSSESSIONS

Chapter 31: HE’S NOT WHO YOU THINK HE IS!

Chapter 32: LITTLE FAITH

Chapter 33: OLD CAR

Chapter 34: PETS

Chapter 35: GIVE IT ALL AND WALK THAT LONELY ROAD

Chapter 36: I WHOLLY FOLLOWED THE LORD, GOD

Chapter 37: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Chapter 38: DISTRACTIONS

Chapter 39: GOD TIME

Chapter 40: CONFRONTING FLESH AND RELIGIOUS SPIRITS

Chapter 41: HEROES

Chapter 42: EACH MOMENT’S A SALVATION EXPERIENCE

Chapter 43: THE WORLD WON’T CHANGE UNTIL THE CHURCH DOES

Chapter 44: A PERSONAL LETTER TO YOU

Chapter 45: JESUS, COVER ME FROM THE DEVOURERS

Chapter 46: LISTEN-UP, CHURCH

Chapter 47: WHO CHASTISES, GOD OR SATAN?

Chapter 48: CHANGE

Chapter 49: THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Chapter 50: WRONG THINKING

Chapter 51: CHILD CARE This is a letter to a friend

Chapter 52: SILENT BEFORE GOD

Chapter 53: POVERTY: THE HIGHEST TRAINING AND CALLING?

Chapter 54: WHICH BIBLE VERSION IS CORRECT?

Chapter 55: SACRIFICE

Chapter 56: THE POOR

Chapter 57: CAUGHT A THIEF

Chapter 58: SEDUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY

EPILOGUE

INDEX

Chapter 1

BEGIN THE JOURNEY

A large yellow smile was swinging in front of me. The Devil was bright red and hanging on an elastic band, staring at me as I was sitting uncomfortable, chained in the back of a police car.

The cuffs were painful, pinching my wrist bones and skin and keeping my arms in unnatural bends.

The officer had a four inch tall, stuffed Satan with a black cape, hanging from his visor, mocking me.

I prayed, Satan you have me now, but you won’t win. days.

Up to this point, it had been one of those dream-like

There’s only a few in life.

We had been at the Courtney Campbell Causeway’s Hyatt Hotel, hanging out and relaxing. We weren’t guests, just enjoying it.

I had said, This is one of those fantasy days and you wonder if some catastrophe is going to happen and destroy it.

Afterward, as we traveled home, a Tampa police car stopped us.

I gave Jan all my ID’s and keys and only kept the necessities.

I told her to prepare like this in case they arrest you.

Sure enough, (do I have to add that I’m prophetic!), I found myself being chained and installed in the police car, charged with Trespass.

A few months before, I had been handing out tracks on an abortionist’s property and had been ticketed.

When they called me for court, I was at a funeral and didn’t know, so now I was Wanted.

My wife didn’t know where the jail was and was kidnapped in the middle of the night, escaped, nearly ran out of gas getting lost on the Howard Franklin Causeway and was robbed by the black man.

She did get to witness to him about Christ though.

I tried getting a hold of my friend, Floyd Irwin, but couldn’t.

He always shows up when I need Him.

As I bailed out the next morning, my wife yelled, Floyd! There he was, standing in the middle of the waiting room. He had been taking a bus to St. Petersburg and Jesus told him to exit in downtown Tampa to go to the jail!

Was I glad to see him (thank you Jesus).

I was rewarded for what I did for Christ. Over a hundred people had just failed to win similar court cases in the city, but knowing the restrictions even Christian lawyers have on them, I fought the case myself.

I took my motions from the Bible and refused everything they pressured me with, like a Court appointed attorney, psych exam, or plea bargain. I was facing three years and the prosecutor wanted me locked up for contempt.

They ended up throwing the case out of court, but only after I witnessed of Christ to a full courtroom, three times.

It, of course, was embarrassing to the prosecutor.

Bob DiAndrei had me on his The Good Life show on channel 22, in St. Petersburg to tell the story (thanks, Jesus).

Then, I said, Eventually the pro-life issue may turn to civil war. And, eventually the shootings and bombings started at the abortion clinics as the government tried stifling the Christians.

Facing the fear of imprisonment and the deliverance from a sentence pushed me to make sure I was being spirit led in things. I wondered if my pro-life protesting was self generated through compassion, or did Jesus direct me to do it?

This was my first step in Beginning the Journey. This all happened in 1989-90.

Chapter 2

PREPARE FOR THE JOURNEY

A thing that I’ve been seeking is wisdom. It comes in stages, like other things. With my background, in life and church, there’s a progression in my growth. I have to experiment, and I urge people to use wisdom in reading the following. It may not be for some people to read.

The second part of my learning process was when I found out an evil person was coming to town. I considered this human to be the worst and most dangerous on Earth, maybe a type of anti-Christ.

The state of the nation’s spiraling moral decay had been working on me. I had a talk with Jesus and told Him, I know the world’s in your control and I know you use people at times. If you put this person in front of me, I’ll give him over to You as atonement for this world.

Understand, there was no chance of me being near the part of town where this person was.

Through an unexpected chain of events, I found myself very close in proximity to the person. I was shaking and didn’t want to carry it through, nor didn’t know if I could.

At the last moment, Jesus blocked me.

The person responsible for bringing this evil to town was punished severely by Jesus and went to prison. This was a good lesson in not hanging with evil people.

I saw Jesus do a miracle in arranging this meeting, but was wondering if it was wrong in putting forth the prayer that started the events.

So now, (I learned in the first chapter, not to do things without the spirit’s guidance).

I learned in this chapter not to give Jesus ideas that He may not have induced.

Thirdly, I learned to not move unless it was His idea, not mine, and not my works. I learned not to pray to bring about situations, but to let God be in charge of the circumstances that He wants to bring in my life.

Fourth, I would learn to not have heart’s desires, only Jesus’ desires that He puts in my heart. That comes later. I realized that Jesus is allowing this evil on earth right now.

Chapter 3

Disney

I’d probably still be working for Disney but was fired for witnessing. They intimidated me and three of the men involved with the process were Christian or Catholics. All three said Disney was run by Satan.

The manager said He was my spiritual authority, not realizing I was an apostle.

He said, Disney is run by Caesar, Satan is Caesar, and he’s required by the Bible to obey Caesar. He must not have read of Jesus, the prophets and the apostles dying for their testimony!

It’s frightening to know that a [Christian] would devour a brother for a salary. We’re hardly a step away from the Communists. Would they kill for money, too? Probably.

The Spiritual Authority position intrigued me. Soon afterward (watch alarm sounded at 1:12 p.m. — Jesus emphasizes things this way to me), I began hearing this in churches, I’m your FEDERAL HEAD COVERING and a lot of pressure in most meetings for control and money.

I started noticing how prophetic my letters were to the Assemblies, Disney, and the Baptists. As each one was in the mail, Disney and one of the denominations would battle in the newspapers.

I was fired the day after the Baptist Resolution against Disney was printed in the Orlando paper.

God showed me that before the firing I was being spied on at Disney. They have undercover Foxes. It was around the time of Gay Week that seemed to coincide with the A.B.C. Convention.

Disney was buying ABC, which seemed to have a strong GAY slant, which resulted, as I remember, in Disney insuring gay partners and denying the children of straight employees in cases.

You could feel the evil start moving in and growing days before these conferences.

Any evil conventions could usually be felt if you were discerning.

I was also harassed at Chase, Wall Street Journal, South-East Bank, Lanier Copy Company, and other employers for being a Christian, with Tampa being worse and Orlando being bad. If Christians would stand up for their faith, it would change the Nation, but we’ve been taught fear, etc., rather than laying down our lives.

Chapter 4

CATHY LECHTNER

For two years, people kept telling me to see Cathy Lechtner. I hadn’t heard of her and she doesn’t know of me now. I started attending her meetings and one time she called us up first for a long powerful prophecy. I had a feeling she would cause, I felt, something in the spirit about three times. This was May 2, 1997. Cathy said doors would close and you would be humbled.

About a week later the prophecy was quickened to me. It seems to take a week, month, year, or even ten years for the quickening date, when a prophecy begins.

I pray in the woods each day if I can. It runs from 30 minutes up to three hours, usually 40 minutes to an hour. It is always evolving; fun and work.

For fourteen and a half years Jesus had been preparing me for a faith life. I continually died to parts of my self. I knew though the day I said, God, I’ll do anything for You to know me, that I had reached a threshold. I told Him, I’ll die if I have to, to know you a little more.

Immediately the doors were closed, we were led and had to give everything away. Ninety dollars had appeared in our bank account with a handwritten deposit ticket. They only come by machine. This was a God thing. We left with $30.00, which got us to the Brownsville Revival where we were stranded twelve days. Thus our faith walk started. The spirit had brought me to the point of losing everything many times, and saved me at the last minute.

This time He didn’t save us. We were in a free fall, swim or die. We thought we would probably die! Always, before Jesus had rescued me, but now my trust in Him was bigger and He didn’t let us off. It was a Trust stretcher and now 32 months later we are still stretching.

Three thirty a.m. on the fourth of July (Independence Day) our cat woke me and proceeded to lay on the suitcase instead of going outside. Jesus had used our cat prophetically many times, and I knew He was saying leave all security. We looked like the Beverly Hillbillies leaving Tampa, in our old red van. It had two queen mattresses piled on the roof, two bikes and two chairs. The bikes were stolen Christmas Eve at Dan Betzer’s Church in Ft. Myers, Florida in 1997.

I had felt an evil that night while passing a gang of kids and know they got the bikes, tools and boots. Jesus will use everything prophetically. He will quicken things to us. He had told my wife, If you let me remove the natural, I’ll show you the supernatural. That’s the key to knowing God and more importantly Jesus knowing you. We paid the price as He told me to know Him. We beg, urge and desire for you to do it also. On December 19, 1992 He woke me as I passed through St. Petersburg looking for a city to settle in, saying, If you don’t pay the cost, I’ll get twelve others. I know this was the first apostleship call. I received two more in 1994. I didn’t tell anyone except my wife for about six and a half years, I think.

I believe we each have a great purpose, a job only we can do. If we don’t it will take twelve others who weren’t designed for the job to do it.

What a waste to play church and religion a whole life and not pay the cost to know Christ and receive our call. I think everything gets burned up, except the time we’ve spent honestly seeking God and performing his leading per Nita Johnson? (she doesn’t know me either). There’s a huge difference in generating prayers and in communing with God. When I say God in this book, it’s Jesus I’m referring to according to my understanding. I’m not saying that I understand the trinity. Thus the Journey Begins.

Chapter 5

THE COMING SHAKING

Vaulteth yourself, for the coming shaking and you’ll come out (re)fine(d). This was my third apostolic call."

The morning of February 26, 1994 I was awakened with a vision as before and these words in King James English? The shaking and refining is what the apostles will bring to the body of Christ. I differentiate it from the organized church. I believe the church is the world that we’re to come out of. I speak in a lot of generalities, knowing God can work in many levels at once. Such as the church, individuals, the Jews and the bride.

I just think that mainly, the Bride, is the important thing, which is basically an underground church in the world, where as in the spirit, it is the church. These are opinions. I’ve learned from our trip that opinions and beliefs don’t matter, only obedience does.

Everything God told us to do was against our beliefs, opinions, traditions, thoughts, society and churches. He was after testing our obedience to the nth degree. When you are in His presence laws aren’t going to matter. Sin’s not going to exist. There’s not room for denominations in prayer. I feel He wants a Revival of Obedience, which is loving God and others. Each thing we obeyed tested our salvation of spirit and physical body. We did things I thought were sins and would send me to hell, but trusted God anyway and found his purpose in testing our faith in Him, who makes the rules.

In May of 1994 the shaking began, we lived in a motel room for seven months. Each month He worked on a different sin in us, a trusted security, or a change that He wanted to effect in us.

It was very painful and at the end He rewarded me with my Disney job. The different times in my life that God stripped me and brought me to the end of my flesh, He usually rewarded me after. He has continued this pattern in our current life but with an adjusted twist. The tests are short and life threatening usually three days and as much as 13. There is a reward after, but usually only enough to eat and drive to the next place of testing. It’s not the big test and big reward any more. We haven’t had a big reward in 32 months, just severe tests to purify. In 1995 He told me another shaking was coming?

Chapter 6

THE SECOND SHAKING

God warns his prophets, thank heavens. On our mission, He almost always clued us ahead of time that a test was coming or some times that a reward was on its way. It helped steel ourselves for the coming struggle, when He quickened things before hand. If a very intense attack was coming, it would start in tremors that kept increasing until we were strong enough for the final blow, maybe three or four attacks all together covering a week. You would know when the real quake hit.

Our second shaking began with the Disney firing in June of 1996. It moved into January of 1997 when we were evicted and moved to Tampa. April of 1997 Chase Bank had me fired for witnessing. July 4th, 1997 Jesus started our mission. He sent us out (apostleship). We had no idea what our future was going to be. But, as He led us through the nation, a pattern formed.

We stayed in many homes and began realizing the poor health of the church. It was controlling or destroying. It would dominate who it could, and the sheep that wouldn’t go with their slant were destroyed, kicked out and segregated. Jesus was a servant and said, the greatest would be the least, but the pastors were lording rather than serving. A lot forgot that they were accountable to the flock. There’s a scattered flock out there. Praying in the woods each day we find a lot of woods people, society dropouts. God sent us out as the poorest in the land at a time when the nation is at the wealthiest point ever.

To (watch alarm went off March 8, 2000) journey as the first apostles did. Not only is it unacceptable to live this way in our society, but it’s often illegal.

We were sent to judge between the lambs and the goats. All of this came together in our realization over time. Jesus would arrange for us to meet a person. He’d tell us what city to go to. After we’d witness or minister to an individual, many times they would turn and attack us. They would say, God didn’t send you, you’re of the devil, you don’t have a cover, you’re bums, etc. Not knowing they were blaspheming the Holy Spirit that sent us. We were amazed by the persecution, hate, anger and dismissal by the Christian community. Where was the Christian charity? America, you flunked the Day of your visitation." We did find a few gems that helped us but never were sure of their motivations. Not wanting to be cynical, I realize we’re all learning at different levels. Brothers would have killed us if it were