There's too much world travel, deep sea fishing, and shopping for 2nd and 3rd homes for millionaires to be bothered with wondering whether they got themselves into every corner of web that their market surfs!

Do YOU Have What it Takes to Make it Online?

I have a test for you to complete. If you saw "Spy Games" with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, you will remember that Redford was training Pitt to be a spy, and a darn good one at that. In one scene during Pitt's traning, Redford and Pitt are standing outside a big apartment building.

Redford turns to Pitt and says "You know anyone in that building?" Pit says "No." "In five minutes, I want to see you standing on outside balcony of one of top floor apartments," Redford told him.

Pitt was clearly taken aback. You see, Redford was teaching Pitt to befriend people almost instantly, gain trust, and go places and do things no one else would dream of doing to be best spy he could possibly be.

His life depended on it. The scene cuts away, but we are left with feeling Pitt had no trouble with this task because next scene was of Pitt as a full-blown professional spy!

I want you to pretend rght now that your life depends on getting a very highly prized link from one of biggest sites in your niche. Either through an article, a plain reciprocal link, or other means, WITHOUT spending a dime on it. And I want you to do it in 24 hours.

Taking what you know right now, and realizing that now your life depends on how good a marketer you can be, come up with a plan that requires you to "befriend" a webmaster, CEO, whoever person in charge of your "target" site is. And I want to see you standing on THEIR "balcony" waving to me (with your link) in 24 hours.

Think you can do it? Seems almost trivial when put in perspective that if your life depended on it, and you HAD to find a way to get onto a site with some sort of free publicity, that you could certainly find a way. I mean, in big perspective, this certainly is not an impossible task by any stretch whatsoever.

I want to see what you are made of. How bad do you want prize? Because after you complete this task, Power Linking world is going to open before you and you will start to see internet marketing in a whole new way, from that day forward.

If you do this and succeed, you are on your way to becoming a pro, and a very rich person indeed.

You now have 23 hours and 56 minutes to complete your task.

So what are words (and fruits) coming out of Medjugore? Principally, and repeatedly over past twenty-two years: love, peace and prayer - and not just any prayer, but sustain, repeated, serious, two, three hours of prayer every day; establishments of prayer groups and a renewal by thousands of their life in Christ. Now, does that sound like a message from Satan? Hardly. For as yet, his kingdom has not fallen. Certainly he is a crafty strategist, but he would hardly take risk of repeating these messages every day for so long! And to what end?

So phenomena at Medjugore is unlikely to be satanic in origin. That leaves a divine source. FP doubts it is Mary. But who else, then? Has God sent some angelic spirit to give such words of truth, over so long a period, by deceiving his people with a spirit instructed to claim to be mother of Jesus but which it is not? That seems implausible, to put it at its lowest.

Hence, whether we like it or not, (but why do we not?) Mary seems likeliest probability.

Now, although a lifelong Catholic, (albeit with strong Pentecostal symptoms) I am not what Catholics would call a Marianist i.e. someone with a special devotion to Mary. And I have always been somewhat shy of idea of to Jesus through Mary>/I> - not because it cannot happen, because it can and has for many people, but there is always risk getting stuck on or at Mary. But maybe that implies that I think God cannot look after those who sincerely seek him.

However, we also have to take a wider view than Medjugore itself. It has been argued here that (claimed) appearances there are not extra-biblical and that is not surrendered. But suppose they were, for arguments sake. While Bible contains only truth, not all truth is contained within Bible.How could it be when John’s gospels says that world could not contain even everything which disciples knew of Jesus alone (John 21. 25)? Being extra-biblical, as WP acknowledges, is not in itself a cause for condemnation. So...?

In order to accept that appearances at Medjugore are genuine, one has to consider them within wider framework of Marian appearances. Medjugore is only latest in a long cycle of (claimed) appearences of Mary. Most non-Catholics will not be aware of even those in modern era, which amount to at least eight major visitations, from Guadalope in Mexico in 1531, through Bernadette Soubirous in1858 at Lourdes in France, andKnock in Ireland in 1879, to Fatima in Spain, in 1917 (which led Catholics world-wide to pray over decades for downfall of communism and USSR). Not one is identical to another but there is a very strong pattern of similarities (which space here does not permit of description).

In every instance there have been signs and wonders over succeeding decades or centuries of continuing evangelistic and healing associations. Far too many to delineate here, but far too many to pass-off as bunkum and, for reasons similar to those given above, too marked by work of Spirit to judge satanic in origin.

I have never been to Medjugore. Perhaps I should have. But, in FP’s t erms, I could have been found running after signs when Toronto Blessinghit north east of England at Sunderland some years ago. I hope I did not do it at expense of God’s word. But I could not accept condemnations which some other Christians were making of it of it without investigation. I did get shakes as a result, although I could never see any real spiritual growth as a consequence.

There is, perhaps, too much suspicion among Christians of Christians in sectors other than one’s own (not that Francis Frangipane is guilty of this). God is too big even for Bible, and certainly for our limited minds to comprehend. And it is surely an irresponsible Christian who thinks he knows limits to ways in which God acts among his people, or who thinks he can impose such limits.