It's vital that you receive these truths regarding the spiritual realm. Heaven is real.  Angels and demons exist. Spiritual warfare is a daily reality that we face and we must be prepared to walk in spiritual vigilance. Not paranoia and not apathy, but vigilance balanced upon the scripture aware of the spiritual realm but not living in fear. I want to give you vital information regarding how the enemy attacks believers. And in those attacks there are vulnerabilities. There are things that we do, things that we think, things that we say, places we go that cause us to be more susceptible to demonic attacks so that the attacks of the enemy can intensify when we do these things. I'm talking to you about open doors. I want you to write in the comment section right now, write the door is closed.  The Holy Spirit will help you do it. God will guide you. The scripture is your foundation for navigating the spiritual realm but make that public declaration, the door is closed. So what is an open door? Now you won't find the term open door in scripture blatantly there for you to see. But as you study the scripture you'll see that in fact there are things that Christians do that make them more vulnerable to demonic attacks. So when I say open door what I mean is an area of vulnerability or susceptibility to demonic influence and attack. Now other definitions might be used. Someone else might use that term to mean something else but the way I mean it here for the sake of this lesson is an area of vulnerability, an area of intensified influence of the enemy. These are things that we do that make us more likely to come under a successful demonic attack. And I want to give you four open doors that the enemy works through in your life. There are four areas I'm going to share with you. I'm going to use scripture here that will reveal these areas in our lives that give the enemy what we would call a foothold. Now again I want to make sure that we avoid the extremes. We must avoid apathy which is carelessness and we must avoid paranoia which is just this obsession with the demonic realm and this constant looking over your shoulder wondering well is the enemy in this is the enemy in that neither of those are ways to live. The believer is to live focused on the things of God focused on the face of Jesus walking in spiritual stability and in order to do that we must build our lives on the foundation of the word and walk being guided by the Holy Spirit. Take a look at Matthew chapter 12 verses 43 through 45. When an evil spirit leaves a person it goes into the desert seeking rest but finding none. Then it says I will return to the person I came from so it returns and finds its former home empty swept and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before that will be the experience of this evil generation. A few things that we can deduce in regards to evil spirits. Number one we see that evil spirits are bound to this realm when they're expelled from their host they roam seeking rest but finding none and there we see another key that they grow awfully tired outside of physical bodies. If they if they cannot find a host they become tired and they go seeking for a place to rest so they're like parasites at least that's how they're being described here in Matthew chapter 12 verse 44 then it says I will return there I will it has a will it can think it can reason I will return to the person I came from so demonic attacks return to find places of vulnerability demonic beings are persistent you can be liberated set free and then that demonic power will come back around to see if there's any area of compromise now I'm going to clarify something in just a moment so let's continue so it returns and finds its home former home empty swept in an order something very important to note here it finds its former home empty this scripture Matthew chapter 12 verses 43 to 45 this scripture this portion of scripture which talks about the demonic power reentering its host does not apply to born again believers that is a forced reading upon this text it's not what it's saying at all there's nothing in this scripture that indicates that a born again believer can be repossessed by a demonic being after salvation notice again it says empty well believers aren't empty we have the Holy Spirit filling us but that doesn't mean that we can just let our guards down this doesn't mean that we can just live a life of apathy and say well I can live however I want I can walk in sin I can walk in compromise and nothing will ever happen to me well no that's foolishness and that's not true here's the reality demonic powers return to regain whatever influence is possible in the case of the unbeliever when a demonic power returns it's possible that it can re-enter when a demonic spirit returns to find a place of influence in the life of the believer it can return it can look for points of vulnerability but it cannot re-enter again to the point of demonization or possession so what can they do well they return to deceive they return to torment they return to tempt they return to harass in other words the demonic power even though it cannot repossess the Christian even it cannot even though it cannot attach itself to their being even though it cannot inhabit them again it will still look for something that it can do so when a demon returns to a born-again believer it can return to attack but never again to re-enter i'll say that again when a demonic being comes back to look for places of vulnerability in the life of the believer it can return to attack but it can never again return to re-enter and so we have to understand this in the light of the truth of the scripture now i have a teaching can christians be demon possessed that's something that's available on my channel if you want to watch that for free where i go into great detail as to why biblically speaking it's a fact that christians cannot be possessed and so again even though we look at the scripture and we can glean some truths not all of these truths have what we call universal application what we do glean from this particular portion of scripture is the fact that a demon can come back but in the life of the believer it cannot re-enter why because you and i are not empty so again we're not living a life of paranoia and often believers gather for themselves these lists of things that they ought to avoid and of course we should avoid sin but you can't systemize discernment now i'm going to show you the four open doors in just a moment but it's important that we lay a foundation before we get into that now when you go to try to systemize discernment you end up with legalism what do i mean by that well many times believers will just kind of create this long list of things you know okay when i go to the thrift store be careful of picking up clothes from people make sure you pray over the clothes when i go to the supermarket you don't know where those cereal boxes are coming from they could be shipped from anywhere i don't know who handle those boxes maybe a demonic spirit attached themselves to that box so i got to make sure i pray over that when i'm shopping online i got to make sure that the people who designed the websites didn't have demonic beings attached to them and therefore influence those websites to the point where now if i even so much as glance at the website and i'm not talking about bad websites i'm talking about just shopping and regular things that you would do on a daily basis well you know okay i got to be sure now that i'm not getting a spirit from that website even though it's not necessarily something that's sinful and so we get these long lists of things renounce it here renounce it there rebuke it here rebuke it there and that's legalism and that's trying to systemize discernment look you can carry that list around you if you want or you can just follow the functions of the Holy Spirit and if you have that list it'll be a never-ending one because no matter how long that list is there will always be things that you can add to that people ask me very specific questions quite often and i like to respond in principle not in specifics because if you can grasp the principle then you can figure for yourself what you should avoid now if you're a believer filled with the Holy Spirit the light of God resting in you and as an example you go to the thrift store and you pick up a coat that was owned by a witch or warlock you don't know this you didn't practice anything that they practiced you didn't open any doors through sin you're not going to catch a demon like you catch a disease by putting on that coat in fact the moment you put that coat on if there is a demon attached to it i promise you it's going to be so uncomfortable on that coat it's going to jump right off so we have to get this idea out of our heads that like demons are like a cold that you can catch that if i just walk into the wrong place if i shake that person's hand and i don't know what demons they have or if i walk into that restaurant and the owner is practicing witchcraft my friend yes evil is all around us in this world and i'm not saying please don't hear what i'm not saying i'm not saying that these things aren't realities nor am i saying that we ourselves should practice witchcraft or that we ourselves should engage in sin or that we should be apathetic about the spiritual realm or apathetic about demonic attack what i am saying is this notion that demons are like a cold that you can catch well being unaware because you accidentally grazed someone's shoulder who practices witchcraft my friend greater is he who's in you than he that is in the world first john four four but you belong to god my dear children your sons of god you have already won a victory over those people because the spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world so again to balance this am i saying be be apathetic by no means my saying spiritual warfare isn't real by no means am i saying demons aren't real by no means am i saying that christians can't be attacked in influence by no means in fact christians can be attacked in influence that's why you should close open doors but also avoid the other extreme which is paranoia legalism and it's basically superstitious legalism disguised as deep spirituality and it's not let me say that again it's superstitious legalism disguised as deep spirituality complexity is not depth having all these little factoids and ideas that's not depth walking in the simplicity of the spirit and faith that's true depth so avoid that too you're not going to catch a demon by going into the grocery store and touching a cereal box that came from a warehouse where man practice witchcraft it's not going to happen because the holy spirit rests in you now if you engage in witchcraft if you practice sin you're going to have areas of vulnerability and even though demons can't re-enter you or possess you again that doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of their attacks or be dismissive about how they can wreak havoc in our lives of course you practice sin you engage in occultic things you engage in new age practices there's going to be great havoc that comes to your life those practices are very very destructive even for the believer so we're not immune to the effects of disobedience but neither are we susceptible to just kind of existing in the world where there's darkness about and so we have to make sure we're balancing this and this message is by no means being preached to inspire paranoia in you so let's take a look at these open doors with that in mind again avoid apathy the enemy can attack you remember that you shouldn't engage in sin you shouldn't engage in compromise there will be consequences to that but also avoid superstitious paranoia so number one the first open door is your connections and remember how i'm defining open doors here often when people say open doors they they think of their their body as like a house and you open the door and the demon comes into you no no when i use the term open doors i'm talking about areas of vulnerability that make you more susceptible to demonic attack what is demonic attack demonic attack is against you possession is demons in you demonic attack is against you torment is against you demons don't have to live in you to torment you um temptation accusation deception confusion division these are all exterior attacks where the enemy uses suggestion deception words lies to cause you to think and behave in certain ways and you become susceptible to those attacks through things like number one connections first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 33 says don't be fooled by those who say such things for bad company corrupts good character so indeed the scripture does warn in the new testament that believers shouldn't be associated with unbelievers to the extent that they're being influenced by those unbelievers so let's balance this mark chapter two verse 17 we see that jesus hung around sinners now jesus didn't spend time with sinners to affirm their sin or to affirm the way they were living he spent time around sinners because they were in darkness and he was the light and he wanted to influence them for the better he wanted to save them so you and i must check the balance of our relationships the people that come around you who has greater influence over who and you have to make sure that you're watching for the patterns of the way you behave and think around certain people there are certain people that the more you go around the less spiritually minded you become in fact you might even be embarrassed to speak spiritually to have conversations about the lord in front of them and so you stifle the spiritual and you exalt the flesh whenever you're around them you engage in their ungodly conversations you engage in their ungodly philosophies their behavior begins to affect your behavior the way they think begins to affect the way you think and you have to watch for that influence that's the line you're looking for if you're going around unbelievers and they're being influenced in a positive way that's very different for example i had a couple of friends growing up who were very heavy into drinking and they would often find themselves in difficult circumstances now alcohol for some reasons is never tempted me it's not a temptation to me it's not a vice that i struggle with it's not something the enemy attacks me with so i can be around drinking and have no temptation whatsoever to even have so much as a drink so there would be times when they would find themselves in difficult situations and i would be the one two o'clock in the morning to go and drive to them pick them up from the house party get them in my car and make sure they got home safely you know in the car would be ministering to them praying for them the worship music's on the atmosphere of heaven was brought to them now it would be very different if i were someone who struggled in that area because then i shouldn't be around that and in fact it would be very likely that they would begin to affect me so what you're looking for here is influence and you can sense the discomfort of the holy spirit not emotional discomfort not your own discomfort but the holy spirit checks you and say watch it you're being influenced watch it you're being transformed watch it they're beginning to get you to think like them instead of them thinking like you well we can't quarantine the gospel we can't say well leave the sick over there while we hide the cure over here leave them in darkness well we as the light go over there and hide no you have to be around the unbeliever otherwise how would they ever hear the gospel you have to be salt and light in the earth you have to engage with the unbeliever but the question is are these connections becoming points of vulnerability because here's how it might work you engage with someone who's not spiritually minded and instead of you influencing them you begin to pick up on their philosophies you begin to think like they think you begin to second guess the scripture you begin to make compromises in your own heart and in your mind now that's an area of attack that's an area of vulnerability and the enemy will watch those relationships and he'll see okay with these people he's weak with these people she's vulnerable so whenever she's around these people I can now plan my attacks I can plan my lies I can plan temptation I can plan torment I can plan confusion why because you're now vulnerable to those attacks again we're not talking about possession we're talking about open doors areas of vulnerability intensified susceptibility to the lies of the enemy and so you have to ask yourself what are the patterns that begin to develop the more I'm around these certain individuals and you will get that check from the Holy Spirit deep within and you know that you know that you know that it's him and he's protective of you he's he has a holy jealousy for you he does not want you to be influenced by darkness and this is why you must watch number one that first open door your connections number two your eyes and ears Psalm 101 verse 3 says I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar I hate all who deal crookedly I will have nothing to do with them and then in Job chapter 31 verse 1 I love this I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman now this is in regards to more than just lust because you begin to desire what you see but also you begin to think according to what you perceive and so what you set before your mind can actually affect you for example if you're constantly looking at violent images there are some people and this isn't even talked about all that often there are some people who become obsessed with things like death and violence and they can't even figure out why they're addicted to looking at these violent images and they may not feel it immediately like they may feel balanced okay I can watch that I can handle it's no big deal but you don't realize how much that's affecting your brain your mind your emotions you don't realize how that's strengthening this in nature and in fact things like violent images can actually lead to torment and often people feel tormented this this I want you to hear this please hear this people will feel tormented they'll feel confused they feel this heaviness they feel this weight and there's just kind of this general I'll just call it torment there's this general torment hovering about them there's this general fear and they can't quite pinpoint it they don't know exactly where it's coming from and that's how this works people just don't realize how the things they see and hear are affecting them psychologically emotionally mentally it's strengthening the sin nature and this adds to things like trauma maybe you witness something as a child maybe you witness something as an adult and and these areas become points of vulnerability so your traumas can be points of vulnerability I want to be careful about how I say that because often people who have trauma they they're made to feel guilty for having gone through trauma or they're made to believe that the enemy somehow has a legal right to their life because of what they went through I could think of something I could think of nothing more religiously overbearing than that so think about someone who you know was assaulted or think about someone who saw violence in their home and they're already dealing with that now you want to tell them well because of that now the enemy has a he can he can have you now you're you're you're now more of a target for the enemy because of that now in some sense the enemy may use that trauma but talk like that causes people to identify with their trauma and to treat it like it's a part of who they are but here's the reality the way the enemy uses this is by bringing up that memory in times of vulnerability I'll read to you what I wrote here few things can affect the mind as powerfully as visuals visuals have tremendous staying power the visual experiences that we store in the mind can contribute to the power of issues like trauma lust and mental torment among other issues the images you allow before your eyes can be imprinted on your mind visualization is one of the most powerful forms of thought I don't mean that in the new age sense I just mean that when you visualize something that that vision has staying power the enemy hear this now please the enemy seeks to use these powerful thoughts against us he uses them to aid his effort to cloak our minds under the darkness of his deceptive lies the enemy takes disturbing sinful or distracting visuals and brings them to your memory when you're at a weak point and so visuals work in that way that they become tools in the enemy's tool bag that he can use on you so if for example you're given to lust and you're constantly storing memories that are lustful then just when you're doing well the enemy may take one of those from his tool bag and say oh remember this and now he has a visual to tempt you with or if you've dealt with trauma he may try to use that against you again just because you have trauma doesn't mean you're possessed you have a demon in you and I know that being told that often adds to the intensity of your struggle so you can rejoice in the truth knowing that when your spirit filled that's not your identity but it is something that the enemy can use against you if it's not recognized and so the enemy doesn't just use lustful images he uses disturbing images bad memories he uses things that are distracting even when you're praying just visions visions visions that are just distracting why because your flesh tends toward those things and that becomes an area of vulnerability and the ears are similar by the way for example now that we're talking about the ears music can be spiritual 1st Samuel 16 23 and whenever the tormenting spirit from God troubled Saul David would play the harp then Saul would feel better and the tormenting spirit would go away here we see a spiritual dynamic to music 2nd Kings 3 15 says something similar now bring me someone who can play the harp well the harp was being played the power of the Lord came upon Elisha so there we see the harp being used in conjunction with the prophetic gift because there's something dynamic about music that's spiritual and think about how words can affect you Proverbs 18 21 death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof now let me go off on a bit of a tangent here to help you understand this particular verse which has been abused over and over again often when you hear this verse being used death and life on the power of the tongue people use it in a very superstitious sense for example let's say you're getting a cold and you say oh I feel like I'm I'm I feel like I'm coming down with a sickness someone who's very superstitious will jump on that don't claim that don't speak that into existence and you're thinking well kind of already existing that's why I pointed it out or for example when I was praying in a healing prayer line over different individuals I was praying for a woman who came up and she goes David I need you to pray for my eye I said okay what's wrong with your eye she said nothing is wrong with my eye and I was like what I said okay but you want me to pray for your eyes she said yeah pray for my eye I said okay what do you want me to pray for my eye pray that God would heal it okay let's pray for your healing what's wrong with it nothing is wrong with it and I kid you not it went back and forth like this for I want to say 15 minutes or so and so finally I said lady listen I need to know what's going on with your eyes so finally she told me and she explained to me I didn't want to speak that into existence I said that's not how that works you see God is the one with creative power we have cultivating power we cannot call things into existence in the sense that we speak and something appears only God can do that and we only have that creative power when we repeat what God says in other words when we speak according to the scripture then there's real power because we're repeating what God has said now God has the power to bring things into existence thank God you and I don't think about it you're sitting in traffic everybody wants to speak their own lane into existence be chaos or you get into an argument with someone you say I wish you weren't alive anymore well suddenly they drop dead let's thank God that we don't have creative power because we would abuse that the financial system would crash because everyone will be speaking finances into their bank account and that would cause inflation worldwide the economy would crash and it would be no good so it would we don't have that kind of creative power we do have cultivating power in other words our words have the power to form what God has already created so we're shaping the world we're not starting the world and that's the power of your words and one of the ways we do this is by speaking blessing or curse and by that I don't mean like an actual hex on someone I mean you can speak positively to someone or you can speak negatively to someone and that affects them mentally and emotionally you can encourage or discourage you can lie and deceive or you can tell the truth you can speak words that are clear or you can speak words that are confusing you can speak words that unite or you can speak words that divide you can speak words that bring life to someone emotionally and spiritually and mentally or you can tear them down you can speak words that are compliments or you can speak words that are criticisms there are many different ways that we can speak and the way we speak affects the way we think and feel and therefore life and death are in the power of the tongue so that's what the scripture is talking about here but more specifically to the point when you're around people who are constantly speaking of worldly things their speech begins to program the way you think hear what I'm saying now the way they speak what they talk about what they focus on in conversation begins to program the way you think the way you program the mind is through words repetition of words and the more often you say something the more often you're speaking on something you repeat a thought again and again you start to program and form thought patterns so being around people who are speaking against the scripture and according to the world now your mind begins to form according to what they're saying and they start to program your mind because of the words they're speaking and so when it comes to the ears being a place of vulnerability it's not just music it's also conversation it's also worldly philosophy the things that we hear spoken affect us deeply life and death are in the power of the tongue not in this in the magic sense that you know we can speak to someone you know you you can't say like cancer and then someone gets can't that's not god did not give us that power thankfully now again when we pray according to his will for healing and when we exercise authority over demonic power when we pray for miracles if we're praying according to his will then there's creative power but we on our own do not have that but still those words affect us so that's why you have to be careful of what you hear so eyes and ears be careful of what you see be careful of what you hear because these things affect the mind now the next open door i'm about to share with you is probably the most often overlooked very few people i ever hear talking about the next open door i'm going to share that with you in just a moment but first i want to share with you about this book of mine holy spirit the bondage breaker experience permanent deliverance from mental emotional and demonic strongholds in this book i cover actually a lot of what i'm talking about right now the open doors but i also cover things like how to address spiritual bondage at its deceptive root you ever notice sometimes that spiritual bondage becomes kind of like this repeating cycle and no matter what you do you can't seem to get free or maybe you go free for like a week or two or a month or two but the bondage seems to return why is that i explore that using scripture and what's going on with that i'll show you how to partner with the holy spirit to experience freedom how to avoid the wrong approaches that just make the problem worse sort of like i was mentioning at the beginning of this message i talked about apathy versus superstition some believers are so worldly minded you couldn't tell them apart from a moral atheist they're just kind of good people and they never really talk about or acknowledge the spiritual realm and that's a form of apathy because they're leaving themselves wide open to demonic attack but then on the paranoid side there's some christians who just kind of keep a list that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic and it's true those things may be demonic but unless you're engaging in those things if you're walking in the spirit i should word it this way if you're walking in the spirit those things can't affect you of course you don't want to sin or practice anything that's demonic that's a given but neither should we walk in paranoia so i talk about how to avoid the wrong approaches that just make the problem worse they just intensify the torment on the mind and keep you bound by the way i show you how to win the battle for your mind and so forth we go over things like torment addiction sinful habits confusion experience permanent deliverance from mental emotional and demonic stronghold in this book i focus on the holy spirit's power not demonic power i show you how the holy spirit's power is greater than demonic power there is no spirit more powerful than the holy spirit you can get that book at bondage breaker dot com now on to states of being which is the third open door states of being this as i mentioned a moment ago is very rarely talked about so again you have connections the connections and relationships now don't be paranoid i'm not saying isolate and don't talk to anybody ever but watch for who's influencing who then you have eyes and ears the images and the sounds the conversations all of that that you're receiving can affect your life in that it can cause you to become more susceptible to deception how because what you see and what you hear affects the way you think the way you think affects the way you feel and behave the way you feel and behave can become habitual and that habitual lifestyle is what we refer to once it becomes a cycle as demonic bondage and so that's how that works and that's how the open doors make us more vulnerable again we're not talking about a demon reentering your being like as in possession that's again something that happens to unbelievers not believers but this doesn't mean that we can just say oh yeah okay i'm i'm free i can live however i want i can live in compromise no you live in compromise you live in sin you open these doors and you're opening yourself up to what demonic attack and you make yourself more vulnerable now states of being what do i mean well there are sins of commission first chrithian six nine through eleven these are the things that you do that you shouldn't do then there are sins of omission james four seventeen these are things that you should do but you're not doing and then there are states of being that make you more vulnerable to sins of commission and omission i'll give you an example an example of this would be anger effusions four twenty six and twenty seven be angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither watch this now neither give place to the devil very key notice here though that the scripture makes a distinction between sin and anger in other words anger in and of itself is not a sin like for example when jesus threw out the money changers in the temple what do we as christians do we like to christianize things right we have our christianese our churchy way of talking and people will say jesus wasn't acting in anger he was acting in righteous indignation and i'm thinking it's the same thing except that it came from a proper motive it came from love it came from holiness so it's possible to be angry well not sinning i mean my goodness if somebody harms one of your loved ones intentionally that anger is not a sin now what you do in that anger can become sin especially if you choose to hold on to bitterness and unforgiveness especially if you choose to to hate that person and choose to hold on to that sin forever right so that's a very different thing but the bible does make the distinction between anger and sin so it's possible to be angry and to not sin you're not sinning just because you're angry things make you angry that happens but be careful to not sin in your state of anger so there we see a state of being i'm in a state of anger but just because i'm in a state of anger doesn't mean that i have to sin and so we have to make sure we're watching our hearts for that here's what i wrote in holy spirit the bondage breaker this is not a reference to demon possession i'm talking about Ephesians 4 26 and 27 because you see that that portion there neither give place to the devil right often we say oh there it is there's there's possession in the life of the believer this is not a reference to demon possession or demonic attachment to your being the word here isn't describing a literal physical location it's speaking of influence or as we see in the greek opportunity when we become angry we are more likely to do something regrettable it's easier to say hurtful things become violent gossip or criticize when you're angry out of anger many accuse and tear down their fellow brothers and sisters in christ bringing up past sins and mistakes in this way they do the enemy's work for him this is how anger can give place to the devil so it's when you allow that influence of the enemy in your life again not a physical space it's not talking about that it's talking about an opportunity for the enemy to get you to act according to deception so here we see that anger can cause you to do things that you normally wouldn't have done think about it you're getting an argument with someone and you say these hurtful things well okay to you it was just a moment of anger but now they're stuck with those words those words can cut deep into their hearts they can carry them for months or even years sometimes and we did that in a in a flash you can tear down in a moment what took you years to build in a single moment of anger people have destroyed their lives think about this with single acts of rage where they go their whole lives building and building and building discipline self-control and then in a single moment of rage they tear everything down that is what it means to give place to the devil so other states of being that can be open doors to demonic influence anger fear here's an important one here are two important ones nobody ever thinks of exhaustion and hunger those are two states of being that can be open doors you realize that when you're tired and you're hungry your mind can go to some dark places you can do things and say things and feel certain ways that you never would feel if you weren't hungry and exhausted so be be careful that's why when you're living a life of exhaustion you are setting yourself up for susceptibility to demonic attack so you may think well i'm superman i can do it and you work and you build and you no you you can't do it all you've got it you've got to find release somewhere to where you're not piling all these responsibilities and busy schedules and just wearing yourself down you live like that you're living in a way that makes you vulnerable to temptation when you're tired and hungry you're less likely to resist temptation when you're tired and hungry you're not resting you're less likely to to to resist the pool of anger that can cause you to do certain things and then of course there's also confusion so anger fear exhaustion sorrow hunger confusion these are just examples of states of being that can make you more vulnerable to demonic influence Ephesians 3 16 says this i pray that from his glorious unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his spirit write that in the comment section two words inner strength what is that that inner man connected to what god is doing connected to what god gives connected to who god is he that is joined to the lord is one spirit with him that place of rest and peace within not within yourself within the spirit who lives in you and so when i'm angry or tired or hungry or confused or fearful i choose to not act on the exterior i choose to not act on the outer layers of who i am you can choose instead to act upon the inner strength who you are in him and so in times of these states of being you retreat to the secret place i call it retreating to the inner place to where now i pull away from the exterior and i go to that place of fellowship within i go to that place of fellowship in my heart retreating to the inner place and i can escape from the effects of the exterior which can be those states of being so again we have our connections our eyes and ears number three our states of being number four your mouth now i want to start with this because i know this will be a question that comes up i'm talking about the things that you eat and the things that you consume believe it or not this is an open door think about it for example a demons can attack with sickness that's a that's a that's a biblical reality they can send sickness into the body now if you're overeating and you're not healthy you are making yourself more vulnerable to those demonic attacks so let's look at matthew 1511 it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth so some christians might hide behind that verse and say well it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you and talk about alcohol you talk about overeating you talk about drug use it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you here jesus was specifically referring to the strict dietary laws upon which the religious leaders of the day insisted he didn't mean that no harm can come from what we consume or what we put into our bodies he was simply emphasizing the condition of the heart as more important than strict rituals with that in mind we must acknowledge the fact that the bible does indeed speak quite clearly on the matter of what our mouths consume for example drunkenness proverbs 23 19 to 21 my child listen and be wise keep your heart on the right course do not carouse with drunkards or feast with glutton's for they are on their way to poverty and too much sleep clothes them in rags 1 Corinthians 6 9 through 11 condemns a series of different sins and on this list we see drunkards drunkenness what we consume so alcohol gluttony substances drugs by way of principle why because that brings you under a state of you're under the influence of that substance so here we see that these are open doors to demonic attack think about it someone gets drunk oh my goodness we know what can happen there why because their judgments impaired because of what they consumed Galatians 5 22 and 23 says but the holy spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control there is no law against these things and so we shut that door by allowing the holy spirit to empower us unto self-control so your connections be careful who you allow to have influence in your life eyes and ears be careful of the information you're putting into your mind through what you see and hear states of being watch for how the attack of the enemy will come against you in your vulnerable states and finally number four at your mouth watch for what you consume because it can affect the way you think it can affect the way you feel it can affect your physical body and those effects can create vulnerabilities to demonic attack so father i pray that you would help that one receiving now to close every door to demonic attack holy spirit i pray you would help them to be vigilant and aware of the realm of the spirit reveal to them lord the ways that they are making themselves susceptible to attacks of the enemy and father help them to walk in the spirit to obey you to submit to you we close every door in the mighty name of jesus we pray hold on one second father i thank you that your healing virtue is flowing someone right now was just asking the lord for a healing lord i thank you that your healing virtue is 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Ac feeding everyone. Thanks very much for coming along tonight. My name is Fraréadhorn and the chair of what is officially called the speakers advisory committee on works of art in the House of Commons. a wedyn oeddwn ni'n gweithio y ddechrau. Mae'n gweithio gyd yn gwybod ar hyn oedd y terntri, sy'n gweithio arall, byddwn ni wedi'u gwahanol ar y ddechrau sydd wedi'i gweithio'n gweithio'r cerddurol o'r ddechrau ar gyfer y cerddurol o'r portrwyr o'r ddweud i gweithio'r ddweud. Mae'n gyhoedd y cerddurol a'n gweithio ar broses o'r ddweud. Nid yw'r ddweud y gallwn i i'r gweithio'r gweithio ar gweithio'r gweithio, there's none of you were elected and thankfully that's changed, but there are other things which haven't changed. The decision of the Church of England yesterday was a disappointing reminder of how far we've still got to go. Anyway, this talk is part of the ongoing Parliament in Votes for Women series of talks displays and events that have been initiated by the House of Commons ..a cymdeithasol yn siarad A'r unig y fanydd yn holl gael eu ddweud... ..y fynd i am wahanol i Eimlaen i Dawieson, Cymru. I hwn i nifer o'r parlymyn, ceisio gwneud o'r disbl gyngl e i ddeithas yng Nghoesfyn.. ..a holl yn rhan oedd yn cynnwys. Gwein i ni'n deithun hwn llawer o bod yna mor hanes... ..en i gyd yn thriving a oedd eu ddefnyddio'r ardal yn darparu Llynedig. Felly, yr grwybwyny replaced Ymloedd yn ei gwneud o'r fawr... yw'r ysgolion sydd wedi'i gweithio perffech ar y gawdd. Rwy'n hoffi'n llawer o'r ffordd, ond ei ffordd i'r ffordd yn ysgolion, ac mae'n ffordd yn gweithio yn y ff�lwyr ymlaenol ym Mhwyshwr, ac mae'n ddau'r unigodd yr wyf yn ein fforddau'r ffordd lleol a'r broses yn fawr ymlaenol sydd wedi'u gweithio'r ystafell, ond mae'n ei ddweud. Elisabeth Crawford is our speaker tonight. She's a renowned suffrage historian. Anyone who's any interest in women's suffrage will be familiar with her work. I was given this poem, and I promise you I'm not on commission, but I only saw this today and I've managed to dip into it and find all of the important suffrages from Aberdeen, so I'll take that knowledge back with me. The publications include that invaluable encyclopedic reference guide, and she's also published on the Garrett's, a family who paid a pivotal role in the development of women's rights in Britain. She is extremely generous with her research, as those of you who follow her information-packed blog, Women and her Sphere, will know. I'm delighted that she's agreed to give us this talk tonight on her current research subject, Kate Perry Fry, a worker of the suffrage movement and the daughter of an MP. After the talk from Elisabeth, there will be the opportunity for questions. Well, it's a great pleasure to be here, and I'm very pleased that so many of you have come out on a wet night. But I have to think back to a summer's day on Thursday, the 7th of July 1892, 14-year-old Kate Fry ended her diary entry for the day with, I went to bed at half past one o'clock after the most exciting and pleasing day I have ever gone through, and what had made the day so exciting? Well, as the first sentence of the entry explains, this was Papa's election day for Parliament. Kate Fry, and there she is, that was a photograph taken about 1913 when she was the suffrage organiser, but Kate Fry was a diary writer, and she made her first attempt in 1887 when she was nine and was soon composing entries every day, decade after decade, until October 1958, just two or three months or so before her death at the age of 81. And here's the span of her diary.  And she does end on quite a happy note saying, you know, the day got better and she was feeling better, so that was whether she had a stroke, I think probably, very quickly. But you can see the strong writing carrying to the end, and this is a volume of the diary. This one, and she put, she stuck things in. I mean, vast amount of wonderful suffrage ephemera, which I'll be showing you in which it'll be in the book, but she just wrote every day. And because she wasn't confined, she didn't use purpose-made diaries until the middle of the First World War, so she used these big tomes which she carried round the country with her. And that one covers about 18 months.  And I can't claim that Kate was an exceptional woman, although naturally she seemed so to herself, but she did write well in a readable straightforward style with amusing moments of self-awareness. And by luck, her diary and an archive of associative material have survived, and that's a whole other story. But what makes it particularly interesting is that for a time she was chronicling the political life of the day as an insider, an insider of sorts in her teenage years as the ingenious observer of her father, who was liberal MP for North Kensington, and then in her 20s and 30s as an active participant in the women's suffrage movement. And the book that I'm about to publish is called Campaigning for the Vote, and I've edited out of her diary, I've edited all the suffrage entries covering the years just 1911 to 1915. She was involved in the suffrage before, but that was when she was being paid in the London, she was working in London and in the provinces as an organiser for one of the lesser known suffrage societies. And as far as I know, no other diary survives. It gives us such a clear view of an organiser's daily life as she travelled round the Edwardian shares attempting to interest the populace and the cause of women's suffrage. Kate Frye had the benefit of immersion in politics from an early age. For on that day in July 1892, Kate's father Frederick Frye was standing in the general election as the progressive liberal candidate for North Kensington. And she preserved a copy of his election address, there it is, and she preserved that in a scrapbook. And besides the items that I've highlighted that were in his address, he also called for one man, one vote and no man more than one. And for three weeks before the election, Kate had been noting in her diary details of the canvassing that was dominating the Frye household, such as on the 17th of June, did not have any lessons, but folded circulars all the morning. I'm sure these details that the families of MPs are familiar with. And with her mother and sister, she attended many of Frederick Frye's election meetings and she could be a critical observer because at one she wrote, it was crammed and was a splendid meeting. Mr Robson was in the chair and Mr Routledge spoke splendidly. Daddy spoke very badly. Of another, in the evening, we all went to Papa's biggest meeting held at the labric hall. It was packed, 100 standing, Dr Clifford spoke, Dr Horne, Mr Routledge, Mr Roberts, besides Papa and Mr Robson, who took the chair, and a black man. And I've been wondering if that black man, as she says, may have been Dadabi Nouragy, who was Britain's first black MP who was elected at that same election as the MP for Central Finsbury. But she obviously thought it was worth noting his presence, even though she didn't know his name. During the election campaign, Kate was sometimes called upon to do rather more than stuff, envelopes, or decorate the platform for on July the 4th. In the evening, Mother Agnes, that was her sister and I, were sent to try and convert her man who did not like Home Rule for Ireland, though he said he liked Mr Frye in nearly everything else. He wouldn't be converted so he left him. On election day, Kate described how there were heaps of banners and Papa's bills about an equally many of Mr Thompson's sharps, and that was a Conservative candidate. He's making a dreadful struggle for the seat. Mother Agnes and I went to the Central Committee room and Papa went with us in a carriage round to all the polling stations. Never in all my life saw such a sight we were cheered and little children ran after the carriage shouting, vote for Frye. They had Papa's photograph and yellow bills stuck in their caps and all over them. For Orange or at Shades of Yellow, then as now was the liberal colour, and Kate mentions that she and Agnes had special dresses for election day of a sort of yellowish fawn trimmed with black lace and worry. And she wore an orange liberal rosette and here it is. It was preserved in the pages of the diary saying I wore on general election Thursday July the 7th and there it is still as she wore it into her dress. And it's survived. I mean that's 125, 120 years it's survived in the pages of her diary. And Kate then recants how in the evening, decked out in liberal colour, she and her sister were given a ringside view of the declaration. They were taken to Barker store in Kensington High Street where the housekeeper led them right up through the shop up to the showrooms in the front where they opened the windows and put sheets on a sort of parapet for us to sit on where we were almost opposite the town hall. The cheering, shouting and groans were wonderful and went on all the time with great vigour until at last people yelled and hurrahed and shouted in one steady roar calling Frye, Frye, Frye. We all nearly had a fit and we knew it was all right. And so began Frederick Frye's career as a liberal MP. He'd earned the liberal candidature for the relatively new seat of Kensington North by way of membership at first, the Metropolitan Board of Works. He was a vestriman for Kensington and then of his successor the London County Council. And on the LCC he'd been a member of the progressives and in the new parliament in which liberals and their Irish allies had a majority over the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists. He was one of the group of London radical liberal members that included Keir Hardy, John Burns and John Ben, the grandfather of Tony. At that time social reform for the working class was not quite yet identical with the claims of Labour with a small L, though it wouldn't be long before it would be so. But Frye was never to join the Labour Party. He was rather a small time and ultimately unsuccessful capitalist. For in 1871 with a brother-in-law he'd set up in business as a grocer. From small beginnings the firm was called Leverett and Frye. It expanded rapidly. One of the first firms to create a series of shops, a chain of stores. And one of the earliest was at 19 All Saints Road in North Kensington. And here it is as I photographed it. And I mean that it's still there, the shop is, but even the front I should think is the same as it was. It had opened in 1873 and it was in a flat above the shop that in 1878 Kate Frye was born. Her mother was the younger daughter of a Winchester grocer. And it was the fact that one of her mother's oldest sisters had married a partner in the firm of WNA Gilby that was to be a major factor in Kate's life. For Gilby's dominated the wine and spirit market. They owned vineyards in France and imported wine and distilled gin and whisky. And Leverett and Frye grocery shops owed much of their success to their position as agents for Gilby's. That's just Kate Roundabout. In fact it was taken in 1896, but it gives you an idea of what she was like in the years that I'll be speaking about just now. And so in 1892 Frederick Frye took his seat in the House of Commons and he showed his wife and daughters around the Palace of Westminster for the first time a month after his election. And then again in March 1893 when Kate describes how late in the evening after a nine o'clock dinner we went by train and that's from Notting Hill probably. And after looking around the house we went up into the ladies gallery where there was just room enough for us. It was a most interesting and extraordinary debate. First on the payment of members of parliament and then on something to do with army rations. With a conservative party obstructing everything all through the night and morning and using up the time. There were 13 divisions while we were there and we stayed until the end of the house and the house did not break up until ten minutes past five o'clock in the morning. At the end there were only four ladies in the gallery besides ourselves. We got a few biscuits each but the refreshment place was cleared out of everything. I was not a bit tired or sleepy and thoroughly enjoyed it all. The speeches were very hot and rowdy. Now payment of MPs had been one of the planks of the progressives when they were campaigning in 1892. And it was one likely to appeal to a man whose business was certainly it would seem that it was being adversely affected by his being an MP. For it wasn't long after his election that financial difficulties caused Leviton Fry to be formed into a private limited company with Gilbys as the major shareholder. And as a result of this Fry was eventually to lose control of his company. But it was to be another 20 years before MPs were paid. But whatever the reason for being invited to this particular debate it was clear that Kate Fry who was then 15 had very much enjoyed her night in the ladies gallery and was eager to repeat the experience. So later in the year, on September 1, she writes, Mother Agnes and I went to the House of Commons, got there at five o'clock. It was the closure of the third reading of the Home Rule Bill. It was all most exciting and the ladies gallery was crammed. Agnes and I had to go out once for an hour from half past 12 and we sat outside the door of the ladies gallery on a seat there. Then two ladies came out so he went in again. We had something to eat in the ladies room about half past eight. We waited till the end. It was after two o'clock when we got in. And here you can see the page of her scrapbook in which she pasted in her souvenirs of the day. And in the following, the page that follows in the scrapbook, she actually pasted in the voting record of each MP for that debate. And Frederick Fry had of course voted in favour of the Home Rule Bill's third reading. But at the next general election in 1895, despite fighting a strong campaign, and here you can see two of his flyers again preserved by Kate. I do like the one on the left. A lot of thought went into that. Anyway, Fry lost North Kensington to the Conservatives, who in fact got over all control of the House of Commons. However, the family continued to be deeply involved in local politics in North Kensington and Fry became an alderman. And Mrs Fry was president of the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association, regularly holding meetings in the family drawing room, which was now at 25 Arendall Gardens, which was a larger, smarter house with no attached shop into which they'd moved not long after his election. And on occasion, Kate went with her mother to some of these meetings. And she wrote of this one on Friday, the 20th of March, 1896. She attended a North Kensington Women's Liberal Association drawing room meeting to hear Mrs Henry Fawcett lecture on women's suffrage. Mother took the chair. Mrs Fawcett speaks well, but she did not seem to go down very well at the meeting. She is very much a Conservative except on this one subject, which with her way of looking at it isn't very liberal either. Only the lady householders to her votes. You see that won't quite do for us. If they have it at all, they ought to have them as the men do. Altogether, I didn't care for the evening. By 1896, I mean this time, the women's suffrage campaign had already been running for 30 years. Its aim was to achieve for women the same right to a parliamentary vote as that enjoyed by men. And throughout the second half of the 19th century, campaignists had lobbied steadily, have unsuccessfully, using all the constitutional methods at their disposal and forming a succession of societies which developed on an ad hoc basis, which were dynamic, interactive and reactive. And most of the members of these societies were committed in one way or another to the Liberal Party. The Frey family's politics, as Kate's diary shows, was at the radical end of the Liberal spectrum, and Mrs Fawcett's was at the Conservative. At the time of this 1896 meeting, the two liberal extremes, as exemplified in the views of Kate Frey and Mrs Fawcett, were represented by two different suffrage societies, which had formed after a split in 1888, which in part reflected the ffigure in the Liberal Party over Home Rule. In 1897, however, they agreed to harness their resources in order to work together more effectively, and they formed an umbrella organisation called the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which I'll refer to in such a mouthful by the acronym of NUSS. Over the next several years, Kate makes no more mention of women's suffrage, she became increasingly caught up in her devotion to the theatre. For in 1902, she decided to place herself on the other side of the footlights, and she trained at the Ben Grete Academy as another would-be actress, Sybil Thorndyke, was to do the following year, but Kate wasn't actually in the Thorndyke League, although she did get some employment with touring companies and travelled around England, Ireland and Scotland. And during her time on tour, she became engaged to a fellow actor, John Collins. It was to be a very long engagement acting didn't pay, and after three years or so, Kate more or less abandoned the stage and began to spend more time at home. And it was while living at home, I mean, still living in Arundel Gardens then, that in early 1906, she canvassed energetically the general election for North Kensington's successful liberal candidate, H.Y. Stanger. And during the campaign, she met and became friendly with two co-workers who were sisters, Alexandra and Gladys Wright, who rather unusually for Kate's circle were graduates. And on the 26th of April 1906, during a social evening given by her mother North Kensington and Women's Liberal Association, Kate noted that there was a little discussion of what took place in the house last night. The disgraceful disturbance kicked up by some women during the women's suffrage debate. Mrs Stanger had a letter from her husband on the matter, and the Mrs Wrights who came as our guest spoke. It really was awfully comical. No one showed any sense of humour. This is the first mentioned by Kate of what was to become constant during the next few years. The activities of the militant suffragettes, members of the Women's Social and Political Union formed in 1903 by Mrs Emilyne Panchurst. In this instance, members of the WSPU sitting in the ladies' gallery had made a vociferous protest when a resolution which was brought by Keir Hardy in favour of women's suffrage was being talked out. But by the end of 1906, although she was interested in the subject, but probably not convinced by WSPU's militant actions, Kate had joined the Central Society for Women's Suffrage under the umbrella of the NUWSS, and the society was a descendant of the one for which Mrs Fawcett had spoken to her in 1896. In fact, Kate's joining the society was all part of the general interest in suffrage that had been really inspired by the WSPU, but not everybody wanted to be militant. And her society, the Central Society, by 1907 was renamed the London Society for Women's Suffrage just to get that clear because I'll refer to that afterwards. And as the Women's Suffrage campaign became more public, Kate's interest grew, and in February 1907 she took part in the first public procession staged by the NUWSS through the muddy, wintry streets of London, and it became known as the mudmarch for obvious reasons. And she wrote, we were an imposing spectacle all with badges, each section under its own banner. I felt like a martyr of old and walked proudly along. It did seem an extraordinary walk, and it took some time as we went very slowly, on one long, unbroken procession. And these are flyers that are very scarce. I don't think I've ever seen them before. They just got thrown away in the mud, I should imagine, but she preserved them in her diary. Anyway, in the following months, Kate followed the progress of suffrage bills, and this is the one that her own MP, Stanger, brought into the house. And she also attended suffrage drawing room meetings, red palms at fundraising bazaars. That was her speciality. And on occasion delivered leaflets to houses and flats in North Kensington, and here I think of contemporary canvases because she did lament the number of stairs she had to climb up and down, all these mansion blocks of flats. And in the autumn, she stewarded at the annual meeting of the London Society for Women's Suffrage, and at the end of the year, at a particularly disorderly meeting, held at Paddington Bards, where on Mrs Force it was again the speaker, but here medical students from St Mary's Hospital released mice and firecrackers, and as Kate remarked, it was bedlam let loose. Although a member of a constitutional society, in March 1908 Kate was very happy to attend a meeting organised by the militant WSPU. Finally it was all just a little too theatrical, but very wonderful. Danny Kenny interesting me the most. She seems so inspired, quite a second Joan of Arc. I was very pleased not to be missing so wonderful in evening. Can you see that in the site? I'm not sure, but anyway it's again very scarce, I've never seen this leaflet before, but in June the NUSS staged a spectacular summer procession featuring magnificent banners which were designed by one of the new suffrage societies, the Artist Suffrage League, and Kate was very proud to carry on behalf of North Kensington, and you can still see the design for this banner, although the banner itself has disappeared, but the design is held in the women's library. After the long march from the embankment she described how I got in the Arbott Hall about 515 and they started the meeting just as I sank down. I must have owned a feeling completely done when I left the banner. I got cramp in both feet at once and felt a thousand, so I looked into the hall, found the seat of my box for the rights, and Alexander, like an angel, got me a cup of tea. She glared as another girl that looked most awfully charming in Cap and Gann, that the graduates were always remarked in processions. The following year Kate was naturally interested in the new suffrage society that had been formed, the actresses franchise league, which represented women in the theatrical profession. In March 1909, she was introduced to the actress, even more of whom she wrote, she didn't seem to like me much, but I'm used to treating all suffrage women as merely women, not little queens. In the same month she spent her morning standing outside Chanstry Lane Tube with Alexander Wright handing out suffrage leaflets. It was curious work and a bitter wind blew on us, but the men were really quite nice and we had no unpleasant experience. I suppose people are getting used to suffragettes. Later in the year, while living in the country house her family had for years, at least on the River Terms at Bourne End, Kate refused to help the local liberal candidate at the forthcoming general election. I had to explain that as a keen suffragist, I could not do anything to help the present member, Mr Herbert, he is so very anti. But she did come to North Kensington and Islington for signatures for a petition organised by the NUWSS. He was signed by 280,000 male voters and presented to the House of Commons in March 1910, but did nothing to change government policy. It was this understanding that the government would just continue in the state of complacent and transagent that now led the right sisters together with other former members of the London Society for Women's Suffrage to find a new suffrage society, which was rather prosaicly named the new constitutional society for women's suffrage. They explained that the perilousness of the private member in the House of Commons to pass any bill into law, which has not been accepted by the government of the day, renders it absolutely necessary to direct all available force to the conversion or coercion of the government only. For this reason, the NCS has adopted what is known as the anti-government policy. The NCS was in fact carrying out the election policy of the WSPU whose motto was Keep the Liberal Out, but assuring the WSPU's other weapon militancy. By resolving to work against the government, that's the Liberal candidates, it was going further than the current NUSS policy, which was only to do so when the candidate did not include support for women's suffrage in his election address. In April 1910, the NCS opened a London office at Park Mansions Arcade, which ran between Nightsbridge and Brompton Road underneath a newish block of flats. These premises are now incorporated in a large burberry store. For then as now, Nightsbridge was a distinctly shopping area and was not one favoured by any other suffrage societies, all of which were now positioned in business areas. Over the years, the NCS expanded its Nightsbridge offices, but never opened branch offices in towns outside London, as did the other suffrage societies. All its branches operated from the homes of its members. In February 1910, members of the House of Commons have formed what was termed the Consiliation Committee to prepare a private member's suffrage conciliation bill. After the bill passed its first reading in June, the WSPU and other societies mounted yet another spectacular procession through London to give maximum publicity to the campaign. This time, to her delight, Kate March with the actresses. Everyone was interested in us, and sympathisers to the cause called out well done actresses. But in November, the hopes of the suffrage campaigners were dashed when at a meeting in Caxton Hall, members of the WSPU and sympathisers heard the news that with the two houses locked in the battle for supremacy, Parliament must be dissolved. This meant the conciliation bill would be killed. In retaliation, the WSPU immediately ended its truce and prepared to resume militant tactics. In groups of ten, a deputation of 300 women set out from Caxton Hall for Parliament, and they encountered violence in Parliament Square such as they'd never previously come across. This day has gone down in suffrage history as Black Friday. Kate was there. This is the flyer that she preserved in her diary. You can see how roughly printed. Again, I've never seen one of those. She wrote a very long, very detailed description of the day. Again, as an observer rather than an active participant, but she describes how I first reached the wall of the moat at the angle so I could see the door plainly, and Mrs Pankhurst and the elderly lady, that was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, sister of Milizen Fforset. Then I saw policemen breaking up the little standards held by a group of women. All deputations passed along and ugly rushes, and ever the crowd grew. It was the most horrible experience. I've rarely been in anything more unpleasant. It was ghastly, and the laughter and hideous remarks of the men, so-called gentlemen, even if the correctly attired top-hatted kind was truly awful. Her lengthy description was not written with hindsight or with an eye to posterity. I can be taken as a true enough account of the proceedings. As a result of what she witnessed, Kate resigned from the NUSS and joined the WSPU, but she did remain a sympathiser rather than an activist, and in the campaign leading up to the second general election of that year, that's 2010, two elections in 1910, volunteered to work for the NCS with her friends, the Wright sisters. At the same time as all this was going on, the Frey family finances were now so parlous, that the Frey had lost control of the company, and they were deeply in debt. It was necessary to give up living in London and retreat to Bourne End. A very early entry in Kate's 1911 diary made the position clear. Monday 2 January. It was a real black Monday. We discussed and discussed our affairs for hours, and we seem in a more terrible way than I thought. A most haplest muddle, that's debts and only about £400 a year for us all to live on. It hardly seems possible. Frey had resigned as a director of Leverett and Frey and was making desperate attempts to raise money, and Kate trailed round theatrical agencies and theatres seeking stage work, but all to no avail. But then in early March was very much relieved to be offered paid employment by the new constitutional society for women's suffrage. From now until mid-1915, she was a paid organiser for the society. She didn't have any training, but as we've seen, she was accustomed to canvassing at elections, and her experience of theatrical touring had prepared her for the itinerant aspect of the new employment and the lodgings. The salary of £2 a week was the rate that was paid to organisers from other suffrage societies. So in March 1911, Kate was sent off to Norfolk. Now it's never explained why the society thought that the small will be a thriving market town of East Deerim should be one of the main centres of their propaganda efforts. But it was to there that Kate was first sent, and to there that she returned on numerous occasions for quite lengthy periods of time. And she also spent time in Essex villages in Lerstof, Folkstone, Hyde, Rhyw, Redding, and many small towns in between, living in Diggs, cheap by gel with other borders, Vickers, school teachers, even a budding international pianist, all of whose quaintness is, as she would term it, she confided to her diary. Now the role of the organiser was to stage meetings in drawing rooms and public halls, and these are flyers that she got printed for the first two very first meetings she organised. Meetings on village greens, places of seaside piers, she had to find suitable chairman for the meetings which was always a problem, had to welcome and find accommodation for the speakers, and had to put up with her foibles, and by her account they certainly did have some. Despite Kate's best attempts at canvassing, some meetings were disastrously ill attended and attracting the ire of the visiting speaker, and some meetings were sublimely surreal. For instance, in June 1912 she welcomed to East Deerim the Reverend Hugh Chapman, chaplain of the Royal Chapel of the Savoy, who was a recent convert to suffrage. He'd sweet-talked her on a previous occasion, and now when she met at the station she wrote, he'd class me by the hand and arm, telling me he'd come for the pleasure of seeing me, the journey had been nothing but the reward of seeing me at the end. And then she left Chapman it is a tell and she went back to the hall when the meeting was being held.  I hobbed up and down stairs till 8.30. A clergyman and party had driven up at eight o'clock. I missed the Davidson from Stuckey, a friend had missed the Chapmans, and they'd gone off to fetch him. I lived on thorns until his arrival. They brought him in the motor. I found some seats for his friends in the front row. A most frivolous clergyman with a frivolous wife and a beyond all hooping frivolous young lady dressed in for the stage, the whole party seemed quite mad. I heard Mr Chapman telling the audience how he admired Ms Fry and how he had come to speak for me, a woman of heart and brain and altogether the right sort. He spoke of his ideal mother and the ideal woman as if he had last found her so no wonder people looked at me. He went on to speak magnificently as one inspired. It was a tremendous success for despite Kate's long term engagement to John Collins she always had a soft spot for a man such as Hugh Chapman who had a way with words and these were the perils of an organiser's life. But as a side note we can see how perspicacious Kate's judgement of character was for 20 years later that Mr Davidson, the most frivolous clergyman from Stuckey was defrocked having been found guilty on charges of immorality and penniless he took to the public entertainment circuit as Daniel in the Lion's Den the end coming at Skagnes when the lion turned. But most meetings were not so electric and Kate was pleased from the daily grind of the organiser's life as punctuated by the short sharp thrill of the by-election such as one that was held at Reading in November 1930 which was a particularly rowdy example and the rowdiness was perpetrated in public by the audience and in private by her visiting speakers on one occasion Kate wrote on her diary that one of these speakers Mrs Merrill of all Mayor refused to chair a meeting she was sick of the NCS she shouted out that she and Miss McGowan another member of the NCS organising staff shared tears of rage were violently rude to one another and walked away to capitol when Kate did get a semblance of a meeting underway she describes how the free cinematograph displayed by the Daily Mail started its funny series of pictures the crowd was dense but all turned to the pictures Miss McGowan and Miss Merrill of all Mayor both went off to London on the 944 trains such a relief to get them both out of Reading and a few days later on Guy Fawkes night she describes another outdoor meeting oh it was so rowdy the hooligans with squibs and crackers and tin trumpets and rattles oh it was a noise I did have a task for the boys it managed them fairly well I had a horrid wad if something soft and squashy striped me in the mouth but I just took my handkerchief and wiped it off and I could see the crowd was with me the boys however never got a squib under my skirts I walked away in time well it was exciting but for the most part life was not so stimulating long days were spent in the sum pot thankless task of knocking on doors and trying to interest householders in or as Kate wrote one day in February 1914 in Reading Canvas Cavisham wrote in the morning and balled at people in their doorways as the trams clanged past although not involved in militancy Kate felt its effect people turned against suffrage as the WSPU campaign increased inferosity for instance in December 1912 while trying to organise meetings in Dover she mentions I went out to see Miss Robinson whose uncle was going to give a suffrage party now went owing to the letter box demonstration this refers to the fact that a few days earlier WSPU members had destroyed thousands of pieces of mail by pouring acid tar etc into post boxes in London and other cities around the country but though she took no part in militancy Kate was swept along by its more theatrical aspects and on Monday 9th of June 1913 while at Deerham she noted the death of Emily Wilding Davison the woman who threw herself in front of the king's horse at the Derby and on the next Saturday she hurried up to London having bought a black hat and arranged for a black coat and skirt to be sent to lodgings and from there with her fiancys she set out to follow Emily Wilding Davison's funeral procession we walked right down Buckingham Palace Road and joined in the procession at the end it was really most wonderful the organised part groups of women in black with white lilies in white and in purple and lots of clergymen and special sort of poor bear as each side of the coffin she comments on the crowd oh what a quantity of people filled the windows and pavements in Bloonsbury near Kings Cross the procession lost all semblance of a procession one crowded process everyone was moving we found ourselves in Kings Cross station we went on the platform and there was the train the carriage for the coffin and finding a seat sank down and did not move until the train left lots of the processionists were in the train which was taking the body to Northumberland for internment and another huge procession tomorrow I was so tired I felt completely done we found our way to the refreshment room and there were several of the poor bearers having tea now Kate's diary never fails to deliver such inconsequential details among the theatrical set pieces and it's these that I feel strengthen the diary's veracity and Kate carried on working for the NCS from now mainly based in London laterally as a society secretary the need for paid employment to become more urgent than ever as the fries were finally forced to give up their born and home and sell off most of their possessions and move into rented rooms and in early 1940 after this Frederick Fry died the outbreak of war seems from the evidence of her diary to have taken Kate unawares as it presumably did most of the population still caught up in the suffrage struggle and she was canvassing all around London at the time it's only around the 25th of July that she begins to mention what she terms European complications and barely three weeks later the NCS like other suffrage societies have put its campaigning on hold and turned its attention to the war effort Kate's role was as an organiser of a work room set up in the night's bridge office to give employment to dress makers put out of work as the demand for women's clothing went into a dramatic or be a temporary decline the thinking was that of course if they didn't have employment these poor women they might end up on the streets and they were doing their bit at this time she was living in one rented room in Pimlico and was well placed to describe war time London for instance went down beside the LCC dock station and saw the Belgian refugee camp in Hudson's depository furniture depository that is poor souls they do look miserable boy scouts on guard and ladies and officials in and out lots of company of soldiers about everywhere bands playing bayonets gleaming finally the prospect of life in a rented room combined with the fact that John now an officer was for once reasonably well paid and he looked rather handsome in khaki decided Kate that after and it was Kate who decided that after an 11 year engagement they should now marry and the wedding took place in January 1915 on her 37th birthday John then went back to his army training in Kate Keridon working in the NCS office and in July 1915 came her final active participation in the suffrage movement on a wet Saturday in July she took part in the right to work march organised by Mrs Panchurst at Lloyd George's behest to encourage women to enter munition factories but soon afterwards Kate succumbed to an unexplained illness and resigned from the NCS however she did maintain an interest in suffrage and on the 7th of February 1918 wrote on her diary a day of excitement it felt like someone's birthday a personal affair but in truth it was the birthday of a great new era saw the daily telegraph for the announcement of the passing into law of the franchise bill and votes for women and in fact the NCS had played a very active part in the negotiations that resulted in women over 30 being included in the franchise but then it's work darn it disbanded and Kate was present at it's final meeting but much to her regret she had no immediate opportunity to use this hard one vote for when the general election was called she was living in a house close to born and owned by a gilby aunt and here the local MP served him back by the Lord Lord George Bonalaw coupon he wasn't opposed so there was no contest however she was delighted by the writing of Askwith and as she says his wretched set of followers when she did come to cast her first vote it was at a general election in 1924 it was back in north Kensington where she and John were renting a flat and she wrote polling day election seemed somehow in my blood I don't feel at all comfortable where they are going on at 130 after the free library and labric grove to vote for Mr Percy Gates much relish in voting but little in recording a vote for Mr Gates it is a straight fight this year conservative in labour and Gates was the conservative candidates and two years later Kate and John watched and John took snapshots off and these are very rare I've never seen other photographs of these one last suffrage match the equal rights procession which was part of the campaign to persuade the government to give votes for women at 21 and for peerresses in their own right to be given a seat voice and vote in the House of Lords and Kate wrote and she was quite delightful I mean she's so even just shortly before her death Mrs Pankhurst is so idiosyncratic I mean you pick her out there she is standing and two years later Kate placed a newspaper cutting about Mrs Pankhurst's death in the front of that year's diary and on Monday June the 18th 1928 describes going to St John's Church Smith Square had no ticket but being very early before 10 I was let up in the gallery of the church and sat over the chancell in front of Mrs Pankhurst coffin the flowers are marvellous, most beautiful a wonderful service but very sad sad in itself and to see and feel as all so old and grey and ill a bust of Brompton cemetery an enormous crowd there followed the coffin and saw the end then got away and Kate made no mention two weeks later of the passing on the 2nd of July 1928 of the representation of the people equal franchise act that finally gave votes to women on the same terms as men a chapter in her life had closed thanks very much Elizabeth that was excellent we'll look forward to the publication have you got a date for that? yes it's 15th of January too late for Christmas but good enough for birthdays we've got a few minutes for questions and Emily sorry not Emily, I'm thinking of Pankhurst Melanie as the microphone hi there can you tell me how you came across these diaries and how you found them? yes it is an interesting story and it's all thanks to the women's library in fact what happened was it's 2008, I can't remember 2009 I got an email one Friday afternoon from Anna Kisby who was leaving the women's library to have a baby and she just said you might be interested in these diaries which are in a cellar running with wet in north London that people had got in touch people who owned the diaries had got in touch with the library a few years before and Anna had been deputed to investigate and she looked at a major report and it being considered now this volume I bought it along because it's in good condition but their boxes and boxes I mean as I say they cover her own life and they've been kept in they were running wet I mean literally running wet they've been I mean there is a history I've managed to trace more or less but the people who had the diaries had no connection with Kate Fry I think somebody had been a house clearance person and cleared them out and I didn't know what to do with them and they just sat them and in fact it was the son of this person so it was a great way removed so the library turned them down regretfully I think just simply because of conservation they couldn't it would just be too expensive and some of them I mean there were some photographs couldn't keep they were falling apart and some of the diaries the later ones from the 40s and 50s are quite badly damaged but anyway it was wearing my book dealer because that's another thing I do side that I bought them but then one side got them home and set them all out and dried them all round not terribly expertly I'm sure a conservationist would probably have her kittens I then started reading them and got hooked and just realised how valuable all this information was I mean I don't know as I say of any other diary that covers all this material in such such detail I mean usually suffrage diaries deal with prison and all the high points but this is the day today life and you see what it's like organising and fixed thanks any other questions mawn don't be shy no that I don't think it was particularly from lack of choice I mean from choice but I don't know they had no money I mean anyway lived her husband after he got an emce during the war she was very pleased of that and then went back to being an assistant stage manager and very little money and lived very frugally yes oh thank you what about her sister Agnes did she become she went on the mud march but most of the time she was too seedy always feeling very seedy at one point in the twenties when they lived in they had a flat in north Kensington as I said they lived in otherwise it was at a place above born and Burgess hill which is tiny for village the back of beyond but it was gilby country so they had a sort of grace and favour house there and Agnes and her mother lived there as well but they had a flat in north Kensington and their doctor for a while was Dr Ethel Bentham LCC MP as well and Labour and it was quite interesting because occasionally gives a betum her reports obviously pull yourself together a lot of the time but Agnes she was very worried because Dr Bentham had said that she couldn't hold out any hope for Agnes unless she had some occupation I mean once once it became obvious she wasn't going to get married and the family money had all gone she just gave up brilliant she died in the 30s she just sort of drifted into death as far as I tell but I don't think in particular you know yes but it's an interesting story in itself brilliant beginning to sound as though there's a film in there isn't it anyone else want to ok if there aren't any other questions can I once again thank Elizabeth for her contribution it's been a fascinating evening I look forward to the book being published and in the meantime those of you who are interested when you you can walk the central lobby to see the permanent women and boat display most of you who are in the house will be familiar with that and I'm told as well as walking the footsteps of the women who fought for the boat as shown on the map in the leaflet there is that display and we will be organising the arts committee will be organising a display later in next year to commemorate the death of Emily Wilding-Davidson and her scarf that she wore is actually part of the when she was killed is actually part of the exhibition that you can see there so thank you everyone very much for coming along I'm told it by magic that