This is the first in a series on “Privilege, Power, Position & Secrets To Unlocking Divine Intervention.” By Renaldo McKenzie, the title of a book project he’s working in. He begins this episode by playing a song “God is Good,” by Jonathan McReynolds. Then he begins by sharing a real life personal testimony. He then transitions into the topic by questioning his own interpretation of that experience but then highlight that any experience should not be objectified and universalized as it’s a perspective but a powerful one worth hearing and exploring as we live our own lives and contend with the reality of the Divine. This story is powerful and provides a Segway into the understanding of privilege power and position as this experience can be used to privilege an experience or promote a position appealing to the authority of the divinitive experience. But this has been the trend as we begin to study the development of privilege and power and position within historical literature. And recently David French was on MSNBC Good Morning Joe sharing an article he wrote in the Atlantic, “Free Speech for me But not for Thee,” where he underscore how the GOP have evolved or devolved into a party of rules and laws and not individualism and freedoms. But with respect, Renaldo corrects Mr. French arguing in this series episode that it’s not new, this Pharisaicalism, hypocrisy and duplicity where the goal posts keeps changing. Renaldo argue that it is a strategy and norm of power to change and adjust the rules so as to reassert a position. He shares a comment from his book Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality Poverty And Resistance where he talks about how NAFTA was re-authorized so as to maintain a particular position of dominance and gain. In 2006, I was serving as the Youth Minister for the Northern Parishes of the United Church in Jamaica and Cayman Islands. Something happened that led to an interpretive conclusion about the sacred and profane: The Divine or God whatever he, she or it is called intervene/s in so far as we believe in the Divine’s intervention. But isn’t that a cliché and doesn’t that belief leads to a conclusion that is already biased by the assertion or assumption of that belief? For in the Illiad the intervention that is expressed is one that is similar – if it works out in the way that you want it to work out then that was the Divine intervening; if not the Gods didn’t want a particular outcome. Nevertheless, the story I am about to share below is powerful which leads to a personal conclusion that is found elsewhere, and if not relatable by others then the revelation is special. But let us continue with our testimony. I was at the Manse on a Saturday night with 4 younger men from the “hood” whom I was mentoring at the time. I explained to them that I’d like to take them to a youth mission 2 – 3 hours in another parish as I was to be the main speaker. I invited them to pray with me as I didn’t have any money to put gas in the car to get to the destination but was hoping for a miracle or some “divine intervention.” We gathered in my room in a circle and prayed asking God to help us to get to our destination by intervening in a specific way. We prayed that God would move upon the gas station owner to be present at the pump when we get there and allow us to get a full tank on him. I had urged the divine while praying to intervene in that specific way that the young men could bear witness of the Divine and since I am about promoting the business of God and not self that he would intervene as this was not for self but for his “glory.” The following, Sunday morning we all woke up got dressed had breakfast and loaded up the van and started on our way with the gas tank on E…But then the gas station owner showed up out of nowhere…you re good to go, you don’t have to pay…They were convinced that God had intervened. However, the interpretation of such a revelation may be the result of historical knowledge about the sacred