Awesome move of God in Toowoomba, QLD / Live webcast with Pr Daniel ministering in Hallam this Sunday 2nd March

Dear family & friends in Christ,

1) We thank and praise God for a wonderful weekend in Toowoomba, QLD where Pr Daniel and a team from Brisbane ministered last Friday, Saturday & Sunday at Shiloh Centre.

All meetings were well attended as people travelled from many locations from within and around Toowoomba.  Some drove 3 & 1/2 hours and camped out for the weekend.  We thank God for people with such passion for Jesus.

We thank God for the many people who were mightily blessed through Pr Daniel’s ministry under the Anointing of the Holy Spirit. Many were weeping at the altar and came forward to stand in the gap and pray for Australia. The Senior Minister of the church and ministry stated, “We are fully supportive of the vision to take Australia for Jesus. We will stand with you Pr Daniel. You are God’s gift to Australia.”

Apostolic Prophetic Conference in Toowoomba, QLDPr Daniel stated, “I was so blessed by the amazing love and commitment these people demonstrated to extend the Kingdom of God.  I was so blessed to hear that five people from this church stood as candidates with Rise Up Australia Party at the last federal election and that the Pastor and all the congregation fully supported them. I take my hat off for people with such a heart for Australia.”

2) Pr Daniel will be ministering God’s prophetic Word and praying for people this Sunday 2nd March at the 9.30am & 6:30pm worship services at our new CTFM premises at 30 Star Crescent in Hallam, Melbourne.

Please note that this service will be live webcast at www.reformationharvestfire.com beginning at 10:30am (AEDT).

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Street preacher arrested in Scotland for condemning homosexuality

Tony MianoDUNDEE, Scotland, January 29, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tony Miano, an American evangelical street preacher and former policeman, must be getting used to being arrested for his beliefs in Britain. Miano was arrested January 8th, in Dundee, Scotland, and remanded in custody to appear before Dundee Sheriff Court the next day. Charged with a public order offence and held for nearly 30 hours, Miano was allowed to return to the US on the condition that he returns to the court in April.

A spokesman for the legal advocacy group Christian Concern told LifeSiteNews.com that the situation of street preachers being arrested is getting out of hand, with police making what are, essentially, arbitrary arrests.

Garry Selfridge, spokesman for Christian Concern said that the Dundee court “is being a little pathetic and backward” in allowing the proceedings to move forward.

“There is an overall blanket of political correctness that cloaks the whole establishment in the UK, so the police are not well advised or well trained to deal with such situations,” he said.

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Saving Islam from Its Victims

shariaJanuary 22, 2014 – Frontpage Mag by Bruce Bawer

Lila Abu-Lughod received her Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Williams, Princeton, and NYU, and now boasts the title of Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches anthropology and Women’s Studies and is considered an expert on the Arab world. Born and raised in the United States, she’s the daughter of Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, whose buddy Edward Said once described him as “Palestine’s foremost academic and intellectual.”She’s also the author of a book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, which was published last year by Harvard University Press, and which I first became aware of via an excerpt in the Daily Beast and a piece by Abu-Lughod, also entitled “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”, that appeared in Time Magazine.

The thrust of both these articles is that we in the West who think Muslim women are oppressed have been misinformed. Yes, Abu-Lughod acknowledges, Islamic culture has its demerits – but hey, so does every culture. Also, she argues, women in the Islamic world are a varied crew, ranging from prime ministers to peasants, so there are plenty who don’t fit the West’s stereotypes.

What to say about these rhetorical ploys except that they could be used to challenge any criticism of just about anything or anyone? (You could defend Nazi Germany against charges of anti-Semitism in precisely the same way that Abu-Lughod defends Islam against charges of oppressing women: “Admittedly, Hitler was horrible, but which national leader has ever been beyond criticism? True, some Jews suffered under Hitler, but anti-Semitism has been a very serious problem in many societies.”)

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Charisma News Witchcraft Influences Plans, Policies of Indonesia President

Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono1/22/2014 Vishal Arora/RNS – Charisma News

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may be the first Indonesian president to acknowledge publicly he believes in witchcraft. In a recently published memoir, he describes a “horror movie”-style encounter with black magic at his residence.

“Suddenly, my wife screamed,” writes Yudhoyono in the 900-page book, Selalu Ada Pilihan (There Is Always a Choice). “There was this thick dark cloud hovering beneath the ceiling, trying to enter my bedroom. I then asked everybody to pray to seek Allah’s help. I closed the door to my room but left others wide open. The revolving clouds eventually headed out of my house.”

Witchcraft is prohibited in Islam. However, the practice is widespread in Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population. A 2012 survey by the Pew Forum showed that 69 percent of Indonesian Muslims believe witchcraft is real.

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Does Fatherlessness Produce Faithless Atheists?

A Catholic psychologist says absentee fathers can damage ability to form a relationship with a heavenly father. (Sara K Flickr Creative Commons) 1/14/2014 Kimberly Winston/RNS

A once-popular book that links atheism with shoddy fathering is getting a second life with a new publisher, thanks, in part, to the rise of nonbelief in the United States.

Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism by Catholic psychologist Paul C.Vitz posits that “intense atheists” throughout history—Nietzsche, Voltaire and Madalyn Murray O’Hair—had absent or rotten fathers. This, he argues, damaged their ability to form a relationship with a heavenly father.

Vitz also holds that many notable believers—Renaissance man Blaise Pascal, anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, among others—had great relationships with their dads, and were therefore more able to build relationships with God.

“We need to understand atheism has a lot to do with our emotional attitudes towards life, other people and a lot of other things,” Vitz said from his office at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, a Catholic graduate school in Arlington, Va. “I think that is an important thing for atheists and believers alike to take into consideration.”

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Study: Obama Helped Sway Americans in Favor of Gay Marriage; Used LGBT Terms More Than Any Other President

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses his year-end news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington, December 20, 2013.By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter – January 25, 2014

President Barack Obama has helped sway Americans in support of same-sex marriage, according to a newly released study by the Human Rights Campaign, which notes that he used the word “gay” 272 times in public speeches, more than any of his predecessors.

“Words matter an enormous amount, and when President Obama uses his platform to declare that LGBT people are just as American as anyone else, it has a huge and historic effect. President Obama has helped the American people get to know LGBT people on a personal level, and evidence suggests that when people know us, they don’t want to discriminate against us,” said HRC President Chad Griffin.

“President Obama has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of LGBT people, and the power of his rhetoric has been an essential part of that legacy.”

The report noted that American support for gay marriage has risen from 40 percent in 2008, when Obama took office, to 53 percent in 2013, pointing to Gallup poll statistics. It added that Obama used words like “lesbian,” “gay,” “bisexual” and “transgender” in his public statements more than former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did.

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Confirmed: The United States Is the Chief Facilitator of Christian Persecution

Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.The Christian Post – By Raymond Ibrahim, CP Op-Ed Contributor – January 21, 2014|

Prominent indicators confirm that the U.S. is the chief facilitator of the persecution of Christians around the world today.

According to the recently released 2014 World Watch List, which ranks the 50 nations where Christians are most persecuted, Syria is the third worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq is fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four countries receive the strongest designation, “extreme persecution” (other designations are “severe,” “moderate,” and “sparse” persecution).

Aside from being so closely and harshly ranked, these four nations have something else in common: heavy U.S. involvement. Three-Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya-were “liberated” thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring “freedom fighters” against the regime, many of whom would be better labeled “terrorists.”

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Great weekend in Gold Coast & Melbourne / Pr Daniel ministering in Toowoomba this Fri 21st – Sun 23rd Feb

Praying for people in the Gold CoastDear family & friends in Christ,Praying for people on the Gold Coast

We thank and praise God for a wonderful weekend in the Gold Coast on the 8th & 9th Feb as Pastor Daniel ministered at Reach Out For Christ Church and New Life Worship Centre.

The presence of God was so wonderful at every meeting as many responded to the altar call and were blessed.

Many also attended the Rise Up Australia Party meeting and were greatly encouraged to hear all the good news of RUAP influence in making changes to government policy, particularly on Multiculturalism.

Last weekend in MSpeaking at RUAP meeting on the Gold Coastelbourne Pastor Asoka Perera from Sri Lanka ministered the powerful Word of God at Catch The Fire in Hallam.RUAP meeting on the Gold Coast

He spoke on the importance of the Kingdom of God, challenging and encouraging all Christians to rise up, to take a stand for Jesus and to possess the land, this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit!

2) Please pray for Pr Daniel who will be ministering at an Apostolic & Prophetic Conference in Toowoomba, QLD from Fri 21st – Sun 23rd February.

For those of you in the Toowoomba area, attached is the brochure for your distribution among your family, friends, etc.

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Spanish Cardinal-elect: ‘not an insult’ to call homosexuality a psychological disorder

Cardinal-elect Fernando Sebastián Aguilar with Pope Francisby Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, January 21, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) 

The secular media is abuzz with comments from Archbishop Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, recently named as a cardinal-elect by Pope Francis, that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be treated.

Sebastián told the Spanish newspaper Diario Sur on Monday that: “Homosexuality is a defective manner of expressing sexuality, because [sex] has a structure and a purpose, which is procreation.”

“A homosexual who can’t achieve procreation is failing,” he said. “Our bodies have many defects. I have high blood pressure, a defect I have to try and correct in whatever way I can.”

“To say that homosexuality is a defect is not an insult,” he added. “It helps because in many cases of homosexuality it is possible to recover and become normal with the right treatment.”

Unsurprisingly, the comments have aroused the ire of both the homosexualist lobby and their supporters in politics and the mainstream secular media. The Spanish homosexualist lobby group Colegas accused Sebastián of “homophobia” saying that homosexuality is not a “curable illness”.

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This Viral Video Will Blow You Away: Former Atheist Woman Proclaims “Jesus is Lord” in German Church during Muslim Call to Prayer

Brave German womanTeresa Neumann (Feb 10, 2014) – Dale Hurd – CBN News

(Speyer, Germany)—At a musical interfaith event held in the magnificent Memorial Church of the Reformation on November 10 of last year, a bold German woman was videotaped standing up and shouting a proclamation of the supremacy of Jesus.

That video has now gone viral. (Watch it Here)

Heidi Mund—a former atheist born in communist East Germany, but now an evangelist—interrupted the event, which was meant to bring Christianity and Islam together, just as a Muslim imam began a call of prayer during the concert.

“Jesus Christ alone is Lord of Germany,” she shouted, as she felt something rising up inside her. “I break this curse!”

According to a CBN report, when Mund heard the event was going on she grabbed her German flag emblazoned with the words, “Jesus is Lord” and headed out her door, not sure what she’d do when she got there.

“Until the imam started with his shouting,” she said, “I did not really know what to do. I was just prepared for what God wants me to do.”

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How Can We Know Syrian Conversions to Christ are Real?

(Photo Syrian refugee via Christian Aid Mission)Amie Cotton (Feb 7, 2014)

“When they become followers of Jesus you can see a huge difference in their lives. The way they share their faith sometimes would help us determine how they are thinking. After all, God looks inside the heart and knows all the details. We also can determine [their heart] because last year we had more than 1,200 baptisms. Do you think a Muslim would get baptized just to get a food package?” -Christian Aid Mission worker in Lebanon

(Charlottesville, VA)—Are the conversions real?

That was the question posed by Cynthia Finley, president of Christian Aid Mission, after staff received another round of encouraging, if not glowing, reports from Middle East ministries that stated “thousands” of Syrians have committed their hearts to Jesus Christ.

Christian Aid Mission is a U.S. non-profit organization that assists hundreds of ministries overseas that have tens of thousands of indigenous missionaries in the field. These ministries are currently engaging more than 1,000 unreached people groups in over 100 countries around the world. Christian Aid Mission is a 60-year-old organization and one of the first to support native missionary ministries overseas.

Challenged to dig deeper, Christian Aid Mission staff contacted ministries they assist in the region, ministries that have invested wholeheartedly in outreach to war-weary Syrians through personal interaction.

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Excellent radio interview with Pr Daniel / Live webcast this Sunday 16th Feb on Christians & Politics with Guest Speaker Pr Asoka Perera

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1)  You may click the following links to listen to an excellent radio interview (92.9 Voice FM in Toowoomba, QLD) with Pr Daniel. https://reformationharvestfire.com/events/interview-with-92-9-voice-fm-part-1/…

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This Pastor Made a Box for Unwanted Babies, and You’ll Praise God for What Happened

This Pastor Made a Box for Unwanted BabiesBy Eric Corpus – January 8, 2014

Every year, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets of Seoul, South Korea. To do something about the crisis, Pastor Lee Jong-rak at the Jusarang Orphanage created the Baby Box.

The Baby Box is a drop box on the side of the orphanage where someone can safely leave an unwanted infant. Lined with blankets, the box is heated to keep the baby warm. When an infant is placed in the box, an alarm alerts a staff member to bring the baby inside.

The culture in South Korea places heavy value on physical perfection, so many of the infants left in the Baby Box were born with disabilities, including deafness, blindness, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome.

Since 1998, the orphanage has taken in dozens of children, and raised and loved them. That’s dozens of miraculous stories of faith and love, dozens of tragedies averted.

“One of the mothers told me that she had poison to kill both herself and her baby,” Lee said. “So I told her, ‘Don’t do that. Come here with your baby.'”

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SCOTUS puts the chill on activist judge’s decision to overturn Utah’s marriage amendment

Unanimously, the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that one person shouldn't have the power to create same-sex marriage in a state that democratically outlawed it.by Tony Perkins  – Jan 08, 2014 18:08 EST

While the country shivered through frigid temperatures Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court put something else on ice: the same-sex “marriages” of Utah couples. After two weeks of chaos, America’s most powerful court put the brakes on one rogue judge’s decision to single-handedly overturn the state’s marriage amendment.

The December 20th ruling took several people by surprise — including Governor Gary Herbert (R), who called out District Court Judge Robert Shelby as an “activist” who jeopardized the state’s right “to define marriage through ordinary democratic channels.” For Utah, it was the second major marriage headline in less than a month — thrusting the state back into the spotlight it left when Judge Clark Waddoups stunned everyone by decriminalizing polygamy.

Unanimously, the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that one person shouldn’t have the power to create same-sex “marriage” in a state that democratically outlawed it.

Of course, marriage has always been a hot-button issue in Utah, dating back to the state’s earliest days. And that isn’t likely to change now, as Utah becomes the venue for the first challenge to a state marriage law since the Supreme Court struck down part of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) last June. When Governor Herbert gears up for an appeal to Judge Shelby’s overreach, he’ll have new state attorney general, Sean Reyes, to lead the charge. Picked to take over the post when his predecessor resigned, Reyes promised, “My intention … is to continue to defend the laws that have been passed by the people of Utah.”

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