Army of Christians Takes Hollywood by Storm
Teresa Neumann : Jun 6, 2012 : Drew Zahn – World Net Daily "Not only can we support positive films, we can produce them. We can fulfill the Great Commission through…
Interview: T.D. Jakes on 35 Years of Ministry
By Katherine T. Phan , Christian Post Reporter, June 14, 2012
Bishop T.D. Jakes is a jack of all trades and is recognized in all of them. He is known as the senior pastor of the 30,000-member Dallas-based church, The Potter’s House, the New York Times best-selling author of Let It Go, the producer of the hit comedy “Jumping the Broom,” and the founder of a Grammy award-winning Dexterity Sounds label.
His diverse circle of friends reflects his wide-ranging career: Oprah Winfrey, President Obama, Pastor Paula White, Tyler Perry, and Chaka Khan. In the midst of it all, he still finds time to send love tweets to his wife and support relief efforts at his church.
Last week, Jakes was the guest of honor at a big celebration in Dallas to mark his 35th anniversary of ministry, 55th birthday, 30th wedding anniversary, and 15th anniversary of The Potter’s House.
I sat down with Bishop Jakes immediately following the celebration to get his reflection of the night and on his 35 years of ministry.
Christians to Rededicate the USA to God July 1st and July 4th
Pastor Steven Andrew : Jun 29, 2012 : USAChristianMinistries.com
“Individuals and other patriotic groups like the Tea Party, homeschool groups and pro-life Americans are praying the covenant on July 4th.”
(San Jose, CA)—Churches will rededicate the USA to God with a special covenant prayer on either July 4th or Sunday July 1st, based on service times. “As Americans rededicate the USA to God, we invite God to help fix our nation’s problems,” says Pastor Steven Andrew, president of USA Christian Ministries and author of “Making A Strong Christian Nation.”
Protestants and Catholics are invited to participate as well as individuals and families. This God and Country prayer is a reminder of God giving Christian liberty to Americans. John Adams said the Fourth of July “ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
USA Christian Ministries has free resources to print. There is a handout and a church bulletin insert for participants to pray as a congregation and to put on their desks and refrigerators at home. The pastor wants everyone to have a free chapter of “Making A Strong Christian Nation.” These tools are available at the source link provided.
There is also a web graphic to share online and an attractive “No King But King Jesus” print. “No King But King Jesus” is an American Revolution motto based on Psalm 47.
“Individuals and other patriotic groups like the Tea Party, homeschool groups and pro-life Americans are praying the covenant on July 4th,” he adds.
“Pastors know that a national covenant with God brings God’s blessings, including God’s presence, protection and economic prosperity,” says Pastor Steven Andrew. The Bible shows us that King Asa and King Josiah affirmed covenant with God and God blessed them (2Chronicles 15, 2Kings 23).
Heaven and Earth unite in prayer over Australia at 4:30pm this Sat 23rd June as CTFM team fly to Israel / Prayer Movements in America
Dear family & friends in Christ,
1) This Saturday the 23rd of June, a team of around 70 intercessory prayer warriors from Catch The Fire Ministries, from all across Australia, will be leaving to Israel for a 10 day tour and mission in the Holy Land.
Pr Daniel, along with his family, will be heading up this team to Israel first and then Sri Lanka. Everyone going is so very excited and looking forward to a great trip led by the Spirit of God!
We would greatly appreciate if you could join together in prayer from 4.30pm-5pm this Sat 23rd June in praying and claiming Australia for Jesus, as around 70 intercessors with CTFM will be in a aircraft flying over Australia and will storm heaven in prayer, declaring ‘Australia for Jesus’ at the same time!
Pr Daniel stated, “We are expecting mighty things to happen on this mission tour as we prayer walk the streets where our Savoir Jesus Christ walked. On the last trip to Israel, many mighty things happened, including the rising of the dead. This time we are expecting more. Please do uphold us in prayer.”
Gallup: Percentage of Pro-Abortion Americans Drops to Record Low
by Ste
ven Ertelt – Washington, DC – LifeNews.com
A new Gallup survey out today finds the percentage of Americans who identify them selves as supporting legalized abortion has dropped to a record low.
“The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009,” the polling firm noted. On the other hand, 51 percent of Americans call themselves pro-life, one percentage point away from the record high.
The percentage of Americans identifying themselves as pro-life has trended higher since 1995, when the partial-birth abortion debate began in earnest and ultrasound technology made it so pictures of unborn children were the first baby pictures most parents saw. Gallup has found the pro-life position significantly ahead on two occasions, once in May 2009 and again today and the number of pro-abortion Americans has steadily dropped.
Gallup says the decline in Americans’ self-identification as “pro-choice” is seen across the three U.S. political groups — with Republicans increasingly becoming pro-life.
Black Christians in an ‘Adulterous’ Relationship With Obama, Says Evangelical Pastor
Thursday, May 17, 2012 – by Paul Stanley , Christian Post Reporter
An influential African-American evangelical pastor says that many black Christians are in an “adulterous” relationship with President Obama over the issue of same-sex marriage and that if the issue is not addressed soon, it will negatively impact the president’s desire for a second term in November.
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. and other community group leaders gathered in WAshington, D.C. Wednesday to announce the launch of the grassroots group, E Plubribus Unum. The group plans to rally minorities around conservative ideas during the 2012 election season.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., who is the senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Baltimore, Md., and one of the nation’s most outspoken black pastors, maintains that Obama has drawn a hard line on major theological issues such as same-sex marriage and expects black Christians to compromise their beliefs.
“Obama laid down the gauntlet on black leaders,” Jackson said. “The question we are being forced to address is ‘are you going to be black or be godly.'”
Benny Hinn Announces Reconciliation With Ex-Wife
5/25/2012 Jennifer LeClaire - Charisma News Benny and Suzanne Hinn may soon offer more convincing proof that God really is a God of restoration. During a “Miracle Crusade” in New…
Iran’s Best Defense
Posted by Michael Widlanski on Apr 17th, 2012
As US officials again ask Iran to stop its atom bomb program, President Barack Obama seems to be working hard to shield Iran and to prevent Israel from striking at Iran’s nuclear weapons potential. US officials are believed to be behind stories about Israel readying basing and refueling options in countries near Iran, like Azerbaijan.
The Azeris quickly denied they allowed Israel to use their land., and this is a sign the Azeris are feeling pressure not to help Israel, even as Obama reportedly used the Islamist and strongly anti-Israel leader of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, to send a message to Iran that the US would be willing to accept “an Iranian civilian nuclear program.”
For Israel—and for Saudis, Jordanians and Egyptians—Iran’s bomb is not a matter that can be indefinitely delayed in a diplomatic ping-pong match.
President Obama has been rotating his top officials on and off the diplomatic playing field to deter an attack on Iran. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey, and many others have been sent to Jerusalem to tell Israel NOT to attack Iran.
Live Webcast of Dr Steve Ryder at CTFM / Global Day of Prayer this Pentecost Sunday 27th May
Dear friends and family in Christ,
We’re excited to announce that this Pentecost Sunday 27th May 9:30am worship service at CTFM Hallam (Melbourne) with Dr Steve Ryder will be broadcast live here on our website beginning at 10am (Australian Eastern Standard Time -AEST). If you’re watching from outside of Australia, please note that the live stream time is AEST (UTC/GMT +10). Click the following link to find out the time difference from Melbourne, Australia to your part of the world. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/australia/victoria/melbourne/
We would also greatly appreciate if you can promote this broadcast amongst family and friends. Dr Steve Ryder will also be ministering at 6.30pm. Pastor Daniel will also be praying for people at both services.
Also, following is an email from James Goll regarding the Global Day of Prayer this Pentecost Sunday 27th May.
This week, I want us to pray that the Global Day of Prayer will bring new unity to the body of Christ around the world. Then this Sunday, as we celebrate Pentecost, we will join with the many millions around the world in prayer, to give thanks, ask for forgiveness for our sin, and pray for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our lands. I am including the following prayer from the Global Day of Prayer website (globaldayofprayer.com/)
Pray With One Voice – A Prayer for the World
Almighty God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, We gather with believers all over the world, to glorify You as Creator of heaven and earth. You alone are holy and righteous. We submit to Your authority. We praise and adore You alone. Father, we honour You Lord Jesus Christ, we honour You Holy Spirit, we honour You.
Five Reasons Christians Should Continue to Oppose Gay Marriage
Friday, May 11, 2012 – By Kevin DeYoung , CP Guest Contributor
Yesterday, to no one’s surprise, President Obama revealed in an interview that after some “evolution” he has “concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” This after the Vice-President came out last Sunday strongly in favor of gay marriage. Not coincidentally, the New York Times ran an article on Tuesday (an election day with a marriage amendment on one ballot) about how popular and not controversial gay television characters have become. In other words, everyone else has grown up so why don’t you? It can seem like the whole world is having a gay old time, with conservative Christians the only ones refusing to party.
The temptation, then, is for Christians go silent and give up the marriage fight: “It’s no use staying in this battle,” we think to ourselves. “We don’t have to change our personal position. We’ll keep speaking the truth and upholding the Bible in our churches, but getting worked up over gay marriage in the public square is counter productive. It’s a waste of time. It makes us look bad. It ruins our witness. And we’ve already lost. Time to throw in the towel.” I understand that temptation. It is an easier way. But I do not think it is the right way, the God glorifying way, or the way of love.
Here are five reasons Christians should continue to publicly and winsomely oppose bestowing the term and institution of marriage upon same-sex couples:
1. Every time the issue of gay marriage has been put to a vote by the people, the people have voted to uphold traditional marriage. Even in California. In fact, the amendment passed in North Carolina on Tuesday by a wider margin (61-39) than a similar measure passed six years ago in Virginia (57-42). The amendment passed in North Carolina, a swing state Obama carried in 2008, by 22 percentage points. We should not think that gay marriage in all the land is a foregone conclusion. To date 30 states have constitutionally defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Obama endorses gay ‘marriage’: says support based on Jesus, Golden Rule
by Ben Johnson May 09, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has flip-flopped on gay “marriage” for the second time, endorsing same-sex marriage in an interview today, in which he said his decision was motivated in part by his Christian faith and his belief in the Golden Rule.
“I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told ABC News reporter Robin Roberts in an interview to air this evening.
He added that his wife, Michelle, agreed with him. “We’ve talked about it over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way,” he said.
“We are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others,” Obama stated, “but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing Himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule.”
He explained his foot-dragging reticence to support full same-sex “marriage” by saying he “was sensitive to the fact that, for a lot of people, the word marriage was something that evokes very powerful traditions – religious beliefs and so forth.”
A Baby Boy Raised from the Dead
Dan Wooding : Apr 26, 2012 : ASSIST News Service
“I felt God speaking to me saying: ‘He has the right to live’. So, immediately, I put my hand over him, and started to pray…”
(Montevideo, Uruguay)—Dr. Marta Martínez is a respected doctor from Montevideo, Uruguay, who believes that God still heals the sick today. And she should know, for in an interview, Dr. Martinez told me about an extraordinary miracle that she witnessed and was personally involved with.
“I experienced this miracle some years ago, while I was working in a hospital in one small city, far from the capital city,” she said. “It concerned a baby who was about one month old and his mother was an adolescent and very poor.
“The baby boy had come to the hospital in a very bad condition, with malnutrition, dehydration and septicemia. There appeared to be nothing we could to do for him. Finally he died. While I was present, watching him at the moment of the death, I thought: ‘It is better for him to die, because in his environment, with his kind of family, he would have not any chance of success, the rest of his life would be a ‘Calvary’, with a lack of hope and no opportunities’.
“At that moment, I felt God speaking to me saying: ‘He has the right to live’. So, immediately, I put my hand over him, and started to pray and thank God he was ‘resurrected’—he came back to life! It was an amazing miracle.”
Dr. Martinez went on to say that the baby was then sent to “a better hospital” in Montevideo called “Filtro” for further treatment.
Half of All Americans Believe Bible, Quran, Book of Mormon Hold Same Truths
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter – April 17, 2012
An in-depth study released by the Barna Group on behalf of the American Bible Society found that 50 percent of Americans believe the Bible, Quran and the Book of Mormon hold different expressions of the same truths. The survey also found that Americans’ reliance on the Bible has decreased slightly in 2012 from 2011, although the Christian holy book retains an important place in people’s lives.
The study, which was conducted in March and surveyed over 2,000 adults through phone and online interviews, found that 85 percent of American households own a Bible – although that number was down from 88 percent in 2011. Similarly, 48 percent agreed that the Bible has all the knowledge needed to live a meaningful life, while that number was 53 percent in 2011.
Mormonism, which has been in the news lately because of Mitt Romney, the likely GOP presidential candidate and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, registered a slight gain in terms of recognition – six percent of people interviewed said the Book of Mormon is sacred or holy, which is up two percent from 2011. The Bible, on the other hand, dropped by four percent to 82 percent in the same question.
The survey’s findings suggest that “Americans desire to read the Bible more and turn to it for the answers to life questions but have an increasingly less reverent view of its contents,” David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group, said in a press release.
Healing, Salvations and Mighty Outpouring of the Holy Spirit / Live Webcast CTFM Sun 6th May / RUA Prayer Melbourne Fri 5th May
Dear family & friends in Christ,
1) Over the past weekend Brother Johnny Lee Clary ministered at the CTFM base in Hallam. Many people from across Melbourne came to hear this man of God share his powerful testimony of his journey from being the KKK (Ku Klux Clan) leader to becoming a Christian Minister of the Gospel who loves all people.
Many responded to the altar call for salvation and to rededicate their lives to Jesus. People were very blessed to hear a preacher preach the uncompromising word of God boldly and passionately. Many stated, “It is so great to hear someone preach the truth with such love!”
Pr Daniel ministered over the weekend in 2 different churches in Naracoorte and Bordertown, SA. Pr Gary, his wife Lynn and bro Tony from CTFM accompanied him on this trip. Many people gathered at every service and were mightily blessed by the presence and Word of God.
One lady brought her friend and husband, who had cancer, all the way from Mt Gambier, to the Holy Spirit revival meeting. They arrived one hour before the service and wanted prayer, as the husband could not stay for the service because of his condition. After spending some time with them, Pr Daniel prayed, rebuked the cancer, then told this man to stay for the service.
Well, what’s most interesting was that this brother who could not sit up for long, stayed for the whole service which lasted more than 3 hours! At the end of the meeting he came up again for prayer and told Pr Daniel, “Round one was so good, I have come up for round two.” He looked much brighter and cheerful. We are trusting God for his complete healing.
One lady testified as to how her daughter who lives in the Coffs Harbor area had attended a meeting awhile ago when Pr Daniel had ministered in Bellingen, NSW. She had received prayer because she was suffering with fibromyalgia. After she was prayed for she was completely healed by the power of God. What a mighty God we serve!
There was also great excitement amongst the people when they heard about Rise Up Australia Party (Keep Australia Australian) and many immediately signed up as members.
Pr Daniel stated, “I am greatly encouraged at the level of interest shown by many people in South Australia in embracing Rise Up Australia Party. I am now confident that we can set up a State Executive Team for RUA Party and run candidates in SA.”
Why Christians Must Be Involved In Politics
by Rev. Johnny Lee Clary © www.johnnyleeclary.com
There is a huge movement underway, with books being written and endorsed by pastors of large churches telling people that Christians should never be involved in politics and that if they are then they are turning unbelievers away from Christ. These books are not worth buying. Their authors are worthless because they lack knowledge and wisdom when it comes to God’s word and therefore should not be telling Christians how to live their lives.
All political power has been delegated by God. As Apostle Paul says in Romans 13:1, in speaking on the subject of civil authority, “Every person should obey the government in power. No government would exist if it hadn’t been established by God. The governments which exist have been put in place by God.”
People accuse me all the time of being disobedient to God’s word for criticizing government officials, using Romans 13:1 to justify that accusation. I always point out to them that if that is true that I am disobedient, then so were the Apostles, John and Peter. The ruling authority commanded and ordered them not to preach Jesus and they replied they must obey God rather than men. Therefore, the word of God is plain; we do not have to obey government authority when it conflicts with God’s word.
Now the key here is that when you have a government that is hostile to or just plain old anti-Christian, you must get involved with politics in order to change the government to be favorable to God’s word and the way to do that is to put Christians in power! (more…)
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