Do You Want Supernatural Favor?

Joyce MeyerGod has crowned man with glory and favor, giving him dominion over the works of His hands.

When I first began my ministry, I was scared. In those days, women were not as widely accepted in the pulpit as they are today. Afraid of being rejected, I bent over backward to behave in the way I thought would please people. The only problem was that I was trying to earn approval, and it didn’t work.

At the time, I knew nothing about supernatural favor. I didn’t realize that favor is a part of grace. In fact, in the New Testament the words grace and favor both are translated from the Greek word charis.

The grace of God is the favor of God. And the grace of God causes good things to happen in our lives through the channel of faith. It is not by human power or might but through God’s Spirit of grace that we find favor with God and man.

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Love and Remarriage

Isaac and DenishaCharisma Magazine Wednesday, 22 September 2010 Felicia Mann   

For years statistics have shown that Christian marriages are just as likely to end in divorce as non-Christian ones. Adding to the bleak snapshot of the American church is the fact that clergy divorce rates are lock step with their congregations. But pastor Isaac Pitre and his wife, Denisha, (pictured above) who helm Christ Nations Church in Texarkana, Texas, say God wants to restore all marriages-even if couples have already divorced.

Charisma recently spoke with the pair, who remarried each other six years after their 2003 divorce. You can hear the entire interview at pitre.charismamag.com.

Charisma: After 10 years of being married, what led to your divorce?

Isaac Pitre: It was basically just not understanding that my ministry was really to be at home and to [Denisha] as much as it was to the church and the world.

Charisma: What caused the two of you to reconcile your relationship?

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FAITH UNDER FIRE

Islamic FlagSeptember 27, 2010  By Bob Unruh WorldNetDaily

Jury clears Christians who dared to preach to U.S. Muslims

‘My clients were there to evangelize, change minds and challenge Islam’

Jurors in Michigan have rejected the concept of a “dhimmi” status for Christians, ruling that four evangelists who went to an Arab festival not just to be present but to “change minds” did not commit a breach of peace as police had claimed.

The word comes from the Thomas More Law Center, which defended the four Christians after they were charged for being at an Arab festival June 18 in Dearborn, Mich.

The verdict came from a jury of six Dearborn residents late Friday, who concluded that Nabeel Qureshi, Paul Rezkalla, Negeen Mayel and David Wood were not guilty of breach-of-peace charges.

The issue strikes directly at the heart of what many fear is developing across the nation: Muslims given special treatment that subjects those of other faiths to second-class status.

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Alabama Judge – AFTER YOU HAVE DONE ALL – STAND

Roy MooreSome of you may be wondering what Judge Roy Moore has been doing since he was removed from the bench for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom wall.

The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama.

Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer.

He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama!
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Pastors taken to task for political apathy – “What we have is a preacher problem”

Pastors taken to task for political apathyWorldnetdaily September 16, 2010 By Drew Zahn
 
MIAMI – America has gone “from one nation under God to a nation at war with God,” said Rick Scarborough, president of Vision America, at WND’s “Taking America Back Conference.” And who’s to blame?

According to a pair of speakers at the Miami confab, one of most significant answers is also one the most uncomfortable for Christians.

“As the church goes, so goes the nation; as the pastor goes, so goes the church.” Scarborough said, “What we have in America is a preacher problem.”

Scarborough, himself a former Southern Baptist minister, told the audience his story of recognizing the need for pastors to snap out of political complacency and get involved in the cultural war for the soul of the nation.

He had attended a sexual education presentation at his daughter’s high school in the 1990s, only to discover a message of sexual license and perversity that shocked him. When he brought a transcript of the presentation to his church, the building was filled with people equally stunned.

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New Initiative Offers Help to Girls Facing Pressure to Abort

Pregnant teenFriday September 24, 2010 By Kathleen Gilbert

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pregnant teens often face pressure to undergo an abortion from parents or others – but a new resource soon to be distributed around the country will offer such young women hope and legal recourse in a seemingly hopeless situation.

While many may think of coerced abortion as a phenomenon found only in countries such as China, pro-life sidewalk counselors across America testify to routinely witnessing young girls being practically dragged into abortion clinics by fathers or mothers unwilling to handle their daughters’ pregnancies.

Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League said that, from his experience as a sidewalk counselor outside abortion clinics, coerced abortion is an all-too-frequent phenomenon.

“From what I’ve seen outside abortion facilities, many women — especially young women — are being coerced into aborting their unborn babies,” Scheidler told LifeSiteNews.com. “Often the young woman will clearly want to come over and talk to a pro-life sidewalk counselor, only to have her boyfriend, husband or parent push her on into the clinic, sometimes forcibly.

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Pastor / Evangelist Donnie Swaggart from USA (Son of Jimmy Swaggart) Guest Speaker at Australia Day Prayer Gathering and Revival Meetings at CTFM in Melbourne in Jan 2011

National Australia Day United Prayer in Melbourne, AustraliaDear family & friends in Christ throughout Australia and across the NatiPastor Evangelist Donnie Swaggart from USAons of the World,

We are so excited to bring the great news to you that Pastor / Evangelist Donnie Swaggart (son of Jimmy Swaggart), a world renowned preacher who speaks the truth of God’s prophetic Word with great boldness and passion, will be the guest speaker at the National Australia Day Prayer Gathering in Melbourne, Australia on January 26th 2011, followed by a very powerful series of Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings from 27th – 30th January 2011!

This national prayer gathering which brings together around one thousand prayer warriors from many denominations and ethnicities in Australia, will be once again held at the Springvale Town Hall on Springvale Road, Springvale at 10.30am on 26th January 2011.

The interdenominational Christian prayer gathering will be followed by a series of Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings from the 27th  to 30th  January 2011 at CTFM Apostolic Centre in Hallam (Melbourne).  Revival meetings on the 27th at 7.30pm, 28th at 7.30pm, 29th at 6.30pm, 30th at 9.30am & 6.30pm.

Pr Donnie Swaggart will minister the uncompromised Word of the Lord and challenge the body of Christ in Australia to rise up and transform the nations for Jesus. Pr Donnie moves mightily in the prophetic anointing of the Holy Spirit to deliver the church in the West from apathy, complacency, and a false sense of security.

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Ahmadinejad of Iran Asks Allah To Hasten Coming Of The Twelfth Imam And Bring Islamic “Victory”

By Dan Wooding - Founder of ASSIST Ministries Friday, September 24, 2010 NEW YORK CITY, NY (ANS) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made yet another inflammatory speech to the U.N.…

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Should Christians participate in Halloween?

Children in Halloween costumes of vampires, soldier, and otherDear friends and family in Christ in Australia and around the World,

We’re forwarding the following email so that you can help your children and others who are ignorant of the dark side of Halloween. We as Christians should not celebrate Halloween and we must boldly speak out against it.

Satan is very subtly brainwashing the next generation to embrace what is evil.

We as the Church must stand up against it. If not, no one else will. 

Isaiah 60:1-2, “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.” (NKJ)

Should Christians participate in Halloween?

The October 31st holiday that we today know as Halloween has strong roots in paganism and is closely connected with worship of the Enemy of this world, Satan. It is a holiday that generally glorifies the dark things of this world, rather than the light of Jesus Christ, The Truth.

Have you noticed how costumes and masks are getting generally more bloody, gory, and depraved each year? Unfortunately, the gruesome and grotesque and the occult are increasingly glorified in American society, not only on Halloween, but throughout the year in horror movies and in television programs.

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The Remnant of Patriot Pastors

Dave WelchWorldNet Daily Posted: August 28, 2010

I have certainly served up my share of outgoing fire at what might be called “pathetic preachers” who are feeding their flocks anything from non-fat milk to poisoned water; however, I’d like to pause and give thanks for The Remnant.

This particular remnant is the courageous cadre of pastors in every city in America who ARE standing and ARE preaching the word of God and ARE leading their flocks to be salt and light in and to their communities. These pastors are usually not the “big boys” in size but rather are mighty men of valor who may be leading a church of 100, 200, 500 or 1,000.

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Is Obama winning the Muslim world?

Barack ObamaPosted: August 12, 2010 Larry Elder, World Net Daily

“It’s conceivable,” said then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, “that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, ‘This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he’s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush.'”

A 2008 Zogby International poll surveyed those in the “friendly” Arab countries of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Eighty-three percent viewed the United States “somewhat” or “very” unfavorably.

Enter President Barack Hussein Obama, a man with a keen and learned understanding of the Arab world – a man who promised to restore our image through outreach based on mutual respect and understanding. Bush, Obama believed, governed with a swagger and aggressiveness that alienated friends and hardened the hearts of enemies. To forge a “new beginning” and find “common ground,” Obama apologized for America’s “mistakes.”

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U.S. paying millions to fund mosques around world

US Funded MosqueState Department lists 29 projects under ‘cultural preservation’

Posted: August 30, 2010 By Aaron Klein © 2010 WorldNetDaily

The State Department is funding the construction of mosques around the world as part of the U.S. government’s outreach programs to Muslims.

Six million dollars in taxpayer funds will be used this year to restore dozens of Islamic cultural sites and mosques around the world as part of State’s Ambassador Fund for Cultural Preservation.

The State Department website documents some 29 of those projects, including:

Funds for the preservation and restoration in Afghanistan of the 17th century Mullah Mahmud Mosque, which the site calls a “rare surviving example of late Mughal vernacular architecture”

Funds to support the restoration of the Kurshum Mosque in Silistra, Bulgaria

Funds to support the restoration of the bazaar area at the entrance of the Wazir Khan Mosque in Pakistan

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Very encouraging testimony / CBN to film Healing Miracle Testimonies and Global Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem

Thousands of Christians Marching in Support through Jerusalem, IsraelDear family and friends in Christ,

1) We’re forwarding an encouraging website comment that we received regarding Ps Daniel’s recent ministry trip to Kingaroy, QLD.

Dear Pastor Danny,

Thank you for coming to Kingaroy and teaching us so much. Since you Prayed over me, Not only has my pain eased, my depression and Anxiety is totally gone! something i struggled with for years. Everyone close to me cannot believe the change in me and I laugh so much now and I truly believed I had forgotten how to laugh before Jesus touched me through you. Praise God!!! I was full of Demons and didn’t even realise, i thought my life was over and God had no plan for me as I’d let him down too often. I didn’t understand the Love of Jesus until He explained it to me through you Pastor Danny! I speak in tongues now, a lot, EVEN my Parrot is learning it ha-ha. The Bible didn’t make a lot of sense to me until now and I am getting powerful messages from it now! PEOPLE!!! I’D LIKE TO SHOUT OUT, FORGET ALL THE SECULAR SELF HELP BOOKS, THE BIBLE IS THE ONE AND ONLY BEST SELF HELP BOOK THERE IS! MY SECULAR SELF HELP BOOKS ONLY MADE ME SELFISH AND FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF AND FEEL INADEQUATE!!!! My Goal now is to become “A Wife of Noble Character” Proverbs 31:10-31 and to spread the word to others so they too can feel what I’m feeling and they too CAN BE SAVED!!!

Thank You and May God continue to Bless you Forever and Always, Annastasia, Kingaroy, QLD

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Man-child Obama and the politics of revenge

Barack ObamaPosted: July 24, 2010

I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.

~ Barack Obama

In a 9/11 New York Times interview, the murderous terrorist Bill Ayers, President Obama’s political mentor, the man in whose home he started his political career in 1995, said: ”I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in whose church Michelle and Barack Obama dutifully worshipped for 20 years, said: “Racism is how this country (America) was founded and how this country is still run!”

Obama, recounting his formative years, wrote: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.  The more politically active black students.  The foreign students.  The Chicanos.  The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” From this we can deduce that Obama and his closest friends all passionately hate America.

This is President Obama and the politics of revenge.

This is who Obama is. This is how Obama was raised: to hate America with a fanatical hatred that controls and animates his social, political, economic, religious and foreign-policy worldview. His entire Cabinet are a veritable Who’s Who of political radicals, social engineers, Marxists, feminists, socialists, communists, fascists.

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