Dear friends and family in Christ in Australia and around the world, Following is a very interesting world news article and television broadcast from Christian Broadcasting Network (Pat Robertson’s international…
by Aimee Herd : Nov 10, 2010 : CTV Toronto, YouTube.com
“There are, after all, a lot more votes—a lot more—in being anti-Israeli than in taking a stand. But, as long as I am Prime Minister—whether it is at the United Nations, the Francophonie, or anywhere else, Canada will take that stand whatever the cost.”
On Monday, Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, gave a compelling speech on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, as he declared his—and the country’s—commitment to standing with the nation of Israel.
Dear family & friends in Christ across the nations of the world,
What a mighty God we serve, the reigning King of kings, the LORD Jesus Christ!
After the mission to Sri Lanka, a part of the CTFM team joined Pastor Daniel for another mission in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, a city known to be one of the most radical Islamic places in all of Indonesia.
As you read this exciting email you will need to remind yourself that what you are reading did not happen in America, Europe or Australia, but in the biggest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia!
Rain clouds gathered over the city and it started raining the first night that the CTFM team arrived in Pekanbaru. Since an open air crusade was scheduled for that night, the CTFM team along with other leaders started binding the powers of darkness from disrupting the meeting. Glory to God, the rain stopped. During the 2 nights of the miracle healing crusades around 30,000 people gathered to hear the Word of God. On the 2nd night suddenly it started to rain very hard. Every one lifted their hands to heaven and started praying. No one left the grounds. They were soaking wet, but stayed in the rain. Minutes later the rain stopped, but the grounds were now full of mud. The people just simply stood right through the meeting for almost 4 hours.
Over the 2 nights around 2000 precious souls were born-again into the Kingdom of God. Amongst them were many Muslims and Buddhists. Some Muslims had their heads covered, but lifted both their hands boldly and publically, accepting Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. On the 2nd night when the altar call was g
iven for those who want to be baptised in the Holy Spirit and pray in tongues, thousands responded. Glory to God around 3000 people were filled with the Holy Spirit and prayed in tongues for the very first time. During this time more than 10,000 people all at once lifted their hands and started praying in tongues. There were screaming noises everywhere as many people were delivered and set free from demonic spirits as the Holy Spirit swept through the place.
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By Michelle A. Vu – Christian Post Reporter
Missions – Fri, Oct. 22 2010Â
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – More than 25 percent of the ethnic groups (unreached people groups) in the world, or about two billion people, are not represented at the Lausanne Conference.
An unreached people group means that cross-cultural mission is necessary for a person in the group to hear the Gospel because they cannot find people within their ethnic group to share with them the good news.
Mission leaders on Wednesday said the hardest obstacle to overcome in reaching unreached people groups is the obedience of the church. They spoke at the Lausanne multiplex session titled “M*ss*ng People: The Unserved One-Fourth World.â€A video shown at the beginning of the session highlighted that despite the fact that 86 percent of Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists do not personally know a Christ follower, 90 percent of missionaries go to “Christianized†regions, according to the World Christian Database.
“In my 14 years working with Muslims, mobilizing churches in Korea, I came to realized that Muslims haven’t been missing people to God, but to God’s people,†said Henry Lee, a mission leader based in Seoul, South Korea, and part of Ethne to Ethne (Greek for people to people), a global mission network focused on getting the gospel to unreached people groups.
Kent Park, president of U.S.-based Mission to Unreached Peoples, explained why churches do not share the Gospel with people groups that need to hear it.
By Michelle A. Vu – Christian Post Reporter
World – Sat, Oct. 23 2010 09:35
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – There is hope in Africa – a continent ravaged by conflicts, poverty and HIV/AIDS – because God is at work in this land, said African Christian leaders Friday at the Lausanne conference.
In the last century, the African church has grown 3,000 percent, said Daniel Bourdanne, general secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students and international deputy director for the Lausanne movement, during the evening plenary focused on Africa. Even though Africa does not have money or technology, Bourdanne said, Africans can celebrate because God’s grace has been poured out on the continent.
“This (church growth through the Holy Spirit) is more than technology, more than money, more than anything that we can have,†declared the African leader from Chad, drawing loud applause from the 4,000 attendees of Lausanne III.
Christian leaders from over 190 nations are gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. While all three Lausanne conferences have focused on sharing the Gospel worldwide, this conference is also addressing a wide range of global problems facing the Church, such as pluralism, globalization, HIV/AIDS, and prosperity gospel.
By Michelle A. Vu – Christian Post Reporter
Missions – Fri, Oct. 22 2010
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Hundreds of imams and mullahs from West Africa have been coming to Christ in the past decade and in turn sharing the Gospel with their peers, said a former Muslim who witnesses to Muslim scholars and clerics.
Brother Daniel (last name withheld for security reasons) said that the initiative he started has exposed over 10,000 scholars, clerics and mullahs to the knowledge of salvation through Jesus Christ over the past 10 years. From that number, some 1,000 have come to Christ with 500 of them having completed discipleship training. Currently, 58 former mullahs, imams, and scholars from the initiative are sharing their faith in Christ, exclaimed Daniel to applause from the Lausanne III crowd.
“The Muslims that are around us are good people; they are sincere in their beliefs,†said Daniel Friday morning. “[But] even though they are very sincere, they are sincerely wrong.â€
Daniel, who grew up in a Muslim setting in Africa, said Christians are not eager to share their faith with Muslims even though Jesus commanded them to spread the Gospel. Christians are “disobedient and fearful†to share the Gospel even though the Holy Spirit has worked on the hearts of Muslims and they are open and waiting to hear the good news, Daniel remarked.
By Michelle A. Vu – Christian Post Reporter
Missions – Wed, Oct. 20 2010
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (JN 8:32)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The mood was light Tuesday evening – thanks to leg-swinging praise music – when Lausanne III participants wrestled with the difficult topics of reconciliation in the Middle East, HIV/AIDS, and human trafficking.
Speakers gave hopeful messages of how God is moving and bringing hope despite addressing some of the darkest and seemingly most hopeless situations in the world today.
The Middle East, which has become almost synonymous with violence and Islam, is experiencing an unprecedented level of Muslims becoming followers of Jesus Christ, said Sam Yeghnazar, founder of Iran-focused Elam Ministries. There were only about 500 Iranian Christians from a Muslim background at the time of Lausanne I in 1974, he said. But over the past 30 years, more Muslims have come to Christ than in the past 1,300 years.
“Iran today is a closed land with countless open hearts,†said Yeghnazar. “It is the most open nation to the Gospel in the entire world. Tens of thousands of Iranians are turning to Christ.â€
“Betrayed by the government, disillusioned with the religion, depressed by the prospects of the future, Iranians when they come to know the Lord Jesus Christ are completely transformed,†he said. “They proclaim Christ in the marketplace. Entire families, men and women, are coming to Christ.”
Dear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World, If you did not make it to the Australia Day National Prayer Gathering in Melbourne in January 2010,…
Dear family and friends in Christ in Australia and around the World, Following is the link to an article quoting Pastor Daniel about Halloween that appeared on the front page…
Dr Graham McLennan from the Canberra Declaration said, “We are calling the people of faith in Australia to set aside Sunday 31 October 2010 as a National Day of Prayer and Fasting for Life. A wave of anti-life sentiment seems to be sweeping Australia. Let us call to the author of life and ask him to intervene in our nation. You might be able to miss a meal, refuse dessert or fast for the day. Ask your friends to do the same. Ask your church to join with youâ€.
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Dr Lachlan Dunjey from Medicine with Morality and one of the supporters of the Canberra Declaration said, “The battle for the intrinsic value of all human life intensifies across Australia with the push for euthanasia, unrestricted abortion, the elimination of all that is less than perfect, destructive embryo research and the overriding of conscience in medicine. It is more important than ever before for God’s people to declare that all humanity is created in the Image of God and support this Declaration. People in Victoria please watch www.repealsection8.net.au over the weeks prior to the state election Nov 27 2010 to see how you can vote to support right over wrongâ€.
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In the 1890s when Australians were forming the Constitution and the Federal Parliament, it was the intention of the people that the nation could be called to days of prayer and fasting. This national day of prayer and fasting is a move to fulfill those wishes.
Dear family & friends in Christ throughout Australia and across the Nati
ons 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.
Dear family & friends in Christ across Australia in this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit, We forwarding the following thought provoking and very challenging YouTube link that we…
Dear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the Nations of the World,
How can we adequately explain the awesome miracle working power of the Holy Spirit?
We are running out of words!
If the trickle of His Holy Spirit anointing is so great, just imagine what it will be like when His full manifest presence and glory comes down from heaven to earth!
We are surely heading into a great season of mighty revival fires in Australia and across the Nations of the World!
This past weekend gone by once again saw many people healed, delivered and set free through the anointing of the Holy Spirit as Pr Daniel ministered in Sydney at an Indonesian Church and an AOG church.
On Saturday night there were more than 150+ youth / young adults at the service as Pr Daniel challenged these young men and women of God to rise up and be a true soldier in the army of Jesus, willing to lay down their lives in order to win lost souls back to the Father in heaven.
The response was wonderful as almost all the youth / young adults came to the altar with tears, as many cried out to Jesus from the bottom of their hearts and made a commitment to go all the way to serve the Lord, even if it cost them their lives, just like nearly all the Apostles of the Lamb and martyrs for Christ throughout the history of the Gospel.
Dear 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.Â
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.
