The Issue of the Heart

The Issue of the HeartPat Harrison © Peninsula Bible Church Cupertino

Proverbs 4:20-27

The heart is truly a wonder. It beats more than a hundred thousand times a day, pumping oxygen and nutrition through sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins and capillaries. The health of the whole body depends on the heart. It is strategically protected beneath the surface, and is central to our lives.

The condition of our hearts is of great importance to us, and it should be. We spend a great deal of time and money exercising to get our heart rate up, eating less fatty foods, etc. We are preoccupied with exercise and diet. We look at the heart symbols next to menu items. My wife has convinced me of the benefits of tofu, something I never thought possible. I found myself even ordering a tofu enchilada in a restaurant lately.

The Bible teaches there is a spiritual heart too. It too is central and interior to our being, critical to our life as God intended it to be lived, and is always active, receiving and distributing what we feed it. Our spiritual heart is the part that causes us to act the way we do. Our words, attitudes, and actions flow from it.

To care for our spiritual heart, we must understand some things about it.

The heart is the richest term in the Bible for the totality of man’s inner nature. It is the deepest core of our being which animates the rest of the body. It is the source of what makes us truly alive: our soul, emotions, longings, ambitions, thoughts, beliefs, and will.

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Monash University Journalism Article on Rise Up Australia Party

Dear friends, We’re forwarding the following Monash University Journalism Article by Jackson Stiles regarding Rise Up Australia Party for your interest. The picture shows Pastor Daniel Nalliah flanked by two Israeli…

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Salvation & great move of God in Finley, NSW / RUA Prayer in Melbourne / Live webcast with Pr Daniel this Sun 3rd Nov

Surrendering to JesusDear family & friends in Christ,Pr Daniel & team with farming family of 3 generations

1) Pr Daniel stated today, “We thank and praise God for His mighty hand at work in our nation of Australia. While many Pentecostal churches are blocking the Holy Spirit from moving in the church service, I praise God many mainline churches are opening their hearts to the moving of the Holy Spirit and praying in tongues.”

In Darwin a few weeks ago, a couple of Catholic Priests were mightily touched by God and were praying in tongues. Last weekend in Finley, NSW several people from mainline churches, who came to the meetings, were filled with the Holy Spirit and started praying in tongues.

Several others responded to the salvation call and gave their lives to Jesus. One guy in particular, who many had been praying for his salvation, gave his heart to Jesus on Sunday night. He is a very well known businessman known by most people in the area.

Pr Daniel preachingOne of his friends stated, “This is the best thing which is happened in this town this weekend. We have been praying for my friend’s salvation. Praise God he is now born-again.”Worshipping the Lord

As people from around six churches came together, God moved most powerfully. Many travelled more than one hour to get to the meetings. Many responded to the altar call.

The farmers were telling Pr Daniel and the team that it had not rained for months, and that if it does not rain this week, that it will be very hard for them.

Glory to God before Pr Daniel and the team left Finley it started pouring down with rain. Thank you Jesus for answering our prayers.

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IRAN: FOUR CHRISTIANS SENTENCED TO 80 LASHES FOR DRINKING COMMUNION WINE

IranFor Immediate Release – 23 October 2013 – Christian Solidarity Worldwide

A court in the Iranian city of Rasht has sentenced four members of the Church of Iran denomination to 80 lashes each for drinking wine during a communion service.

The verdict, dated 6 October, charges Behzad Taalipasand, Mehdi Reza Omidi (Youhan), Mehdi Dadkhah (Danial) and Amir Hatemi (Youhanna) with drinking alcohol and possession of a receiver and satellite antenna. They received the verdict on 20 October and have ten days to appeal the sentence.

Behzad Taalipasand and Mehdi Reza Omidi (Youhan) were detained on 31 December 2012 during a crackdown on house churches by the Iranian government.

Mervyn Thomas, Chief Executive of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), said, “The sentences handed down to these members of the Church of Iran effectively criminalise the Christian sacrament of sharing in the Lord’s Supper and constitute an unacceptable infringement on the right to practice faith freely and peaceably. We urge the Iranian authorities to ensure that the nation’s legal practices and procedures do not contradict its international obligation under the International Convent on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to guarantee the full enjoyment of freedom of religion or belief by all of its religious communities.”

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Premier Barry O’Farrell condemns Jewish attack as community on alert folllowing Bondi bashing

by: Clementine Cuneo, Leigh Van Den Broeke and AAP From: The Daily Telegraph - October 28, 2013 NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says there will be zero tolerance for religious discrimination…

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Atheists Continue Relentless Attack on the Ground Zero Cross

Ground Zero Cross

Matthew Clark (Oct 18, 2013)

Simply put, the Constitution is not an atheist manifesto.

Following a big victory for the Ground Zero Cross earlier this year, where a federal judge threw out an atheist lawsuit to tear down the Cross, angry atheists are now appealing that ruling to a federal appeals court.

The Ground Zero Cross, two intersecting steel beams found in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, became a symbol of hope and healing for first responders on the ground in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and for thousands of Americans across the nation.

Atheists, from the particularly vitriolic American Atheists, demanded that it be torn down. They attempted to make a federal case of their hurt feelings and lost.

The trial court correctly noted that the Cross was a historic artifact – an actual piece of 9/11 history. It really meant something to those affected. (more…)

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Arabs Realizing Israel Is Not the Enemy

Arabs Realizing Israel Is Not the EnemyRyan Jones (Oct 18, 2013)

“Many nations in the area have a strong desire to eliminate the influence of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaida. This is an important development, even historic.” –Benjamin Netanyahu

One of the very few positive outcomes of the regional crises engulfing the Middle East is that a number of Arab states are beginning to realize that Israel is not the true enemy.

“For the first time in Israel’s existence, there is an understanding in the Arab world, that Israel is not the enemy of the Arabs. On many issues, we are united,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening of the Knesset’s winter session earlier this week.

Netanyahu noted that the hijacking of pro-democracy revolutions in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere had turned many of the Arab states against the same Islamist regimes and groups that most threaten Israel.

“Many nations in the area have a strong desire to eliminate the influence of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaida,” the prime minister said. “This is an important development, even historic.”

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Worst of NSW bushfire crisis is over / ABC News video clip of NSW Fire Chief saying ‘moisture was real blessing’ a must watch

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Bushfire NSW Prayers Answered – Heavens Open / Urgent Prayer Call Today 12-1pm Wednesday 23rd October

Dear friends & family in Christ, Yesterday, Pr Daniel led a prayer meeting in the Blue Mountains area about ten minutes from one of the major bushfires. With very short…

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US should condemn Saudi Arabia religious abuses

Christian Today –  24 August 2013  |  Mark Caplin

The World Evangelical Alliance has said the US government must do more to hold Saudi Arabia to account on religious liberty.

Saudi Arabia has been on the US State Department’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) list since 2004.  Countries on the list can be subject to economic sanctions but the WEA states in a new report that these have been waived in the case of Saudi Arabia since 2006.

The WEA suggests the US is having little impact in improving religious rights in the Wahhabi Sunni kingdom and points to the recent sentencing of cyber activist Raef Badawi to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for offending Islam and violating the kingdom’s cyber crime law.

Similar sentences this year include that handed to a Christian Lebanese man accused of helping a Saudi women convert to Christianity. The Saudi Gazette reported that he was sentenced to six years in prison and 300 lashes, and the daughter sentenced to six years and 300 lashes, although she reportedly fled to Sweden.

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Urgent Prayer Call Bushfire crisis in NSW – Pr Daniel leading prayer meeting in Blue Mountains 3-4pm today Tuesday 22nd Oct

Dear friends & family in Christ across Australia, I’m sure we’re all saddened to see the bushfires continuing in NSW with the loss of so many homes and properties. According…

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Special birthday celebration for Pr Daniel last Sun 20th Oct / AGM for RUAP held on Sat 19th Oct /

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) We praise God for wonderful worship services at CTFM in Hallam last Sunday 20th October, including a special birthday celebration for Pr Daniel.…

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Over 11,000 Egyptian Youth Gather in Desert to Dedicate Their Lives to Christ

Open Doors Staff (Oct 9, 2013)

“I was surrounded by a massive crowd of people who were taught to love and forgive. Their genuine spirit of love and angelic worship did not leave my thought!” –a Muslim journalist

Given the precarious political and security situation in Egypt, including the death of 53 over the weekend in fighting between security forces and former president Mohammed Morsi supporters, it is hard to imagine that a huge Christian youth conference being held for three days by over 11,000 youth from 250 churches from all denominations could actually be a reality.

But from Sept. 26-28 the “One Thing 2013” youth conference took place for the fifth year in a row in a stadium inside a church conference facility out in the desert 70 miles north of Cairo.

Thousands of youth gathered to seek God’s will not only in their own lives, but in their own country of Egypt as well. It was a major operation to transport thousands from their home cities, towns and villages to the conference venue. About 4,000 youth came all the way from various southern Egyptian cities, even though Egypt’s train system was suspended due to security threats.

Around 7,000 young people had to commute each day back and forth from Cairo, Alexandria and other nearby cities in order to attend the conference. To make sure people came and left on time inside curfew hours, and buses safely commuted everyone, was a daily miracle. None of these hundreds of cars, vans or buses engaged in any minor or major road accidents—something that Christian Egyptians don’t take for granted.

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Despite Death Threats, Blasphemy Charges, Youngren Gospel Festival Reaches Thousands

Bill Roberts

Last week’s gospel festival in Makassar, Indonesia, was planned as an outreach to the 2.6 million-strong Makassar people with less than 500 believers. No one could have predicted the outcome—capacity crowds, amazing healings, death threats and on the last day Peter Youngren being called to the police headquarters to be interrogated for ‘blasphemy against Islam,’ a crime that carries a five-year prison sentence.

After pressure from Muslim extremists and with only one day to go until the festival, the city mayor canceled the permit for the event to be held on the huge open grounds in the center of the city. It seemed that all was lost, but God had other plans.

“In spite of everything that happened, this has been one of the most amazing weeks in 30 years of gospel ministry because of how God turned this around,” Youngren says.

The Youngren ministry has conducted 26 gospel festivals in Indonesia since the year 2000, and only twice has a stadium or outdoor venue been canceled due to security reasons.

“The other two times we felt a sense of loss that we had missed an opportunity to present the gospel, but this time was different,” explains Youngren.

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Police Commissioner to conduct investigation of March for Babies in Melbourne / Good news in Tasmania / Live webcast & Pr Daniel’s birthday at CTFM this Sunday 20th Oct

Dear friends & family in Christ,

1) According to a recent Facebook from Bernie Finn, Chairman March for the Babies, there will be a Police investigation regarding the opposition at the March for Babies in Melbourne.

“I’m delighted to say I have received a response from Chief Commissioner Ken Lay who has readily agreed to an investigation into police response at the 2013 March for the Babies. That inquiry has now begun”. – Bernie Finn, Chairman March for the Babies.

2.  Tasmania: Euthanasia Bill DEFEATED!
More good news! The Tasmanian House of Assembly has defeated the euthanasia Bill that was out forward by Premier Lara Giddings and Greens leader Nick McKim.

But it was VERY CLOSE – the Bill was only defeated by TWO votes after nearly ten hours of debate. The vote was 13 against and 11 in favour – all  Liberal MPs and three Labor members voted against the Bill.   (Source: Salt Shakers)
Media report: Voluntary euthanasia law defeated by two votes, ABC, 17/10/2013.

3. Tasmania – decision to debate ‘marriage’ Bill postponed
In the Tasmanian Legislative Council, a decision on a motion by Independent MLC Ruth Forrest to debate a bill to legalise homosexual ‘marriage’ has been postponed for TWO weeks. The motion will be considered when the parliament returns in the last week of October. (more…)

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