Dear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World, Click the following link to watch and listen to an excellent speech on 'Why Multiculturalism is a Failure'…
Dear friends and family in Christ,
1) Following is a very encouraging article titled, ‘Britain Launches War on Multiculturalism’ by Soeren Kern on February 24, 2012 .
“We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run completely counter to our values. … I believe a genuinely liberal country… believes in certain values and actively promotes them.” — David Cameron
The British government has unveiled a new “integration strategy” designed to “champion a united British identity.” The new policy will require immigrants seeking admission to live in the United Kingdom to learn English and adhere to “mainstream” British culture and values such as democracy and the rule of law. Click the following link to keep reading.
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2876/britain-multiculturalism
2) Click the following link to listen to a very encouraging message (2 Min) from Senator Cory Bernadi in regard to the Coalition Government’s plan to restore Freedom of Speech and Religion in Australia.
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com
(MCT) Religious leaders of different faiths stoked the national debate over contraception Thursday, converging on Capitol Hill and charging the Obama administration with attempting to violate their religious freedoms.
Leaders from the Catholic, Jewish, Baptist and Lutheran faiths joined in opposition to a proposed federal mandate that would require church-affiliated employers to cover birth control in their health plans.
The leaders took part in a highly politicized oversight hearing led by one of President Barack Obama’s chief critics, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. But for those leaders, the issue was deeply serious and personal, touching on one of the basic tenets of the nation’s democracy and raising questions about government’s place in the faith community.
“I don’t think there should be any compromise when it comes to our rights to religious freedom,” said William Thierfelder, president of Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte, N.C. “I came here to ask for your help. This is an issue worth dying for.” (more…)
Dear family & friends in Christ,
1) We thank and praise God for another awesome weekend of His mighty presence at our services in Hallam. I am sure you too had a great time in your church.
Pr Daniel spoke on ‘Is the spirit of alcohol in the church the cause of barrenness?’ After this powerful message, many responded to the altar call to break the evil spirit of alcohol.
This DVD can be ordered by emailing angelene@reformationharvestfire.com or calling (03) 9794 8211.
When he first preached this message a few weeks ago, many who listened to it were convicted and stopped drinking alcohol. Many others emptied their alcoholic drinks in the sink. Many shared their testimonies of how they were completely set free from the demonic bondage of the evil spirit of alcohol after they fully surrendered their lives to Jesus.
At this service many were also mightily touched by the power of the Holy Spirit, and some received deliverance after the service. We thank and praise God that the house of God is the place where you need to be, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you can be set free and prepared for the coming of the Lord. In His presence there is fullness of joy. Glory to God.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, February 8, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)
One of the most influential evangelical leaders in the United States says Christians should go to jail rather than comply with the Obama administration’s mandate to provide all contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs, in their health care plans.
Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), told LifeSiteNews.com “we will not comply” with the Dept. of Health and Human Services’ mandate requiring religious institutions to cover abortifacient products such as Plan B, Ella, and the IUD.
“We want the law changed, or else we’re going to write our letters from the Nashville jail, just like Dr. King wrote his from the Birmingham jail,” Dr. Land said.
Dr. Land wrote an op-ed on Tuesday with Barrett Duke, vice president for public policy and research at ERLC, calling his fellow Southern Baptists and evangelical Christians throughout America to oppose any infringement on the First Amendment. (more…)
Dear Family & Friends in Christ, See below for an excellent article written by Bill Muehlenberg. Another leadership battle. Another result. Please, I just want my country back: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2012/02/27/so-it%E2%80%99s-julia-again/ Bill…
Media Release from RUA Party – 24.2.2012
THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT FIT TO GOVERN- CALL AN ELECTION
Rise Up Australia Party President Daniel Nalliah today calls upon the Governor General to initiate a federal election because the Government is not fit to govern the country, regardless of who wins Monday’s leadership spill. If Kevin Rudd wins the ballot, it does not automatically make him Prime Minister. The Governor General has reserve powers to approve the appointment of the Prime Minister, and she needs to be certain that whoever is chosen by the ALP as their leader also holds the support of the House.
Julia Gillard says she will resign and throw open the position, but even if she wins a leadership ballot, it still leaves the ALP, already a minority government not able to govern in its own right, in total disarray and split down the middle. They cannot possibly work together with the level of hatred and character assassination being displayed in the public arena. How can the Governor General approve a Prime Minster heading a Party so completely dysfunctional and unable to govern? Robb Oakshott today said if there is a change in the ALP leadership, he will be calling the Coalition.
The Caucus is so divided that the Caucus Secretary, ALP MP Nick Champion, resigned today to send a message to his Parliamentary colleagues about his disapproval of the tactics which he says are “bringing the whole Party into disrepute”.
A brief look at the history shows that the hatred, lies and deception are systemic within the Labor Party and between Gillard and Rudd especially. When he was still PM and Ms Gillard was his deputy, she talked Mr Rudd into back-flipping on the Emissions Trading Scheme, which proved to be his downfall. Then she promised No Carbon Tax, and she brazenly broke her promise, giving the people a tax on CO2 (the air we breathe out) which she now she claims it was a great reform! What spin from an accomplished liar. A tax is not a reform. Big minerals rent tax, which threatens our mining industry, is another “great reform” forced on the people against their will which Gillard claims as evidence of her leadership skills.
Dear friends and family in Christ, Click the following link to listen to Pastor Daniel’s RUA Party recent interview with National News Radio of Charles Sturt University. https://reformationharvestfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Rise-Up-Aus-stories.mp3 Please note…
By Charles Walford of MailOnline – 21st February 2012
The English language and Christian faith will be restored to the centre of public life, ministers pledged today.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles heralded the end of state-sponsored multiculturalism by vowing to stand up for ‘mainstream’ values by strengthening national identity.
He said the government will celebrate what people in England have in common, rather than what divides them.
And he called for local communities to use events such as the Big Lunch or the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and inter-faith activities to bring together people of different backgrounds.
Mr Pickles said there will be a strategy on community cohesion and integration which calls for people to come together around shared values.
He accused the previous Labour administration, and its equalities minister Harriet Harman, of taking the country down ‘the wrong path’ by encouraging different communities to live separate lives.
Migrants will be required to speak English, the number of official documents translated into other languages will be reduced and councils will be allowed to hold prayers at the start of meetings.
New education standards will bar schools from teaching which ‘undermines fundamental British values’, said today’s document from his Department for Communities and Local Government
But he also confirmed his commitment to tolerance, insisting that the Government will remain vigilant to hate crimes directed at Muslims and Jews. (more…)
by Julian Mann – Friday, January 6, 2012
It would be better for Nigeria, and indeed the West, if Christianity wins against Islamic extremism
When Nigeria’s Islamist terror was confined to its northern states, politically correct Western opinion was able to get away with spinning the violence as six of one and half a dozen of the other.
An outrage in Jos, for example, would be put down to ‘religious tensions’ between the Muslim and Christian communities. It was almost as if elements in the Western media were desperate for stories of Christians behaving badly.
But the politically correct spin is now becoming increasingly untenable following Islamist terror group Boko Haram’s Christmas Day attack on St Theresa’s Roman Catholic Church in central Nigeria, close to the federal capital, Abuja. It is now becoming clear that the group is moving its terror south.
And the closer the group takes its terror to Lagos, the more open US and UK opinion becomes to the view Nigeria’s Christian president Dr Goodluck Jonathan is keen to promote that Boko Haram represents a threat to Western interests.
Dr Jonathan faces massive internal political hurdles in his stated aim to ‘crush Boko Haram’. He needs Western help, particularly from US and UK intelligence agencies. The State of Emergency he announced on New Year’s Eve, including the closure of Nigeria’s borders with Niger, Cameroon and Chad, is welcomed by the Christian community but Christians know that the long-term security of the nation they love depends on co-ordinated and united action by the various arms of government.
John Piper
The organized church is torn with strife and distrust. Ultimately, the battle is not so much between conservatives and liberals, evangelicals and activists, or fundamentalists and modernists. The issue now is between belief and unbelief: Is Christianity true or false, real or unreal?
What is deadly to the church is when the external forms of religion are maintained while their substance is discarded. This we call practical atheism. Practical atheism appears when we live as if there were no God. The externals continue, but man becomes the central thrust of devotion as the attention of religious concern shifts away from man’s devotion to God to man’s devotion to man, bypassing God. The “ethic” of Christ continues in a superficial way, having been ripped from its supernatural, transcendent, and divine foundation.
Biblical Christianity knows nothing of a false dichotomy between devotion to God and concern for man. The Great Commandment incorporates both. It is because God is that human life matters so much. It is because of the reality of Christ that ethics are vital. It is because the cross was a real event that the sacraments can minister to us. It is because Christ really defeated death that the church offers hope. It is because of Jesus’ real act of atonement that our forgiveness is more than a feeling. (more…)
Dear family and friend in Christ,
The weekend gone by Pr Daniel, along with a team from CTFM ministered in Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
We thank our almighty King of kings and LORD of lords for His awesome hand at work at all the Holy Spirit revival meeting held at the Uniting Church, where many believers from others churches came to Catch the Fire and to Rise Up Australia for Jesus!
Pr Daniel stated, “We thank and praise God for the remnant He has preserved in every denomination who have refused to bow down to political correctness in the Church.”
Many gathered at the revival meetings on Saturday evening, Sunday morning and evening, as so many people received a mighty touch from the Spirit of God and were tremendously blessed. A young Buddhist woman, who was powerfully touched by the Word of God and the Testimonies shared at the meeting, came to the altar for prayer as she could not have children.
This young woman gave her life to Jesus at the altar. Then prompted by the Holy Spirit, Pr Daniel and the CTFM team started praying for this young woman, who was by this time lying on the ground under the anointing. As they started breaking generational curses, the woman started manifesting with many demons, and one by one, as the people watched and prayed, the demons left the young woman. And after about 45 minutes she was set free.
This young woman who came to the altar for prayer, with a very down cast face, left that night with a glowing face as Jesus radically transformed her life. She said, “I want my husband also to accept Jesus.” Glory to God her husband also gave his life to Jesus the next day. Their friends and family were all rejoicing.
Teresa Neumann (February 8, 2012)
Excerpted from Breaking Christian News “The grace he showed me upon that exit was a reflection of his faith in Jesus Christ. It was also a deep reflection of who the man really is. His grace set me out on a journey of recovery, where I found healing and peace as a result.” -Timothy Goeglein
(Washington, DC)-Former White House aide Timothy Goeglein, who served as a liaison between President George W. Bush and faith-based leaders, experienced a precipitous fall from grace when he was exposed for plagiarism.
Now, in his memoir entitled “The Man in the Middle,” Goeglein-who admits he was deceptive and his crime was rooted in pride-shares how President Bush graciously forgave him.
Explaining that he prepared himself for a “much-deserved woodshed moment” in initially facing the president, instead-as reported in Baptist Press News-he says he came face-to-face with the “greatest professional moment of his life.” (more…)
Jewish World Review By Scott Peterson – 09/02/12
In a State of the Union-like speech before March elections, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tries hard — very hard — to delude the masses
ISTANBUL— (TCSM) Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed that Iran would not “retreat” on its nuclear program, and warned that any military strike “will be 10 times more detrimental to the US” than to Iran.
In a defiant speech delivered at Friday prayers at Tehran University, Ayatollah Khamenei portrayed the Islamic Republic as an omnipotent, triumphant regional player whose revolutionary example was the “biggest success in modern history,” even as the US and NATO were “becoming weaker and weaker.”
He claimed that Iran is the vanguard of an Arab world “Islamic Awakening,” which brought down three dictators in the past year, and said Iran would support “any group in the world” fighting Israel.
Coming just days before the 33rd anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Khamenei’s near-exultant speech — Iran’s annual equivalent of a State of the Union address — elucidated Iran’s current worldview as pressure mounts toward conflict. But his declarations of Iranian influence abroad were also counterbalanced by his acknowledgement of “weaknesses” and political division at home. (more…)
Dear family & friends in Christ,
We thank and praise God once again for sending His anointed servants among us at CTFM in Hallam, Melbourne to set the captives free in the name of Jesus!
Even though Pastor Jay had to get back to the US, the Spirit of God mightily used his team members to continue to pray in Jesus name to set many people free from demonic possession and oppression! It was so great to see people just lighting up with the joy of the Lord, once the demons left them.
One lady who had been attending our CTFM worship services and had been under severe spiritual attack for months, constantly battling thoughts of suicide, often looking very unhappy, went up for prayer and after some hours of ministry, was set free! Yesterday she was dancing, laughing and praising God!
Another young lady, a mother of 2 children, who is very quiet and shy, appeared to be the type of person that you would never think has anything wrong with her. Certainly, you would never believe that she has any demons. Yet, all glory to God, when this lady came up for prayer, she had major deliverance in the name of Jesus! In the natural, this young lady will never ever do the things she did as the demons started manifesting in her body. Glory to God after about 45 minutes of prayer, she was completely set free! Then she jumped up and started just laughing with joy! A major door way was opened for demons to get in when she had an abortion. The young lady repented and through God’s grace was set free!