The Significance of the 31st day of October

Col Stringerby Col Stringer

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Sunday the 31st of October heralds a historic day on the Christian calendar.  Here are several facts about that day.
 
* John Eckhardt brings out in his book ‘Moving in the Apostolic’ (page 76), Martin Luther received his divine revelation of ‘The just shall live by faith’ on October 31 1517. That revelation was the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation, the revival that swept Europe and changed the world.
 
* Sunday 31 October is also the day that the Welsh Revival commenced in 1904. Evan Roberts led a movement that saw hundreds of thousands of people come to Christ all over the world

www.jesusloversincleveland.org/English/journal/vol3no10/welshrevival.htm
 
But the importance of this date for Australia, is that it also marks the Anniversary – to the very day – our Light Horsemen forefather’s charged on Beersheba. This was the victory that laid the groundwork for the liberation of Jerusalem from 400 years of Muslim rule.  (The city had been captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1517).
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National Day of Prayer for Life Sunday 31 October 2010

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 you”.
 
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 wrong”.
 
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.

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The British Muslim schools where EVERY pupil is forced to wear the veil – and Ofsted inspectors have approved them

Muslim Girls SchoolNon muslim school children expected to wear burklasMailonline By Laura Clark - 4th October 2010

At least three Muslim faith schools are forcing girls as young as 11 to wear face-covering veils with the blessing of Ofsted inspectors, it emerged yesterday.

One of the schools insists that fees are paid in cash and warns parents against speaking to the local education authority.

All three schools have been approved by education watchdog Ofsted, which inspects private faith schools to ensure they prepare pupils for life in modern Britain and ‘promote tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions’.

The schools’ dress codes yesterday provoked anger among mainsteam Muslims, who warned that pupils were in danger of being ‘brainwashed’.

The three schools causing concern were Madani Girls’ School in Tower Hamlets, East London, Jamea Al Kauthar, in Lancaster and Jameah Girls’ Academy in Leicester.

All three are independent, fee-paying, single-sex schools catering for girls aged 11 to 18.

They insist that when girls are travelling to and from school they wear the niqab, a face veil leaving the eyes exposed, or the head-to-toe burka, which covers the eyes with a mesh screen.

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Moroccan Convert Serving 15 Years for His Faith

Bible and Prison BarsFriday, 17 September 2010 Special to Compass Direct News News – Featured News

Nearly five years into the prison sentence of the only Christian in Morocco serving time for his faith, Moroccan Christians and advocates question the harsh measures of the Muslim state toward a man who dared speak openly about Jesus.

By the end of December Jamaa Ait Bakrim, 46, will have been in prison for five years at Morocco’s largest prison, Prison Centrale, in Kenitra. An outspoken Christian convert, Bakrim was sentenced to 15 years prison for “proselytizing” and destroying “the goods of others” in 2005 after burning two defunct utility poles located in front of his private business in a small town in south Morocco.

Advocates and Moroccan Christians said, however, that the severity of his sentence in relation to his misdemeanor shows that authorities were determined to put him behind bars because he persistently spoke about his faith.

“He became a Christian and didn’t keep it to himself,” said a Moroccan Christian and host for Al Hayat Television who goes only by his first name, Rachid, for security reasons. “He shared it with people around him. In Morocco, and this happened to me personally, if you become a Christian you may be persecuted by your family. If you keep it to yourself, no one will bother you. If you share it with anyone else and start speaking about it, that’s another story.”

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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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Salvations, Healing and Pr Daniel’s surprise birthday party

Happy Birthday Pastor DanielPr Daniel\'s surprise birthday celebration at CTFM with part of congregationDear family & friends in Christ,

We thank God for the one big family He has blessed us with at Catch The Fire Ministries across Australia and many parts of the world!

It seems like this beautiful family is growing bigger day by day in an ever increasing and deepening bond of God’s great love!

We enjoy keeping you updated with all that the Spirit of God is doing through CTFM!

Although you may not be able to be physically present at our gatherings, you can feel a part of what the Lord is doing throughout our Great South Land of the Holy Spirit!

On this past Sunday, the CTFM Apostolic Centre in Melbourne (Hallam) was buzzing with great excitement as people from Darwin, Canberra, Bendigo and other places came expecting a miracle from the Lord and to soak in His mighty presence. Many were mightily touched by God, including one entire family (father, mother, son & daughter) who had never been to church before. For the first time in their lives, these true blue Aussies experienced the amazing love of God and the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit!

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Where are the miracles?

Moses parting the Red SeaBy Greg Laurie

September 04, 2010 WorldNetDaily

A mother who was reading some Bible stories to her young daughter was telling her about the great heroes of the Bible like Moses, Joshua, Deborah, Elijah, Daniel and others. After listening to these stories for a little while, the girl said, “You know, Mommy, God was a lot more exciting back then.”

That is how some of us might feel: Wow, those were the good old days, but God isn’t working any longer. Why aren’t things happening like that today? Where are his miracles?

The Bible records a time in Israel’s history when people were feeling that way. Approximately 200 years had passed since Joshua led the Israelites in their famous march around the walls of Jericho. By God’s power, those walls had fallen, and the people of Israel had conquered many of the inhabitants of Canaan, including the Amorites, Hittites, Ammonites and Jebusites. The problem was they didn’t finish the job. God told Israel to drive out all the inhabitants of the land, but they did not do it. So 200 years later, the Midianites came to haunt Israel. Their army was gigantic, far outnumbering the army of Israel.

The Israelites would plant their crops, and when it was almost harvest time, the Midianites would ride in on their camels, tear out the crops, destroy them and leave the Israelites with basically nothing. This would happen year after year after year, because Israel had disobeyed God and was facing the consequences of its actions. God had allowed the Midianites to oppress the Israelites because of their worship of false gods. Effectively they had brought this on themselves.

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Iranian Pastors Risk Lives for Training

Inspire Iranian PastorsWednesday, 01 September 2010 EDT Valerie G. Lowe News – Featured News   

If the Iranian government knew Christians were learning how to grow a church in the middle of their Muslim nation, the converts could lose their freedom—or worse, their lives.

But that hasn’t stopped pastors with the underground church in Iran from secretly attending classroom sessions led by Dave Anderson, a founder and longtime trainer for EQUIP, the organization led by Christian leadership guru John Maxwell.

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YouTube link to Awaken the Church and our Nation of Australia to Repentance and Prayerfully Seeking Almighty God

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Deaf ears open, Gift of Tongues, and Salvations with Mighty Anointing of Holy Spirit in Sydney services

Pr Daniel with Indonesian Youth in SydneyWoman receives partial healing from deafnessDear 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.

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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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Pope to tell British MPs to show more respect for the rights of Christians

The PopeBy Steve Doughty Last updated on 15th September 2010 Mail Online

Pope Benedict XVI has criticised Labour’s Equality Act, which he denounced as ‘sinful’

The Pope will use a key speech during his state visit to tell British authorities to show more respect for Christianity, Church leaders warned last night.

Benedict XVI, who arrives tomorrow for his tour of England and Scotland, is to call on the state to have ‘an open and positive attitude towards religious faith’.

His remarks amount to a criticism of politicians who have allowed equality laws to trump religious beliefs, in some cases preventing Christians displaying their faith at work.

Earlier this year the Pope denounced as sinful Labour’s Equality Act  -  which is likely to be put into operation by the Coalition this autumn.

Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, the head of the Roman Catholic Church for England and Wales, last night warned that the pontiff would be critical of British law in his speech at Westminster Hall.

‘He will want to explore the role of religious faith in modern democratic societies,’ Archbishop Nichols said. ‘While he will recognise the importance of institutions being secular, he expects secular institutions to have an open and positive attitude to religious faith.’

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Pray for a Bumper Harvest Potential in Australia

Bumper harvest for our farmersDear family & friends in Christ in Australia,

Following is a very encouraging email we received from a farmer in Victoria. Farmer John went on the tour to Israel with Pr Daniel and the CTFM team.  We must fast & pray against the locust plague, for God to protect the harvest and bless our land!

 

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Explosive Growth of Christianity is Changing China

Chinese Christians worship Jesusby Teresa Neumann : Sep 15, 2010 : Christopher Landau – BBC

“There is no small irony in the party’s new-found enthusiasm for supporting the development of religion in China, given Communism’s commitment to atheism.”

Founder’s Note: We can barely explain how much growth in eastern countries there is for Christ. Who knew? My dad was born in China to non-Chinese missionary parents. My parents adopted a Chinese boy. He became a great surgeon in the United States. My niece goes to China on business. Someday my wife and I will visit too. –Steve and Derene Shultz

(China) – The BBC reports that communist rulers in China have radically altered their views about religion and as a result, Christianity is growing in China as never before. The caveat is that the closely limited new freedoms are only granted to those Christians willing to worship in government-sanctioned churches.

The director general of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, Wang Zuo An, was quoted as saying there are now at least 20 million Christians in China worshipping in the state-sanctioned church.

“Such growth is unprecedented in the history of Christianity in China. Christianity is enjoying its best period of growth in China,” he said, adding that, “On the question of whether there is God, the Chinese Communist Party believes there is no God in the world.”

Rev. John Zhang, a Catholic priest, said: “Some officials say, ‘You have done for Chinese society what we cannot do. Without any political involvement, the Church is doing a good job, and we from government appreciate it.'”

The report noted that house – or underground – churches remain a “significant part of the Chinese Christian landscape,” but “both the Catholic and Protestant churches sanctioned by the state are now also seeing levels of growth that few predicted in the 1980s.”

Said one young Chinese Christian student, “I think this nation will change, and I think God is doing great things in China.”

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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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