God performs miracles. War between India and Pakistan was averted, a war that likely would have ended in a nuclear war.
Let’s see how God worked in answering prayer in circumstances that seemed impossible. “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.(Matt 19:26)” Last month there was an article in the IPC entitled “India vs. Pakistan: dangerous standoff between two nuclear–armed countries.” War tensions were rising extremely fast.
Both countries were sending warplanes across each other’s borders. Pakistan shot down an Indian plane and captured its pilot. Both countries were bracing for an all-out war, nuclear weapons were being readied.
You were praying. God worked in miraculous ways to make men do what seemed incredibly impossible.
Prime Minister Khan of Pakistan announced in Parliament that Pakistan, as a “peace gesture,” would release the captured Indian pilot. This took everyone by complete surprise. The pilot was given back to India three days later.
Why incredible? Both nations expected the usual treatment of this prisoner. He would be dishonored/lose face, as a representative of his country, as he was paraded through the streets of major cities in Pakistan as a symbol of what Pakistan had done. This would raise war tensions on both sides of the border.
Khan took an extraordinary chance in doing this. His own countrymen might well have overthrown him for making such a move, or the military could have taken over as everyone expected. But God was at work - all of Parliament, including the opposition parties, stood up and supported this move.
It took India by surprise. Some of their news outlets even wondered where Prime Minister Moti was during this emergency - he was out campaigning for his re-election.
An Ephesians 6:12 battle seemed to be taking place between the forces of evil and God’s army.
Satan seemed to have the upper hand.
In the center of the 10/40 window, one of the most densely populated areas of the world, an unprecedented number of people would be killed in a nuclear war. Satan is here to “kill and destroy.”
The West and much of the rest of the world seemed to be oblivious to this. President Trump was in Vietnam with President Kim Jong-un trying to stop North Korea from developing and using nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, just a few countries away, there was a real possibility of nuclear war taking place. Satan was “blinding eyes.”
Those in the world whose eyes were open were China, Russia, and a Muslim coalition that Saudi Arabia and Turkey and other Muslim countries had asked Pakistan to lead and formulate, which led to their falling in line behind Pakistan.
Pakistani Christians have expressed to me that what Khan did was a more Christian action than many of them would have done.
BUT GOD What is impossible with man is possible with God.
WHY? PRAYER. United Prayer. You in IPC were praying, and many other groups around the world were praying. When we come together in unity it allows God to perform the impossible.
Christians in both India and Pakistan were praying. India has a strong prayer movement.
In Pakistan we have learned in the past that when India and Pakistan are on the brink of war, there are certain demonic centers that control much of this activity. We have learned to go to these places and pray; several times war has been averted within 3 to 7 days. I am now learning that prayer teams went to some of these places in Pakistan as war was escalating.
United Prayer stopped this catastrophe.
Thank you for your prayers.
Please CONTINUE PRAYING, this emergency is not over yet. Any spark could ignite a nuclear war. .
- India - retaliating. India’s elections are soon to take place. Prime Minister Moti has lost one of his best campaign platforms - beating the war drums.
- Pakistan – The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists making another hit (It is not that easy to take out terrorists. Their leaders have been taken out in the past and they have regrouped. Recently they have been arrested again. May they not be motivated by Satan to carry out some kind of attack to show that they are still alive.)
May you be encouraged! What a wonderful illustration of United Prayer.
“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Submitted by an anonymous Prayer Leader who has lived most of his life in both countries.
The Bible, New Testament, and other Christian literature have gone out across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Recent translation projects of the Bible in the modern language and other Christian books are also underway.
Let it Rain
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.” Isaiah 55:10-13
Pray for these powerful communication tools to produce salvation and righteousness in the hearts of people in Bosnia.
Pray that Jesus would be honored, worshiped and known as the life-giving Son.
Pray that Bibles and other Christian materials would be taken off the shelves in people's homes today. May the powerful Word of God be like rain on dry land.
Pray that people in Bosnia would understand God's Word and come to Him.
The recent death toll of Christians in Nigeria has reached 120 with this week’s slaughter of more than 50 by Fulani Muslim militants in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, the Christian Post reported.
The Fulani jihadists, who have become a greater threat to Nigerian Christians than the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, stormed the villages of Inkirimi, Dogonnoma, and Ungwan Gora in the Kajuru Local Government Area last Monday, destroying 143 homes, killing 52 people, and wounding dozens more.
The assailants reportedly split into three groups, the first of which fired upon the people, the second set fire to buildings, and the third chased down people fleeing from the scene. Victims of the assault included women and children.
Monday’s incident followed an attack the day before in the UngwanBarde village in Kajuru, where 17 Christians were killed and dozens of homes were burned.
In the first week of March, Muslim extremists massacred more than 30 Christians in Karamar village, setting fire to several houses and a church. The terrorists reportedly shot at families trying to escape the fire, killing 32.
The spate of recent attacks against communities has taken place within the predominantly Christian Adara chiefdom of southern Kaduna.
The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the Kajuru Local Government Area to try to contain the violence.
In late February, militants attacked the Maro village, killing 38 Christians and torching homes as well as a Christian church.
The Christian Post reported that Fulani militants killed thousands of Christians in 2018 alone in what many are calling a Christian genocide in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
Last December, a leading Anglican bishop in Nigeria, Dr. Benjamin ArgakKwashi, said that the Muslim Fulani militants represent the number one terrorist threat facing Christians in Nigeria.
“The government is able to provide protection [to the Christians], but what’s obvious to everybody is that the government is unwilling,” Kwashi told Breitbart News.
“The Fulani herdsmen are a bigger threat,” Kwashi added. “Boko Haram operates in the northeast and scantily moves into other areas, but the Fulani herdsmen are widespread. They’re everywhere now. So the Fulani are a bigger threat.”
Pray that the perpetrators of these attacks will be caught and held to account for their actions.
Pray for the victims and their families – that they will be conscious of the Heavenly Father’s love surrounding them in their grief and suffering.
Pray that the Fulani jihadists and Boko Haram will be hampered in all their efforts to bring terror to the Christians and minority groups.
Pray for wisdom and strength of character for the State Governors and military commanders as they take control of these difficult situations.
BY THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
Sharon Slater, President of Family Watch International brings news of major Transgender, Abortion, and Sexual Rights Controversies that have erupted at the United Nations…
The outrageous, deceptive tactics and methods used this past week both at UN headquarters in New York and at the UN Human Rights Council are beyond compare.
We report to you on two major developments that erupted at the UN on Friday 22nd March 2019 on critical family and life issues.
They lie, they cheat, they bully, and they abuse the UN system, all because they know they cannot get their radical agendas adopted by the body of UN Member States in open, transparent negotiations.
We are pleased to report to you that more than one-third of the UN Human Rights Council members took the serious step of disassociating from South Africa’s transgender resolution on women in sport!
Thank you to everyone who helped by emailing and faxing messages to South Africa and other HRC Member States!
See the joint statement from these countries here. https://familywatch.org/17280-2/#.XJ0Az5j7RhE
We also report on the underhanded, disrespectful, abusive tactics used at the UN Commission on the Status of Women to pretend that nations reached “consensus” on multiple radical provisions.
For weeks, many nations repeatedly and strongly contested multiple provisions promoting abortion, gender/transgender confusion, comprehensive sexuality education, radical sexual rights, and much more.
Yet the Kenyan ambassador facilitating the negotiations completely ignored their calls for deletion and included most every controversial paragraph, while pretending they represented the consensus of the group.
Powerful provisions on the family as the “fundamental unit of society” and other aspects were all gutted, despite the insistence by multiple countries for their inclusion. The 50-plus references to the family throughout the document and strong references to mothers and fathers had been either deleted from the final text or twisted in meaning.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was likely when a paragraph calling for the document to be implemented with respect for national sovereignty and religious and cultural values was abruptly deleted from the document by the facilitator with no discussion. This sovereignty provision was backed by the entire African voting bloc and many other Member States.
Ironically, in the end, the openly biased chair from Ireland announced that the working document for CSW called “Agreed Conclusions” had been “agreed” with consensus. She did this immediately after listening to the strong, emotional statements of two CSW member states (Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) calling out many of the procedural abuses during the negotiations and announcing their countries were withholding consensus from “Agreed Conclusions.”
See the strong, pointed statement from Saudi Arabia outlining the many abuses here: https://familywatch.org/saudi-csw-63-statement/#.XJ0Bo5j7RhE
Yet another joint statement was read from the floor by the country of Comoros, signed by 18 Member States (Bahrain, Belarus, Cameroon, Comoros, Djibouti, Libya, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Gambia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe), expressing their outrage for the abuses of the process during the negotiations, and in particular on how the family paragraphs were handled.
To witness firsthand the length and depth to which abortion, sexual rights, and transgender ideology activists will stoop to force their agenda on the world was breathtaking to say the least. You can watch a video of the atrocities as they unfolded here: http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/14th-plenary-meeting-commission-on-the-status-of-women-csw63-2019-action-on-draft-proposals-action-on-draft-agreed-conclusions-action-on-any-other-outstanding-issues/6017175833001/?term=#.XJZxtfcD3Ec.email
We predict big changes are coming to the UN as many UN Member States are now finally sufficiently angry to say enough is enough.
The radicals have finally gone too far, and they are going to regret what they did at CSW this year as the backlash is going to be strong.
Our Family Watch team covering both Geneva and New York is grateful for all you did to support our grueling work these past few weeks as we worked to be your voice in protecting family, life, and children at the UN.
For more info and to sign up for emails, please visit our website.
Sharon Slater - President
Family Watch International
Praise God for the work of Family Watch and other advocates and agencies who are upholding biblical values, the sanctity of Christian marriage and the family.
Pray that the underhanded tactics being deployed by the officials will come into the light and that these provisions can be revisited and discussed with equity and transparency.
President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation enabling Russian authorities to block websites and hand out punishment for "fake news" and material deemed insulting to the state or the public.
The two bills that critics see as part of a Kremlin effort to increase control over the Internet and stifle dissent were signed by the president on March 18, according to posts on the government portal for legal information.
The new legislation allows the authorities to block websites or Internet accounts that publish what they deem to be "fake news" and penalizing those who post material found to be insulting to state officials, state symbols, or Russian society.
The parliament’s upper chamber, the Federation Council, approved the bills on March 13 after the lower chamber, the State Duma, gave final approval to the proposed legislation on March 7.
On March 11, the Russian Presidential Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights urged the upper house to send the bills back to the Duma to be reworked.
The presidential council, whose advice is often ignored by Putin, cited the European Convention on Human Rights and said that freedom of expression cannot be restricted exclusively due to doubts about whether what is being expressed is true.
The new law empowers the prosecutor-general and his deputies to determine what constitutes fake news without a court decision, after which the state media and communications watchdog Roskomnadzor would block the site or account.
The law sets fines for publishing "fake news" at up to 100,000 rubles ($1,525) for individuals, 200,000 rubles for public officials, and 500,000 rubles for companies.
The law says publications officially registered with Roskomnadzor, including online media outlets, will be given a chance to remove reports deemed as fake news before their websites are blocked.
It says websites that are not registered with Roskomnadzor will be blocked without warning.
The law also establishes fines of up to 100,000 rubles for insulting the Russian authorities, government agencies, the state, the public, the flag, or the constitution.
Repeat offenders will face bigger fines and can be jailed for up to 15 days.
Roskomnadzor will give Internet users 24 hours to remove material deemed by the prosecutor-general or his deputies to be insulting to the state or society, and those that fail to do so will be blocked, the law says.
In January, after the State Duma approved the bills in their first readings, Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin said: "These are crazy bills."
"How can they prohibit people from criticizing the authorities?" he added.
Pray against this apparent state censorship.
Pray for those campaigning for the need to preserve freedom of speech and fundamental human rights.
Pray for the Christian Church in Russia that they will have a strong voice and that they will be fearless.
More:https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-signs-fake-news-legislation/29828242.html?ltflags=mailer
EU leaders have not made themselves accountable to their citizens. This is evident in the EU’s commitment to a reckless open-door immigration policy which has brought a massive wave of crime and jihad attacks to Europe. But EU leaders have bowed in dhimmitude to the Islamic supremacist will, using “kindness,” “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” etc., as a cover. No reasonable person should think that supporting responsible immigration policies equates to racism.
The self-inflicted crisis across Europe is clear in the fact that as of the end of 2016, European taxpayers had paid $767,029,491 USD to Turkey under an agreement the EU made regarding migrants, with “hundreds of millions more in the pipeline.” Instead of erecting walls and exercising their right to sovereignty, Western leaders made themselves stooges to Islamic supremacists, who keep demanding more concessions. Also at the end of 2016, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “open the floodgates of migrants into Europe” because he was upset about the suspension of talks on Turkey’s membership into the EU. Imagine a despot such as Erdogan being an EU member, with his visions of reviving the Ottoman Empire, and his ambitions to criminalize “Islamophobia.” It could still happen. European leaders still kowtow to Erdogan.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has warned that the migrant crisis will be repeated “in an even stronger form” in due course.
Orban was referring to the strange relationship that the EU has with Erdogan. Orban warned that “the Turkish government has the sole power to decide on whether or not the millions of refugees in its country will set out for Europe,” and stated that Europe is “approaching the point at which the population of the countries of the Arab world will overtake that of the European Union – and in this I haven’t included sub-Saharan Africa, which is hardly able to provide for its populations.”
The EU is finished unless the reasonable members of the Union exit fast and/or reestablish effective border control.
“Hungary PM: Migrant Crisis ‘Will Happen Again In an Even Stronger Form,’” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, March 4, 2019:
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has warned that the migrant crisis will be repeated “in an even stronger form” in due course, in a combative interview with the German press.
The Fidesz leader has positioned himself in the vanguard of a coalition of conservative and national populist parties hoping to tip the balance of power in the European Union away from the pro-open borders establishment of centrist-globalist parties in the upcoming European Parliament elections, and in favour of a rising pro-sovereignty, anti-mass migration faction.
In an interview with the Germany Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag, in which Orbán was challenged at length on a poster campaign featuring European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker alongside billionaire plutocrat and open borders activist George Soros, the Hungarian warned that “the Turkish government has the sole power to decide on whether or not the millions of refugees in its country will set out for Europe.”
The flow of migrants into Europe via Turkey was stemmed - but not stopped - only as a result of the EU agreeing to a multi-billion euro deal with Ankara to control its borders, but the Near Asian country’s Islamist regime has repeatedly threatened to reopen the floodgates.
“We are approaching the point at which the population of the countries of the Arab world will overtake that of the European Union – and in this I haven’t included sub-Saharan Africa, which is hardly able to provide for its populations,” Orbán explained, suggesting that much of this growing population could make for the generous welfare states of Europe.
Defending his poster campaign against EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker, who the Hungarians believe to be enabling an increase in immigration, the Hungarian leader noted that the Luxembourger “commands hardly any respect” in Central Europe.
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Pray for wisdom and political strength for national leaders across the EU in managing migration and implementing border controls.
Pray against manipulative threats and negative third party attempts to influence these issues.
One man has earned two titles. 1). Known as, “The most evil man in the world.” To mention George Soros’ name in Europe and many Asian countries, people immediately recognize his name – “He has bankrupted… he has tried or has destroyed our country.”
In America, he has disguised his name well. Until the last two years, few have known who he was. He is fast becoming the one known as the “man who will destroy America.” His sole motive is to make this country a socialist/communist nation. There are no scruples; nothing is wrong as long as he accomplishes the purpose of bringing the country down.
Have you ever heard of division on the House of Representatives floor? He has groups that are trained with a masterfully written manual on how to get congressmen and senators and other government people to change their votes or change their minds.
Immigration border problems - have you heard of these? I can’t say he is solely responsible for all of this but he has trained groups in many Latin American countries, gathering chosen people who join these caravans of illegal immigrants traveling north. There are lawyers on both sides of the border teaching people how to get around immigration laws. People on this side of the border who meet them and help them.
Demonstrations - made up of paid individuals who are bused in, housed, and trained in how to agitate so that the other group gets in trouble rather than themselves.
How many more groups do we want to mention? He is in involved in funding 206 institutions and societies, and recently 300 more have been found. Most of these groups are led by former government employees who spend time in his training school in California with the purpose of getting everyone with the same vision on how to bring down America.
If we ever needed to be down on our knees, it is now. It is all or nothing.
Let’s look at some recent developments. How did the radical women, two of them Muslim--AOC, Rashida Tlaib and Ilham Omar --that we hear about every day get in Congress? Soros’ plan was for Obama to be followed by Clinton. When this did not happen he came out and said he would use all his influence and
money to bring down Trump and the Republicans.
He beefed up the Democracy Alliance referred to as a secretive billionaire club (a great source of money) with plans to help the Democrats take Congress.
When this was not moving fast enough for the 2018 elections a new group was formed - the Justice Democrats a far, far left socialist/communist group. A media/political group. As an experiment they considered around 1000 people and finally narrowed down to 14, 10 of whom won, three in the Congress.
Each person is told exactly what they can say, for example on the floor of Congress or to news reporters. This group claims that if they push this at the same ratio in 2020 they should have a minimum of 79 who win.
Are you getting the picture? Soros brought in Muslims to start and run this group. Another scary thing is that the majority of those who won elections were this same religion.
Soros works very closely with the Muslims.
Is this man on target for 2020? Where does Soros get his spiritual genius?
Where does he get his spiritual power? I’m asking God to make it clear in the spiritual realm. But we also see a lot of the spiritual that is manifested in the physical realm. Let’s start at the beginning and work our way up.
- He was born a Jew. Why does he hate God and his people? Or is he so demonically possessed that as the devil hates the Jews he too is entrapped?
- He escaped to England- his mentor Rothschild- illuminati.
- Influenced by Hindus and their ceremonies.
- Buddhist - has been to Aspen, Colorado and met with the Dalai Lama and been through demonic ceremonies.
- Islam - the deepest relationship he is embedded with. The demonic powers of Muslims – “Spirit of death”.
- When I asked a group who is praying for him where they thought he was getting his spiritual power, some responded that demonic spirits guide him in his decisions.
HELP, GOD, WE ARE DROWNING.
There is only one way out. Down on our knees in unity. PRAYER.
- Cry out, “Save us, O God our Savior; gather us and deliver us…” (I Chron.16:25)
- As the Psalmist prayed, “Break the arm of the wicked and evil man..” (10:15) “The power of the wicked will be broken” and “the future of the wicked will be cut off “(Ps. 37:17, 38). Pray that this evil man’s influence will be destroyed and that his resources to do further harm be cut off.
- Pray that the many destructive organizations he funds be overthrown and closed down and that he and those involved with him will be given grace to repent and come to Christ.
- Pray that any links with demonic spirits and their obvious control over Soros will be severed and broken.
More:
SOROS’S MEDIA NETWORK WORKED TO HELP ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WIN PRIMARY
https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/30/soros-uygur-ocasio-cortez/2
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-22/details-communist-ocasio-cortezs-ties-george-soros-exposed
Video: https://youtu.be/1h5iv6sECGU
One of the leaders in our prayer ministry begins his prayers, “Father, we come before you in Jesus’ name . . .” Three words that people traditionally use to conclude their prayers are used at the beginning by this brother. Rightly so. “In Jesus’ name” was never designed to be a tack-on at the end of our superficial requests. Rather, “in Jesus’ name” is a reality that changes why, how, and what we pray, from the very opening moment of our communion with God! According to Jesus one of the keys to answered prayer is praying ‘in his name.’
John 14:13-14, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”
John 15:16 (ESV), “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
John 16:23-24 He states, “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now, you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
So what does Jesus mean when he says, “ask in his name?”
I see three primary things. First it is worship-based prayer focused on the character and renown of Christ. Second, we come on the basis of Christ’s merit. Third, we are authorized to be Christ’s representatives praying with his delegated authority!
Worship-based prayer
Ultimately God will answer prayer when it will magnify his name and his character! As Dr. Randal Roberts writes,
“Praying in Jesus name means to pray in a manner consistent with His values and purposes . . . It is to pray with the glorification of God as the supreme motive; It is to pray as Jesus would pray if He was in our circumstances; It is to pray as His followers who have been appointed as instruments of fruit-bearing in the outworking of His mission . . . It is learning to ask for the good things that He delights to give from the devoted heart that He delights to bless.”
Praying ‘in Jesus name’ means we pray that the reputation of Jesus would be enhanced. Jesus Christ would be more clearly seen and savored, revealed and revered. We pray that the name of Jesus would be treated as infinitely valuable here on the earth as it is in heaven!
One major assumption when we pray is this:
There’s always MORE --OF Christ, FROM Christ, and FOR Christ! As David Bryant shares, the one major GUARANTEE our prayers will be heard and answered is this: Will the answers to our prayers help...
EXALT Jesus’ NAME?
SPREAD Jesus’ FAME?
EXTEND Jesus’ REIGN?
INCREASE Jesus’ GAIN?
RATIFY Jesus’ CLAIM?
Christ’s Merit
Praying in the name of Jesus is no formality. We approach God in prayer through Jesus because Jesus is the grounds upon which God chooses to hear us. God chooses to hear us because we have loved Jesus and believed that God sent him. God answers those who ask of him on the basis of Jesus and his gospel work. You and I have no claim on God, but Christ does.
He merited the blessing of the Father’s favor by his perfect life of obedience and sacrifice of the cross. Our access depends solely on what Jesus has done! When we pray in Jesus’ name we are asking the Father, ‘grant this request, because your Son the Lord Jesus has earned it!’ May Jesus see the travail of his soul and be satisfied! May the Lamb who was slain receive his due reward. He is All-Deserving! Rev. 5:12
In our praying, it is God’s name that is at stake! Jesus is telling us that His Father always acts in ways that honor his Name! He would never want the rumor to go out that when someone came asking in the name of his Son, that he was turned away.
Can you imagine going to God the Father in the name of God the Son and asking for more of the power or joy of the Holy Spirit, and be told to go away? Jesus says, ‘it is impossible!’ The Father will get up and give you as much of himself as you need and as you desire! So we pray, God vindicate your name in the nations of the earth!
Authorized as ‘Christ’s representatives’
Third, when we are praying in ‘Jesus name’ we are coming as those who are authorized to act in his place. Since we ‘represent’ him, Jesus authorized us to use his name in prayer. He gave us authority over his accounts. He asked us to exercise control over his estate-the kingdom of God!
We exercise our authority through prayer. By prayer we ask the Father for all we need to get the job done. By prayer we ask God to bind and destroy all demonic strongholds that are contrary to his will! By prayer we ask for justice, making wrong things right! By prayer we ask God to shatter evil regimes and expose corruption! By prayer we ask him to direct his grace and power for the advance of the gospel in the nations of the earth! To pray in Jesus name and with his authority ultimately means praying according to his will not our own.
Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords! He has been given the name that is above every other name! He is the SovereignSonoftheFather,reigningat His righthandforeverandever. All authority in heaven and earth has been given to him and he has asked us to exercise his delegated authority in the place of prayer! He is the triumphant victorovereveryfoe-sin,death, Hades.
He is the Glorious Conqueror! Therefore, we are praying from the victory that he has secured through the cross. He is the Righteous Judgeofpeoples andnations,towhomallmustgiveanaccount. He is the Undeniable and Gracious Rulerofhistory,overseeingits pathandits outcome frombeginningto end! He is the IncomparableKingofa Kingdom thatwillultimately cover the earth as the waters cover the sea! Hab. 2:14
Expect Results!
What happens when we pray in Jesus’ name? What is the ultimate purpose and result? According to Jesus’ multiple commands in this Upper Room Discourse, the outcomes of praying in His name are:
The Father will be glorified in the Son!
We bear fruit that remains!
Our joy is full!
God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven!
He promised if we prayed in his name, he would do it! Let’s believe it and pray until we see the results!
What a glorious privilege to pray “In Jesus Name!”
Dr. Jason Hubbard
Executive Co-ordinator
IPC
"The war level between India and Pakistan is high. PRAY for peace between the two nuclear countries. In the last two days tensions have reached a dangerous level.
It is hard to know what is happening. Each side is, of course, blaming the other. And each side has reason to blame the other one.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Khan is newly in office and talking about trying to get peace with India. Any time Pakistan talks about peace the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists create trouble in India to try and stop peace talks.
The Prime Minister of India Modi is up for elections and is not doing too well; people are getting fed up with him. The way a leader gets people behind him is to build up war with the other side. This has created wars between the two countries in the past.
Positive is when Prime Minister Khan of Pakistan came on national TV and addressed the people of Pakistan and Prime Minister Modi of India. He said they all need to come to their senses and pull back or the government would be taken from their hands and given to another (i.e. the military).
President Trump is trying to get peace with North Korea. But most of the news today was about the congressional testimony of lawyer Cohen. Pakistan and India
were hardly heard of. It was like the devil was working, hidden underground, while the world was occupied in other things.
A few years ago a very insightful article was written on the “Zero Line” claiming that this was probably the most dangerous borderline in the world. This is the borderline in Kashmir between these two countries. The article went on to say that these two nuclear countries, in a flash, could go to war, drawing in much of the world.
This situation needs to be covered in PRAYER.
Please pray for peace along what has been called the most dangerous border in the world.
Links:
BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47366718
DAWN - https://www.dawn.com/news/1466347/ispr-dg-press-conference-all-three-indian-pilots-arrested
Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6750329/Pakistan-shoots-Indian-jets-carries-airstrikes-Kashmir.html
Pr4Pak
A Sweeping Global Evangelism Strategy by Every Home for Christ
2019 is a critical year for the Every Home for Christ ministry, as it marks the beginning of the OIKOS Initiative. Since 1946, Every Home for Christ has labored to serve the Church to reach every home on the earth with the Gospel and in that time we have seen over four billion presentations of the gospel in nearly every nation on the planet, with many millions turning to the Lord for salvation. Now, with the OIKOS Initiative, we are putting a stake in the ground and asking a bold question – Is it possible to present the gospel to every home on the planet within one generation? We think it is possible and as a result are mobilizing all the resources of the ministry to this grand objective – the evangelization of the world in our generation.
FROM HIDING TO THE HARVEST!
Because we know how their stories ended, it can be hard for us to comprehend just how overwhelming the Great Commission was for the Early Church. Jesus commissioned His disciples to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation. Yet they were only 12 young men, mostly poor and uneducated. And only days earlier, they had been hiding behind locked doors, fearful and discouraged. Suddenly they go from hiding to the harvest! Their assignment - “All nations” and “every creature!”
Indeed, when the Holy Spirit empowered these men to boldly proclaim the Gospel, they turned the Roman world upside down. Since those days, the Great Commission has passed from generation to generation. As Keith Green reminds us, “This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth.” Of course, task gets more difficult with each passing day. When Every Home for Christ began in 1946, there were only about 2.5 billion people alive. Today, there are 7.4 billion! That’s 7.4 billion names and faces and stories, 7.4 billion people loved by God and created in His image, 7.4 billion souls He died to save - and you and I (and other Christ-followers of this generation) are responsible for reaching them.
That’s why Every Home for Christ (EHC) is launching the Oikos Initiative, a strategic plan to reach every family on earth with the Gospel by 2038. This task may seem overwhelming, but the same Holy Spirit who empowered the early Church disciples is also empowering us.
WHAT IS OIKOS?
One might appropriately ask, what is the significance of using the Greek word oikos as the focus of this initiative? Oikos is a Greek word that’s been around for many centuries and in the last several years even has become the trademark name for a popular brand of yogurt. Of course, to us at EHC the word is significant because it is used in ancient Greek texts to signify a house, household, family or even dwelling. Luke, the physician-historian recorded in Acts chapter five this statement of the early disciples: “And daily in the temple, and in every house [oikos], they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ” (Acts 5:42, NKJV).
Those Early Church disciples conducted the first Every Home Campaign! Acts 5:42 reminds us that everyone lives someplace, and the best way to measurably reach everyone with the gospel is to go directly to where they live — whether a conventional home like we generally envision, or a cardboard makeshift dwelling in a Mexican garbage dump, or even the sewer in a third-world city under some street where unwanted children sleep nightly. In the rainforests of Africa, our indigenous Central African evangelism team launched what they termed the "Every Tree Crusade” to reach the Pigmies whose homes were, quite literally, in the trees! They even modified our motto “We will not stop until we reach the last home on earth with the gospel” to “We will not stop until we reach the last tree on earth with the gospel!”
Also interesting, is a Greek expression used in another of the frequently quoted passages associated with the return of Christ and the Great Commission—Matthew 24:14. We read: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” The Greek expression translated “all the world” (oikoumene) in this passage has its roots in the word oikos. The word oikoumene literally means “every inhabited place in the world.” Frank Kaleb Jansen, a former Norwegian ship captain and past leader of Adopt-A-People Clearing House said of Christ’s use of the word oikoumene in Matthew 24:14…“I believe Jesus is actually saying the gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed to every home.”
LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND
Through the Oikos Initiative EHC is embracing this “all the world” and “every creature” mentality of the Early Church. We have made a commitment to leave no one behind in this twenty year period – and that means tirelessly laboring to work systematically and ensure that every person has a chance to hear the Gospel explained in a way that they can understand.
All across the world for the last twelve months, our field leadership has been praying and strategizing about how we are going to complete the OIKOS Initiative region by region and country by country – a goal we have always had, but now with added urgency due to the timeline of “one generation”. This means reaching every home in the approximately 150 nations that we are currently present and starting work in the approximately 50 where we are not present – it means planning for a presentation of the gospel for over 8.5 billion people.
The ministry of EHC involves a lot of small things – but when added together they are a symphony to heaven. The very nature of our ministry lends itself to statistics. EHC Missionaries (8,000 supported staff and an average of 60,000 or more monthly volunteers) are every day going home to home with the good news of Jesus and as a result, we hear back on a continual basis from the over 150 nations where we are active that we are presenting the gospel daily to some 350,000 homes. The challenge with statistics is that they don’t communicate what this actually looks like…
…What it actually looks like is 240 conversations happening every minute of every hour in multiple languages around the world – can you just imagine the cacophony of voices right now. It looks like a repeatable gospel message (often two—one for adults and one for children) being left as a clear message of salvation only through Jesus Christ in a home.
What it actually looks like is followers of Jesus talking to people who do not know him. It looks like some people violently rejecting the conversation and some people thinking deeply about the truth that has been shared, with many responding (indeed more than 16 million just last year) to know more about Jesus. It looks like individual lives being redeemed by a loving savior; it looks like whole families or even whole villages coming to a knowledge of the truth.
It looks like men and women being faithful to step out, share their story and distribute gospel resources, even if nobody sees because they long for others to find healing, salvation and a purpose-filled life. Statistics are sometimes hard to grasp – but grasping the individual story of a life now saved is something we can perhaps relate to a little easier. And the Oikos Initiative doesn’t stop with just the proclamation of the gospel in millions of homes annually. In villages and towns where few or no churches exist, the fruit of the local harvests results in new believer fellowships called Christ Groups being planted. This past year represented the ninth consecutive year of the EHC’s church planting arm seeing more than 20,000 new Christ Group fellowships planted in each of those nine years. This, too, is the Oikos Initiative.
NO “ALL” WITHOUT “EVERY!”
Of course, the bottom line of this global launching in 2019 is the embarking on a serious journey to see the “every” in the name of our ministry become a very literal reality over the next two decades. It is to see “this generation of believers” set out to reach “this generation on non-believers” quite literally—right where they live—with the gospel of Jesus Christ. All of this is not to change who we are but to refine what we do with a God glorifying, Christ honoring, and Holy Spirit-saturated motivation.
It is to hone in on the vision God has entrusted to us for 72 years with a laser-sharp focus that, as already stated, leaves no one behind. It is to take the words “all” and “every” of the Great Commission very seriously—and quite literally (Matt. 28:19-20 and Mark 16:15). In this process it’s good to remember there cannot be the “all” without the “every!” The dictionary definition of the word every reads: “Each taken individually and separately and including all.” Interestingly, “all” is part of the definition of “every.” The definition for every continues: “The fullest possible extent; all that there possibly could be.”
STAYING ON POINT
A critical part of the global “every” in EHC’s Oikos Initiative involves reaching at least 130 million households (oikos encounters) in 2019. That’s an achievable goal, as 125 million were reached in 2018. That means visiting at least 350,000 homes each day. Reaching that number will keep us on point for the two-decade goal of the initiative. At EHC we recognize there are many other God-honoring and worthy mission endeavors. We applaud them all. We rejoice in that each of these has a unique purpose in carrying out the Lord’s commission to “go, disciple the nations.”
We likewise recognize that Every Home for Christ has its unique calling. In some ways it is uniquely unique. It is also uniquely challenging. It is to go to the tough places. As Paul Vincent Donovan suggests: “Evangelism is a process of bringing the gospel where they [the lost] are, not where we would like them to be. When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place.” Thus, our goal for 2019: to take the gospel directly to where lost people are—their homes—some 2.5 million every week; 130,000,000 by year’s end. And where a person responds, and experiences the transforming grace of our Lord, a new seed of the church has been planted in that place! We’re preparing for as many as 19 million such responses in 2019, and 27,000 new Christ Groups. That is the Oikos Initiative.
We are calling far and wide for others to link arms and join us on the journey. If you’re a ministry, a church, an evangelist, even a denominational leader or simply a believer with a heart to reach everyone on earth right where they live with the gospel, we’d love to hear from you.
We need people to pray for this initiative, we need people to support it financially and we need volunteers to join the Oikos initiative in spreading the Good News globally.
Please pray with EHC and their staff that they with the help of many other partners will be able to reach every family on earth with the Gospel by 2038.
Go to www.oikos.global to enlist. More about Every Home for Christ: www.ehc.org