Volume 5 Issue 45

Warfare prayer of the soldiers of the Army of Jesus to bind and destroy the works of the devil

Let us bind and destroy the works of the devil in the name of Jesus Christ who has conquered sin, satan, curse and death on the cross

Pr  15:13  The spirit of  sorrow  which breaks the heart

Jesus training his disciples

Out of the 12 disciples of Jesus, one was a thief. We do not know whether he was already a thief or he became one  after getting the cash box from the ministry of Jesus. Jesus prayed one whole night before selecting disciples.

He (Judas) ……… was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it. Jn 12:6 

How did it all start?

Judas was jealous of Jesus and the respect He was getting everywhere. He openly showed it in this incident.

Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Jn 12:3 

Judas  passed a comment.

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?" Jn 12:5 

He was not happy with the honour and respect people had towards Jesus. He showed it outside in the form of sympathy to the poor. The comment he made showed his  hypocrisy.

Lucifer who wanted to catch supreme power, by  becoming like the “Most High” had entered into Judas  in order to betray Jesus.

In spite of all the failures of the disciples, Jesus never allowed the group to break off, but He rather became a victim to their innocence, foolishness, deceitfulness, irresponsibility and insensitivity.

Jesus succumbed to the ambushes  set by satan through his own disciples.

This is a common phenomena  in ministry even today. Those who work in support with a  ministry, when they become familiar with the work, if they are not careful, the spirit of jealousy enters into them. It may even take a toll of their spiritual life like Judas. When such signs show up, the leader should understand that it is time for them to go on their own calling and take up a new line or another ministry so that there won’t be any friction and brotherly love will not be affected.

“And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 2 Kings 19:3”

In May 2014,  a pastor called me over the phone.He was assistant pastor in a big church and God asked him to leave that church. Though it was tough for him he obeyed the instruction of God .He said that when he sat for prayer the Lord showed him Isaiah 19

Accepting this message from this unknown pastor I waited upon the Lord and He spoke to me giving some explanations. THIS THE MESSAGE GIVEN BY THE LORD TO HIS CHILDREN ON THE FUTURE OF INDIA (V. 12-17)

12	Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.	Where are those councilors? The Lord challenges us. Can those councilors foresee the future of India and explain it to you now.  Had they waited upon in the Lord’s presence sincerely and taken this advice and instructions they would not have misled the churches. For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? Jer 23:18…. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Jer 23:22….. Instead of turning people from their wicked ways they made them to get established in that.
13	The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.	Those like princes of churches (synod, Committee members, and Council members) turned fools as they weren’t led by the spirit. They made the church leaders go astray, God is angry with them. They held membership in churches for name, fame, position and material benefits but never realized the duties and responsibilities assigned to them For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God             Rm, 8:14 People who were led by the Spirit were either expelled or they themselves left the church. Only those who were not led by the Spirit could be mute spectators and also got satisfied with the ongoing events of the church.
14	The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.	This is what God is going to do in churches. The LORD has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
15	Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.	Head- Pastor (Chief Pastor, Senior Pastor) Tail – The new believer who was last baptized Branch, Rush – Those church members who are between these two
16	In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.	The tribulation which is to torment churches will shock everyone.
16	In that day	Upcoming 7 years(2014 -2020)
16	Egypt be like unto women	They will be like cowards unable to speak, do or stand against them
16	And it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.	They will fear and tremble when they come to know that this tribulation has been sent by the Lord and His mighty hand is against us.
17	And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.	And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the LORD Almighty is planning against them.
17	The land of Judah	There is a chosen group of people in India (those who are led by Him and do His will). These people will come to light whom the church leaders were not able to recognize all these days
17	Shall be a terror unto Egypt	They will rise with all power; their spiritual power will take the whole of India into astonishment. The Lord will be with them and do amazing and mighty things in those 7 years.
17	Every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.	Anyone who comes to know about the power of God revealed in these people will be shocked. The Lord will reveal Himself in them in a never before glory in India. These people who were ordinary and unnoticed will come up from various parts of the country. God will make use of them very powerfully

Sr. Angelica AJ (To be continued)

Behold A Black Horse: Airborne Black Death Epidemic Could 'Explode'

The bubonic plague outbreak that is taking Madagascar to its knees will more than likely last another six months. But the worst news is that the epidemic could explode anytime unleashing the sickness on the globe. At least 128 people have been killed and more than 1,300 infected by the deadlier pneumonic strain of the medieval disease. But the oncoming rainy season could see the number of those infected explode exponentially. The rainy season poses a threat to the containment of the plague because outbreaks of this magnitude often seem to be seasonal. The Foreign Office recently warned that the deadly outbreak is entering its most dangerous phase. Its website said that "outbreaks of plague tend to be seasonal and occur mainly during the rainy season."

The African island's wet season officially began today and will last until the end of April, meaning the downward trend the plague had seen over the past few days, will likely turn upward again. Because the disease can be spread easily through a cough or sneeze, experts are fearful. It would take just one infected traveler who made it to Africa's mainland or even nearby British honeymoon paradises like Mauritius, the Maldives or the Seychelles to spread the disease globally.The Seychelles is currently putting anyone traveling from Madagascar into quarantine on arrival as a precaution.

The outbreak has been fueled by performing the ancient practice of Famadihana. Famadihana is the "dancing with the dead" ritual which sees locals dig up deceased relatives and dance with them before they are reburied.  Just contact with a corpse who's death was because they contracted the plague could sicken a person. The country's health chief Willy Randriamarotia said: "If a person dies of pneumonic plague and is then interred in a tomb that is subsequently opened for a Famadihana, the bacteria can still be transmitted and contaminate whoever handles the body."

The tradition has been banned since the outbreak began, but it is feared ceremonies have taken place regardless as local continue to balk that their rituals have contributed to the outbreak. This latest warning that the rainy season could worsen the outbreak comes on the heels of the reports that British aid workers said the epidemic will get worse before it gets better. Olivier Le Guillou of Action Against Hunger said: "The epidemic is ahead of us, we have not yet reached the peak." As many as 50 aid workers are believed to have been among the 1,200 people infected with the more dangerous airborne pneumonic strain of the disease.

• By PNW Staff

Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Southern India after 'Miraculous' Conversions

Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26, was in a coma for 48 hours after the drunken Hindu extremists beat him in Govindapuram, on the outskirts of Jamandlapalli village in Telangana state, last month. They had threatened him twice before, he said. “But I didn’t pay attention, knowing that when the Lord’s work is taken up, there will be hurdles, and I never complained the police officials,” Pastor Sevya told Morning Star News.

In their prior threats, the assailants had accused him of fraudulent or forcible conversion, asking how he lured Banjara tribal people and what he told them, he said. “I told them, ‘I only share the gospel, that we are all sinners, and this world is to come to an end some day. Only Jesus Christ can cleanse us from the sins. He was crucified for our sake, and rose again to present us eternal life. I ask them if there is life in the rocks, trees and water – why worship them?’” Pastor Sevya said he told them he spoke to every person individually when they came to ask him about Christ.

“Most Banjaras say they get afflicted by evil spirits,” he said. “They want them to be sent away. Some want to be healed, some need the Lord’s help in their pursuits to get educated. I share the gospel and pray for them. We witnessed the Lord doing miracles among them. He does not forsake anyone who comes to Him.” Pastor Sevya first preached Christ in Jangi Thanda, a village in Govindapuram, at the request of a relative. When five families came to Christ, he had been as astonished as anyone.

“I too belong to the same Banjara tribal community, and it is not possible by human strength to separate them from idolatry – they have a number of gods enshrined in rocks, trees, water and the like,” he said. “The five families left everything behind and have been walking in the Light since they invited Jesus Christ into their hearts. It is a miracle.”

The pastor said he was alive only by the grace of God. “I forgive the youth who attacked, and I am praying for them,” he said. India ranked 15th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2017 World Watch List of the countries where Christians experience the most persecution.

 

Scientists: Existence of the Universe Defies Physics

According to the laws of physics, the universe should have annihilated itself as soon as it came into existence.

Evolutionary scientists who adhere to the Big Bang theory argue that only energy existed in the beginning, then, as the universe expanded, some of the energy transformed into matter. When energy converts to matter, the reaction always creates an equal amount of antimatter, particles with a charge opposite their counterpart. So, for example, a proton of matter has a positive charge and a proton of antimatter, an antiproton, has a negative charge. But, since opposites attract, if equal amounts of matter and antimatter existed in the very beginning, they would have obliterated each other.

Earlier this year, scientists for the first time developed a way to measure antimatter, a discovery they hoped would enable future researchers to solve the mystery of how the universe survived. Experts think some difference, some asymmetry, between matter and antimatter must exist that protected the two from a fatal attraction in the beginning. They have checked out numerous possibilities so far, including shape and mass, but found no differences. In the latest study, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or CERN) in Switzerland investigated magnetism and, once again, came up empty-handed. “All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” Christian Smorra, author of the CERN study, told the Independent of London.

But the enigma doesn’t surprise Brian Miller, research coordinator for the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. It is just another example of the razor-edge fine-tuning all around us that points to the existence of a creator, he told me.

“The fact that all the details are just right for life when almost any other set of laws of physics would have produced a universe that couldn’t support life strongly suggests that there is a creator who designed those laws specifically with life in mind,” Miller said.

 

Are Christians the Most Persecuted Faith on Earth?

Sunday is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Why do we need such a day?

According to the evangelical group Open Doors, one hundred million Christians face interrogation, arrest, torture, and/or death because of their religious convictions. Todd Johnson of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary documents that one hundred thousand Christians, eleven per hour, have been killed on average every year of the past decade. The Catholic humanitarian group Aid to the Church in Need describes this global assault on believers as “a human rights disaster of epic proportions.”

While 30 percent of the world’s population identifies as Christian, 80 percent of all acts of religious discrimination around the world are directed at Christians. One scholar estimates that 90 percent of all people killed on the basis of their religious beliefs are Christians.

Terrorist attacks against Christians escalated 309 percent between 2003 and 2010. There have been seventy million martyrs since the time of Christ, forty-five million of them in the twentieth century. In other words, more Christians died for their faith in the last century than in the previous nineteen centuries combined.

Persecution and Islam

Persecution against Christians is especially prevalent in the Muslim world. According to Newsweek, “In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.”

Types of persecution

John Allen cites the Barnabas Fund, a UK-based international body formed to support persecuted Christians. The Fund lists ten forms of aggression against Christians, in ascending order of ferocity:

1. Social discrimination, such as pressure on a Christian woman to convert to Islam if she marries a Muslim.

2. Institutional discrimination, such as difficulties obtaining building permits to construct or repair Christian churches.

3. Employment discrimination, such as bias against Copts in the Egyptian military and public sectors.

4. Legal discrimination: denying Christians and other religious groups access to the courts, legal representation, or action by police when they are attacked.

5. Suppression of Christian missionary activity, as in Iran, where missionaries are routinely arrested and deported or incarcerated.

6. Suppression of conversion to Christianity, usually through “blasphemy” or “apostasy” laws. Nearly half the countries in the world have laws that criminalize apostasy, blasphemy, or defamation of religion.

7. Forced conversion from Christianity, sometimes involving “reconversion” ceremonies where Christians are made to embrace the religion they left for Christ.

8. Suppression of corporate worship, as when authorities in China or Saudi Arabia raid house churches.

9. Violence against individuals, the most common and most lethal form of the global war on Christians.

10. Community oppression, when entire churches or faith groups are attacked.

What can we do?

If a member of your family was under attack today, what would you do? Apply your answer to your global Christian family as you consider three imperatives.

First, we must pray. Intercede for your persecuted sisters and brothers, “making supplication for all the saints” (Ephesians 6:18). Pray for their oppressors as well: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).

Second, we must tell their story. For resources that will help you and your church stand with persecuted Christians, click here and here. For resources focused on Texas churches, I recommend the “Speak Freedom Texas” initiative.

Third, we must follow their example. Knowing that our sisters and brothers are facing torture and death for our Lord, what price will we pay for our faith?

When last did it cost you something significant to follow Jesus?

 

‘Shocking Behavior’: Only 1.5 Percent of Syrian Christians Accepted into Western Nations

Only 1.5 percent of Syrian refugees granted refugee status by Western countries in 2016 were Christians. The charity Barnabas Fund said the United Nations has “failed miserably” to protect those refugees— of which many are Christians. "This is shocking behavior by the U.N. and U.K. officials," said Barnabas Fund's Martin Parsons in an interview with Express.

"In 2005 the U.N. adopted the responsibility of states to protect citizens from genocide and crimes against humanity. These statistics show that it has failed miserably in this. Christians and other minorities have been treated shamefully by the U.N. And the U.K. has outsourced its own responsibilities in spite of repeated representations."