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

1 Tim 2:12 The spirit which makes one a woman have authority over man

Highly prized among men

Mark 8:33 "But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”

There are two things on earth we set our minds on.

1. Things that of God's interests
2. Things that of man's interests

Both are contrary to each other.

Luke 16:15 "But Jesus said to them, “........ For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight."

How come man highly prize what is detestable to God?

Our human tendency is such that we often choose of man’s interest. When Adam was created, he was created, in the image of God. He had the same mind, desire, expectations, aspirations that of God.

Bug after failing in the test, his mind and heart became corrupt. He lost God's image in him and started begetting children in his own corrupt image. 

Gen 5:3 "When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth."

Jesus rectified this problem completely on the cross and renewed his real image in us. Whoever accepts Jesus and surrenders his life  to Him, the  Holy Spirit takes over and starts working at creating Jesus' image in him. 

The moment we surrender, He takes over. This work of renewing of image will go on life long.  As long as this process goes on, both God's mind and human mind, God's interest and human interest, will be there in each person in varying degrees till the end. 

We should not be surprised when we see certain silly  things of human interest even in the personality of  great saints. If we underestimate them because we  find  things of human interests in them, we will be wrong. We should look at the cause they are standing for. 

The ratio of growth of the work of the Holy Spirit in us will be in proportion to the level of our complete surrendering to Him. Since man has free will, our human nature will always rebel with the Holy Spirit in getting full freedom to go on by his own/ way.

We need abundant grace to surrender fully, all the areas of our mind to the Lord always.

‘We’re Not Allowed to Print Anything’ about Jesus, Chinese Print Shop Tells Church

Christians in China’s Henan province hoping to celebrate the New Year with Christ-centered calendars learned in recent days that such items are prohibited. 

A member of De’en Church in the district of Xigong told Bitter Winter that his congregation prepared a calendar for members but was told by a local printer that faith-based calendars are banned by the government. 

Bitter Winter, which follows stories about the persecuted church in China, visited two print shops. Both said they would not print Christian material.

“A desk calendar or a picture to hang on the wall -- we’re not allowed to print anything if it has any content related to Jesus,” the owner of the small print shop told Bitter Winter. 

Government officials from the Bureau for Industry and Commerce “frequently” visit the shop, the owner said.  

“They have always prohibited us from printing such things,” the owner said. “If they discover that we have printed religion-related items, the government will punish us according to the quantity printed. Now, the control is even stricter. If anyone dares to print religious materials secretly and is caught, in minor cases, they will be fined, and their shops will be closed down; in severe cases, they will face the prospect of being detained.”

The manager of a medium-sized print shop agreed.

“The government doesn’t allow printing of materials related to religions like Buddhism and Christianity. Sometimes, a small printing house secretly prints religious materials. As soon as the government catches them, a fine will be imposed. Formal print shops never dare to print [religious materials],” the manager told Bitter Winter. “If anyone is found [to have printed religious materials], they will be fined a large amount of money. The print shops that have been cracked down on and forcibly closed are not in the minority.”

Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain at Risk

Scientists are calling it "the insect apocalypse", and it has extremely serious implications for the future of our planet.  All over the globe, insect populations are plummeting dramatically.  And since insects are at the very foundation of the global food chain, that is really bad news for all of us.  

In fact, one expert described what is happening to the global insect population as "hyper-alarming".  If we continue down the path that we are currently on, a bleak, apocalyptic future for our planet is all but assured.

When scientist Brad Lister recently returned to the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico, he quickly realized that something was very, very wrong.  And once his team began taking measurements, they discovered that 98 percent of the insect population on the ground was completely gone...

"We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days," said Brad Lister. "We were driving into the forest and at the same time both Andres and I said: 'Where are all the birds?' There was nothing."

His return to the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico after 35 years was to reveal an appalling discovery. The insect population that once provided plentiful food for birds throughout the mountainous national park had collapsed. On the ground, 98% had gone. Up in the leafy canopy, 80% had vanished.

But if this was just happening in Puerto Rico, it definitely would not be a global crisis.

Unfortunately, similar numbers are coming in from all over the planet...

Flying insect numbers in Germany's natural reserves have plunged 75% in just 25 years. The virtual disappearance of birds in an Australian eucalyptus forest was blamed on a lack of insects caused by drought and heat. Lister and his colleague Andrés García also found that insect numbers in a dry forest in Mexico had fallen 80% since the 1980s.

"We are essentially destroying the very life support systems that allow us to sustain our existence on the planet, along with all the other life on the planet," Lister said. "It is just horrifying to watch us decimate the natural world like this."

And one study that looked at data from the entire world concluded that there has been "a 45 percent drop in the abundance of invertebrates"...

Worldwide, a 2014 summary of global declines in biodiversity and abundance estimated a 45 percent drop in the abundance of invertebrates, most of which are insects. And many individual species and species groups are declining or even being threatened with extinction, from bumblebees in Europe and the United States to fungus weevils in Africa.

Without insects, we would have an exceedingly difficult time trying to survive on this planet.  I really like how a Scientific American article made this point...

Insects pollinate a spectrum of plants, including many of those that humans rely on for food. They also are key players in other important jobs including breaking dead things down into the building blocks for new life, controlling weeds and providing raw materials for medicines. 

And they provide sustenance for a spectrum of other animals--in fact, the Puerto Rico study showed a decline in density of insect-eating frogs, birds and lizards that paralleled the insect nosedive.

As the planetary food chain systematically breaks down, we can rely on the artificial food chains that we have created for a while, but once things get bad enough those artificial food chains will not be nearly enough to feed the entire planet.

And it isn't just invertebrates that are seeing their populations collapse.

Vertebrate populations are collapsing too, and according to one recent report they are down "an average of 60 percent since 1970"...

The population of the planet's vertebrates has dropped an average of 60 percent since 1970, according to a report by the WWF conservation organization.

The most striking decline in vertebrate population was in the tropics in South and Central America, with an 89 percent loss compared to 1970. Freshwater species have also significantly fallen -- down 83 percent in that period.

Vertebrates include all mammals, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles. Needless to say, a 60 percent decline in less than 50 years is absolutely horrific, and essentially what we are facing is a slow-motion global cataclysm.

So what would a planet without insects look like?

Well, according to Francisco Sánchez-Bayo of the University of Sydney, millions upon millions of birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish would "starve to death"...

One of the biggest impacts of insect loss is on the many birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish that eat insects. "If this food source is taken away, all these animals starve to death," he said. Such cascading effects have already been seen in Puerto Rico, where a recent study revealed a 98% fall in ground insects over 35 years.

And without bees and other pollinators, humans would be in a world of hurt.  You may have heard that Albert Einstein once said the following...

"If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live."

With that statement in mind, I would like for you to consider what this new study discovered about the decline of bee colonies in the United States...

The study suggested that bee species in the UK, Denmark, and North America have taken major hits -- bumblebees, honey bees, and wild bee species are all declining. In the US, the number of honey-bee colonies dropped from 6 million in 1947 to 2.5 million just six decades later.

We aren't there yet, but a food chain cataclysm is literally right around the corner.