Five-Fold Today - Life of Yemen Christian Spared - God's People - The New Anointing of Boldness - Humility - The Burden of the Cross in India - True Unity - Seeking Christ as God's Everything - The Church: Judging By the Financial Report
YEMEN
Defense lawyer Mohammed Abdulkarim Omarawi told Compass Direct yesterday that Haji had been returned to court on
Sunday, without access to legal counsel, to answer further questions. "I think they have decided to deport him out of the country to
finish this problem," he said after visiting Haji in jail.
That move was confirmed by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative Anoushiravam Daneshvar, who
told Compass that the prosecutor had indicated he intended to request Haji's deportation for apostasy when he appears in court
again tomorrow.
Having arrived in Yemen in 1994, Haji became a Christian two years ago. Under the country's strict Islamic "Shariah" law, it is a
capital offense for a Muslim to convert to Christianity. When he appeared in court last week, Haji was told that his execution
could be averted if he renounced his new faith and returned to Islam.
God's People
My people, My precious and chosen ones, will you incline your ears to Me ?
Will you take a moment and allow Me to speak to you ?
Your days are hectic; your schedule too busy; your time disorganised in
relation to your God!
When you incline your ear, you will hear !
When you seek Me, you will find Me !
Many times are wasted because My people are too busy to listen to Me !
Children, turn aside and see (Exodus 3 v 1-5) !
I need you all to listen attentively, to lay aside time and allow Me to
instruct you, for strategy is needed !
You need to know the next steps to take and from out of the midst of My
presence will flow understanding (Psalm 73 v 16&17), that you may see the way
in which you should move !
Living a life for Me means to always be diligent to hear My voice !
My Word speaks to you and you obey !
I speak through My vessels and you listen !
Good, I am pleased !
I am now asking you to come and listen to My voice speaking directly to you !
Audibly . . . yes !
To your spirit . . . yes !
To you personally, I will reveal the plans and purposes of My heart for you
and for My Church (Jeremiah 33 v 3) !
I will instruct you in venturing forth, for this is the season of expansion
and adventure !
It is time for explosion . . . for you, My Church, to walk in the true power
I have given to you !
O warriors, don't stop praying and interceding, for the prayers of the
righteous man avails much (James 5 v 16-18) !
I move on the words of man !
Yes, you heard correctly !
What comes from your mouth I can act upon and reveal Myself, not only to you
but also to those around you (1 Kings 17 v 1) !
I have chosen to work through man and WITH man !
O Church, few have come to this understanding that I work with man !
The words you speak, in faith believing, cause Me to release My power to
bring to pass that, which is spoken forth !
The sun stood still because Joshua, My servant, spoke . . . Church, he had
authority because he knew that God worked with man (Joshua 10 v 12-14) !
To work through is to use as a channel !
To work with is to work together to get a job done !
I need both in operation . . . the humility and openness for My power to move
through and the maturity and wisdom for us to work together !
That generates power . . . through you, working with Me, nations can be
changed, but an ear to hear is vital, to listen to My voice in this time !
Incline your ears to Me O Church, for great plans lay ahead for you walk in,
but how will you move into them without first listening to My instructions ?
I love you My Church, I love you !
Every blessing to you all,
THE NEW ANOINTING OF BOLDNESS
From: Ching Co
A NEW ANOINTING
The past few days I have sense a new boldness rising within my heart
as I began to pray and remember the various needs around me. I was
surprised by the new passion and zeal that I felt rising up in me when
I bring a petition before the King. Somehow I felt that I'm not alone
in this and was led to share this message with the body of Christ. So
if any of you happens to be led in the same manner, let us encourage
one another and praise God for His wonderful ways.
CONFIRMATIONS:
God began to brought back to my minds these verses and they have
become very real to me and have become my own battle cry in prayer
most days.
I become like the watchman in Isaiah who will never give the Lord rest
until He fulfills and establishes His promises to us.
" I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never
be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no
rest, and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her
the praise of the earth." (Isaiah 62:6-7)
Like Elisha , I cry to God in the same manner. Where then is the God
of Miracles that I've read about from the Bible. I want to see Him act
on behalf of His people NOW.
" He (Elisha) picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went
back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. Then he took the cloak that
had fallen from him and stuck the water with it. ' Where now is the
Lord, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it
divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over." (2 Kings
2:13-14)
Like Jacob, as I wrestled with our God in prayer, I will not let Him
go unless He blesses us and come to our aid and bring to fulfillment
all that He has promise to do and give to us.
" Then the man said, ' Let me go, for it will be daybreak.' But Jacob
replied, ' I will not let you go unless you bless me.'" (Genesis
32:26)
THE MEANING OF ALL THIS
I felt that God is pouring on His body a spirit of boldness and
zealousness in prayer. In the past, when we pray, we might be led to
end our prayer "If it be thy will." But the time has come for us to
be bold in staking our claim in prayers for the fulfillment of all the
promises that God has given to us individually and corporately.
That season of passiveness is over and we need to "throw the ball"
so to speak back to God's court and not to be afraid to demand that
God establishes His covenant with us and fulfills His promises to us.
THE ENEMY'S STRATEGY
The enemy will be exerting all efforts to discourage us from speaking
in this manner and would attempt to make us feel that these actions
are prideful and our Heavenly Father will look down with disdain for
us. But this is a lie. . . . .
PRAYER
"Heavenly Father, you have called us to come boldly and enter into
your throne and lay our petitions before You. And this is what we
intend to do. We intend to bombard heaven with our prayers and
petitions, the very words, thoughts, impressions that You've been
laying upon our hearts. This day, we ask that You began to bring all
these into reality.
"Summon Your power O God, show us Your strength as You have done
before. We want to see the God of Moses who went before His people
and open the red sea for them. We want to see the God of Peter, whose
anointing was so strong that even Peter's shadow brings healing to
those that he passed by.
"Arise O God and come to our rescue, why should your children be
trampled down by the enemy. You have promised that we will be the
head and not the tail. Come down from heaven and show us how You move
on behalf of Your children.
"Father, the time is now. We can't wait much longer. Unless you
come, many of Your children will not see light . Come to our aid,
come for the sake of Your name. We speak these things standing on the
righteousness that is in Christ and we are asking You to do these
things for us in Jesus Christ name. Amen!"
Blessings to you all,
Sis. Ching Co
HUMILITY
"Let this MIND be IN YOU, which was also in Christ Jesus... He
humbled Himself and became OBEDIENT unto DEATH, even the death
of the CROSS. Wherefore God also hath highly EXALTED Him..."(Phil.2:5,8-9).
I used to think that humility was a matter of continually dying
to self, continually placing my will upon the altar, thinking
of myself in terms of how sinful I was compared to the holiness
of my Father, thinking of myself as LESS than other people (you
can esteem others without debasing yourself), not telling other
people if God had used me to do something extraordinary... I
think you get the picture. Many sincere Christians would agree
that these are admirable traits of humility. Do you see the focus
though?... MY dying, MY sacrifice, MY faults, MY image, MY works...
this mindset has little to do with true humility, but it looks
very spiritual. I believe that most who pursue this type of mindset
do so out of pure motives ( I believe I did), but with an inaccurate
understanding.
Jesus Christ is our example in humility and the verse we just
read gives an accurate definition humility: He humbled Himself
and became OBEDIENT unto DEATH. True humility is OBEDIENCE unto
DEATH, whether that is figurative or literal death. Primarily
for us, this speaks of death to the Adam-sin nature, but also
with a possibility of physical martyrdom. The emphasis cannot
be on OUR continual dying to self, sacrificing OUR will, debasing
OURselves, as this can easily lead to the pride of false humility...
because the focus is inward, on US.
Our focus and mindset must be on the fact that IN Christ we are
ALREADY crucified, dead and buried! Someone who is already dead
does not need to continually die; the life we live is His LIFE
being lived through us. The one who is crucified in Christ and
living the RESURRECTION life has no will other than that of the
Father. The one who is dead in Christ is made the RIGHTEOUSNESS
of God in Christ, "...for He made Him to be sin for us, Who knew
no sin..." (2 Cor.5:21). To walk in TRUE humility, our focus
must be on HIS death and resurrection Life in us, HIS will, HIS
righteousness. Obviously, we must allow this to be lived out
within us... we can't think we're the righteousness of God and
live like the devil in open sin and rebellion, then we're only
fooling ourselves.
True humility is not about US, it is about Christ IN US. My most
humble effort still has the stench of pride, because it is MY
effort. You see, Christ has already provided a humility for us
to walk in... it is called being 'conformable unto HIS DEATH'.
Jesus said, "I can of mine OWN SELF do nothing..." (John 5:30),
yet people were healed, delivered, even raised from the dead
in His ministry. Did this cause Him to be lifted up in pride?...
no, because He understood that it was the work of His Father.
Let me get to the real issue... I believe that the church is
seeing the dawning of a new day where miracles, signs and wonders
will be the rule and not the exception. Those with an inaccurate
understanding of true humility will have a difficult time transitioning
into a season of manifest power. You see, religious humility
that is a product of man's effort says you must figuratively
get 'low' and 'stay low' to remain humble. Interestingly enough,
God says that when you humble yourself, He will EXALT you (James
4:10; 1Pet.5:6). True humility can handle being exalted because
it understands that it's NOT about the individual, it's about
the corporate Christ anointing... it's ALL the ministry of Christ,
no matter how and who it comes through! If I have the idea that
it is in any way MY ministry, or MY church, or even MY life and
I see a measure of success, then I can take credit for part of
it. God will SHARE His glory with NONE! If I understand that
I am DEAD in Christ and it is His LIFE being lived in me and
through me, THEN He is able to do abundantly above anything I
could ask or think! Then He is not limited in what He can do
through me.
Are you walking in a false humility of your efforts?... are you
continually dying?... is your focus on your sacrifice? Know that
Christ has already provided His DEATH. He came that you may have
LIFE, zoe, HIS very Life, HIS mind, HIS humility... and yes,
to be EXALTED and seated at the right hand of the Father in Christ
in HIS power. As we begin to walk in true humility, we WILL
see the 'greater works' Jesus spoke of. Let us embrace the FINISHED
work of the CROSS... HIS humility... HIS death... HIS burial...
HIS resurrection Life in us... HIS exaltation and position at
the right hand of the Father, with US being found IN HIM!
The Burden of the Cross in India
NEW DELHI, India - A sleeping priest was beaten to death with pump handles
in Uttar Pradesh state. A Christian graveyard was dug up in Andhra
Pradesh and the tombstones smashed. A missionary distributing Bibles in
Gujarat was seized and the books burned. On one day, bombs exploded in
four churches across different states.
From petty harassment to premeditated murder, Christian clergy and
activists, institutions and symbols are under new assault by militant
Hindus across India. With more than 30 incidents reported in the past
several months, church leaders say the pattern has gained unprecedented
breadth and momentum.
The attackers are rarely caught but often are suspected of belonging to
a network of grass-roots Hindu groups known as the sangh parivar, or
"united family." The groups, which have gained followers and stature
since a Hindu-based party came to national power in 1996, promote
Hinduism as a way of life and act as watchdogs against its perceived
enemies.
Most sangh parivar leaders deny involvement in religious violence, but
some openly espouse ousting Christians from India. The groups are also
believed to sponsor alarmist literature, often unsigned, that warns of a
Christian conspiracy to take over India through "forced conversions" of
rural and tribal people.
Indian newspapers recently reported that one Hindu group was running
arms training camps. Another group promotes the hero worship and
possible political candidacy of Dara Singh, a Hindu activist who is in
prison awaiting trial in the fatal burning of Graham Staines, an
Australian Baptist missionary, and his two sons in January 1999.
"Dara Singh is the protector of the Hindus, a reformer who is fighting
the conspiracy," said Dhirendra Nath Pande, 27, a software developer who
is secretary of the Save Dara Singh Committee here. "The biggest danger
to our religion is from Christianity. . . . It is slowly planned, like
sweet poison," he asserted. "Now because of our work, the Christian
reality has been exposed. What will you do by arresting one Dara Singh?
Thousands of Dara Singhs will be born."
The Indian government, while embarrassed at the tarnishing of its
secular image abroad, seems paralyzed by the attacks. Top officials of
the ruling alliance, which is dominated by the Hindu-based Bharatiya
Janata Party and beholden to the sangh parivar, have played down the
crimes and made bland appeals for religious harmony.
In Rome last week, Pope John Paul II told Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee he was disturbed by the violence and said it had "seriously
wounded" India's tradition of religious tolerance. Vajpayee said he,
too, was concerned but dismissed the attacks as "isolated incidents" and
suggested that the problem be viewed "in its proper perspective."
Church officials and human rights groups say the government's weak
response is encouraging a climate of hatred and allowing fears of a
"Christian takeover" to fester, even though India is more than 85
percent Hindu and less than 3 percent Christian.
The sense of vulnerability among Indian Christians deepened last month
when their leading defender, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New Delhi,
died in a car crash in Poland. Before his trip, Archbishop Alan de
Lastic told journalists here that India's Christian community was facing
its worst crisis since the state was founded in 1947.
"I blame the government for this," de Lastic said, noting that he had
spoken to Vajpayee about the attacks, "yet nothing seems to be getting
done."
At de Lastic's funeral in New Delhi's cathedral Tuesday, thousands of
people filed past the garlanded coffin, and hundreds filled a condolence
book with messages that spoke of more than spiritual bereavement.
Church officials say the Hindu militants' real motive is not to defend
their religion, but their economic privileges. They say upper-caste
Hindus feel threatened by the work of Christian missions to uplift
India's rural and tribal poor, many of whom are trapped at the bottom of
society by the rigid Hindu caste system. Hindu activists say Christian
churches convert illiterate Indians in the guise of service to the poor.
When violent crimes do occur against Christians, police usually
attribute them to theft or personal grudges rather than religious
motives. On the night of June 6, the Rev. George Kuzhikandam, an
Indian-born teacher at a convent school, was bludgeoned to death by a
group of unidentified men near the city of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh,
becoming the fourth Christian clergyman killed in India in the past 18
months.
The unsolved slaying became instant grist for competing rumor mills.
Some Hindu groups suggested the priest was involved in sexual misconduct
or killed by Pakistani intelligence agents. The police blamed robbers,
questioned a school cook who was then found strangled in his cell and
admitted they did not even consider questioning local Hindu extremists.
Fellow priests believe the slaying was another organized attempt to
intimidate Catholic activities.
"In the context of what's happening around the country, we can only
conclude that this, too, was a planned attack," said the Rev. Emmanuel
Ulahannan, the headmaster. He said that some parents might withdraw
their children from school and that church workers posted in schools and
chapels across India feel even more vulnerable since de Lastic's death.
"He had a lot of influence and was able to put some pressure," Ulahannan
said. "We feel lost now."
As criticism has mounted in India and abroad, some conservative Hindu
organizations have strongly denied any links to the religious violence,
but they described it as a natural reaction by Hindus who feel their
faith is under siege. They also have stepped up "reconversion" campaigns
to bring new Christians back to the Hindu fold. On June 2, a Hindu
priest triumphantly "reconverted" 72 tribal Indians in the same village
where Staines, the Australian missionary, was killed.
Critics say continuing mixed signals from Delhi and state governments
may bolster, rather than chasten, the fanatic Hindu fringe. Some top
officials, such as Home Minister L.K. Advani, are Hindu hard-liners who
see no reason for alarm; others, including Vajpayee, seem more eager to
avoid alienating Hindu constituents than to salvage India’s reputation
as a tolerant, secular democracy.
"If the sangh parivar groups have been bold enough to announce their
plans, it is evidently because the [government's] response to the threat
. . . has left much to be desired," said the Hindustan Times in an
editorial. "It is time that the Government unambiguously clarified that
it will not allow such openly provocative remarks and actions."
*** B. Hoffman acted as eager watchman, picking up this piece for us.
True Unity
One of the many things that God is doing in His church at this time is the
breaking down of everything that is contrary to the unity of the Spirit. One
of the purposes of the fivefold ministry is to bring us all into the unity of
the faith.
One misconception about unity is that God is not concerned with what men
believe as long as they love one another and are in agreement. This concept
is not the true unity of the faith. In fact the Word of God warns against
this very thing.
"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the
saints." (Jude 1:3).
"For the time will come when they shall not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto
fables." ( 2 Timothy 4: 3, 4).
The same Spirit that is bringing believers into the unity of the faith is
referred to in the Word as the Spirit of truth. That which is called unity
which is not based on truth is really not true unity at all. A unity that is
not built upon THE TRUTH is a unity that is built upon a lie, and therefore
it is not build upon the true foundation.
The reason that there are divisions within the church is that men are holding
tightly to their own opinions. Men are more interested in justifying their
own creeds, belief systems, and traditions, than they are in searching out
the truth in God's Word under the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We have got
to be willing to die to every opinion that is not in line with the Word of
God, if we are to come into the true unity of the faith.
There is a general lack of balance in much of the teaching within the Body of
Christ. Many Christians are sitting under teachers that are teaching one
aspect of the truth, which is what they like to hear, but is not necessarily
that which they need in their spiritual growth. Many will not listen to
teaching, even though it is truth, and is in the Word, that goes against
their pet doctrines. I believe in the prosperity of the believer, and the
Word teaches that God blesses His children, but there are many Christians
that are caught up in prosperity teaching that want nothing to do with the
basic teachings of discipleship which is the "crucified life". So there
develops a division between those that are teaching denial of self and
taking up the cross, and those that are embracing the teachings of the
prosperity of the believer. The truth of the matter is that the Word of God
teaches both the denial of self and the prosperity of the believer. The
principal is "seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be
added unto you."
We do not have the privilege of picking and choosing what parts of the Word
we want to believe if we are to come into full maturity. The enemy has kept
us fighting with those that are different from us. The teachers want to hang
out with the teachers, and the prophets want to be with other prophets. The
pastors are much more comfortable around other pastors than those weird
prophets. God has set the Body up in a way that we need those that are
different from us. Just like we need the whole Word of God to be a balanced
Christian, we also need the whole Body of Christ to come into full maturity.
All denominations and non-denominations have parts of the truth, but none of
them have all of the truth. Other than the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no one
person that has all of the truth. It is a marvelous revelation to discover
that we really don't know nearly as much as we thought we knew and that we
can learn from others that are in different denominations or movements. Some
of us that are in "the river" have had a sectarian spirit whether we realize
it or not, because many times we have totally closed ourselves to our
brothers that are born again, they are in Christ, but they don't shake,
rattle, and roll as we do, so we reject them.
Are we lovers of the truth? Jesus is "the truth". Do we really love the truth
more than our own opinions? Do we love the truth more than the teachings of
our own group or movement? These are questions that we have to answer
honestly and deal with if we hope to enter into the true unity of the faith
SEEING CHRIST AS GOD'S EVERYTHING
At the beginning of our Christian life, we are continually coming to God
with our need and requesting many things of the Lord. We ask the Lord to
give us more love, more peace, more joy. We have experienced all of these
spiritual blessings in a measure, but it seems that these blessings are so
quick to disappear.
As we grow in the Lord our eyes are opened to see that it is not just a
matter of God zapping us with a little more love, a little more of His
presence, or any other spiritual blessing, but that everything that we
need in our Christian life is to be found in Him.
"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." (1Corinthians 1:30).
Every spiritual blessing is to be found in our Lord Jesus Christ. One of
the greatest revelations in the Word of God that is very basic, but vital
to our spiritual growth, is the fact that as children of God, we are in
Christ, and Christ is in us. When our eyes are opened to this basic truth,
we will no longer seek spiritual things apart from Christ, but we will see
that "Christ is all in all."
Yes, we do need more love, more peace, more joy, but the thing that we
need the most is more of Him, because when we have Him in all of His
fullness, then all of these virtues that are in Him will be ours.
"According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us
to glory and virtue." (1Peter 1:4).
Every spiritual blessing and virtue are in Him, and it is through the
revelation knowledge of Jesus Christ that all of these spiritual blessings
are obtained. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ." (Ephesians 1:3).
Our greatest need as Christians is to know Jesus Christ as being
everything that we will ever need to be all that God has purposed and
planned for us to be. The Apostle Paul had some very noteworthy
credentials. He was at the top in the religious establishment of his day,
but the one thing that he lacked was the revelation of Jesus Christ.
When Paul saw the Lord on the Damascus road, there was a revolution that
took place in his life, and he saw that everything that he had been
placing his faith in was as nothing compared to the glory that he saw in
the face of Jesus Christ.
It is possible to be very caught up in the religious scene, doing
religious work, and being highly esteemed of man within the church, and
yet have all of these things apart from Christ. "Many shall say unto me in
that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name
cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will
I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work
iniquity." (Matthew 7:22,23).
The apostle Paul said that nothing was more important than knowing Jesus
Christ, and the apostle had to let go of a lot of things in order to
obtain the prize.
"For what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea
doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them as dung, that I may win Christ."
(Philippians 3:7,8).
"That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the
fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death."
(Philippians 3:10). The ultimate prize for the apostle Paul was to know
Christ.
The Holy Spirit has been sent to reveal Christ to us. Paul prayed this
prayer for the saints at Ephesus, and I believe that we should pray this
great prayer for ourselves and for the church: "That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM, the eyes of your understanding
being enlightened: that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and
what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is
the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to
the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He
raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the
heavenly places." (Ephesians 1:18-20).
Jesus asked the apostles one day, "Who do men say that I am?" Then He
asked them, "but whom say ye that I am?" It is not enough to know what men
say about who Jesus is, but we must have our own personal relationship
with Jesus Christ.
We must come to an intimate knowledge of Jesus Christ in our own personal
lives. The Holy Spirit is in us to reveal the Son of God to us. Knowing
Jesus Christ comes from the revelation of the Holy Spirit to our hearts.
When Jesus asked His disciples the question that all of us must
answer, the apostle Peter answered: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God." Peter got this information by revelation from God, and the
rock that Christ is building His church upon is the revelation of who
Jesus Christ is.
Our greatest need is to see the Lord as He really is, to see that Jesus
Christ is God's pattern for the church, and it is the will of God that
Christ would be formed in us, and that by beholding Him, we would be
changed from glory to glory into the image and likeness of our Lord.
In His Love,
Mike
The Church: Judging By the Financial Report
A. W. Tozer
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor
to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us
richly all things to enjoy.
We in the churches seem unable to rise above the fiscal philosophy
which rules the business world; so we introduce into our church
finances the psychology of the great secular institutions so familiar
to us all and judge a church by its financial report much as we judge
a bank or a department store.
A look into history will quickly convince any interested person that
the true church has almost always suffered more from prosperity than
from poverty. Her times of greatest spiritual power have usually
coincided with her periods of indigence and rejection; with wealth
came weakness and backsliding. If this cannot be explained, neither
apparently can it be escaped. . . .
The point I am trying to make here is that while money has a proper
place in the total life of the church militant, the tendency is to
attach to it an importance that is far greater than is biblically
sound or morally right. The average church has so established
itself organizationally and financially that God is simply not
necessary to it. So entrenched is its authority and so stable are
the religious habits of its members that God could withdraw Himself
completely from it and it could run on for years on its own
momentum. The Warfare of the Spirit, 9-11.
"Lord, it's hard to ask for You to send us poverty. But we do want
the spirit that doesn't depend on our wealth. Keep us mindful that
though we have so much our only real wealth is in You. Amen."
Insight for Leaders
July 12, 2000
The life of the 27-year-old Somali refugee sentenced to die for converting to Christianity is likely to be spared. Mohammed Omer
Haji, who was told last week he had seven days to recant his profession of faith or face execution, will probably be expelled from
the country instead, along with his wife and small child.
Source: Charisma News Service
Yours in Christ,
Andrew Combe
JonCombe@aol.com
---DO NOT GIVE THE LORD REST UNTIL . . .
July 11, 2000
Cebu City
Philippines
ching@gsilink.com
by Doug Fortune
By Pamela Constable
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Mike Forest
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In His Love,
Mike
MForest585@aol.com
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