Carry the Bible With You Every Day ✡ "Sittest in Thy House" - ISRAEL365

And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 11:19 (The Israel Bible™) וְלִמַּדְתֶּם אֹתָם אֶת בְּנֵיכֶם לְדַבֵּר בָּם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ בְּבֵיתֶךָ וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ בַדֶּרֶךְ  וּבְשָׁכְבְּךָ וּבְקוּמֶךָ דברים יא:יט v'-lee-ma-di-tem o-tam et b'-nay-khem l'-da-ber bam b'-shiv-t'-kha b'-vay-te-KHA u-v'-lekh-te-kha va-de-rekh u-v'-shakh-b'-kha u-v'-koo-me-kha

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Denzel Washington Talks About The Time He Met God On A Film Set - Hello Christian

Denzel Washington Talks About The Time He Met God On A Film Set

Hello Christian Jan. 5, 2017

Denzel Washington is one of the most highly regarded actors of the last few decades. Starring in numerous blockbuster movies, he has produced award-winning performances time and time again. What you might not know is that Denzel is a committed Christian and the son of a minister. He recently sat down with pastor T.D. Jakes to his faith and his motivation in life.

Washington cleared up some stuff about the culture of celebrity, saying that fame and fortune were not for him. I "don't want anything to do with celebrity. I am an actor," he told Jakes. "I don't need any watches and all of that. So I'm here to serve God, here to serve my family."

Denzel also recently spoke of an incredible experience he had whilst filming "Fences" in a Pittsburgh neighborhood. Washington was amazed when two women offered him solace through prayer.

"A woman on the corner, she was watching me. She made her house a quiet place of prayer for me, and I'd go in there when things were getting overwhelming and just take a breath," Washington said during a conference call with The Christian Post. "Sometimes I'd just have a prayer with her."

Washington then shared the story of his encounter with another woman in the same neighborhood who said she and her family had been praying for him for more than 30 years. 

"There was one woman in particular. Even before we started shooting I met her and I came and said, 'Oh thank you for coming out.' She said, 'We've been watching you for a long time.' I said 'Well, pray for me.' [And then] she said, 'Denzel, I've been praying for you for 35 years, my family and I," he said. "We've been watching, we know how hard it is."

A committed follower of Jesus himself, Denzel has talked at length about his Christian faith. A couple years back, he spoke to GQ magazine about being filled with the Holy Spirit. 

"[It] was thirty years ago, at the church I still attend. The minister was preaching: "Just let it go". I said, "I'm going to go with it." And I had this tremendous physical and spiritual experience. It did frighten me. I was slobbering, crying, sweating. My cheeks blew up. I was purging. It was too intense. It almost drove me away. I called my mother, and she said I was being filled with the Holy Spirit. I was like, 'Does that mean I can never have wine again?'"

Denzel has also spoken about the necessity of daily prayer and spending time with God. He shared how he stays devoted to Christ every morning. "Put your slippers way under your bed so when you get up in the morning, you have to get on your knees to find them. And while you're down there, start your day with prayer. Ask for wisdom. Ask for understanding."

"Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."

"Franklin Graham: God Allowed Donald Trump to Win" - Charisma News/The Elijah List

"Franklin Graham: God Allowed Donald Trump to Win"

Charisma News/The Elijah List Jan 6, 2017

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

As our country gets ready to welcome our new President Donald Trump into the White House, it is really a time to pray for him and those surrounding him, to lead our blessed nation.

God is NOT done with America...and our greatest days are yet ahead. However that doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

I really enjoy reading this interview with Franklin Graham. Franklin is one of six clergy chosen to offer the invocation, benediction and several readings at the swearing-in ceremony on January 20th.

Franklin blatantly shares here: "For these states to go the way they did, in my opinion, I think it was the hand of God," he said. "It wasn't hacking. It wasn't Wiki-leaky or whatever. It was God, in my opinion, and I believe His hand was at work, and I think He's given Christians an opportunity."

Let's take the time between now and the Inauguration to pray for Mr. Trump and his family and new leadership team. We are living in both excited and sobering times! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

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The Rev. Franklin Graham is going through the important process of picking the piece of Scripture he will read at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration later this month.
(Bill Graham Evangelistic Association photo)

"Franklin Graham: God Allowed Donald Trump to Win"

Emily McFarlan Miller/RNS via Charisma News

The Rev. Franklin Graham isn't sure which Scripture he'll read at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

The evangelist and head of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Christian international relief organization Samaritan's Purse won't get to make remarks at the event, but he will get to pick his own Bible passage, which could say a lot.

Will it be something hopeful to heal a divided nation? Something pointed about the importance of praying for leaders?

Graham was praying about that Thursday (Dec. 29), he told RNS, the day after it was announced he is one of six clergy chosen to offer the invocation, benediction and several readings at the swearing-in ceremony.

"You want it to be meaningful not only to your president-elect, but you want it to be meaningful also to the nation," Graham said.

"I'm taking time just to pray and ask God to give me wisdom and guidance, because it's a responsibility I take very seriously." (Photo via Bill Graham Evangelistic Association)

This is the third inauguration Graham will have attended, he noted. The first was to assist his father Billy Graham at the second inaugural of President Bill Clinton in 1997; the second, to offer the invocation at the first inaugural of President George W. Bush in 2001.

It follows his Decision America Tour, during which he held rallies in each of the 50 U.S. state capitals to urge evangelical Christians to pray about the upcoming election and vote for candidates of any party who agree with their values.

Weeks before launching the tour, Graham announced he had resigned from the Republican Party and declared himself an independent. And he was careful to note throughout the campaign that he endorsed neither Trump, a Republican, nor Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

But, he said, he got the sense "God was going to do something in our country—just from the people coming early in the day, standing in hot sun, standing in freezing cold, standing in snow, standing in rain, and they came to pray. They didn't come to hear me. They came to pray for their nation."

Graham has had some supportive words for Trump, noting the president-elect has surrounded himself from the start with a number of evangelical Christians in a way he said Clinton didn't. That included Vice President-elect Mike Pence; his choice to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson; Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.; and former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee.

"Even though Donald Trump has some rough edges, there's something inside of him that desires the counsel of Christian men and women, and I don't know one Christian on Hillary Clinton's team," he said.

Clinton has spoken openly about her United Methodist faith. And asked about her choice of running mate, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who volunteered with Jesuit missionaries in Honduras as a young man, Graham said the Democrat had difficulty connecting with evangelical Christians in the same way because he was Catholic and because of his party's support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

He also pointed to the list of potential Supreme Court justices the Trump campaign had released, saying, as he had before the election, "It's not about her emails. It's not about his bad language. It's about the Supreme Court... and who do you trust to appoint judges that are going to be in favor of Christian liberty?"

"I think maybe God has allowed Donald Trump to win this election to protect this nation for the next few years by giving maybe an opportunity to have some good judges," he said. (Photo via flickr)

It's not the first time Graham expressed his belief God had played a role in the results of the November election. He tweeted earlier this month suggesting it was God, not Russia, who had interfered with the outcome.

In an interview Thursday, he said he doesn't know if Russia hacked the election, and he doesn't presume to know how God works. But he knows God answers prayer.

And, Graham said, "All I know is Donald Trump was supposed to lose the election," according to projections of the results.

"For these states to go the way they did, in my opinion, I think it was the hand of God," he said. "It wasn't hacking. It wasn't Wiki-leaky or whatever. It was God, in my opinion, and I believe His hand was at work, and I think He's given Christians an opportunity." (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

Emily McFarlan Miller is a national reporter for RNS based in Chicago. She covers evangelical and mainline Protestant Christianity.

Used by permission by Charisma News.

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Outrage on the Temple Mount, Er, Haram al-Sharif - RON CANTOR CHARISMA NEWS

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Wikimedia Commons )

Outrage on the Temple Mount, Er, Haram al-Sharif

 1/6/2017 RON CANTOR  CHARISMA NEWS

Earlier this week, in Israel, a tour guide was leading a group of American students on the Temple Mount—you know, the place where the first and second temple stood (according to any historian with an ounce of integrity).

In his teaching, Israeli archeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay used the suddenly controversial term, "Temple Mount." He was confronted immediately by Islamic thug guards.

You see, the Islamists on the Temple Mount not only deny that there ever was a temple there, but they demand that you deny it as well.

According to the TimesofIsrael.com: "In passing, he once again referred to the site as the Temple Mount; its Arabic name is Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. Incensed, the guards interrupted once more, ordered 72-year-old Barkay to stand and marched him over to a cluster of Israel police officers who were standing beneath a clutch of pines."

Not long ago, UNESCO, the joke of an organization within the U.N. that promotes education, science and culture (but apparently not history), passed a resolution that proclaimed that the Western Wall and the Temple Mount were solely Islamic sites and denied their Jewish connection.

Islamic guards had been following Dr. Barkay and his group to make sure they didn't say anything inappropriate such as Temple Mount. Now, standing with the police, the Islamic thugs wanted Dr. Barkay expelled from the Temple Mount ... I mean, Haram al-Sharif. Of course, he was breaking no law, just hurting their feelings; and therefore, he was able to continue.

You might wonder, if Israel is a Jewish state, why are there Islamic guards harassing people on the Temple Mount? After Israel defeated Jordan in 1967, the WAQF (the organization that oversees the Temple Mount) was created under Jordanian oversight, which then employed Palestinians to run it. This is a direct contradiction to how Jordan treated Jerusalem's Old City from 1948 to 1967. They destroyed every Jewish symbol, monument and synagogue. Now they cry foul if a Jewish person simply utters a prayer on the Temple Mount. And we put up with it.

This thuggish aggression against Jewish and Christian tourists is not new. Many tour guides will tell you they have suffered a similar encounter. Instead of defending the tourists, the United Nations, against all logic and intellect, agrees with the Islamists that the Temple Mount is really and only Haram al-Sharif. Of course, the Islamic block of nations has sway in the U.N., so truth takes a back seat to myths that are meant to weaken Israel.

The funny thing is that we have no direct evidence that Mohammed ever even visited Jerusalem, but we have tons of evidence of the two different Jewish Temples that stood there.

And to be clear, Yeshua will return to the Mount of Olive directly facing that area. He will enter, and I am quite sure He will acknowledge it as the Temple Mount as He sets up His kingdom.

"Then the Lord will go out and fight those nations as He fights in the day of war. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is to the east of Jerusalem" (Zech. 14:3-4a). 

Ron Cantor is the lead pastor of Tiferet Yeshua Congregation in Tel Aviv (along with an anointed team of leaders). Yeshua found Ron when he was an 18-year-old agnostic. You can read about it in Ron's book, Leave Me Alone, I am Jewish!—Ron's testimony. He has also written a novel about the first Jewish believers called Identity Theft.

For the original article, visit messiahsmandate.org.

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Your news from Israel - 4 January 2017 - The Jerusalem Journal - Brian Schrauger

SPLITTING JERUSALEM WOULD BE LIKE 'SOLOMON CUTTING THE BABY IN HALF' ...by Brian Schrauger While visiting Jerusalem this week, former US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told Israelis that "we are in a remarkable time right now." Asserting that the only explanation for Israel's rebirth and achievements is God, he said that a two state solution is a "diplomatic fantasy." What's more, he told legislators here, its insistence that Jerusalem be divided "is like asking Solomon to cut the baby in half." READ MORE... ✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡ MENORAH AND CROSS ETCHINGS DISCOVERED IN JUDEAN CAVE ...Video Included While caving during Hanukkah, Mickey, Sefi and Givoni made an astonishing discovery. Inside a cistern-cave, they found an array of carvings, including depictions of the Second Temple menorah and a Christian cross. Nearby, doves were raised for sacrifice in the Temple. READ MORE... ✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡ MAHMOUD ABBAS AND THE NO-STATE SOLUTION ...by Khaled Abu Toameh Contrary to the world's assertion that Israel is responsible for failure of the two-state solution, Khaled Abu Toameh reports that the reality inside the Palestinian territories is a no-state solution. Abbas's own party is split in half, defecting to Hamas, and most Palestinians want him to go. As a result, there is no functional government to lead an independent Palestinian state. READ MORE... ✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡ REPORT: NO US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS AT SEA IN THE MIDDLE EAST Over the next week, and for the first time since the Second World War, no US Navy aircraft carriers will be carrying out missions - anyplace, including the Middle East. According to the US, thousands of Marines on board different American ships are prepared to respond to any threat that might surface. READ MORE... ✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡✡ D O N A T E !        E N D O W ! Around the world, news agencies are finding it increasingly difficult to fund their operations. As a result, the quality of news, especially written news, is suffering. If you do not want to see this happen to news about Israel, from Israel, we need your help.  If you have a passion for the news, especially news about Israel and from Israeli perspectives, help us. Donate a monthly amount, endow us for the present and coming crucial years. CLICK HERE Our primary financial need is to pay those who write for us. Many do so at no charge. Even so, every laborer deserves to be paid. Inasmuch as we pay our reporters, we facilitate their lives in Israel, encourage them and insure more and better stories in the future. There is also a need to go on location where stories are happening stories. Because we are already in the Middle East, we do not have to go far. Still, there is a cost in sending reporters to places "on the ground" where stories are happening. Partner with us in this work through your monthly donation.

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Israel Needs More Christian Volunteers - VIEWPOINT ISRAEL

Israel Needs More Christian Volunteers

ON JANUARY 6, 2017MEDIA, NEWS

Miriam Marcus, Director of Volunteer Israel, discusses why Israel needs more Christian volunteers, as well as explains how to get involved.

If you are interested in visiting the Holy Land and getting involved while there, checkout volunteer-israel.com.

US Senators Push Trump to Keep His Promise on Jerusalem Embassy - Israel Today

US Senators Push Trump to Keep His Promise on Jerusalem Embassy

Thursday, January 05, 2017 |  Israel Today Staff

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Three prominent US senators have introduced legislation to push President-elect Donald Trump to keep his promise to move America’s embassy to Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act officially recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and obligates the White House to return the US Embassy to the Holy City.

The US, like most other nations, moved its embassy to Tel Aviv in the early 1980s to protest Israel’s annexation of the eastern half of Jerusalem.

The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which the new legislation closely echoes, also obligated the US government to return its embassy to the Israeli capital. But successive presidents have cited “national security interests” in order to indefinitely delay its implementation.

Trump vowed he would break with that policy and finally move the embassy.

But there is concern that once in office, pressure from various quarters will cause Trump, like some of his predecessors, to change his mind.

Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Dean Heller (R-NV) introduced the new legislation to insure that doesn’t happen.

Moving the embassy would “honor an important promise America made more than two decades ago but has yet to fulfill,” Heller stated.

Rubio added:

“It’s time for Congress and the President-Elect to eliminate the loophole that has allowed presidents in both parties to ignore US law and delay our embassy’s rightful relocation to Jerusalem for over two decades.”

PHOTO: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Senator Marco Rubio in Jerusalem in 2013 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)

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