Sunday, January 24, 2016

The Key to Passing the Test of Faith - JOYCE TILNEY CHARISMA NEWS

God knows where you are and if you are ready to destroy the giants in your land. He tests your faith so you will know if you are ready to slay the giants.
God knows where you are and if you are ready to destroy the giants in your land. He tests your faith so you will know if you are ready to slay the giants. (Charisma archives)

The Key to Passing the Test of Faith

"Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given" (Matt. 13:11, NKJV).
A mystery is a truth to be revealed. As a child of God we thrive on revelation. John tells us that the truth will set you free. As always there is that little word with significant meaning. Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:31-32, NKJV).
If you abide in My word, you will know the truth. Only the truth, the mystery that is revealed to you, will set you free. Until we receive the revelation of the truth, we will go around that mountain one more time! It is time to turn, go north. That is what the Lord spoke to the children of Israel. "You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward" (Deuteronomy 2:3, NKJV).
Conversion gives you the ability to see. Jesus told Nicodemus, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3, NKJV). Jesus also told the disciples in John 16:7 that you have an advantage over the world, and the Helper will come to guide you into all truth. Read John, chapters 14, 15 and 16. It is just as important for you as it was for the disciples when Jesus was preparing them for His departure.
In Ephesians 1:15-17, Paul says, "After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, [I] do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him." Notice, it was after he heard of their faith. He knew they now had the ability "to see."
When you embrace mystery in one hand and revelation in the other one, you are on your way to building a life full of faith and walking in the promises of God. That is where you live, at the corner of mystery and revelation! You must read the Word, meditate the Word, ask for revelation of the Word and then you will live the Word and experience the promises in your life!
In Exodus 23:29-30 (NIV), the Lord told the children of Israel, "But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land."
God knows where you are and if you are ready to destroy the giants in your land. He tests your faith so you will know if you are ready to slay the giants. James 1:2-3 (NKJV) says, "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." Various trials are in the world. They come in relationships, finances, health and matters of everyday life you face in the world. Faith is a spiritual force. James is talking about your faith being tested so you will know where you are. Are you able to slay the giants?
The "key" to this testing is found in James 1, verse 12, NKJV: "Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." Blessed is the man who endures temptation, not the man who endured the trial or test.
The temptation for the child of God is to doubt God's Word. If you have a revelation of the promises, you will stand tall and walk in faith and see the end intended by the Lord (see James 5:11).
Time is your most valuable asset, and choice is your only real freedom. When you choose to invest a small amount of time, over time it will bring increase in areas that matter most! God is looking for men and women of God to be intentional and consistent in learning to navigate the pain and disappointments of life.
Joyce Tilney is the Founder of Women of God Ministries, teaching women today from women of yesterday. She is an author and Bible teacher. Visit www.wogministries for more information. Her new book and workbook, Why Diets Don't Work – Food Is Not the Problem, share her testimony of how the Lord helped her lose 88 pounds. There is nothing impossible with Him. Visit the website: www.whydiets.com for information.
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Jane Hamon: "A Year Heaven Partners with Earth in a New Way - Part 1" - THE ELIJAH LIST

Jane Hamon: "A Year Heaven Partners with Earth in a New Way - Part 1"


Jan 21, 2016
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Jane Hamon is our speaker every year at our annual "What is God Saying for 2016?" gathering!
She is a powerful prophet and one of the best teachers of the Word I know.
Dig in now, as Jane really spends time with you, sharing about what is coming – FOR YOU – in 2016.
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This word is a bit lengthy, however, it has been interesting how God has shown me several different things like puzzle pieces and fit them together for the fullness of what He is saying for this exciting and challenging season.
"If You Will Show Up, I Will Show Off!"
On the morning of December 24, 2015, I dreamed for hours with God speaking the same thing to me over and over. He would say, "If you will show up, I will show off!" In the dream I saw different Scriptural scenarios in which this occurred. Jesus showed up at the pool of Bethesda and showed off God's power to heal. Jesus showed up at the tomb of Lazarus showing off God's power for resurrection life. In 2 Chronicles 20, God told Jehoshaphat that they would not need to fight in the battle, but that they still had to show up on the battlefield and He would show His power to destroy the enemy that had them surrounded.
I heard a second phrase in these dreams, "If I did it then, I will do it again!" Every miracle we have ever read about in the Word, every revival or awakening from a past season, every example of a city or nation turning towards Christ becomes a foreshadowing of what God desires to do again!
In the dreams I was also reminded of Exodus 9:16 where God says that He raised up Pharaoh to show His power and that His name would be declared in all the earth. The word show means to show or present oneself. In Egypt God first presented Himself and declared who He was to all the earth. 
God used an obstinate, hard hearted, impossible situation to demonstrate His goodness and His power to His people. God partnered with Moses and Moses partnered with God to see a nation set free so that the whole world would know God's name!
The Lord says, "I will cause Heaven to partner with earth in a new way in 2016. My people, if you will show up, I will show off! There are 'Pharaohs' and 'Pharaoh situations' that I have raised up which I will use as examples to demonstrate My power in the earth and make My name great. 
As Moses showed up before Pharaoh, I showed off with signs, wonders and miracles that caused My people to be set free, the enemy to be destroyed and the wealth of Egypt to be released. I brought a divine reversal, out of slavery into freedom, out of besiegement into Jubilee, out of poverty into wealth. If I did it then, I will do it again!"
As I prayed about this I believe I heard the Lord say that He is bringing us into a time of Spiritual Climate Change. Now, I am not necessarily a proponent of the current controversial thoughts on man-made global warming. My father is a meteorologist and reminded me that in the 1970s scientists were convinced we were headed into a new ice age because the earth was in a cooling cycle.
However, in spiritual terms, God is saying that man has the capacity to change the current spiritual atmosphere and heat things up through our prayers, prophetic declarations and through our praise, melting the ice off the hearts of His people to bring change. (Photo via Pixabay)
There has been a hostile spiritual climate in the nations, in media and governments which has marginalized those who follow Christ, but there is a change coming. With the rise of ISIS and terrorism in the earth there has been a pouring out of the blood of martyrs that is stirring the global atmosphere. In the midst of ISIS persecution, in the midst of a growing hostility and persecution against Christians in media and government, 
I believe the enemy is overplaying his hand and a spiritual climate change will result, continuing to make the earth ripe for awakening, revival and reformation.
5776 – A Jubilee Year of Release!
2016 corresponds to the Hebraic year 5776 (beginning in September 2015). 5776 is considered to be a Jubilee year by Hebraic scholars and the 70th Jubilee year observed since Joshua led the children of Israel into the Promised Land! The number 70 corresponds with a total cycle being complete and perfected. Jubilee occurs every 50 years, after a cycle of 7 Shemitah years. Scripture calls Shemitah the Year of Release and Jubilee is a double portion of that! 
In Jubilee all slaves were released, debts were cancelled, families were restored, inheritances restored, property returned. 2016 will be a year of Jubilee blessing and release!
Leviticus 25:9-10 says, "Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family."
It is interesting for America, that this Scripture (Leviticus 25:10) is inscribed on our famous Liberty Bell. I believe it is a declaration from the Lord for us all to speak and decree over our nation!
But Jubilee and the Year of Release (Shemitah) also came with some instructions for us to follow: Deuteronomy 31:10-13 tells us we are to read the word to the whole community so that even the little ones know it and understand it. Leviticus 25:13-17 warns us not to oppress one another. Deuteronomy 15:7-11 tells us to open our hands to the poor during this time.
With all the shaking in the earth today, with tension in our nation and other nations, with Christians being martyred and persecuted in record numbers, we must not just celebrate our own freedom and Jubilee, but find ways to reach out to others who are being oppressed to see them also set free. 
The application is both spiritual, to set the spiritual captives free, but also practical to do what we can to see those who are physically captive set free. If we will show up and get involved, God will show off!
The Hebraic word Ayin, which refers to the 70, this current decade, is the 16th letter in the Hebraic Aleph-bet. It means "eye" or "to see, to discern." In this 16th year of this Millennium, God is sharpening the prophetic vision of His people. The sixth letter in the Hebraic aleph bet is Vav, which has the numeric value of six. The Hebrew "aleph bet" is a pictorial language and Vav is pictured as a hook, a tent peg or a spear.
Man was created on the sixth day and for this reason six is often said to be the number of man. Vav is used in Scripture as a symbol that hooks things together. In Genesis 1:1 it is the symbol that hooks the words Heaven and earth together. (In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth). This verse is made up of seven Hebrew words and the Vav is the sixth word "v'et." The other two letters are aleph and tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew aleph bet. So this word "v'et" is the Vav, then would be the English equivalent of basically saying A to Z.
In Revelation 1, Jesus Identifies Himself as the first and the last, the "aleph tav." Hebrew scholars believe this Vav symbolizes the presence of Christ at creation as Messiah, joining creation with its future salvation...the past "vaved" to the future. God "vaved" to man, Heaven "vaved" to earth, spiritual things "vaved" to earthly things. The Vav symbol becomes the divine connecting force that joins Heaven and earth together. The very number of this year is an indication of the season we are in, when God's Kingdom will come and His will shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
The Vav is also a picture of a tent peg or a stake. This is a time for us to stake our claim for all God has promised from the past...driving it home for our present fulfillment. Hebrews 11:1 declares, "Now faith is..." 
It is time to shift out of a "someday mentality" into an expectation for a "now" manifestation! We need to shake off all helplessness and hopelessness to understand that our actions on earth give us the ability to partner with Heaven to see breakthrough occur.
When we humble ourselves and pray and turn from our wicked ways, God hears from Heaven and will forgive and heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14). When we praise, God silences our enemy (Psalm 8:2). When we decree, God establishes things for us and shines light on our path (Job 22:28). When we prophesy and release the Voice of the Lord the enemy is shattered (Isaiah 30:31). 
When we give our tithes and offerings Heaven opens its windows of blessings over our lives, rebukes our Devourer and causes us to be happy and blessed (Malachi 3:10-12)! What we do on earth, good or bad, has a corresponding response from Heaven!
One last note here is that the word Jubilee is the Hebrew word is truwah, which means an acclamation of joy, a battle cry, to blow the trumpets, to sound an alarm, a great shout, a shout of victory, rejoicing. It comes from the root word ruwah which means to mar by breaking, to split the ears with sound, to rejoice, to destroy, a sound of triumph, a joyful sound, to sound an alarm. God is releasing a Jubilee sound from Heaven declaring release, but He is also listening for the sound of Jubilee coming from His people in the earth.
There is an alarm, a war cry sounding in Heaven and God desires to hear the urgency and fervency of His people rising in the earth. Can we release both the sound of rejoicing and victory and the war cry sound of battle? 
When the sounds of Heaven and earth connect there will be a resonating battle cry for God's angel armies to bring breakthrough for us as never before.
The Jubilee shout at Jericho caused walls to fall! The sound of breaking pitchers and drawing swords caused Gideon's enemy to be defeated! The sounds of praise from Jehoshaphat's army caused the enemy to destroy one another. The sound of people crying out at Pentecost caused God to release a rushing mighty wind of Holy Ghost fire that would change the world! If He did it then, He will do it again!
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Still a Time of Divine Reversals
At the beginning of 2015, I heard the Lord say that this would be a Year of Divine Reversals. As a matter of fact, in Esther 9:1 when it speaks of the decree of Haman it says of that day "that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, though it was turned to the contrary (the reverse occurred) that the Jews had rule over them that hated them." 
I was surprised to find that the word "turned" in this verse is the Hebrew word haphak and is the Strong's number 2015!! 
It means to overturn, to change, to overthrow, to turn around, to transform, to be reversed! We are in a time of Divine Reversals! 
We have seen incredible miracles in bodies, families, jobs, churches, finances, etc. to evidence the reversals.
The Strong's number 2016 (hephek) also means to turn, to be reversed, to go contrary, to make a difference, opposite. 
In this time of connecting Heaven and earth God is challenging us that we can make a difference, we can cause things to be reversed. Things that went against us, or contrary to us in the last season can see a turnaround. How can we show up so that God can show off?
In April, prior to the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage, Tom was praying and complaining to the Lord that we shouldn't call them the Supreme Court. "They aren't the final say in what happens in the land." But the Lord replied back that they were the final say in our nation's court system. But when a lower court makes a bad decision your only option is to appeal to a higher court...the Sovereign Court...to see a reversal. Then all the lower courts have to align with what the highest court decrees. We are believing for some reversals from the court of Heaven.
Momentum Shift: Something else the Lord showed Tom is that we are getting ready to see a momentum shift. It seems the momentum shifted against the Church for a while this year. But just as in a football game a team can be losing in a big way, there can come a point when something happens, an interception, fumble, etc., which causes the momentum in the game to shift. The team that could do nothing right can suddenly do nothing wrong! They come back and win the game. This is how the Church has been. But the momentum is shifting!
The State of the Church
Back in 2000, I wrote that we would see a wider and wider gulf between the true, Bible believing remnant and those who are "Christians" in name only. The old, dead, historical church would maintain the name Christian as a form, but the true Church would eventually be called by a brand new name. 
Just as in the second reformation the present truth church was known by a new name, Protestants, in the next few years we will see a whole new term used for those who believe the Bible, the power of the Holy Spirit, and in the Church's role to interact with culture.
I don't know the name, but I know it is coming. I am praying this defining term will come from the Church rather than the media trying to define us in times of persecution. Increased controversy will continue as Believers are pressed more and more to decide which side of that gulf they will stand on. Persecution will continue to rise against Bible Believers, but God is raising up strong voices in the mountains of culture which will give strength to those making the choice.
The Four Horsemen of Awakening: The Light Horsemen Are Arising!
I had the following dream on August 6, 2015 which speaks to God's plans for awakening nations. We were in Australia at the time. I call this dream: The Four Horsemen of Awakening meet Leviathan.
I dreamed of the Four Horsemen of Awakening and Revival. They were Angels dressed in white and were linked arm in arm. They presented themselves to me as the necessary team to bring nations into their destiny of breakthrough, revival and awakening.
1.) The first horseman worked with the recent past moves of God, revivals, outpourings, movements. 
In the dream I knew he carried the anointing of the time of the Charismatic Movement which was a catch up movement of outpouring of the Holy Ghost, even into denominational circles. I knew God is visiting the denominations again...pouring out His Spirit and giving people an opportunity to update or vacate those denominations. This horseman also represented redigging old wells of revival and outpouring. Fresh pockets or wells of outpouring and revival are springing up throughout the earth.
2). The second horseman was the angel that worked with the prophetic movement. 
The Voice of the Lord is a Force! (Psalm 29). I knew there was a fresh wind of revelation and power coming to the prophetic people. More people were embracing and being trained in hearing God's voice. A whole new prophetic wave is being released.
3). The third horseman worked with the apostolic movement or anointing:
anointed to equip people to be sent ones with signs wonders and miracles. Apostle is a military term. Apostolos means one sent into a territory on assignment to bring transformation. Many more saints are catching the understanding that they are to be sent ones into their world and into culture.
(Photo by Mike De Lorenzo "Jesus Return on the White Horse" via elijahshopper.com)
4). The fourth horseman worked with prophetic evangelism
...the new kid on the block; he looked to be the youngest of the four but still very powerful and necessary for completing the team. God is stirring boldness and urgency in His people to reach out to the lost with the power of the Holy Spirit and the prophetic word to bring them to Christ!
These four Angels were linked arm-in-arm as a unified force with an assignment to bring awakening into nations. Every church and ministry must fortify and develop these four areas to prepare the way for awakening and revival to come.
The Time of the Light Horsemen
Interestingly, the man preaching the night after I had the dream (Prophet Greg Bailey who heads up Christian International Australia and New Zealand) had us all stand and link arms together as a sign we were partnering with Heaven. He said it was the 100 year anniversary of the battle at Gallipoli in which the ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) armies penetrated the Middle East.
These brigades were called the "Light Horsemen". Though they were eventually pushed back at Gallipoli and suffered a horrible defeat, they went on to win a major, miraculous victory at Beersheba (meaning the well of the oath or covenant) where 800 Light Horsemen, armed only with bayonets and a Bible, charged the guns of the Turks and Germans and miraculously overtook them.
Their bravery was so amazing, some of the Turkish soldiers, the enemy, actually put down their guns and applauded the Light Horsemen brigade. It was these armies, along with the British forces, who in 1917 took Jerusalem back from 1400 years of Muslim rule!
There are hundreds of military testimonies from both sides of the battle for Jerusalem in which soldiers report seeing lights, or "light beings" fighting with the Light Horsemen. Clearly both sides saw angels mobilized on the field of battle. They won the battle and liberated Jerusalem against impossible odds! This took place in 1917 which was also a Jubilee year.
As a sound of freedom was arising in the earth, the angel armies were sent to war to see a land set free. Heaven and earth worked in partnership to see Jerusalem released! As God's people arise the angels are being given orders concerning us (Psalm 91). 
God's Light Horsemen are arising! 
Heavenly Horsemen who will fight for us and earthly horsemen who will rise up to take cities and bring Liberty for the cause of Christ. (Photo via freeimages)
These Light Horsemen penetrated the Middle East in 1915, but didn't win the full victory until 1917. This is interesting as 2017 is the 500-year anniversary of the second reformation. One more interesting fact is that the victory at Beersheba took place on October 31, 1917 – the exact date of the 400-year anniversary of Martin Luther launching the second reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg church.
I believe our prayers have penetrated spiritual and cultural issues in 2015, but as at Gallipoli we may have seen some push back and seeming defeat. However, I also believe God is anointing us with the courage of the Light Horsemen to charge the enemy's front lines for some miraculous victories in the place of covenant (Beersheba). 
These victories will open the way to see cities and nations turned. But the Church must arise and be God's voice and God's force in the earth.
(...To be continued in Part 2.)
Jane Hamon
Vision Church @ Christian International

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Website: visionchurchci.org
Tom and Jane Hamon are the senior pastors of Vision Church @ Christian International in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Their ministry together is an example to the Body of Christ of a husband and wife team working in tandem and unity to accomplish God's purposes. Their ministry is characterized by a rich deposit of God's wisdom to provide apostolic covering for the Church, prophetic teaching and ministry, and demonstration of Kingdom anointing and power. 
They travel as an apostolic/prophetic team to the nations, imparting both the spirit of wisdom and revelation to establish the Church and break open territories through spiritual warfare for the Kingdom of God to be experienced in a powerful and practical way. 
Jane has also written several books, including her very practical work on Dreams and Visions, her call to marketplace ministers called The Cyrus Decree, and her proclamation over women in the Church to arise and be The Deborah Company.
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Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog: ISIS waging war of genocide against Christians in the Mideast.

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BREAKING NEWS: ISIS waging war of genocide against Christians in the Mideast. New UN report provides chilling details.



(Austin, Texas) -- The evidence is in, and it's chilling -- the Islamic State is intentionally waging a war of genocide against Christians in Iraq and Syria.
The jihadists are systematically trying to exterminate the Christian population in both countries by forcing followers of Jesus Christ to convert to their brand of Apocalyptic Islam or enslaving them, murdering them, starving them, and/or driving them out of the region.
This is the case I began to lay out during a presentation at Life Austin Church here in the Texas capital on Thursday night. It was part of a series of messages I'm delivering across the U.S. on radio, TV and in churches as part of The First Hostage book tour.
For the moment, ISIS is focusing their genocidal campaign on the populations of Iraq and Syria. But this is only the beginning. According to their Apocalyptic Islamic eschatology, ISIS leaders want expand their genocidal campaign throughout Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and the rest of the region in order to broaden their Islamic kingdom or caliphate and hasten the coming of the Mahdi, who they believe will then establish a worldwide caliphate.
Consider the trend lines:
“When hundreds of thousands of Christians – men, women and children – are killed, this isn’t war -- this is genocide," argues World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder. "And we Jews know what happens when the world is silent to genocide.”
Lauder has urged Jews and Christians to join forces against genocide. “Together, we must speak as one and tell the world: no more discrimination, no more terror, no more death, and no more silence!” I absolutely agree.
While ISIS is engaged in the slaughter of Christians because they believe it is fulfilling Islamic End Times prophecy, they actually unknowingly fulfilling Biblical prophecy about the last days.
Christ also prophesied that believers will see "wars and rumors of war," the rise of "lawlessness" and vastly increased persecution in the last days before He returns to set up His Kingdom. The Lord Jesus specifically warned that the enemies of the Cross "will deliver you to tribulation" in the End Times "and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many." (see Matthew 24) These are exactly the trends we're seeing emerge in the epicenter.
But let's be clear: it's not just Christians who are facing the ISIS genocide. Sunni and Shia Muslims who don't share the ISIS theology and eschatology are also facing this jihadist rampage. So are Yazidis and other minorities. And, of course, ISIS is threatening to exterminate the Jews of Israel soon.
“Palestine will not be your land or your home,” ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told the Jews of Israel in an audio message in December. “It will be a graveyard for you. Allah has gathered you in Palestine so that the Muslims may kill you.”
In August of 2014, just after I finished writing my first novel about ISIS (The Third Target), I began publicly warning that "we are watching genocidal conditions emerging in the epicenter" as the ISIS jihadist rampage accelerated.
The situation has worsened dramatically since then.
By February of 2015, the government of Iraq had laid out their case to the U.N. Security Council that the Islamic State was not simply committing atrocities but outright genocide.
"These terrorist groups have desecrated all human values. They have committed the most heinous criminal terrorist acts against the Iraqi people whether Shi'ite, Sunni, Christians, Turkmen, Shabak or Yazidis," Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said. "These are in fact crimes of genocide committed against humanity that must be held accountable before international justice."
Now, just this week, the U.N. has issued a report documenting the magnitude of the horror. Consider the numbers just in Iraq:
  • 18,802 civilians were killed in Iraq between January 2014 and October 2015
  • 36,245 civilians have been wounded during this same period
  • some 3,500 have been seized as slaves by ISIS
  • 3.2 million civilians have been displaced from their homes and villages, on the run for their very lives
"The violence suffered by civilians in Iraq remains staggering,” the report states. “The so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”
The U.N. report "details numerous examples of killings by ISIL in gruesome public spectacles, including by shooting, beheading, bulldozing, burning alive and throwing people off the top of buildings. There are also reports of the murder of child soldiers who fled fighting on the frontlines in Anbar. Information received and verified suggests that between 800 and 900 children in Mosul had been abducted by ISIL for religious education and military training....ISIL [also] continued to subject women and children to sexual violence, particularly in the form of sexual slavery."
Now consider the numbers in Syria, as well. According to the United Nations:
  • at least 250,000 people have been killed in Syria
  • 6.6 million people in Syria have been displaced from their homes and villages and are on the run for their lives
  • 13.5 million need humanitarian assistance," reported Reuters on January 15, 2016.

First, the President and Congress must publicly acknowledge that the Islamic State is engaged in genocide.

Second, it is time for Congress to formally declare war against ISIS.
And third, we need to elect a new Commander-in-Chief ready, willing and able to neutralize the ISIS threat, as well as the Iranian nuclear threat before it's too late.

As Jay Sekulow, head of ACLJ, and his team note, "The Holocaust gave rise to the necessity to define what 'genocide' is, and Article 2 of the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) did just that," defining it as:
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

“Christians in the Middle East urgently need this recognition to wake up the world to what is going on," Kuby notes. "In contrast to other diplomatic notions such as ‘systematic mass murder,’ ‘genocide’ is an internationally recognized legal term. It is necessary to call for further steps, such as a resolution at the UN Security Council and a referral to the International Criminal Court....All necessary criteria are fulfilled in order to recognize this as genocide. To deny this only adds to the horrendous suffering that people are already experiencing.”
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7 Ways to Know God's Calling You - TRICIA GOYER CHARISMA NEWS

If you're waiting until you have enough time or more money to answer God's call, read this.
If you're waiting until you have enough time or more money to answer God's call, read this. (Charisma archives)


7 Ways to Know God's Calling You
There is a myth today that says we must get our life organized and in order before we follow God's call. Our kids must have adequate time with us. Our debt must be paid down. Our days must have space ... and peace.
After all, how can we do great things for God when we don't even have time to spend 10 minutes in prayer? How can we give from an empty well? How can we spare what we don't have, whether it be time, money or energy? Yet God's call never waits for us to unclutter our lives. In fact, He usually calls us when we have nothing to spare. Why?
When we don't have anything to give, we look to the Giver.
When we have no time, we must readjust our priorities and set things according to God's schedule.
When we feel foolish and inadequate, we'll look to God's wisdom.
When we feel wrung out, we'll look to His strength.
And in the midst of following Him, we'll find Him.
When John and I were busy with careers and older kids, God called us to adopt. When I was a busy homeschooling mom and writer, He called me to help start a crisis pregnancy center.
When our family was settled in Montana, God called us to Arkansas—and to an inner city church.
When I had not a moment to spare with book deadlines and kids, He's continued to call me to serve and inspire teenage moms through our Teen MOPS support group.
Even last week, when I had family visiting and a book deadline, God called John and me to help a teen mom move her and her kids. She was blessed. We were blessed too.
And what have I discovered?
More time? (Not really.)
More energy? (I wish!)
Instead, I've discovered that when I do God's work, He takes care of mine (the deadlines get met, the kids get cared for).
Yes, the words for the books and blogs come when I'm too tired to think. And my children are trained on what following God looks like.
Something else happens too. Lives are transformed. Children without a home find one. Young women who don't know what being a mother means are mentored. Some of these young women in crisis even bow their heads and pray for salvation. (I got to experience that recently!)
How do you know what God's calling you to do?
(Notice I didn't say IF He's calling.) Here are seven ways:
   1. There's a burden on your heart you can't shake.
   2. There is a specific person you know of who needs your help.
   3. The Scripture passage that you read encourages you to have faith and step out.
   4. When you pray, you have a sense that God is asking you to act.
   5. You don't have time, but you have a seed of faith.
   6. God brings someone into your life to encourage your calling (your spouse, your pastor, a godly friend.)
   7. You feel as if you can't do it alone.
There are many things that can occupy our time—there always will be. There are good things we can devote our lives to, but the most important things are the God things.
When you do decide to step out, your schedule won't automatically clear. It never does. Instead, God will show up. He will give you extra wisdom, energy, resources and strength. But mostly He will give you Himself!
And when you have Him, you have everything. And when you give others the knowledge of Him, they can have Him too. And when lives around you are transformed, all the stuff you were busy with doesn't seem as important any more.
And God is glorified because it'll be clear to everyone that it's Him doing the work!
How about you? What do you feel God calling you to? What are you doing about it?
Prayer: Father God, You have blessed me with so much. Thank You for the unique life You have given me. Help me manage my time and resources wisely. Guide me as I look to what You are calling me to do and give me the strength and wisdom to fulfill my purpose.
Tricia Goyer has written more than 35 books, including both novels that delight and entertain readers and nonfiction titles that offer encouragement and hope. She has also published more than 500 articles in national publications such as Guideposts, Thriving Family, Proverbs 31, and HomeLife Magazine.
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March for Life Protesters Brave Blizzard to Speak for the Unborn - Paul Strand CBN News


March for Life Protesters Brave Blizzard to Speak for the Unborn
01-22-2016

CBN News
WASHINGTON -- Despite threats Washington officials might yank the March for Life's permit because of a dire storm threat, the march went on Friday. 
Its participants refused to let a record-breaking blizzard bearing down on the nation's capitol stop them from their mission. Like in the 42 years before, they came determined to bear witness that multitudes of Americans hate abortion.
Starting on the National Mall, they've been marching on the Supreme Court to protest ever since it legalized abortion January 22, 1973. This year's theme: "Pro-Life and Pro-Woman Go Hand-in-Hand."
"I'm so thrilled with the theme of this year's march," Maureen Ferguson, senior policy advisor for The Catholic Association, told CBN News.
"It's so wild-timed because the pro-abortion side, of course, loves to use this as a political football and bandy around terms like 'the war on women.' But we know there's a war on women in the womb," she said. "Half of those babies aborted are little girls."
Catholic Association Senior Fellow Ashley Maguire explained the earliest American feminists were pro-life.
"Starting with the suffragettes who were fighting against slavery and then fought for their own rights to vote - they were very pro-life," Maguire said. "And so the idea that women are by nature pro-choice is completely false."
"And we know that abortion sadly leaves a woman wounded, sometimes physically; emotionally scarred with a hole in her heart for the rest of her life," Ferguson added.
"A woman's capacity to be a mother is empowering and it's a beautiful gift  that's a part of who she is as a person," Jeanne Mancini, who leads the March for Life, said.
Subverted author Sue Ellen Browder was once a pro-choice feminist working at Cosmopolitan. That is no longer the case.
"To be pro-woman is to be pro-life, and of course that's true," she told CBN News before speaking at the March for Life rally. "You know, women want to have babies. Babies bring us joy, happiness, wonder."
Lauren Handy, with the group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, counsels women heading into abortion clinics. She gets angry at those who accuse her of waging a war on those women.
"I think they use inflammatory language and scare tactics when we try to meet the needs of both the child and the mother, because we know abortion hurts the mother, the father and the child," she said.
Monica Miller, with Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, rejects that the right to this procedure is a key component of women's liberation.
"The sadness and the tragedy of that skewed, perverted point of view - that we actually would have to kill someone, end the life of someone else in order to be free - that's not a freedom," she explained.
"It looks easier and more fun not to have babies sometimes," Browder added. "But in the long run, especially when you get to be my age, and you see the women that did have children and how happy they are and how blessed they are with grandchildren and all that - whereas the old ladies in the nursing home, because they thought they were all free and alone, they're still alone."
"Abortion impacts women negatively, both psychologically and physiologically," Mancini insisted. "In fact we're hearing this week from a new Marist poll that the large majority of Americans believe that abortion hurts women, that it's not good for women, by a 35 percent margin."
Kristan Hawkins told CBN News how her group Students for Life of America constantly looks for ways to minister to young women considering this life-altering decision.
"We're always making sure that we're appealing to her and talking to her about how she's a victim, too," Hawkins shared. "And how the abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, is directly targeting her."
Planned Parenthood has become a major target of the marchers since it is by far the largest abortion-provider in the country. It ends the lives of more than 300,000 unborn babies every year. 

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) - Book "American Interests in the Holy Land"

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


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