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EUROPE STANDS STRONG FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE;
A court decision issued last month about homosexual marriage received almost no news coverage in the United States, yet the decision could have significant implications when the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether the Constitution requires same-sex marriage.


The case, Hamalainen v. Finland, was decided by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in an overwhelming majority opinion that no right to same-sex marriage exists under the European Convention of Human Rights.

 

Intercessors are alert to the immediate, yet maintain perspective. This article isn't about the marriage debate per se (whether traditional or homosexual) but about court systems and when a higher court defers a decision to its subordinate states, respectively, for each to decide how it wants to govern its constituency. The authors are "previewing" a future U.S. Supreme Court case on the legality (not the morality) of so-called "same-sex marriage." However, regardless of the Court's decision, God has given His verdict in His Word, and no "appeal" will change that. Here is truth: any people or nation that defies God's natural law will fade into oblivion unless it repents and returns to the Creator in humble allegiance. America's hope is not in the Court but in the Lord! Pray with courage!  

 

"God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?" (Num 23:19)

 

"I will lift up my eyes to the hills- From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth." (Ps 121:1-2)

 

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."
(Isa 40:8)

        

THE DEVIOUS DESIGNS OF OPERATION CHOKE POINT  

President Obama wasn't kidding about acting on his own if Congress won't go along with his plans to "fundamentally transform" the country that elected him president. Sometimes he tries his phone, then if Congress blocks his agenda, his pen, but more and more often he's simply acted without consulting or even informing Congress. In some cases, he's even actively sought to keep Congress in the dark about new programs he's started without even submitting them to Congress for approval.

This year, Congress has even learned about administration initiatives not from the White House, or the agencies implementing them, but from the press or their own constituents.

 

Pray today for President Obama and his advisors. It is no secret that Mr. Obama believes he is free to govern apart from the Constitution and that he has felt no need to confer with Congress in recent decisions. Some in his own party seeking re-election avoid close identification with his appearances in their respective states. Those once most loyal to him, as well as the country's most liberal media sources, are questioning his isolation from accountability. He seems unable to take decisive action. Despite personal views, he is our nation's president and we are called to pray for him. He is in God's hands. Ask God to raise up a modern Daniel through whom the president might hear a word from the living God. "There is a God in heaven who reveals secrets..."  

 

"Daniel answered and said: 'Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His....He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things'...Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, 'The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.'" (Dan 2:20-22, 27-28)  

    

THE 'BLESS YOU BAN'      

A Tennessee high school senior was suspended for saying "bless you" after another student sneezed in class. Kendra Turner, 18, said her teacher told her that "bless you" was on her list of banned language, because "we're not going to have godly speaking in her class." When Turner protested that she has the right to freedom of speech, the teacher told her, "not in my class, you don't." The principal then suspended Turner. (Contributor: By The Week Staff for The Week)

 

This situation borders on the ridiculous, and social media sites have seen an avalanche of responses by sensible people of all political persuasions refusing at first to believe it was not a hoax. But it was not. Let us pray in unity for an overwhelming legal, non-violent uprising of fellow students, parents, other educators, and especially local and national religious leaders who will insist that these assaults on free speech be discontinued. Pray that this polite young woman be reinstated in school and rewarded for the emotional abuse she has suffered needlessly.  

 

"Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one." (Col 4:6)

         

AMERICANS IN N KOREA DETAINED - ASKING FOR HELP!     

Three Americans detained in North Korea spoke out about their conditions and pleaded for U.S. help in interviews with CNN.

Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle were presented to CNN's Will Ripley at a Pyongyang hotel Monday. Each was given five minutes for an interview.

All three men said they hope the U.S. government will send an envoy to North Korea to help get them out of their situations, similar to how former President Bill Clinton helped secure the release of two journalists in 2009.

 

Give thanks to God for providentially arranging the interview between the CNN team and three American prisoners, giving their plight a greater window of publicity here in the U.S. Pray for grace upon the three, that God's mercy and kindness will bring them through. We know that North Korea ranks very high on the list of the most repressive regimes in the world. In their desperation, may the prisoners themselves cry out to God, and may the Holy Spirit comfort them and reveal Jesus as Savior and Light of the world. God still does miracles. Pray for their release and restoration to home and their respective families.  

 

"But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us. even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus." (Eph 2:4-6)

           

ISIS LAPTOP REVEALS "BUILD BIO WEAPONS"    

U.S. intelligence officials discovered that one of the world's nightmare scenarios may have some base in reality as, according to a report in Foreign Policy last Friday, a laptop was recently discovered in war-torn Syria, detailing the attempts and ambitions of the Islamic State (ISIS) to build and use weapons of mass destruction.

According to the report, the computer was discovered in the city of Idlib in north-western Syria, near the Turkish border after fierce battles in which other resistance groups captured the area, and with it an ISIS post.

Foreign policy said that the computer belonged to a Tunisian national who studied chemistry at two separate universities in his home country before leaving to join ISIS in Syria.

 

Intercessors know that prayer is not a "magic wand" we may wave to make all bad things go away. These news reports are real and have complex implications we cannot cover except to encourage all intercessors to seek the Lord for our nation's welfare. Pray first for America's return to the Lord. Pray for an awakening, a resurgence of faith in the larger Church whereby Christians can collectively cry out to God for mercy and deliverance. Pray for revival that will bring many to the Lord for salvation. Our Lord asked rhetorically, if, when He returns, will He find faith on the earth? Let us demonstrate that in our own generation, the Church may honestly answer, "Yes!" Read the entire parable cited below and make personal application. The Lord will avenge His faithful servants in their prayers.

 

"Then the Lord said, 'Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?'" (Luke 8:6-8)

          






EUROPE STRONG FOR
TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE

OPERATION
CHOKE POINT

THE 'BLESS
YOU BAN'

NORTH KOREA
AMERICANS DETAINED

ISIS LAPTOP BUILD
BIO WEAPONS

TERRORISTS
HANDBOOK

UKRAINE CRISIS:
RUSSIA AT WAR

MICROCHIP IMPLANT
IN YOUR FUTURE?

CITIZENS HUDDLE FOR PRAYER IN GA