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On Watch in Washington / The Informer

June 15, 2016 


The ex-wife of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 and maimed 53 at an Orlando gay nightclub on Sunday, said the shooter may have been [a homosexual]. Speaking on her behalf in Portuguese to a Brazilian television station, the ex-wife's fianc�, Marco Dias, said Mr. Mateen had "gay tendencies," noting that the shooter's father once called him gay in front of his wife.He also said the "FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media," the New York Post reported.
 
As we have said, IFA's midweek "Alert" ministry is about prayer and intercession, not political analysis of the news. As intercessors, we feel compassion, but we do not allow soulish sympathy for the killer's alleged sexual confusion to blur the fact that he was a demonized terrorist who committed mass murder. Pray for victims' families; ask God to save many through this atrocity.

[The Apostle Paul, a former "terrorist" himself, wrote:] "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." (1 Tim. 1:15)
 
 
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The terror massacre at a packed Orlando nightclub reverberated across the presidential campaign trail Sunday, as the candidates condemned the deadliest shooting in U.S. history -- and Donald Trump ripped President Obama and Hillary Clinton for avoiding the term "radical Islam" in doing so. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee went so far as to say Obama should "step down" for not using the term and Clinton should "get out of this race" if she won't either. "If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore," Trump said in a statement. "Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen -- and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can't afford to be politically correct anymore."
 
It is no longer "news" that President Obama is unwilling to use the words "radical," "Islamic," and "terrorist" in the same sentence. Media outlets are eager to turn this into another political battle. We encourage intercessors to rise above the political fray and pray for the families of the victims, for God's comfort and His redemptive purposes to prevail in the aftermath of the terrorist killings.

"[Jesus said,] 'The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.'" (John 10:10)  
 
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Stanley Kurtz reports that California is on the verge of approving a new and sharply leftist K-12 curriculum framework for history and social sciences. The move, he adds, "has national implications, since textbooks retooled to fit California's changing history frameworks are often used much more widely." Stanley describes the new California curriculum this way : On immigration, it is anti-assimilationist; on family and sexuality, it is radically anti-traditionalist; on terrorism, it tends to "blame America first;" on the 1960s, it highlights and implicitly lauds the most radical "black, brown, red, and yellow power movements;" on politics, it paints a halo over progressives while perpetrating a hit job on conservatives; on economics, it elevates Keynesian liberalism and ignores everything else; on military history, it is silent or slyly antagonistic; on contemporary politics, it reads like an anti-globalization protest pamphlet.

Home schooling is not a viable solution for every family. Yet the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) receives many new inquiries each time a public school system threatens to steal the hearts and minds of the nation's students. Pray fervently against these curriculum changes. As Jesus said of the tares among the wheat, "An enemy has done this."

"So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.'" (Mat. 13:27-28)
 
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                A Call to Fall in Humble Prayer

Sunday, July 3, 2016

America needs change. Yet the change we need does not come from
Washington or Wall Street. It comes from God. It begins with God's
people praying to Him for the change we need:

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then
will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their
land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

God promises real change - spiritual healing for our souls and our land
- if we will simply humble ourselves in repentant prayer before Him.

We have an amazing opportunity to join churches nationwide for the
"Call to Fall" on our knees. This call is nothing new. It follows many
biblical and historical examples that led to a national spiritual revival.

We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have
rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.
(Daniel 9:5)

God prescribes a very specific type of prayer that is a necessary
prerequisite to healing and renewal. He calls on us to fall to our knees
before Him and take responsibility for the state of our nation by
confessing our corporate and individual sins.

 
THE ADMINISTRATION'S NAVY FARCE
Rep. Randy Forbes speaks out on the Farsi Island incident and other threats to our diminishing seapower. On January 12 two U.S. Navy riverine boats were sailing south through the Persian Gulf to Bahrain near Iran's Farsi Island. One of the boats had broken down and the other stayed with it. Six Iranian boats surrounded them and demanded their surrender at gunpoint. The Americans did. They were forced to their knees and taken into captivity on the island.

This article is important to intercessors for two reasons. First, the issue is urgent. Reducing U.S. military power and our "readiness to defend" further weakens our nation's position in the present international scene. Second, pray for Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA). He is a "watchman on the wall," bringing a conservative viewpoint and consistently calling for a return to constitutional balance.

"Again the word of the Lord came to [Ezekiel], saying, 'Son of man, speak to ... your people, and say to them: 'When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.'" (Ezek. 33:1-4)
 
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As Washington and Beijing spar in a dangerous game of one-upmanship to determine who will control the strategically critical waterways of the South China Sea, some defense observers and regional analysts worry that the U.S. effort will prove an exercise in futility in the long term against the full weight of China's growing military and economic prowess. China's strategy of slowly but methodically building up military installations in the Spratly Islands, the Scarborough Shoal, the Fiery Cross Reef and other strategic points within the sea, coupled with Beijing's increasingly assertive territorial claims, has elevated tensions in Washington and unsettled U.S. allies in the region.

Along with these provocations, China is becoming more closely allied with Russia, while U.S. leadership in global affairs has diminished. With that, President Obama has been reducing U.S. military strength (see previous news item), both in personnel and equipment, which invites aggression. Pray for a national spiritual awakening and for God's mercy and grace for America.

"Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners." (Ps. 146:5-7) 
 
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REFUGEE EXPLAINS MASS CONVERSIONS FROM ISLAM

More and more
Muslim refugees have been converting to Christianity in Europe, according to reports from churches. One of the new converts told RT: "I have been spat on, told that I've betrayed Islam, but through what I've learned I can forgive them." In Austria there have been at least 300 applications for adult christenings in the first three months of 2016 alone, with up to 70 percent of those said to be refugees, the Guardian reported.

Give thanks for these well-documented accounts. Rev. Franklin Graham said recently, "The god of Islam and the God of the Bible are not the same. The god of Islam wants you to die for him. The God of the Bible sent His Son to die for us." Muslims coming to Jesus for salvation are leaving a religion of hatred and committing to the true God of love and grace.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." (John 3:16-19)

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