Hello everyone. It’s November! Yay! 😃 This year’s October was probably the worst one I’ve ever experienced. Thank you for your support and prayers for me and my family.
We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. – 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NLT)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%204&version=NLT
Another big state college is experiencing revival! Wow. Please read this article and pray 🙏 for the students who now need to get plugged into good churches and get discipled. This is very important because there is an enemy who wants to “kill, steal and destroy.”
Yesterday I was thinking about the families in South Korea who lost their children in the Halloween Crush in 2022. The young people in Korea are responsible, respectful and very considerate of their elders and parents. Please let us pray for these families who are suffering and mourning. 💔 Below is an email message that I sent to my prayer group in 2022 about the tragedy.
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2022
Hello ladies! There are quite a few resources shared below. I hope and pray that these will give you greater wisdom and guidance to help you make the right decisions as the world gets darker and harder, since we are living in the last hours of human history.
1. This message by Dr Charles Stanley is about obedience to God. Sometimes it is unclear what is the right thing to do. When I started to attend church on Sundays and a women’s prayer group on Thursdays, Howard was very nervous about my sudden and intense involvement and he really thought I joined a religious cult. He asked me to not go as much to church and to stop waking up so early to do who knows what – I was praying and reading the Bible. I earnestly prayed about his concern and request. However, it was made very clear to me that I’m to continue in my daily, early morning quiet time and to attend church two times per week if it doesn’t interfere with my family commitment and responsibility. Dr Charles Stanley talks about this delicate tough situation between obeying God and pleasing your family. If you are also in this dilemma, please listen to this message. And if you are not currently in this conflict, then it’ll surely happen to anyone who is a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ. So please listen and learn how to navigate differing family expectations, biblically and scripturally.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/in-touch/listen/the-school-of-obedience-part-2-973976.html
2a. I’m going on year 12 of praying for the salvation of my family members. I really thought I’d have at least have one child to believe with me by now. So many of you are praying too, perhaps feeling bad for me that it’s taking so long. I’ll take your mercy prayers! Keep the prayers going up for my family. Here is a great message about persevering in prayers. If you are losing steam in believing and wondering if your prayers are doing anything, please listen to this message and be inspired to keep on praying and believing 🙏.
http://sermons.tsc.nyc/the-secret-to-answered-prayer/
2b. This message is excellent too. With hardly anyone in our local area churches receiving healing from deadly diseases despite much prayers, I feel like I should just stop praying for their healing. My head and heart hurt, and I can tell I have become jaded and hardened about praying for their healing. If you can also relate, then please listen to this message and hear what pastor Carter Colon of TSC has to say about it. I don’t have the right answers but like Mary and Martha, I have not gone anywhere and when Jesus comes to our area, I will run to meet him where he is.
http://sermons.tsc.nyc/is-jesus-groaning-over-you/
3. I’ve convinced not one person to believe and follow Jesus Christ in all my years as a Christian. It’s a pitiful record. Here is a guest who speaks about using his prophetic gift to evangelize. If you are as frustrated as I am about this, then please listen and learn more about prophetic evangelism. This ministry gift is biblical.
https://podcast.thealtarglobal.com/1935974/11272017
4. Since Diwali is a big Hindu holiday and many of our neighbors, friends and colleagues celebrate Hinduism, please learn more about this day and also read what Christian leadership do in countries where Hinduism is the major religion. Take guidance from them. They have prayed a lot about how to navigate Diwali in their Hindu communities.
5. I’m sure you have heard about the great tragedy in South Korea. Though I became a USA citizen in my freshman year in college, Korea is my birth country and so my heart hurts when they are suffering. Please pray 🙏 for them. Thank you for caring and praying.
https://apnews.com/article/95c403f1712f8dbfab96e9da88366b03
6. Like I shared in an earlier email, ever since I became a prayer group leader in 2016, I have experienced the effects of more demonic activities in the month of October leading up to Halloween. Now I enter October with my eyes wide open and I am on high alert all month. It is exhausting but it is what it is. We are almost there to November 1. Please keep praying for all your Christian leadership including those working in secular places. Please remember to pray for me and my family extra too. Thank you so much for your prayers.
A member of our group shared this message on why Halloween is a dangerous holiday. In high crime neighborhoods, Halloween is a night of mayhem and higher crimes. If you live in these neighborhoods, please go home before dark. That’s what my family used to do – my parents closed their retail store earlier and we would all be home before dark. No one went trick-or-treating in these neighborhoods. Even as a teenager, I’d always go home earlier on Halloween.
Happy studying and praying!
(Article that I came across today…
https://cbn.com/news/us/exorcist-files-how-hit-podcast-about-demons-leading-people-christ
“When you see a chair levitate for the 83rd time, it gets old, but confronting the mind of the devil, the source of every perversion, every sin, every wickedness, every bad thing, that’s scary,” Martins explains in a trailer for the show. 😱)
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