Hello friends. I hope you are doing well. Below are resources for your review and I pray that they encourage and strengthen you in your faith journey.
Testimonies:
We need to hear testimonies as we are also studying the Bible daily and diligently. Here are testimonies that blessed me this week and I pray that their stories inspire you too.
1. I remember reading in the news in the 1980s about the Hammer family’s divorces and the family fighting for the wealth. Their legal battles made so much headlines in the news and tabloids that even as a teenager it caught my attention. Please hear how God placed a believing woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma into this powerful Hammer family through a marriage and how she was used to witness to the powerful and super wealthy in high society. Her story didn’t make headlines back then and now I’m so happy that she’s finally able to share her story…perhaps she had to wait for legal reasons. Her story is incredible.
2. This man’s story really touched me as I heard how God restored his poor relationships and marriage. He also did a great endorsement for the Alpha course and how it helped him and his wife when they took the class together. Studying God’s Word in a community group is always impactful and rewarding.
3. Pastor Carter Conlon of Times Square Church had crippling panic attacks and anxiety for nine long years. In this message, he shared how God delivered him instantaneously. As anxiety levels are so high especially in the youth, it encouraged me to hear his testimony. He also shared in here that they have been invited to pray at Ivy League universities. They are coming to Princeton University as well. Wow.
http://sermons.tsc.nyc/are-you-singing-the-new-song-yet/
God continues to move in big colleges. Here are articles about revivals happening in Ohio State and U of Kentucky. Wow.
4. Ever since a friend told me about Dave Ramsey and his financial ministry, I’ve been listening to how he helps people. Since he helps everyone, not just Christians I am learning a lot from him. In this Carey Nieuwhof podcast, Dave Ramsey is the guest. It was great to hear his testimony.
In our prayer and intercession meetings, the Holy Spirit puts various needs in our hearts to pray for. I am burdened to pray for our economy and the preparedness of our people. If you don’t have a financial planner or don’t know how to manage your finances, please download Dave Ramsey’s podcast and listen to their advice. My family has been using a financial planner since our daughter was born and his advice is consistent with our expensive financial planner. Please proactively pray for your finances and all your family members too. Before you make big money decisions, ask for prayers from your pastors and church leaders. God will give you wisdom and guidance if you humble yourself and ask. He sees the future, not a fortune teller.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ramsey-show/id77001367
5. Speaking about fortune tellers, here is a testimony from a former fortune teller and medium. She tells it like it is. When you seek fortune tellers, mediums, etc you are speaking with demons. As I see tarot cards and ouija boards being sold in local TJ Maxx and Target stores I am very concerned about the demonic portals that people are opening up in their lives. If someone in your family is engaging with these things, warn them. If they don’t want to hear your warnings, pray for them. My mom was a lifelong seeker of fortune tellers (they are big in Asian countries). I prayed really hard for her about 14 years ago and through series of scary events she stopped going. Praise God! Her eyes were opened to the darkness and demons that were surrounding her fortune teller.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maybe-god/id1329159271?i=1000689712223
6. This interview is very difficult to hear. However, if you have been given the grace like I have to listen to the stories about human sexual trafficking, please listen to this interview from a law enforcement officer and his experiences. In our prayer and intercession group, we often pray about this. After hearing his stories, I will now pray more for our law enforcement officers who are chipping away at human trafficking. It’s truly overwhelming and heartbreaking. But God can do the impossible (Matthew 19:26).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maybe-god/id1329159271?i=1000678193804
“Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing crime, with an estimated 27.6 million victims worldwide at any given time. The majority of those victims are women and girls. Of those who fall victim to trafficking, only one percent are rescued.”
7. Free prayer book:
I learned about this Slavic Gospel ministry when Russia invaded Ukraine. I’ve been subscribing to their newsletter since. If their founder wrote a book about prayer and intercession moving mountains like communism, then I need to hear his testimonies. There are many spiritual mountains in our country too.
https://www.sga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Much-Prayer-Much-Power.pdf
I still belong to a prayer group that is dedicated to praying for Ukraine. Please read this prayer request for today and add your prayers in. Thank you.
1092nd Day of Intercession for Ukraine!
🙏🙏🙏 🛡 Prayer Shield of the Intercessors of Ukraine 💛💙
What we thank God for: • We thank God for unity in the Body of Christ regardless of country and language of communication. Thank God for the support of believers from other countries who pray for Ukraine and provide practical assistance. • Ukrainian defenders shot down over 100 enemy UAVs. In addition, 156 attacks by Russian troops were repelled at the front. • The European Union agreed on a 16th package of sanctions against Russia in response to its full-scale aggression against Ukraine. • Ukraine signed a free trade agreement with the UAE for the first time in history. • The United Kingdom is considering sending Typhoon fighter jets to Ukraine to support peace in Ukraine after a ceasefire agreement is reached. • Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 19 tanks, 23 armored combat vehicles, and 146 vehicles.
. ‼️ Threats remain: • Numerous UAVs attacked Zaporizhia, Sumy, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr regions. There are dead and wounded. The invaders attacked Odessa, as a result, a medical facility, kindergarten, and high-rise buildings were damaged, 500 houses were left without electricity and heat. Bombs were dropped on Kostyantynivka. • Rescuers continue to extinguish smoldering fires at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and are carrying out work to partially open the shelter structures. • North Korean soldiers are training in Russia on new equipment. • The Belarusian enterprise uses raw materials exported from the part of Kherson region occupied by the Russians and supplies finished products in the form of rapeseed oil to EU countries.
🙏 Prayer needs: • We pray for compliance with international and national laws in Ukraine, because legal culture is one of the components of successful resistance to aggression and the establishment of freedom and democracy, supports the morale of people and promotes internal harmony. We pray that in times of war people endowed with power do not commit lawlessness, but adhere to legal norms. • We pray for the possibility of providing medical care to the wounded directly on the battlefield, as well as for the possibility of timely and maximally safe evacuation. That every soldier is provided with high-quality individual medical kits and high-quality ammunition. • We do not cease to pray for those who are in Russian captivity. We pray for the continued successful negotiations on the exchange of prisoners, so that they can return home. May the Lord strengthen and support our people in captivity. • The occupiers continue to shell peaceful cities and villages, resulting in daily casualties and injuries. We pray for the wounded, that their bodies and souls may be healed; we pray for the relatives of the deceased, that they may be comforted by God. We pray for the salvation of souls in Ukraine. • We pray for Ukrainians who were left without heat in their homes during this cold season due to Russian shelling. That the damage be repaired as soon as possible, that everything necessary for repairmen be available. That heating points be organized in cities and villages. • We pray that the Church in these last times fulfills its mission entrusted to it by Christ. That it does not become an instrument of this world, but has moral and spiritual authority, and is a territory where God’s light is visible.
“See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me! Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.” Psalms 25:19-20 NIV
LET US CONSTANTLY PRAY AND THANK GOD! FOR THIS IS HIS WILL FOR US IN CHRIST JESUS!
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