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Join in Global Day of Prayer May 19

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“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)

On May 19, the Global Day of Prayer, Christians in almost every country will assemble to pray. Many will gather in prayer groups in homes, local churches, businesses and some may even assemble in large stadiums and other public venues. In some places television, radio and internet will help to connect and align our prayers in an even greater way.

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30,000 draw water from miracle well

 

By Jerry Wiles

Some time back, I visited a region in East Africa where the people had experienced a severe drought for several years; most of the water wells in that region were dry. Living Water International had drilled a deep well there about eight years earlier, and it was one of the few productive water wells in the entire region.

A very happy community with a new well

A very happy community with a new well

I was told that 30,000 people were getting water from that one well, and in addition to the people, the livestock and wild animals also got water there. The local people called it “The Miracle Well.” A missionary who was serving in that area told us that if it were not for that one well, there would probably be 30,000 dead people in the region.

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God baby, Creator of the cosmos

By Mark Ellis

Our God.  This… baby.  Our eternal God took the form of a child.  He was there in the beginning, and he took the form of a baby. He

He came like this...

He came like this…

came out of the heavens to bridge the gap between a Holy God and sinful man.

 

When you look up at the heavens, they say you can see 5,000 stars with the naked eye.  On a clear night in the Sierras, sleeping outdoors, it seems like you can see many more.

"The Starry Night"Vincent van Gogh

“The Starry Night”
Vincent van Gogh

But this baby–Jesus.  He was there.  He put those stars in their places.

 

He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  And His light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

Piercing the darkness, they say it takes eight minutes for the light coming from the sun to reach us, traveling 93 million miles.  Our sun is just one star in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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10,000 Egyptians gather in desert for three days to worship the Lord

Increased persecution, the election of a Muslim Brotherhood president, and the death of the Coptic Church pope has led to thousands

fleeing Egypt in fear of the future.

But there have been rays of the light of Jesus breaking through the gloom.

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Worship pastor overcame addiction, leads others to wholeness in Christ

By Mark Ellis

Matt Tommey

Enormously gifted as a worship leader, yet living a secret life of addiction, Matt Tommey now uses his art as a way to connect with God and lead others into personal and creative wholeness.

“I grew up in the church under a Steinway piano,” says Matt Tommey, worship pastor, artist, author, and founder of The Worship Studio. At 13, living in Columbus, Georgia, he gave his heart to the Lord and answered a very early call into worship ministry.

As a young teenager, several traumatic events – his grandfather’s death, sexual abuse by a same-sex family member, and a deteriorating relationship with his father created a perfect storm of brokenness.  Matt struggled for many years to overcome his inner distress, but succumbed to addiction and other unhealthy relational patterns.

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Christian recording artist Donna Summer passes to her reward

Legendary disco singer Donna Summer died Thursday after a battle with cancer, sources close to the singer confirmed to

Donna Summer

FoxNews.com. She was 63.

“Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith,” family of the singer said in a statement. Summer was a strong Christian.

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Did worship photos capture angels – or just optical effects?

By Mark Ellis

From left, Joshua, Mikey, Isamu and Kathy Tanaka

 

During an emotion-filled evening of worship at the Vineyard church in Laguna Niguel, several photographs taken with a digital camera reveal some unusual effects.

“It seems like the angels are showing up more,” says Kathy Tanaka, a regular at the church. Her nine-year-old son Joshua took several photos with his new camera, which seem to show an angelic presence floating above his mother’s head. “My son just got his first camera, and he got a bunch of photos like that.”

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The new song in heaven: going beyond the 12-tone scale

By Mark Ellis

Anne Ortlund

 

Composers lament the same frustration as they attempt to avoid repetition in their music. After 2,000 years, the limits of the 12-tone scale leave musicologists with a hunger for something more.

“They have come to a dead end,” observes Anne Ortlund, the popular Christian author and speaker. For 15 years, Anne was the organist for Dr. Charles Fuller’s radio broadcasts. Her hymn “Macedonia” was chosen as the theme hymn at the World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin.

She believes the worship that Christians will experience in heaven will go beyond our imaginations – and outside the limits of our current musical scale.

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The Worship of Heaven…

By Jay Grant

Pastor of Prayer, Jay Grant

“Day and night the host of heaven never cease crying out, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who is, Who was, and Who is the come.” Rev 4:10

“Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne saying in a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise.’”  Rev 5:11,12

“Then I heard the voices of those in heaven, on earth and under the earth and on the sea and all that is in them, singing: ‘To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever.’”  Rev 5:13

The worship of God is our highest calling. It is good to awaken each morning by releasing our hearts to God in adoration. What is cool is we can worship God in all we do. We can offer our praise to Him in worship. We can offer our work to Him as an act of worship. When we love we worship. When we pray we can worship. In fact, God has made it clear that a void exists in prayer when worship is not a part of it.

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