@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter Dear Lord, bring your healing to those injured and recovering and help those who got arrested! Amen. 🙏
@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter This truly is a very hard question, which I've also been pondering many times. Where goes the limit between turning the other cheek and defending yourself (or your family, people, country etc) ? What if the attackers would had for example started raping the woman in front of your eyes, would it had been right to just do nothing..?
I would love to hear peoples comment on this subject. 🙏
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus I ask you to bless all my brothers and sisters in Christ who are on Ding Dash.
You know their life, their challenges, their fears, their problems and everything else in their life.
In the name of Jesus, deliver them, O Father, from all danger, give them the strength, the grace, the help of angels and everything they need to do Your will faithfully.
Comfort, Father, through the Holy Spirit, those who are discouraged, heal those who are sick and protect everyone.
May your powerful love continue to reign in the hearts of all of us, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
@Olamide Amen, Glory to God! 🙌Blessings to you dear brother. 🙏
@Olamide Thank you, good words! I have the experience from my church background, that we are preaching the word (which is of course the fundamental thing!), but we don't as a church search for spiritual gifts, well, we do pray for the sick, but we dont cast out demons AT ALL. And this is also a problem -because I'm sure God would love to give us also these things for equipping his church to minister to the lost, because He wants not only save people but also do these things of his goodness! It's sad that the prosperity movement have in a way spoiled this in that way that many Christians are afraid of all kinds of healings and miracles, because they have seen how these movements are abusing these gifts for selfish purposes. So it feels in a way safer to just preach the word, and not search for anything more. It's great to hear you have found a balance in this! Jesus did these things because he cared for people, and that should also be our heart, and only so that God can have ALL glory.
@weavers4jesus I pray for you and your daughter that the things you have faced today and the anger and the words you have had to listen, would just lose it's effect and be wiped off your minds and hearts by the grace of God and in Jesus mighty name! Lord, lift this whole family above all these negative things and fill them with your love! You have lead them to China and you are able to work all things for good! Thank you Lord that you will give them everything they need to fulfill their task, because you are strenghtening them. (Phil. 4:13). 🙏💖
So, today was the first day that Polish citizens could hear rockets falling on the Ukrainian territory...
My neighbor was on the border when the Russians hit the military base, he clearly saw tens of rockets falling down, bringing death and destruction to our friends.
You HAVE to be filled the Holy Spirit to be able to respond with Bibles and not Bombs.
Do you want to pray?
Pray for the fire of revival spreading through Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
@faith20 Also in Finland the talks about the threat of nuclear radiation started when Russia attacked Ukrainian nuclear plants. In just couple of days all iodine was sold out at shops and pharmacies, even from the stock, when people became aware of it.
@faith20 You spoke earlier about the situation in Italy, and it's quite shocking to hear. Sadly I don't believe it's going to get easier with time, instead it seems to be something they want to make happen in other European countries, too. I got a confirmation about this when we had covid in my family just couple of weeks ago. I haven't taken the vaccin, so I called a nurse to ask whether I should need a pcr-test to verify it's covid. She said that a verification showing you have had covid wouldn't be of any use, because they are preparing for a vaccine passport next.
And that means, you can get the passport only by taking the vaccine, not in any other ways. So it's obviously coming to Finland too. What they'll use the passport for is something we'll have to wait and see.
We are praying for you and your family. God bless you and give you hope and strenght to each day 🙏
@Knittinggrace by the way, does anybody know how the underground church in China is working today when there's all the covid restrictions? Are they able to meet face to face?
@Knittinggrace I believe we believers in the West need to start learning from the underground house church movement in the persecuted countries. It strongly looks like that's going to be also our future.
@Chidiotamiri This is encouraging! I and my husband have also been praying for revival in Ukraine since the war started. I believe for sure God can use a terrible thing like war for His purposes and to change it to become a blessing. Also in the book of Acts the church met persecution and when they fled Jerusalem and went to different places, the church started to grow wherever they went. May Gods fire - the lives he has touched - spread allover Europe and change the life of millions of people! And may his Church in different countries show God's love to the unbelievers from Ukraine, and may He use everyone of us to be a part of His work, in one way or another!🙏💖
@Chidiotamiri thanks!
@Chidiotamiri I would be curious about it, but I'm not on FB, so I'm not able to watch it. Is the video somewhere else on the net?
Or could someone tell me the highlights of it?
@sinbach I will try to communicate what's on my heart:
"And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." - Math. 24:12.
I believe we as believers should be careful not to become cold for the sufferings of this world. Although we see how this world is evil and how in many ways iniquity is growing, we are not to turn cold. EVEN if there would be wicked people working "behind the scenes" in Ukraine (as some people seem to think) these kind of things should NEVER make us cold so that we no longer feel for the sufferings of people, or that we think that THIS is the fight we need to fight (and start seeing Putin as a hero..!). No. We are not to forget why Jesus sacrified himself: for the sins of the world, for the sake of us human beings: for the souls of Man. This is what matters.
I BELONG TO JESUS
I belong to Jesus;
I am not my own;
All I have and all I am,
Shall be His alone.
I belong to Jesus;
He is Lord and King,
Reigning in my inmost heart,
Over everything.
I belong to Jesus;
Blessèd, blessèd thought!
With His own most precious blood
Has my soul been bought.
I belong to Jesus;
He has died for me;
I am His and He is mine,
Through eternity.
I belong to Jesus;
He will keep my soul,
When the deathly waters dark
Round about me roll.
I belong to Jesus;
And ere long I’ll stand
With my precious Savior there
In the glory land.
(Maud Fraser, 1891)
Please PRAY urgently for Chinese Pastor Pan and The Mayflower Church. 🙏 🙏 🙏
Their testimony is incredible. Pastor Pan led his church of 28 adults and 32 children to pose as tourists and they fled China to the S. Korean island of JeJu, where they currently are. They have been denied asylum in S. Korea and unless they are accepted elsewhere (which they have not been up till now), they will be forced to return to China very shortly to face intense persecution and torture. They are submitted to the Lord's will in all things and are ready to face their return if need be. Pastor Pan is an amazing man of God and bold leader in the Chinese Underground Church. I'm posting an older article from Nov. '21 because it has great photos of them: This weighs so heavily upon my heart. Please pray. You will find out in the article how they got their name of "The Mayflower Church". https://vomkorea.com/en/2021/11/09/vomk-report-178/#comment-8637
I'm Mikko's wife and mother of our 5 wonderful children. We live in south of Finland, but I was born and raised up in north of Sweden. Jesus is my everything and my purpose in life is to follow him in everything I am and do. ❤
Rom. 12:1