The Book of Philippians.

I don't often write about my personal experiences in the church, of although I might quote scripture from time to time. I feel that our spiritual journey is a private one and each of us having the freedom to either attend church, mass, temple, whatever or whatever not, will have an experience of their own and I don't need to bore you with mine! However, this morning was different....
We are in the 5th Sunday of the book of Philippians. Background: "Saul (later to be known as the apostle Paul) was zealous in all that he did. He was from the Jewish tribe of Benjamin, and when describing himself, he said he was a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the Mosaic Law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the Christian Church, as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. (Philippians 3:4-6)

Saul did everything he could to try and stop the growth of Christianity. In fact, when Stephen (the first recorded Christian martyr in the New Testament) was killed, Saul was there (watching the cloaks of those who were stoning Stephen.)"Before his conversion, Paul approved of the stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:58), and was a merciless persecutor of the early church.
As you can tell, this was one bad dude at one time.......
So, the Apostle Paul, who started as one of Christianity's most zealous enemies, was hand-picked by Jesus Christ to become the gospel's most ardent messenger. Paul traveled tirelessly through the ancient world, taking the message of salvation to the Gentiles. Paul towers as one of the all-time giants of Christianity.

Bottom line here, it ain't where you have been, but where you are and where you are going. The two real journey's that I printed this morning from two different women, in two different sets of circumstances represent the fact that most of us are in a state of transition, and we will continue to change.
 
Philippians is filled with common passages: “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6), “To live is Christ and to die is gain” (1:21), and “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me” (4:13) are just a few. But the portrait of Jesus Christ as a humble servant serves as the core of Paul’s teaching in this letter (2:5–11).

In living a "purposeful life" - one filled with action, work, reflection, happiness and unhappiness, we often forget we all have much to be thankful for, the pace and the pressure of life often squeeze the joy from us - we hate, envy and abhor our neighbors. We rage in our car, when we think no-one is looking --- my own neighbor a couple of doors down gave me "the finger" while her husband uttered some obscenity as I inadvertently backed out of my driveway without looking, narrowly avoiding an accident. I stopped, apologized for my mistake but asked them why they decided not to be "neighborly". They told me that I should drive better, and walked quickly into their home. Angry at first, I pray for them because their level of disappointment with their own existence appears to be unbearable. I will now make sure to look both ways, since I really don't want to be in an accident nor a victim of "road rage".
 
So in everyday lives, we sit with "Our shoulders slumped and our heads bowed, we find some days—or months—very difficult to get through. Desperate, we often search for joy in all kinds of ways—acquiring possessions, visiting places, or seeing people. But none of these can provide lasting joy. Where do you find joy in the midst of a trying circumstance? "
Our society teaches us that if we acquire that Coach bag, Manolo shoes, Burberry Heritage Trench Coat or Vera Wang dress, everything will be better. If that were so, why do I find these very items in the Goodwill boutique 2 miles from my house? There is nothing sadder than an expensive wedding gown in the Goodwill store. The "event" either did not end well or the original owner is dead - NOT a great way to celebrate YOUR good day.

"God can change anyone. God gave Paul the strength, wisdom, and endurance to carry out the mission Jesus entrusted Paul with. One of Paul's most famous statements is: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," (Philippians 4:13, NKJV), reminding us that our power to live the Christian life comes from God, not ourselves."

And, let's give our "neighbor" (everywhere) a break, - - the name calling, condescension, conniving, stereotyping, politicking, and "back-biting" have all been done and tried before. Drive by any cemetery and you will find the headstones of people who had days, just like yours, nothing is new under the sun or under the Son.

Breaking the media`s blackout on South Africa

The Gruesome Reality of Racist South Africa.”  In painstaking detail, Ahlert goes where angels fear to tread in exposing the murderous, borderline genocidal, conditions under which white South Africans are systematically forced to labor.

 

The very same Western media that campaigned tirelessly against the apartheid of the old South Africa now refuse to utter a syllable about the cruelty and injustices that plague the new.  In light of the ubiquity of this cowardice, Ahlert’s courage is that much more salient—and that much more commendable.

Statements made about minorities by ANC Government Officials towards SA minority citizens

  “When Mandela dies we will kill you whites like flies” – Mzukisi Gaba (ANC councillor and politician at the Provincial government of the Western Cape.) “Kill the Boer – Kill the Farmer” – Peter Mokaba (Murdered ANC populist) “Stealing from whites is not a crime” – Faraday Nkoane, Leader of the Uhuru culture club. “I have beaten the Colonials – and I am going to beat the children of the children of the Colonials” – Julius Malema (ANC youth leader) “Kill them- Kill the Amaburu” – song by the ANC and Mandela “All whites are racists” – Dept. Minister Fikile Mbalula “Whites will be threatened with a revolution by black people if the racial quotas are not met” – Jimmy Manji (Black management forum leader) “We are here today to declare war. We are against violence, but if this is what it takes to force a bad farmer in a direction, then they should be smashed (moered) in that direction. If farmers continue to violate the rights of our workers like mad dogs then we need to beat them until they stop. They are going to shit if they do not stop.” – Tony Ehrenreich – Cosatu leader in the Western Cape. “There is already blood on the farm workers and unless it stops there will be blood on the farmers of these farms. We will grab the land and give it to the rightful owners.” – Tony Ehrenreich – Cosatu leader in the Western Cape.

Yet while they are few, there are other voices in the wilderness.  One such voice belong to us..

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sisterthundershow/2014/10/03/breaking-the-medias-blackout-on-south-africa

Sex Education for Five-year-olds — Pushed by Pedophiles

Unfortunately, when it comes to sexualizing young children, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.
Sin City is certainly earning its nickname, becoming the latest municipality to consider explicit sex “education” for tender-aged children — as young as five years old. The proposed curriculum would apply to all of Clark County, Nevada, of which Las Vegas is the county seat. The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Trevon Milliard provides some details, writing:

Considered changes include education of homosexuality as early as ages 5 through 8.... School children of that age range would also be taught that “touching and rubbing one’s genitals to feel good is called masturbation

 

The district presented these 101 pages of possible changes in closed-door meetings with community members last week. Parent Nicole Luth attended one of the “community input” meetings and was shocked at how they were run, allowing only those invited to attend.

The proposed curriculum, taken from the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, published by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), would also teach 12-year-olds “about the very details of anal and oral sex,” as one parent put it, and that abortion is “safe.”

And how graphic is this material? Clark County School District high-school student Chloe Davis added perspective, saying "I think I went through about 20 pages, and I couldn't continue with it because some of the stuff was just too disturbing to me at the age that I am — and I'm 17-years-old.”
Unfortunately, while these proposals are bizarre, they’re not at all unusual. In 2003, then-Illinois state Senator Barack Obama voted for a bill that provided for sex education for five-year-olds, and SIECUS — which has received funding from entities such as AT&T, The Buffett Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, The Ford Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation — peddles its agenda nationwide. And don’t be surprised that kids still playing in sandboxes are considered fair game, as modern sex education embraces the tenet that children are sexual from birth. And where does this idea come from?

As the intrepid Dr. Judith Reisman has documented extensively, all sex education began with the work of bug researcher turned self-proclaimed sex expert Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey was the one who insisted that children are sexual from birth. And how did he draw this conclusion?

He compiled “data” on the sexual responses of young children and infants.
Yes, “responses” means exactly what you think it does. And none of this is conjecture: Kinsey and his “research” team provided a chart (infamous “Table 34”) on which all this data was listed; it included “observations” such as that of 26 climaxes in a 24-hour period — in a four-year-old boy.
How was this data obtained? Kinsey relied heavily on information from active pedophiles, people he or his associates often trained in “data collection” methods. One of them, says Paul Gebhard, second director of the Kinsey Institute and co-author of Kinsey’s second research volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), was a U.S. government land examiner named Rex King. King was interested in “having sex with men and women and children and animals,” as Gebhard put it, and during his years molested approximately 800 children. Gebhard, who has lamented our society’s “insistence that children are non-sexual,” also said that Kinsey’s team worked with “a pedophile organization in this country” (presumably NAMbLA, the North American Man-boy Love Association) and admitted on video that the data on children’s sexual responses were obtained via “manual and oral techniques.”

Of course, this just reflected Kinsey’s own twisted inclinations. As I wrote in “According to Kinsey, Deviancy is the New Normal,” Kinsey was a pedophile with an “attraction to young boys, a perversion that manifested itself at a tender age. In a letter written as a YMCA counselor, he boasted of a ‘nature library’ he possessed, comprising pictures and drawings of nude men and boys that he would show to young male charges while camping — in his tent — late at night.”
The point is that Kinsey and his team were nothing but perverts using “science” as a pretext for indulging their pedophilic desires — and as a vehicle through which to justify pedophilia.
Nothing has changed today, either. Don’t get me wrong, among those supporting the sex-education movement are the naïve and those who are just generally corrupt, but there’s also a large core of activists and acolytes of Kinsey’s stripe. And let’s be blunt:
People’s interest in sexualizing children usually isn’t passionate unless they’re motivated by dark passion, unless they’re pedophiles in practice or mind (i.e., the idea of childhood sexual activity titillates them).
And some of these people are overt in their aims. For example, in “The Slippery Slope to Pedophilia” I reported on

a 2011 symposium in Baltimore, Maryland — an event whose focus was the normalization of adult-child sexual relationships. WND.com reported at the time that it was “held by the ‘minor-attracted people’ advocacy group B4U-ACT to disseminate ‘accurate information’ on the position that pedophilia is just one more alternative sexual orientation.” As such, the conference speakers contended, the American Psychiatric Association should no longer list pedophilia as a psychological condition in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).... Reporting further on the positions taken at the conference, WND wrote:

... Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins ... argued in favor of “acceptance of and compassion for people who are attracted to minors....”

... Richard Kramer, who represented B4U-ACT at the event, contended listing pedophilia as a disorder stigmatizes the “victims” of the lifestyle choice.

... Conference speakers said the Diagnostic Manual should “focus on the needs” of the pedophile and should have “a minimal focus on social control” rather than a focus on the “need to protect children.”

... Self-described “gay activist” and speaker Jacob Breslow said it is proper for children to be “the object of our attraction.” Breslow said pedophiles shouldn’t need to get consent from a child to have sex any more than they would get consent from a shoe to wear it.

... Liberty Counsel Action vice president J. Matt Barber, who also attended the conference, summed up its themes thus (quotations are Barber’s, as reported by WND): Adult lust for children is “normative,” people indulging it are unfairly “demonized,” children are capable of consenting to sex, “wrong” as a concept isn’t applicable to “minor-attracted people,” and the DSM “ignores that pedophiles ‘have feelings of love and romance for children’ the same way adult heterosexuals have for each other.”

Boiling this down to just old-fashioned common sense, if you learned that some adult had discussed intimate details of sexuality with your young child, wouldn’t you suspect that the person was driven by prurient interest? Well, why would you assume differently just because the adult happens to work for the government-school system? Note here how studies have shown that pedophiles are, in fact, rampant in government schools — and they often go unpunished.
We also may wonder, is there not a disturbing congruence between the claim that “five isn’t too young for sex education” and NAMbLA’s erstwhile motto “Sex before eight — or it’s too late”?

Fracking Revolution: U.S. Replaces OPEC as World’s “Swing Producer”

After reviewing the numbers from America’s oil and gas patches, Per Magnus Nysveen of Rystad, an international oil consultancy in Norway, declared that the United States is now taking on the role of “swing producer” that used to be played by Saudi Arabia and other members of OPEC, the oil producers’ cartel.

Those numbers are impressive. Fracking technology has led to a 65-percent increase in U.S. crude oil output in just the last six years and, according to Wood Mackenzie, another highly regarded energy consultancy firm: “The shale industry is just starting out; it is not even a teenager yet.... There is still plenty of room for growth.”

It is estimated that the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of liquid petroleum products (oil, ethane, and propane) within the next two months — the first time that will have happened since 1991. As a result, oil imports have dropped to just 20 percent of America’s consumption, down from more than 60 percent less than 10 years ago.

Oil production in Texas alone would place it (if it were a country) in the top eight oil-producing countries in the world. As recently as 2010, the Lone Star State’s crude oil production was barely one million barrels per day (bpd); however, for the last three months in a row (through July), Texas is producing more than three million bpd. As economist Mark Perry put it, “This has to be one of the most significant increases in oil output ever recorded in the US over such a short period of time.” Perry estimates that Texas oil production will continue on its tear, surpassing four million bpd by the summer of 2015, which will then make it the world’s fifth largest producer.
The fracking boom has been a huge boost to to the economy of Texas, as well as having an indirect impa ct on the U.S. economy. Just in the last 12 months, employment in Texas has increased by nearly 400,000 — an astonishing 1,500 new jobs every business day.
But that triple in Texas fades into relative insignificance when looking at natural gas output in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. From November 2009 to July 2014, gas output there has increased by a staggering 800 percent, spurring the development of pipelines to ship these vast quantities of gas to the East and Gulf coasts and causing pricing disruptions in the natural gas markets.
Though as recently as June of this year the price of Brent crude was $115 a barrel, it is currently trading at $95 — causing gas prices at the pump in more than half the states to drop below $3.00 a gallon for the first time in years.
Innovation continues to expand the output from fracking wells. Since 2012, Conoco has increased the productivity of its wells by 30 percent. Such innovation has forced other oil and natural gas producers to revise their estimates of recoverable resources. In the Bakken formation in North Dakota, for example, Continental Resources has been running pilots of multiple wells in a honeycomb arrangement which would allow up to eight horizontal wells in an area that could previously have held no more than four. In addition they are experimenting with drilling three more sets of eight wells in deeper formations there as the Bakken formation looks more and more like a stack of pancakes just waiting to be developed. Said Warren Henry, a company spokesman, “This is like Saudi Arabia in the 1950s. Although we been here for the past six years, we’re just barely getting started.”
Pioneer Natural Resources, one of the most active drillers in the Permian Basin formation in Texas, revised its estimate of recoverable resources there from 50 billion barrels to 75 billion barrels, making it by far the largest oil field in the United States.
The almost exponential growth in production in the United States is making foreign oil ministers nervous, some of whom are calling on OPEC to respond. For instance, Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, wrote last week on the ministry’s website: “OPEC members should make efforts to offset their production to keep oil prices from further instability.” This is how a bureaucrat says “We’re losing ground to America and something must be done about it.” But Iran is caught in a pickle: It needs the revenues to fund its war efforts so it cannot afford to cut production in order to keep prices high.

America’s oil and gas revolution is also undercutting one of the primary foundational justifications for foreign interference in the Middle East: to protect the flow of oil back to the United States. In an interview on February 19, 1998 with Matt Lauer on NBC’s “The Today Show”, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in trying to justify America’s intervention there at the time, said this:

It is the threat of the use of force ... that is going to put force behind [our] diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America: we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future....

I know that the American men and women in uniform are always prepared to sacrifice for freedom, democracy and the American way of life.

She forgot to mention, of course, that the prime motivation at the time was to protect the flow of crude oil from the Middle East. What she failed to see was the technological innovation that was just around the corner that would reverse America’s dependency upon OPEC and the Middle East for its energy supplies, which is now making such outrageous foreign policy declarations increasingly irrelevant.

The fracking revolution is having, and will continue to have, impacts across the nation and around the world, from lower gasoline prices to increasingly phony foreign policy justifications. Not only is it helping substantially to revive the country’s economy following the Great Recession, it also has the potential to restore America’s belief in itself and in its future.

Apple, Google Encryption Moves Enrage FBI Director Comey

A week after smartphone makers Apple and Google announced software that now makes their phones impervious to government snooping, FBI Director James Comey expressed outrage, claiming that he could simply not understand why these two companies would “market something expressly to allow people to place themselves above the law.” He added: “There will come a day when it will matter of great deal to the lives of people … that we be able to gain access [to that private information]." 
Of course, such information is, or should be, protected under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

What the new software means is that law enforcement officials will have to go back to the old way of investigating crime and turning up incriminating evidence. They will still be able to seek records of calls or texts from cellular carriers, eavesdrop on conversations and, based on the cell towers used, determine the general locations of suspects. They also will be able to access private data deliberately or unintentionally backed up on remote cloud services. And law enforcement agencies continue to have the capability of installing malicious software onto smart phones, turning them into virtual spies on the behavior of their owners.

On its website Apple noted: “Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government [search] warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running [operating system] iOS 8.”
But both companies will still have the ability, and the legal responsibility, to turn over any user data stored elsewhere, such as on cloud services, which typically include backups of photos, videos, e-mail communications, and music collections. Users wishing to prevent law enforcement from going after that data will have to adjust their personal settings that block that data from flowing to the cloud.
Christopher Soghoian, a software technology expert for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was delighted about the new software:

This is a great move. Particularly after the Snowden disclosures, Apple seems to understand that consumers want companies to put their privacy first.

However, I suspect there are going to be a lot of unhappy law enforcement officials.

Another of those unhappy law enforcement officials is Ronald Hosko, a former investigator for the FBI, who labeled the encryptions by Apple and Google “problematic,” adding that it will make life more difficult for law enforcement to collect key evidence. He declared that “our ability to act on data [stored in these devices] is critical to our success” in preventing and solving crimes.
For more than three years, Google’s Android device has had encryption capability, although it was difficult to engage. In Android's latest iteration, that encryption will now be enabled automatically right out of the box so that, as Android spokeswoman Nikki Christoff said, “You won’t even have to think about turning it on.”
These moves reflect a seismic groundswell of outrage against the federal government's invasions of privacy which were first exposed by Edward Snowden, a computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA). Craig Timberg, writing in the Washington Post, called it “a part of a broad shift by American technology companies to make their products more resistant to government snooping” in the aftermath of the Snowden revelations.
It also makes largely redundant the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in June, in Riley v. California, which concluded that “police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested.” Writing for the unanimous court, Chief Justice John Roberts noted:

Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and in all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans “the privacies of life.” The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought.

He added:

The term “cell phone” is itself misleading shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicomputers that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone. They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, Rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps or newspapers.

Prior to that decision, law enforcement officials were able to use the doctrine of SITA — Search Incident To Arrest — a broad exception carved out of the Fourth Amendment allowing police to seize and download information from smart phones obtained during an arrest without the need for getting a search warrant in advance.
As this unbreakable encryption technology spreads across the vast array of Apple products and, more slowly, into Google’s previous iterations of its Android products, it will continue to reflect a groundswell of pushback against the surveillance state.
The National Security Agency, unfortunately, will be only slightly inconvenienced by either the Riley decision or the new technology announced by Apple and Google. NSA agents will continue to hoover citizens’ personal data and store it in vast digital warehouses for future use at their convenience. It’s going to take far more than encryption technology to protect Americans from the NSA.
Nevertheless, this decision is an important victory for privacy, even if it is not an all-important one.

Official Chinese Press Delivers Warning to Hong Kong Protesters

Chinese officials have used the editorial pages of the People’s Daily, the flagship paper of China’s Communist Party, to warn protesters engaged in anti-Mainland China demonstrations to back off. The ranks of demonstrators have been swelled by thousands of University of Hong Kong students who have been boycotting classes to take part in the protests seeking expanded voting rights, less interference from Beijing, and the preservation of freedom of the press, which exists to a greater degree in Hong Kong than on the mainland.

The recent protests began after it was announced that all candidates running for the position of chief executive — a position currently held by the Beijing-supported Leung Chun-ying — would be selected by a committee made up largely of pro-Beijing puppets.

The People’s Daily said in an October 1 article that while speaking at the National Day reception, Leung said the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has reached a decision on the process for selection of the Chief Executive (CE) by universal suffrage, and promised that the CE can be elected through “one person, one vote” from 2017 onward.

“It is understandable that different people may have different ideas about a desirable reform package. But it is definitely better to have universal suffrage than not. It is definitely better to have the CE elected by five million eligible voters than by 1,200 people,” the official Communist paper quoted Leung as saying.
The Washington Post reported that on October 1 protesters threatened to block more government buildings to emphasize their dissatisfaction. In response, Chinese authorities branded the demonstrations as being illegal and issued a vague warning that, if they continue, the “consequences will be unimaginable.”
In a report for The New American on September 29, Foreign Correspondent Alex Newman noted that over last weekend, when the demonstrators refused to disperse, riot police used tear gas, beatings with batons, and other harsh measures to break up the demonstrations. More than 40 people were injured, including some police officers.
However, the Beijing-supported crackdown implemented by its Hong Kong subordinates apparently backfired. Newman reported:

By Monday, even more protesters, enraged by the show of force, poured into the streets in response to the violence. Analysts and witnesses on the ground said the official attacks on college students and other young demonstrators led to greater numbers of older Hong Kongers joining the rallies as well.

In response to the protest, the Chinese government’s Hong Kong liaison office said in a statement released on September 28: “We believe the majority of Hong Kong residents will not tolerate a few people's radical, illegal activism at the cost of Hong Kong's rule of law, stability and prosperity.”
The protests have attracted enough attention back in Beijing that the People’s Daily has run several articles commenting on them. One editorial on September 30 expressed concern that the “activists are jeopardizing the global image of Hong Kong, and presenting the world with the turbulent face of the city.”

The People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest communist oligarchy, with the Communist Party elite ruling over 1.3 billion people, is apparently much more image-conscious than the hardcore regime in charge back in the “bad old days.”
People’s Daily proudly boasts that “Hong Kong is a financial and fashion hub of the world,” a fairly "bourgeois" statement from a party organ that supposedly represents the anti-capitalist philosophy of Marx!

After noting that “Radical opposition forces in Hong Kong should be blamed” for the unrest that is sullying Hong Kong’s image, the paper laments,

US media is linking the Occupy Central movement with the Tiananmen Incident in 1989. By hyping such a groundless comparison, they attempt to mislead and stir up Hong Kong society.

China is no longer the same nation it was 25 years ago. We have accumulated experience and drawn lessons from others, which help strengthen our judgment when faced with social disorder.

The Tiananmen incident refers to the brutal suppression of demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. While official figures of the number of protesters killed range from 200 to 300, Amnesty International's estimates puts the number of deaths at several hundred to close to 1,000. That image is not what China’s government wants to perpetuate, however, now that China recorded a trade surplus of $49.83 billion in August of 2014.

An article in the Economist on September 30 explored Hong Kong’s importance to China’s economy and how its value as an economic engine might affect China’s response to the protests. It noted:

Hong Kong has proved to be more reliable than the mainland as a source of equity financing. Since 2012, Chinese companies have raised $43 billion in initial public offerings in the Hong Kong market, versus just $25 billion on mainland exchanges, according to Dealogic. More than anywhere else in the world, Hong Kong has also provided Chinese companies with access to global capital markets for bond and loan financing. What’s more, Hong Kong is the key hub for investment in and out of China. It accounted for two-thirds of foreign direct investment into China last year, up from 30% in 2005.

 

The author concluded: “If China were to do anything that jeopardised their special relationship, Hong Kong would suffer most; but China would also pay a heavy price.”

So far, the protests in Hong Kong have been little more than a public relations problem for Bejing, which does not want to upset the mutually beneficial and unique relationship between the mainland and the former British colony. China grants Hong Kong a little freedom, and receives an economic cash cow in return. But if Bejing fears that the protests in Hong Kong will inspire more of the same on the mainland, it might decide that the price of continuing the “One Country” and “Two Systems” status quo is too high a price to pay and might order its chief executive there to start cracking down on the protesters more forcefully

Praying for Nigeria 

We have watched as Muslim extremists and Boko Haram have terrorized you, tortured you, and brutalized you. But God has heard your cries and he has sent a mighty warrior, but he is also gathering his saints in America to stand up and fight for you in the spirit. We will no longer accept the spiritual wickedness and the evil doers who punish and treat you like dogs. No more, children of God, will you be alone you have brothers and sisters all over the world who are willing and able to fight for you.  

We have heard of the horror of the burning of your churches, taking your children, and raping your women; these things are unbelievably brutal but God is aware of it and he sees it and trust me he is doing something about it. To the evil doers we have asked God to give all of you, every group and individual, a Damascus intervention. If God can strike Saul off of a horse and blind him even after all the Christians he had murdered, and still changed Saul to Paul who became one of the most amazing Christians and wrote two thirds of the New Testament he can do it to anyone. 

 

So we are asking God, we are besieging the throne of God for that to happen to each and every person in Nigeria. Give them a visitation of your presence and change their lives to Christians. I know it must be hard seeing them mutilate your children but just as Job lost his whole family, Gods word , his magnificent word, still stands true today and he gave Job a new family and double the portion of what he went through. Know this, your portion is doubled and Gods word never comes in vein. Women of God I know that they have tortured and killed your husbands but God promised you that he would give you another, he has not forsaken you and he is there for you, even though you can’t see it God is there in the midst of all your trouble. You must forgive them because forgiveness is not for them but for you, don’t hold anything against them in your heart, let the light of God shine so bright that they can’t understand how a woman could forgive them for all the horrible things they have done. Let them know the treasure of God that lies beneath in your heart.

 

 Father in Heaven bath our brothers and sisters in the blood of Christ, change their lives like you have never changed them before and give them a visitation so they can go out to the world and preach the gospel. God renew their strength and heal their bodies and let them show love where there isn’t, Father love them in their deepest darkest moment of despair. I ask that you change that despair to gladness, their sorrow to joy, and their heart ache to hope. Father show us how we can help them and be of good cheer even in the midst of darkness, make their days bright and shiny for all eternity to see, in Jesus name Amen.  

Father we just come against the Boko Haram right now and we rebuke everything that they represent and all the evil things they have allowed to reign in their lives. We just ask right now that you give each and every one of their members a mighty visitation, one that will change their lives forever. We ask right now Lord that you tear down every leader, every building, and every word that these people have established or created. We ask that you change their stony hearts to the heart of Christ, for we know that the only person that can change someone is Jesus and we just ask right now that his power and love and might flow in every one of these people.