Situations in Need of Prayer This Week

Pray for the US: The government shut down because liberal politicians are holding out for policies which take the nation down rather than contribute to it. But that’s the goal. Illegal aliens boarded planes this week to be quietly redistributed across the country on private flights paid for by US taxpayers. Another reason globalists want to take down the US is they don’t want a Judeo-Christian nation. It’s God they’re really against. The Freedom from Religion Foundation is hounding the Trump administration for more information on its Bible study sessions. We need to pray for the document to be revealed that supposedly will expose the traitors and put an end to the “witch hunt” against our president.

Pray for People to Wake up to the Perils of Socialism

In socialist Venezuela, its citizens have resorted to buying and selling items of garbage as a means of survival as the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.

Pray for the Unborn and Those Fighting for Them: 22 States filed a Supreme Court brief on behalf of pregnancy centers forced to promote abortion. It started with a California law requiring these centers to show a message promoting abortion services. Since then, similar laws and challenges to those laws have been cropping up all across the country.

In Canada, church groups must support abortion as part of their “core mandate” in order to receive summer student job grants, says Canada’s employment minister, Patricia Hajdu. She added that employers also must attest in writing that they support abortion and transgender “rights.” Canada’s boy leader Justin Trudeau said pro-life groups are “not in line’ with Canadian government or society. The Canada Summer Job website says it doesn’t want taxpayers’ money going to groups who don’t endorse individual “human rights” to abortion.

Pray for Children, Youths in High School and Young Adults in Colleges Whose Minds are Being Destroyed:
13 rescued siblings aged 2 to 29 were subjected to horrible living conditions all their lives by their own parents. Pray for their well-being, and also that the liberal left won’t be able to use this situation to stop all homeschooling so they can indoctrinate all children into their agenda.

In Massachusetts, the Jewish havdalah ceremony (in which blessings are recited and a prayer acknowledges the end of the Sabbath day, entreating God to grant a spiritually wholesome week) was given a new twist. Lander Grinspoon Academy had “Sparkle Havdalah” supported by local Jewish organizations. Their havdalah featured Drag Queen Story Hour, a national program launched in California in 2015 to give kids “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

Spotlighted were the books “Sparkle Boy” and “Heather Has Two Mommies.” The co-sponsor of this event (and also another Drag Queen Story Hour at the local library) says it aligns with “progressive” values of the local Jewish community and celebrates being against rigid ideas of what gender should be.

Abercrombie Kids proudly launched a gender-inclusive children’s fashion line called the “Everybody Collection.”

Teens are taking seriously the internet “Tide Challenge,” eating Tide pods laundry detergent, whose ingredients are highly-toxic when eaten. The pods are colorful and look like candy. At least 10 deaths have been linked to ingesting these pods so far: Two toddlers and eight seniors with dementia.

George Mason High School in Falls Church, VA held a school-wide assembly featuring transgender crusader and Washington Post reporter, Amy Nutt, to lecture students. She told students their gender is “assigned at birth” by people who might get it wrong, and toddlers can be transgender. She said gender is a spectrum and everyone must get comfortable with new gender language that is changing every day, adding that asking a biological boy to use the teachers’ rather than the girls’ restroom is “bullying.”

Georgetown University, ostensibly a “Catholic” school, will offer a housing complex starting this fall for homosexual, transgender and “questioning” students.

Weak Men and Haughty Women

Besides Facebook intending to weed out news stories it doesn’t approve of, Google forces liberal attitudes on its employees by having them attend “diversity training.” At one of the “groupthink” meetings, employees were told that Google has fewer female engineers due to “male bias” and how it needs to achieve 50/50 parity. An employee was fired when he asked on his questionnaire how Google could make 50% of its engineering hires female when only 20% of computer engineering graduates are women.

The non-liberal female lawyer suing on his behalf said, “They cannot achieve their goal legally by quotas, by putting men down, by shaming them, by refusing to promote them, by booing them in companywide meetings, which has been done…” She referred to the training sessions as “reeducation camps” which are associated with “Communist” regimes. “They’re what totalitarian systems resort to in order to dictate the inner thoughts of the unfortunate people who are unable to escape them.”

Feminists returned to the streets this weekend, marching for female empowerment and a lasting movement that will elect more women to government office. Gatherings took place across the U.S. and in other countries. Organizers strove for greater inclusion this year with “transgender female” speakers, women in the US illegally, sex workers and the formerly incarcerated. One woman speaker from last year’s march boasted that the gathering in Chicago prompted Muslim women to run for state Senate and Congress. “It was incredible. We realized how powerful this thing could be,” she said.

Isaiah 3 describes the downfall of a nation, which has always followed the same pattern. Due to the people turning against God and into rampant sin, the men became either unable or unwilling to lead, and “haughty” women ruled over them. Haughty is defined as “blatantly and disdainfully proud: having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt.”

“I will make mere youths their officials…Their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! …They will be paid back for what their hands have done. Youths oppress my people, women rule over them (haughty women–Isaiah 3:16). My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path. The Lord…rises to judge the people.” – from Isaiah chapter 3

Wake Up, World, Whatever the Weather

Still more brutal winter weather across the globe

In 92% of the U.S., temperatures were 15 to 25 degrees below average, breaking century-old records. 100 million people have been affected on the East Coast by snowstorms and a gusty deep freeze from Florida to Maine. 22 deaths have been reported. Pets and wildlife are affected as well: Dogs and a horse left in the cold froze to death. Sharks in Cape Cod froze trying to migrate to warmer waters; Cold-stunned sea turtles in Texas were rescued and cold-stunned lizards fell from trees in Florida; Elk and moose up north were stranded in ice and snowdrifts.

In Calgary, Canada temps dropped to minus 13 degrees. Parts of Israel dropped to well below freezing, and torrential downpours caused flooding. Winter storms with high winds swept across Europe causing all kinds of problems in many countries.

It’s summer in Australia now, and they’re dealing with the other extreme, with temperatures up to 117 degrees, the hottest it’s been since 1939. The pavement on the roads is melting. Also high winds are fanning lots of bush fires.

Of course the global warming whiners (aka global government-control wanters) came out this week still pushing their flatulent agenda, despite evidence to the contrary. Their deception is causing problems that will get worse. New England democrat-voting states in the U.S. closed coal and oil-fired power plants and rejected the Access Northeast Pipeline. Now unrelenting cold has caused not enough energy supplies to meet demands, and increased pricing.

Flu epidemic still raging

Nationwide, flu activity spiked sharply in late December and is increasing. In California so many people have fallen ill with the flu that pharmacies are out of flu medicines, emergency rooms are full, and the death toll is higher than previous years. 27 people younger than 65 have died of the flu in that state since October, compared with three at the same time last year.

Pray for our education system

Colleges and universities have for quite a while been centers for liberal-left lunacy, and it’s getting worse in all of them. During an interview this week at the University of Knoxville in Tennessee, a student agreed with another that it’s okay to kill children up to age two “because they can’t communicate like adults.” He compared them to trees that are alive but ‘not sentient’ (not capable of sensing or feeling, not aware of one’s surroundings).

Pray for the unborn

Planned Parenthood is boasting that its affiliates performed 321,384 abortions this fiscal year. Its affiliates received $543.7 million in payments from the government. “Soft touch abortion” boasts of its procedure that removes the fetus (up to 12 weeks gestation) in 3 to 5 minutes, is less invasive and produces almost no discomfort to the woman. She can resume normal activities in 15 minutes knowing the pregnancy is over and done.

A recent study shows abortion in India is 20 times higher than previous estimates (15.6 million children aborted in 2015 alone. Sex selection plays a part). The news led abortion advocates to call on India to liberalize its abortion laws even more, past the 20-week gestation limit, and to remove restrictions on minors so they can get abortions without parental consent.

Pray for the suffering families of those turning to everything but God

The nation is suffering from a devastating drug epidemic that is destroying lives and families, yet CNN journalists doped it up on live TV on New Year’s Eve to show their hearty approval. A young Bulgarian woman and her German boyfriend deliberately sacrificed themselves to Satan 24 hours before the first full moon of the new year. One mourner said, “Lilith…I miss you and can’t wait for the day we meet again.” ?!

Chelsea Clinton tweeted a Happy New Year to the Church of Satan. We shouldn’t be surprised. As Bill himself said, Hillary visits witches covens and calls up the dead Eleanor Roosevelt for advice (it’s a demonic spirit, as the Bible warns).

In Los Angeles, California a new generation of Satanists finds community in blasphemous times. At a ceremony at Twin Temple, the host said while standing at the altar near a human skull, “On this altar we consecrate swords to direct the fire of our unholy will. A human skull, symbol of death. The great mother Lilith created us all, and will destroy us all.” The group then chanted, “Hail Satan! Hail Satan! Hail Satan!”

More demonic deception

Manhattan, New York leads the five boroughs in sightings of UFO’s over the last two years. One New Yorker claimed “an unknown creature teleported” into their back yard.

Pray for those caught in the crossfire of hatred and violence

At least 16 people, including children, were killed by gunmen in Nigeria after a Christian church service. On the outskirts of Damascus, dozens of civilians, including children, were killed by Russian airstrikes. In North Korea a test missile failed and hit one of its own cities, destroying several buildings. Can you imagine the consequences if one of Lil’ Kim’s “test” missiles hits another country? Up to 1,700 protestors including students have been arrested in Iran. The brutal Muslim regime has no intention of losing control. At least 27 protestors have been killed. Such regimes spend the money on weapons, not caring for their own people.

Pray for people to wake up in these last days

Geologists predict 2018 will be a year of “Monster Earthquakes,” especially near the equator due to slowing of Earth’s rotation. Regardless, God is in control. He’s letting the world know time is running out to turn to Christ as Savior before He removes His own in the rapture and Tribulation judgments begin. Prophesied birth pangs (signs for unbelievers) have begun and will increase in intensity and frequency. Due to hardness of people’s hearts, it takes a lot to get their attention. God does use natural disasters and weather events of both extremes to wake people up, for it is not His desire that any should perish. But people make their own choices, and they are without excuse (Romans 1).

“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?” (Job 38:22-23). In the last days, “Great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven” (Luke 21:11).

“And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory” (Revelation 16:7-9).