Situations in Need of Prayer

Natural Disasters: The largest wildfire in California records (began Dec. 4) has just been declared fully contained (Jan.12). Over 1,000 structures in 440 square miles were destroyed. Evacuees returned home only to be hit by devastating floods and mudslides at the Santa Barbara coast (haven for the wealthy, celebrities and tourists, but also contains modest homes). Rainfall in Southern Cal Tuesday was 18 times more than required to produce debris flow. 19 people are known dead, and rescuers continue to search for the missing in thick mud, 10 feet deep in places. Burned ground without vegetation made the hills vulnerable to falling debris, including enormous boulders. Many of the 9,000 residents remain evacuated. Authorities are testing ocean waters, as there is sewage in the storm runoff.

Famine: People in socialist Venezuela are so hungry that mobs attacked cattle with rocks to kill them for food, while Venezuela’s leftist dictator ate during a televised speech. In Marxist/Socialist/Communist rule, history shows us that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Venezuela’s socialists destroyed a once booming economy; its policies caused the country to run out of ‘other people’s money.’ This is the leftist economy looming ahead, brought on by today’s welfare policies.

Pestilence: Medical experts are predicting the worst flu epidemic in history this winter. Already the entire continental US is experiencing widespread flu outbreaks, the first time in the 13 years of the current tracking system. Many report hospital waiting rooms jammed with flu victims, medication running out and IV bags in short supply. This year’s flu involves the dreaded H3N2 strain that causes more complications and is difficult to prevent. Also a mix of flu types, including highly infectious, virulent Aussie flu has swept across Europe in recent weeks. And China is suffering from a severe flu epidemic that is flooding hospitals, with people waiting for treatment.

Christian Persecution: In China, Communist Party authorities demolished a Christian church it obviously perceived as a threat to its atheist, rigid political and ‘social control.’ The church, constructed with $2.6m (£1.9m) in contributions from worshippers in one of China’s poorest regions, had grown to 50,000 members. Previously at this church, the building was smashed, Bibles seized, and church leaders were arrested and sentenced to prison. Freedom of religion is guaranteed under China’s constitution, but authorities use excuses to attack churches. Communism shows no respect for religious freedom or human rights.

Sexual Immorality: Liberal Washington State now allows a 3rd sex option on birth certificates. In Canada a group will hold “naked swim day” at a public pool, and children are encouraged to attend. It will be staffed by government employees and says it’s “open to people of all ages…all genders, sexual orientations, and anyone in between.” Does that also include pedophiles? Surely, they’ll attend.

In Manchester, England, the principal at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls says the word “girl” will not be allowed since it could result in transgender pupils being ‘misgendered.’ At a recent Manchester school conference, a mental health boss said teachers should avoid calling pupils ‘boys’ or ‘girls’.

The Demonic: Sony Pictures is releasing Slenderman in theaters this spring – a tall, gaunt, faceless character in black who preys on children, luring them to his den. You may recall this “fictional” Internet character that two 12-year-old girls claimed caused them to stab another child 19 times so he would leave them alone. He’s now a character in children’s Minecraft games as well.

Nation Against Nation (the word in the original Greek is ethnos – ethnic): Many white South Africans have warned about open war on whites there, and they see it beginning in America. One wrote in to Dave Hodges Common Sense Show: “Our government and our political parties are more authoritarian than they are in China or were in Stalinist Russia. …Our third largest political party is openly Marxist and the national song is ‘Kill the farmer.’ This is what our current president sings at his political rallies. Our second largest party is socialist.” Read more of “A Planned Genocide in the Making: The Final Solution for White Males (South African Warnings to Americans about What Is Coming)” at http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2018/01/10/a-planned-genocide-in-the-making-the-final-solution-for-white-males/

Global Government Agenda: President Trump is frustrated, trying to keep the US from falling under the liberal left’s global dictatorship agenda. Dick Durbin, attender at Communist and Socialist rallies, claims Trump used the S word (in a closed-door session of about half a dozen lawmakers) to describe the chosen countries from which the liberal left insists on shipping people to our shores. Others said they didn’t hear that word. Regardless, instead of trying to fix cities in our own country that the Democrat party runs and ruins with their policies, they want to bring in more immigrants who would put more strain on an already overburdened system, not to mention terrorists who get through.

White House spokesperson Raj Shah said, “Pres. Trump wants to make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation.” A sociologist in West Africa said, “President Donald Trump is absolutely right: When you have heads of state who mess with the constitutions to perpetuate their power…” Another African source said that Trump only said what many Africans say behind closed doors about the continent’s most troubled nations, adding, “The Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe are ‘s. . .holes’ run by a. . holes.”

The Stage is Being Set: The Bible speaks of the last days (Matt 24; Luke 17 & 21; 2 Tim 3; Dan 9:27; Rev 13, et al) when this, along with other events such as mentioned here, will be the case and will become more rampant, until Jesus returns. Pray for the rapture to occur before the liberal-left globalists get their New World Order in place that we know is coming and will be evil. The left behind will experience it for sure.

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt 24:21). “But this is your hour—when darkness reigns” (Luke 22:53).

Call to Prayer: It’s Cold Out There in More Ways Than One

Brutally cold arctic weather is affecting many parts of the US with some places buried in snow. Pray for the poor and homeless to have a way to keep warm. And when it’s 32 degrees and below it’s too cold for pets. Bring them inside; God calls for us to take good care of them also (Proverbs 12:10; Matthew 10:29).

Pray for the sick. Flu season started early this year; and according to the CDC it’s widespread in most of the nation. People are reporting it to be particularly brutal this year — long-lasting with complications ranging from ear infections, to bronchitis, to pneumonia or all three.

Pray for the families of the Coptic Christians killed by ISIS in Egypt this week. Islamist terrorists, as commanded in their Qur’an, hate those who name the name of Christ as much as they hate the Jewish people. And pray for the Coptics and others who base their salvation on works, to come to the knowledge that salvation is based only on the finished work of Christ on the cross.

Pray for the people in North Korea who are suffering terribly under the brutal regime of a madman. A few North Koreans who recently managed to escape to South Korea were found to have been exposed to radiation and anthrax.

Pray for the Christian couple, Aaron and Melissa Klein, who owned Sweet Cakes Bakery and whose livelihood was taken away. They just lost their appeal and will be forced to pay $135,000 to the lesbian couple who claim they felt “mentally raped” when the couple wouldn’t bake a cake for the celebration of their gay marriage. Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian even demanded that this Christian couple be “rehabilitated.”

During all this they’ve been subjected to threats by gay advocates, such as calls for Aaron Klein to be raped and shot, and wishes for illness to befall their five children. One email stated, “You stupid bible thumping, hypocritical b****. I hope your kids get really, really, sick and you go out of business.” There are others – Christian bakers and florists – going through the same thing, no doubt having been specifically targeted.

Pray for the children, as always, who are being relentlessly targeted by Satan and his minions. The liberal-left CNN this week promoted a children’s book for ages 4 to 8 that depicts Santa Claus as a homosexual, married to another man. Yet CNN says the movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” should be retired for allegedly being “sexist.” This should come as no surprise since CNN’s Chris Cuomo earlier this year called parents “intolerant” who wouldn’t want their 12-year-old daughter to look at a “transsexual” man’s penis in a locker room.

Also in the news this week, in California it’s now a law that Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, etc. history must be taught in schools, including elementary schools, and parents are not allowed to opt their children out of it. These books list historical figures that they suggest could have been gay, with no proof whatsoever.

A study just came out that claims 27% of teens between the ages of 12 & 17 in California consider themselves to be “gender nonconforming.” The study (error margin of 6% give or take) was based on inclusion of two questions in the California Health Interview Survey that were asked of 1,594 of the state’s young people between those ages.

At the infamous Bethel church in California, their children’s pastor, Seth Dahl, teaches children telepathy (Eastern Mystic and Occult practice) and how to summon spirits with Ouija Boards disguised as angel boards.

Bethel Church is the flagship of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), known for tossing chicken feathers (they claim are from angels) and glitter from the rafters (they claim is gold dust) and for ‘grave sucking’– from graves of their dead charismatic leaders (claiming they’re soaking up anointing) – and for using tarot cards (they claim are Christian). This is one example of many in these prophesied last days of apostasy in the churches and false prophets teaching doctrines of demons.

Pray for the young adults being deceived in colleges. In the news this week is Swarthmore College that considers itself “interfaith.” Their liberal arts department is offering “Queering the Bible,” a class that surveys “queer and trans readings of biblical texts.” The school’s religion department is teaching a class that questions the sexuality of Almighty God called, “Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology.” Yet this college has been ranked the best liberal arts college in the United States six times by US News & World Report. It is currently ranked 3rd best liberal arts college in the nation.

And for those who used to enjoy watching the Olympics before it became a liberal-left spectacle? Who could forget the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics in Brazil in 2016?! In the upcoming Winter Olympics, men who claim they are now women are welcome to compete with the women, and vice versa.

Pray for our military. On January 1st the US military will have to begin accepting those who call themselves transgender, as ordered by the federal courts who blocked the president’s transgender ban for the military. Taxpayers will have to pay for all those operations they’re joining for — money that should be used for our defense. But then again, the agenda of the liberal-left Marxists is to weaken our defenses and the morale of our troops.

2 Timothy 3 tells us about the awful state of mankind in the last days. Verse 13 says “But evil men and seducers (impostors; sorcerers) shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

Jesus said of the last days, “And because iniquity (wickedness; lawlessness) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:12).

Pray for the lost. It’s a cold world indeed in these returned days of Noah and Lot, prophesied by Jesus Himself in Luke 17 to be the case when He returns. But one thing that isn’t cold (temperature-wise) is Hell. Many will go there who refuse to turn to Christ as Savior—God in the flesh who came to Earth to die for the sins of mankind. God doesn’t desire anyone to go to Hell; however, only the shed blood of Jesus—the Lamb of God— can cover man’s sins and give him eternal life in Glory. The time for salvation  is now!

Come, Lord Jesus!