Friday 22 December 2017

Prayer Requests

Today's Prayer Requests


1 John 5:14-15
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

John Sorensen |  Please pray I will be successful at abstaining from drinking coffee. I really like the taste and flavor of coffee, however, I always get bad stomach aches and heartburn soon after I drink any coffee. I bought some green tea, and I am sure that is what I want to drink instead of coffee May this go well.


Nicki palmer | prayer for heal

VERA BANKSTON-JONES | FATHER GOD, Father God I understand that you move and plan for the betterment of my life, and there's no flaws or untruth with anything you do! Guide my steps, my heart, my mind, my life, and continue to bless me with your undying Grace!.......SELAH

Amoako Agnes | God should help me to achieve all my aims and anything that is blocking my future things and marriage too

DH | Please help my cousins get out of my home and into there own place so they can get there kids back. Have them leave us alone we don't need there drama no more it's putting too much stress on me my health my kids and my husband we just want our lives back the way it was before I tried to help them get on there feet but all the did was use me stab me in the back got the law going to come for me for there dumb mistake. We don't need this we want out please Lord help get them out and to leave us alone wrong need this in our lives. We gave too many bills now we can't pay phone call after phone call people sueing us for money we ain't got can't even get food for our kids because of my cousins crap useing up everything making bills out of control. Yes Lord Jesus we need money for these bills not a lot just enough to pay our bills $50,000 would be great pay off bills and fix all the broken stuff in our house, it been freezer here and we gave no heat kids get sick can't take them to Dr no insurance Medicaid denied us, food stamps denied us. We are in a bind need a fix. Please Lord help us. Pray for us thank you

Michael Rotimi | Please thank God on my behalf for the just concluded wedding ceremony. Pray that God will bless the marriage with finance and Godly children. Please also pray that God will break every ancestral yoke in my family pattern. Please join to pray that God will raise up men for the newly established church in my area and that God will cause an outbreak of unstoppable revival in all African churches.

Virginia Leese | Please pray i can get a job to help my husband

Connie Aranda | I've lost My sister n dad and I've been going through shortness of breath that goes and comes..i pray it away in Jesus name..i pray for my health to restore no more swelling or discoloration to legs ever again..i believe my father redeemed me from sickness...i plead the blood of Jesus over my legs over my health in Jesus name...i claim my healing now in Jesus name...also the right headache I've been getting from all this stress be gone now in Jesus Name..Amen..Thank you jesus!!

Shanee Martin | This has been the worst last year in my entire life. I lost my spouse, my children, my home, two cars, and my job of six years. I most of all lost myself. I am working on becoming a better woman and closer with the Lord. I am taking steps to get my kids back but they're not following procedure. Please pray for us to get the help we need and come together as a family. Thank you.

Patty Hecker | I pray that my husband get out of prison really soon so we can all be a family again. I also ask that I get full time employment work where Im at or somewhere else. In Jesus name I pray. Amen

Chaz hahn | David saberski my freind recives jesus in his heart amd gets out of the cult he is in jesus name amen

Yudaraj p | Please pray for me our India Please pray for me my future  Please pray for me my church ministry Please pray for me our needs

Tamara Baker | I'd like to request a prayer for my father that has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Help him over come, and help us all to understand all that this disease does to someone. And for strength for my mother that deals with more than one should, because she has the biggest heart and will try to help everyone. To let us all have a wonderful Christmas day as a whole family like the ones we had when I was young. I would also to pray for everyone to see and hear the Lord's word's to live in his ways.I pray that I will get what the Lord knows I need, I trust with my whole heart that if I am to get gifts for my grandbabies, children, and parents, that you will show me the way and what I'm supposed to do. Thank you Lord for your love, strength and knowing what is best for me.

Andrey | Please pray to the true God for us to decide the issue with the re-registration of the land. For more than 6 months, we can not re-arrange the inheritance. Money is no longer on the notaries and on the advocates, one hope for the Creator!

vijay aggarwal | Plz pray for money in abundance for a comfortable life

Jeffrey Sollars | I need to be delivered from addiction to meth and find the right job im recovering now but every time I get to a place where I am doing great i screw up again please Lord deliver me from myself put the right person or persons in my Journey back home to you help me to be faithful to my calling in you and to never again forget who i am in you thank you Jesus

Nelson |  i want to stop drinking alcohol and immorality too so please help me in prayers

Teresa Whitehead | Please pray  my grandson who is in deep depression and suicidal,  also for my health and financial difficulties. Thank you

Charisma King |  I am seeking prayer for strength in accepting my calling and Grace to build God's temple to spread his word. Thank you. AMEN.

Oyelami Busola | Glory be to God for His word. I need your prayer, God should help me to be in Him for the rest of my life. God should make source of
blessing for this generation in all the raminication of life.

nick f | i wish my legs and body would stop being paralyzed



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China: Christmas-related activities not permitted

Christmas banned by university’s Communists in China

Winter in Shenyang, where a university has banned students from celebrating Christmas

CHINA: A Chinese university has banned Christmas in order to help young people resist the “corrosion of Western religious culture”, reports The Telegraph.

A notice posted online at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, north-eastern China, said: “some young people are blindly excited by Western holidays, especially religious holidays like Christmas Eve and Christmas Day”.

The notice, posted by the Communist Youth League, said the students’ union and other student associations would not be permitted to hold Christmas-related activities. The ban was put in place to help students develop their own “cultural confidence”.

Christmas is not a national holiday in officially atheist China, and few people understand its traditional meanings or religious roots.

However, according to a recent report in the South China Morning Post, at about 90 million, there could be more Christians than members of the Chinese Communist Party. And in a speech to the Communist Party Congress in October, President Xi Jinping reiterated the importance of Chinese nationalism, saying the government would “uphold the principle that religions in China must be Chinese in orientation, and provide active guidance to religions so that they can adapt themselves to socialist society”.

So in Wenzhou, a city in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang, for instance, all Christmas activities in schools and kindergartens have been banned, the British newspaper said.

Zhejiang is known as the ‘Jerusalem’ of the east for its strong Christian presence. In 2013 Zhejiang’s provincial authorities launched the ‘Three rectifications and one demolition’ campaign targeting an increasing number of churches, some illegally built. Over the following two years officials sanctioned the removal of more than 1,000 church crosses.



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Christian Groups says UN vote proves Israel isn't alone

'65 nations not supporting anti-Jerusalem resolution is a major change,' Sandell says.

ATTENDEES OF THE annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Summit in Washington DC.

The UN would have liked to have a united front against Israel and the US on the vote against recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but the numbers of the vote proved otherwise, the European Coalition for Israel said.

"A total of 65 nations voted against, abstained or did not show up for the vote, in a clear reprimand against the Turkish sponsored resolution," said ECI founding director Tomas Sandell. "Contrary to the vote in the Security Council on Monday, today’s vote shows that Israel is not isolated in the international community.

"It is these 65 nations which did not support today’s biased resolution that make up the moral minority in the United Nations General Assembly where close to half of the member states fail to meet the most basic criteria for parliamentary democracies," he said.

The United Nations General Assembly vote on the draft resolution on the Status of Jerusalem was approved Thursday by 128 votes, 35 abstentions, 21 no-shows and 9 against. Other than Israel and the US, only Guatemala, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo voted against.

Prior to the vote, the pro-Israel Christian group said that every self-respecting Christian nation must face the facts regarding how well-protected holy sites in Israel are.

In the letter, ECI pointed out that “Israel is the best guardian of an open and inclusive Jerusalem which respects the faiths of all its citizens and guarantees free access to their holy sites."

The letter further stated that “it is an indisputable fact that, unlike other guardians of the city from the Romans to the Crusaders to the State of Jordan between 1949 and 1967, freedom of religion has only been preserved under Israeli sovereignty. Jerusalem remains one of the few places in the Middle East where Jews, Christians, and Muslims, are able to pray for freedom, security, and peace."

In the letter, ECI called on all member states to “refrain from adopting any resolution which would interfere with or jeopardize this unique status for a city, which is rightfully called holy by three world religions while calling on the Israelis and Palestinians to unconditionally return to the negotiating table."

ECI Legal Counsel Andrew Tucker said that “the draft resolution tabled by Jordan adopts the position that Israel has no legitimate claim over any part of Jerusalem. It is unreasonable for Jordan now, given its conduct between 1947 and 1967, to be allowed to put back on the table a position that it chose in 1947 to reject by seeking to annihilate the Jewish state."

Meanwhile, the American Jewish Committee also expressed its disapproval over the General Assembly resolution condemning US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

"For those genuinely committed to achieving a negotiated, comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, today's UN General Assembly action is deeply disheartening," said AJC CEO David Harris.

"Once again, UN member states have chosen to succor Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's misguided strategy of internationalizing the conflict instead of pressing him to negotiate directly with Israel," Harris continued. "Collecting UN resolutions that do not advance peace one iota complicates an already complex conflict that direct negotiations can resolve."

Also, Christians in Defense of Israel has launched a nationwide campaign to support President Donald Trump from international attacks and "bullies within our borders." They called on grassroots citizens to issue a strong “Vote Of Confidence" for the president, hoping to rally at least 25,000 signers and deliver the message to Trump and the State Department in early 2018.





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Bintulu Christmas Parade

Theme 'For Unto Us a Saviour is Born'

Natives performing at the Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession  2017

Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession 2017 was organized by St. Thomas Church, Bintulu and saw the gathering of all local Christians in Bintulu, Sarawak. This year theme was 'For Unto Us a Saviour is Born' and scriptural reading was taken from Luke 2:1-14.

The event took place on the 9th December 2017 at Bintulu Paragon Street Mall that witnesses the attendance of both Christians and non-Christians residence of the city. 


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christians and non-Christians local leaders at Bintulu paragon street

blowing of shofar performed by a local church at the Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession  2017 

combined churches at the Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession  2017


Performance  at Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession  2017



Life church in attendance at the Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession  2017



Performance  at Bintulu Christian Christmas Procession  2017 

performance by different local churches at the 2017 Bintulu Christmas procession



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Thursday 21 December 2017

NIkki Haley Vetoes Jerusalem Resolution

Slams Obama For Not Backing Israel a Year Ago

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley casts the lone ‘no’ vote to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution attempting to annul President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in New York on Monday, December 18, 

As U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley on Monday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to overturn President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, she also sharply criticized the Obama administration’s decision a year ago not to back Israel in the same forum, calling the implications of that move “a stain on America’s conscience.”

Monday’s resolution was backed by all other 14 members of the council - the ten temporary members and permanent members Russia, China, Britain and France - but Haley declared that she was casting the sole dissenting vote “proudly.”

“The fact that this veto is being done in defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East peace process is not a source of embarrassment for us,” she told the meeting in New York. “It should be an embarrassment to the remainder of the Security Council.”

Haley challenged the right of other nations to tell the U.S. where it should decide to locate its embassy - and warned that some other Security Council (UNSC) members may have cause to fear similar interference in their domestic decision-making.

“I suspect very few member-states would welcome Security Council pronouncements about their sovereign decisions,” she said. “And I think of some who should fear it.”

(Five of the current members of the UNSC - China, Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan are ranked “not free” by the democracy watchdog Freedom House. Two others - Bolivia and Ukraine - are graded “partly free.”)

Haley recalled that Trump made it clear in his Dec. 6 policy announcement that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital does not prejudge “final status” negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. And she disputed that the move jeopardizes peace efforts.

“What is troublesome to some people is not that the United States has harmed the peace process - we have, in fact, done no such thing. Rather, what is troublesome to some people is that the United States had the courage and honesty to recognize a fundamental reality,” she said.

“Jerusalem has been the political, cultural, and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people for thousands of years. They have had no other capital city,” Haley continued. “But the United States’ recognition of the obvious - that Jerusalem is the capital and seat of the modern Israeli government - is too much for some.”

Haley used the opportunity to distance the Trump administration from its predecessor’s decision not to veto a controversial resolution targeting Israel.

President Obama’s decision to abstain rather than veto resolution 2334 allowed passage of a measure that describes areas disputed between Israelis and Palestinians - including the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City and the location of the holiest site in Judaism - as “occupied Palestinian territory.”

Haley pointed out that resolution 2334 also “gave new life to an ugly creation of the Human Rights Council: the database of companies operating in Jewish communities.”

The HRC “creation” referred to by Haley is widely seen as benefitting the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, by identifying companies which will then be targeted by pro-Palestinian activists. Resolution 2334 requires all countries “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.”

“This is an effort to create a blacklist, plain and simple,” Haley said. “It is a stain on America’s conscience that we gave the so-called BDS movement momentum by allowing the passage of Resolution 2334.”

Haley took a final swipe at the Obama administration, putting its abstention last December into historical context.


“For decades, Israel has withstood wave after wave of bias in the U.N. and its agencies,” she said. “The United States has often stood beside Israel. We did not on December 23, 2016.”

“We will not make that mistake again.”

Monday was only the second time the U.S. has vetoed a UNSC resolution in the past decade, having last done so in 2011 - also killing a measure relating to the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Over that same period Russia has vetoed 17 resolutions (11 relating to its ally the Assad regime, in addition to texts concerning Bosnia, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Burma and Ukraine) and China has vetoed eight (relating to Syria, Burma and Zimbabwe).




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