Jan 3, 2022
A major intercessory prayer event calling the United States back to its covenant relationship with God is slated for early January in Plant City, Florida.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Kevin Jessip, the president of Global Strategic Alliance, explained that what is being called “The Renewal” will be a continuation of The Return. The first event took place on Sept. 26, 2020, on Shabbat Shuva, coinciding with the Sabbath Day when the passage in Joel 2 — about calling a holy fast and a day of repentance — is read in synagogues.
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Jan 2, 2022
Organizers of a Jan 8 religious rally in Florida say they hope to ignite a nationwide spiritual revival.
“The Renewal 2022” follows up on a 2020 Washington, D.C., religious rally that drew thousands to the National Mall.
The Jan. 8 event, originating from Plant City, about 20 minutes east of Tampa, is expected to air on several Christian cable channels as well as via satellite to churches nationally. Among speakers expected at the daylong rally are Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, former Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, and former HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a 2016 GOP presidential contender, as well as My Pillow entrepreneur Mike Lindell.
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Jan 1, 2022
The church as we know it today began with repentance. When Peter preached the cross at Pentecost, thousands came to Christ. This new church was made up of one body, consisting of all races, filled with love for one another. Its corporate life was marked by evangelism, a spirit of sacrifice and even martyrdom.
The wonderful beginning reflects God’s words about Israel: “I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.” The rest of that verse describes what often happens to such works. “How then have you turned before me into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?” (Jeremiah 2:21, NKJV). God was saying, “I planted you right. You were mine, bearing my name and nature, but now you’ve turned degenerate.”
What caused this degeneration in the church? It always has been and will continue to be idolatry. God is speaking of idolatry when he says to Jeremiah, “Has a nation changed its gods, which are not gods? But my people have changed their glory for what does not profit.” (Jeremiah 2:11).
Most Christian teaching today identifies an idol as anything that comes between God’s people and himself, yet that’s only a partial description of idolatry. Idolatry has to do with a much deeper heart issue. The number-one idol among God’s people isn’t adultery, pornography or alcohol. It’s a much more powerful lust.
What is this idol? It’s a driving ambition for success. It even has a doctrine to justify it. A man of the world once said, “He who dies with the most toys wins.”
Tragically, Christians are also caught up in this pursuit. How far we have strayed from the gospel of living through dying to self, ego and worldly ambition. The idolatry of being successful describes many in God’s house today. These people are upright, morally clean, full of good works; but they’ve set up an idol of ambition in their hearts, and they can’t be shaken from it.
God loves to bless his people. He wants his people to succeed in all they undertake honestly, but there is now a raging spirit in the land that is overtaking multitudes: this is the spirit of love for recognition and acquiring of things.
Jan 1, 2022
Jesus stood in the temple and cried out, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Matthew 23:37, NKJV). As I read this, a question arises: In the New Testament, would God cast off a person who rejected his offers of grace, mercy and awakening?
Jesus answered this by saying, “See! Your house is left to you desolate” (Matthew 23:38). He told them, “This temple is now your house, not mine. I’m leaving it, and I leave what you wasted and deserted.”
He then added, “For I say to you, you shall see me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Matthew 23:39). He was declaring to them, “My glory is no longer in this old work.”
Think of it. Here stood mercy and grace incarnate, saying, “This old thing isn’t mine anymore.” Jesus moved on to Pentecost, to the beginning of a new thing. He was about to raise up a new church, not a replica of the old. He would make it brand new from the foundation up. It would be a church of new priests and people, all born again in him.
Not long after this portion of scripture, Jesus told his disciples, “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’…the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him…and will appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:45-51).
Even though we are part of this new work Jesus is doing, we should carefully evaluate ourselves. Is our behavior in the church representative of who Jesus is? Are we acting like the church triumphant, the spotless bride of Christ? Do we reveal to a lost world the very nature of God?
Jan 1, 2022
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – One year ago, thousands of American Christians converged in the nation’s capital for “The Return,” a day of prayer and repentance at the National Mall. Millions joined the event via simulcast asking God to forgive America for its sins to avoid Divine judgment.
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