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DEAR READER
It's the night before Canada Day and I have been sitting on my
patio enjoying the evening sun and being quiet before the Lord.
At long last summer is here and the clematis is in full bloom on
the bower. As I look around I am so grateful to be living in such
a beautiful and privileged country. Several people have wished me
to have a ‘Happy Canada Day’, and I really do want to be happy,
but my spirit is not at peace. These last few weeks have been a
clarion call to warn that the souls of men and women in Canada are
under tremendous attack. We have to be wise and pray like never
before. Let's make the fire work instead of watching the
fireworks!
STRONG DELUSION & GREAT DECEPTION
Are we living in the days that the apostles prophesied about? The
US Supreme Court strikes down laws against sodomy and the Canadian
Govt. promises to bring in laws to ratify same sex marriage. And
in the
UK the new Bishop of Reading is gay and our local Bishop of New
Westminster has instituted the rite to bless same sex
relationships. Who would have believed such a report a few years
ago!
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for
their women exchanged the natural function for that which is
unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural
function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one
another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in
their own persons the due penalty of their error. "
Romans 1:26-27
"And for this reason God will send them strong delusion,
that they should believe the lie" 2 Thess 2:11
"They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world,
and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God
listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By
this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. " 1
John 4:6
Yes, the Greek for error in Romans 1, is emphatically the same
word as delusion in 2 Thessalonians, and comes in 1 John with the
energy of a demonic spirit of error (or deception, deceitful,
delusion). The frightful thing is that God allows the strong
delusion on those who do not believe the truth but who find
consistent pleasure in the things that are blatantly not of
God. There is much useful information being circulated on how to
contact our MP's and I sense a righteous indignation rising up
whereby we realize that both in Church and State a line has been
crossed that demands action. There could be a Federal Election
early in 2004 and we should act and pray for the righteous to be
elected. But the intercessor must stand in the gap and plead for
mercy. Tear the sky apart O Lord, and come down!
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REAL CANADIAN REVIVAL
In my hunger for the Living God to be manifest in everything I am
doing, I have finally inquired into the Prairie revival that
started in
Saskatoon in October, 1971, with evangelists Ralph and Lou Soutera.
The congregation at Ebenezer Baptist had been praying for the
crusade for two years. A spark was lit that started a fire in many
hearts and the meetings carried on to Christmas affecting Regina
and then the West in 1972. To quote a report:
“The evangelistic team, Ralph and Lou Soutera, have been greatly
used of God here. There are more testimonies and restitution going
on here than you can imagine. Christians are publicly getting
right with God and with others in a very remarkable way.
After-glow meetings are held which sometimes run as late as six in
the morning and it seems that in these meetings that perhaps the
greatest work is done. People come under conviction of sin very
suddenly and powerfully and sometimes the agony is very
excruciating until release is found in Christ. [Normally] the
shyest people in the congregation will not stand before a thousand
people and give a ringing testimony. It is a tremendous work of
the Holy Spirit of God"
Let us pray that the Holy Spirit will come in quickening power to
convict of sin, righteousness and judgment. Until the fear of God
is in the Church, little will change in the world! God is able.
2010: AN OLYMPIC ODYSSEY!
Yes Lord, please send the Winter Olympics to
Vancouver in 2010. We your church in Vancouver will seek your face
over the next 7 years to prepare the City to receive the Nations
in the power of God. In that day may our City be called by the
name - ‘The Lord is There’ Ezekiel 48:35
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