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PRAYERS, PRAYERS AND TURNING TO GOD – TONIGHT AND HENCEFORTH!

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Two Black Men shot within 24 hours by Cops.

Ten Dallas Police shot by two snipers at protest.

Tragedy and more tragedy; that is the only way I can describe the madness in our world, our country this week.  Every channel I turn to plays like the scene from the Seventh Sign.  Matthew Chapter 24 rises up in my brain like the sun in the east.  Sin has destroyed the souls of men.  The only thing that can save a dying soul is the living waters of Jesus.  The world is angry and hurt, heck I am as well.  But if I want to see improvements, I must rely on Jesus and Jesus alone.  No law nor amendment can save or change a man’s soul.  Only God, through Jesus, can do what is needed.  So I ask you to do what my family has done tonight, Pray for those who are lost and pray for the families of the deceased.  Pray for our children and youngsters.  Pray, Pray and pray some more.  Turn to God with all of your heart.  Follow him and don’t look back.  You want the madness to change?  Do what me and my family are doing, pray to God for His intervention.  We pray for mercy, changed hearts and peace. [J]

Pastor Dies – Right After Delivering a Passionate Sermon

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21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philipians 1:21

A Fresno, California, congregation was forced to halt a scheduled service Sunday morning after their 39-year-old children’s pastor and beloved father of five collapsed and died from a “cardiac event” after pouring his heart out during an impassioned sermon.

The pastor, Eddie Crain of Northpointe Community Church, was a father of five boys.

“We are saddened to announce that Pastor Eddie Crain died this morning after a cardiac event at the conclusion of our 8 a.m. service. He literally had just poured his heart out in his passion to make a difference for kids. Please pray for his family and for all who will be so deeply impacted by this loss to us all,” Northpointe’s Senior Pastor Steve Williams wrote in a note on the church’s Facebook page.

The church simply noted that Crain “collapsed” after the 8 a.m. service and cited verses from Psalm 46 prior to the official announcement of his death.

My Take:  There isn’t anything you can do to prevent God calling you home.  The world peddles various means as ways to cheat death.  The world is afraid to die because they know not God.  That said, nothing and I mean nothing can stop God from calling you home when He is ready for you.  Whatever the age, whatever the cause, going home is still for God’s Glory.

21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philipians 1:21

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ISIS Crucifies 11 Christian Missionaries, also Cuts fingertips off 12 year old Boy

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ISIS militants in Syria heinously tortured and killed a 12-year-old boy, along with 11 indigenous Christian missionaries, after they refused to leave their homeland or renounce Christ.

According to the Virginia-based Christian Aid Mission, a group that has been in contact with the slain missionaries’ director, all 12 victims were captured in a village on the outskirts of Aleppo.

Three weeks later, IS militants questioned the captives about whether they converted from Islam when they became Christians, an offense that is punishable by death under the Islamic State’s twisted legal code. The Christian captives were honest and admitted that they were once Muslims.

The IS jihadis demanded the captives reconvert to Islam, but the Christians asserted that they would never renounce their love for Christ.

IS militants split the 12 captives into two groups. A group of four, which included the 41-year-old team leader, his 12-year-old son and two other ministry workers, were taken to one village for questioning. On the same day, the other eight captives were questioned in another village.

In the one village, militants began questioning the ministry workers, the son and the team leader — who had helped establish nine house churches in the area.

After the Christians refused to renounce Christ and explained to the militants that God wanted them to stay in the area to share the Gospel, the four of them were tortured and crucified in front of a crowd. The ministry leader also explained that the four victims were left to die beside signs that identified them as “infidels.”

“All were badly brutalized and then crucified,” the ministry leader, who had trained all of the workers for the evangelistic ministry, said. “They were left on their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them.”

But before the four Christians were crucified, the militants cut the fingertips off the boy and forced his father to watch.

“In front of the team leader and relatives in the crowd, the Islamic extremists cut off the fingertips of the boy and severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam,” the Christian Aid Mission report states. “When the team leader refused, relatives said, the ISIS militants also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion.”

The eight other missionaries who were questioned in another village were beheaded after they refused to convert to Islam. Two of the missionaries were women who were 29 and 33 years old. Before the women were beheaded, they were publicly raped and beaten by militants. Throughout their abuse, the women continuously prayed.

When the eight victims were forced to kneel for their beheadings, all eight prayed loudly.

“Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord’s Prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus,” the ministry director explained. “One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, ‘Jesus!'”

After the eight were beheaded, their headless bodies were hung on crosses.

“They kept on praying loudly and sharing Jesus until their last breath,” the director said. “They did this in front of the villagers as a testimony for others.”

Source: Christian Post