One News Now reports that Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel said, "Seems to me there's a direct discrimination here simply because of the Christian viewpoint. Satan is in, apparently; Jesus is not," he contends. "This is obviously a blatant attempt to discriminate against religion, and particularly Christianity." Staver says something needs to be done to educate the educators on the Constitution. "Sometimes if education doesn't work, litigation does," he adds. "Sometimes school officials only listen when it affects their pocketbook. This is such a case that needs to catch the school's attention."
We are praying that this case is taken all the way to the Supreme Court and that the judges realize that Witca is actually a religion. Then the practice of wearing costumes, having witches hanging on the walls, and discussing demons, witches, and ghosts will not be allowed in our schools during Halloween or any time of the year. Fighting this battle was on my heart fourteen years ago, but I unfortunately decided that the intense spirtual warfare from Satan and his demons would be more intense than our family could endure. Therefore I am requesting that Christians keep the Woinski family lifted up in prayer to protect them from the evil attacks of the enemy, and surround them with God's angels, and His awesome power.
Mauri Gandy - Just 4 Kids Magazine
Praise God for the exciting days we are living in! I was so ecstatic last night when I heard two awesome testimonies from young children. I was yelling and rejoicing in front of my computer as I watched live video stream from God TV with my family. These children had also been listening to messages from Todd Bentley of Fresh Fire Ministries at the Lakeland Revival in Florida, USA. Todd's messages of God's Holy Power soaked in to these children's hearts and they acted in the Holy Spirit Faith that we read about in the book of Acts.
I am writing to Fresh Fire ministries for more facts and verification for further news. Today I am only reporting brief news that I heard from the revival.
One eleven year old boy was in his classroom at school when his teacher died of a massive heart attack. The perimedics came and tried to revive her with no results. The parents were called to pick up their children because their teacher was dead. One boy from the class remembered the power of prayer from the messages of Todd Bentley that he had been hearing with his parents on God.TV. He gathered his classmates around him, and asked them to prayer for their teacher to come back to life. Their teacher arose from the dead. The parimedics were stunned. They told her she should not be alive. They pronounced her dead ten minutes ago. The best news is not her resurrection, but that she now knows that God is real! She was an unbeliever.
Another story is about two teenage girls that were going door to door witnessing in a small village at Guadalajara, Mexico. The girls were with their church as missionaries from an outpouring ministry after the leaders had visited the Lakeland Revival. The girls had not had any response to their witnessing during they day. Then a young lady answered her door with tears in her eyes. She told the young girls that her baby had been born dead 27 hours ago, and she would be kicked out of her village. They believed that babies were born dead because of an evil spirit, and they would force the women to be removed from living among their village. The girls prayed for the young woman. Then one girl remembered the stories of other resurrections, and she thought why wound God not raise this baby. She asked the mother where the baby was, and she told her that the baby was wrapped in burial cloths in the back room. The girls asked if they could see the baby, and then asked if they could take off the burial cloths. The mother replied that they could if they would wrap the baby back as they had found the baby. The girls proceeded to take off the cloths and prayed with all their might demanding that life come back to the baby's body in the name of Jesus Christ! The baby belted out it's first cry, and is alive and well today!
But that is not the most exciting news. The mother went out into the village and knocked on every door exclaiming that her baby is alive! The whole village of ninty (90) people accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The teenage girls and missionairies will never forget the awesome power of God that they personally witnessed. What an amazing, powerful God we serve!
I hear that some Christians are sceptical of Todd Bentley and the outpouring of God's presence in Lakeland Florida. So I want to take a moment to give my personal testimony on what has happened in my life since I began listening to Todd Bentley's teachings.
A friend from Church sent my family information on a special four day revival called "The Austin Outpouring" at Cathedral Of Praise in Austin Texas. The revival began on Thursday June 5, 2008, and ended Sunday June 8th. My children saw Christians that are really on fire for Jesus Christ, and loved being around people that they could identified with. On Tuesday, June 10th another friend told us that we can watch the Florida Outpouring live online God.TV That night our family began watching the revival by gathering in our home office to watch from our computers. Sometimes we will have as many as four computers tuned in so we can have a close view. Our family has watched the revival every night since, except June 28th. We had to be out of town that night. However youngest son and I watched the teaching from that night by watching it from God.TV. Even on Wednesday nights we will turn God.TV on as soon as we get home from Church. Todd begins preaching about 7:30 PM Eastern time. Now we turn on one computer to watch at 6:00 PM and listen to the anointed music. Kathern Mullens is a favorite singer of ours. Her anointed energy is exciting to watch.
Honestly when I first saw a picture of Todd Bentley my first reacting was, "This is the man God has chosen to lead a great revival?" But I had experienced the awesome fire from the Austin Revival and so I watched Todd Bentley preach. It did not take me long at all to see His total dedicated heart and love for Jesus. I am no longer offended by his appearace because I know who he is, and I understand why God has chosen such an unlikely vessel to light the World on Fire for Jesus!
When I first heard that Todd Bentley was coming to Texas I told my husband that I was going. He responded that he would see how his schedule was. Then I told him that I was going, even if I had to go alone in our old car. We both knew that the only way that old car would make the 3 1/2 drive to Denton would be with God's help. He knew that my determination to find a way would cause God to provide a way. So he cleared his calendar and our family went. I made hotel arrangements, and we left early Thursday morning to be one of the first to wait in front of the doors. We wanted seats up close and we wanted to meet other Christians who are wanting to walk with God in a whole new level of Power and closeness.
As the van sped toward the police station, the children clung together to steady themselves. Then one child started singing. Before long, the van was filled with song as all the children enthusiastically joined in - much to the annoyance of the officials in the van. Upon arrival at the police station, the children marched bravely into the interrogation room still singing, "In the name of Jesus, we have the victory."
This was not the cowering group of children the police interrogator had anticipated! He began to threaten the children, telling them they would have to write "I do not believe in Jesus" one hundred times before he would release them. Instead, the defiant children wrote, "I believe in Jesus today. I will believe in Jesus tomorrow. I will believe in Jesus forever!"
Unprepared for such a strong stand from young school children, the officials weren't sure how to respond. In exasperation, they called the children's parents. When the parents arrived, they were told the children would be released only if the parents said they were not Christians. Because many of the parents were not believers, they readily affirmed they didn't believe in Jesus and took their children home.
But when a widowed believer came to pick up her twin sons, she refused to deny Jesus. The officers threatened her, "If you do not deny Jesus, we will not release your sons!" Unshaken, the widow replied, "Well, I guess you will just have to keep them, because without Jesus, there would be no way for me to take care of them!" Exasperated by continued, unexpected resistance to their threats, the officials said in disgust, "Take your sons and go!."
Source: Open Doors
What would you have done if you were in this situation?
Do you think this could happen to you in your church?
These young heroines deserves our applause and a big thank you from Just 4 Kids Magazine. We believe in standing up for Jesus no matter what the cost.
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