Most Inspirational Myles Munroe Quotes

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Most Inspirational Myles Munroe Quotes

Revered by some and denounced by others, we’ve gathered together some of the best quotes from the late pastor Myles Munroe:

1.”If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account.”

2. “The poorest person in the world is the person without a dream.”

3. “Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it.”

4. “Circumstances and crises are God’s tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.”

5. “If you don’t attempt things, you don’t attract God.”

6. “Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public; character is who you are in private.”

7. “We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.”

8. “Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.”

9. “A true leader does not measure his success by comparing himself to others but by evaluating how he is fulfilling his own purpose and vision.”

10. “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but life without a purpose.”

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Keys to Keep the Fire of God Burning

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Keys to Keep the Fire of God Burning

“How do you get the fire/zeal back in to your prayer time? Why do we go through these dry places where our prayers seem blah (and very ‘me-centered’). Why is reading the Word sometimes a chore instead of a delight? How do I live by faith when I can’t muster through life?”
So here’s my best answer:TRUST…

Using “TRUSST” as an acronym, here are few things I learned about reigniting my prayer life:

T- Thanksgiving: Almost always, when I sense that the fire has gone out and my passion has waned, it’s because I stopped being grateful, stopped thanking God for all of the blessings I enjoy. When we focus too much on what we don’t have and on what God is not giving us at the moment, we lose sight of the fact that God is always wonderfully good, is beautifully for us, and will never forsake us. Start today by thanking Him for everything you’d miss tomorrow if you woke up and it wasn’t there.

“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thess. 5:18).

R – Repentance: Another fire-quencher is sin and selfish attitudes. Scripture says that His kindness leads us to repentance. When you’ve spent some time thanking God, conviction returns to your soul. Take the next step and dare to say, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my concerns, and see if there is any rebellious way in me, and lead me in the ancient way” (see Ps. 139). Confession is a cleansing, beautiful thing. God draws especially near to the humble, repentant heart.

“Confess your faults to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much” (James 5:16).

U – Understand: Oftentimes when we feel our flame flickering and not burning brightly, it’s because we’ve approached God only for what He can do for us and not for who He is. A sure way to fan our spiritual flame is to seek Him for all He is worth! Still bring your requests before Him, but then lay them down at His feet, and seek to know His heart. He is the star-breathing God, the Lord of Lords, the King of kings, and the God of angel armies! He is high and lifted up and yet intimately right here. He loves you. Get to know Him more, and you’ll have a better understanding of how He is working in your current circumstances. To better know Him is to love Him more; and to know Him is to be filled to the fullness with Him. See the book of Ephesians to understand this better.

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding” (Prov. 9:10).

S – Stand: When we don’t feel God’s presence and His promises don’t exactly feel true, it’s time to stand on the Word of God because it is true. When I find myself feeling more earthbound than heaven-bound, I rise up, walk around my house and proclaim the promises of God written over my life. I will not die but live, and declare the works of the Lord! (because I struggle with health issues). God’s grace abounds in my life so I can abound in every good work! (because I’m constantly in over my head). When I stand on God’s promises, and my ears hear my mouth say what’s true, in due time,= my heart believes again that His Word is true. I challenge you, walk around, stomp your feet if you have to and proclaim the promises of God. Take your stand right where you stand!

“For You have exalted Your Word above all Your name” (Psalm 138:2).

S – Surrender: Another thing I’ve noticed is that surrender and spiritual passion are closely linked. When I find myself hanging on to my own understanding, or when I rely more heavily on my fears than I do on God’s faithfulness, it’s like throwing a wet blanket on my spiritual flame. What’s my answer? I get on my knees, open my hands, and I surrender my everything to the Lord once again. I give Him my worries, my “what if’s” and the deep desires of my heart. I’m only dealing with partial information. He knows what’s best for me (and for you). Try actually getting on your knees, opening your hands and releasing the things you’ve been white-knuckling up to this point. Say to the Lord, “Father, what does obedience look like here? And who do You want to be to me here? My Deliverer? Defender? Strong Tower? I surrender to You. Show me Your greatness in this place…Read More

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Scottish Minister Appoints Christians to New Scottish cabinet

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Scottish Minister Appoints Christians to New Scottish cabinet

Scotland’s new First Minister has appointed two Christians to her first cabinet.

Nicola Sturgeon has made changes to the government after taking over from Alex Salmond who resigned last week.

Roseanna Cunningham and Michael Matheson, both Catholics, have both been promoted into the Scottish cabinet.

Mrs Cunningham has been given the work, skills and training brief whilst Mr Matheson takes over from Kenny MacAskill as Justice Secretary.

Revealing her Cabinet Ms Sturgeon said: “This new Cabinet is a team of all the talents, which will take forward this Government’s priorities for Scotland.

“The aims of my Government are clear: to create a nation that is both socially democratic and socially just, a nation that is confident in itself and governed effectively and a nation which will address poverty, support business, promote growth and tackle inequality.

“The new Cabinet team I have announced today will pursue these priorities with verve, vigour and determination.”

Source and Original Content by Premier Christian News

Belt That Charges Your Phone and Still Holds Up Your Pants

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Belt That Charges Your Phone and Still Holds Up Your Pants

Belts are so darn boring. However, without them, our ill-fitting pants would be down by our ankles most of the time, not a good look if you’re walking into a job interview or delivering an important speech.

Thankfully, Nifty — a UK-based startup that made a name for itself with its MiniDrive storage solution for the MacBook — is threatening to breathe new life into the humble waist-based loop. The team has come up with an innovative design that incorporates battery-charging tech, offering the pants-wearing public a new way to keep their mobile devices at full power while they’re dashing about in their comfortably fitting trousers.

The XOO Belt (pronounced “zoo”) is wearable tech that you might actually want to wear – especially if running out of smartphone juice is an issue for you. And because it’s slung around your body, you’ll have one less thing to carry when you go out.

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“It looks, feels and weighs about the same as a really nice belt … but comes with a mighty 2,100 mAh of hidden charge and can charge pretty much any device,” the Nifty team says.

Designed with a new breed of lithium ceramic polymer flexible battery, the belt is said to be safe, durable, and weather-resistant.

While the flexible part of the battery lives inside the belt strap, the rest is contained in the buckle. The charging wire runs alongside the inside of the belt when it’s not in use, with magnetism holding it in place.

You charge it the same way you would your smartphone, and five discreetly placed LEDs on the buckle indicate power level. According to Nifty, the belt will fully charge, for example, an iPhone 6 in about 2.5 hours from empty.

Nifty’s XOO Belt is part of a recently launched Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, so it’s not ready just yet. However, should backers stump up a total of $50,000 by Dec. 18, the company plans to start shipping the product in July with a $155 price tag, though early backers can, of course, get a better deal.

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Talking Books Give Access to Education for the Poorest of Poor in Africa

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Talking Books Give Access to Education for the Poorest of Poor in Africa

To help eradicate serious illnesses like ebola and cholera by spreading health education amongst the poorest of poor, the charity Literacy Bridge in association with Unicef and mobile chip-maker ARM is going to distribute Talking Book mobile devices to deliver health education to 40,000 vulnerable people living in Ghana. These are custom made audio players that can be used to share spoken information in people’s local languages.

The Talking Books were developed by Literacy Bridge in 2007, to give people without literacy access to interviews, songs, and dramas that address lifesaving health and agricultural advice. The $750,000 (approximately Rs. 4,63,95,000) project, which is being mostly funded by Unicef and ARM, and will focus on the use of low-cost mobile technology. It will mostly be used to cover the cost of 2,000 devices, and the staff to support them, with a target of reaching 40,000 people.

The project wants to use the talking books to deliver education about ebola and cholera prevention, the treatment of diarrhoea in children, identifying and treating diseased crops and more. This project will run for two-and-a-half years, with each device’s content updated once in every five weeks, according to a report by the BBC.

The devices, big plastic boxes which look like old cassette players, store data on microSD cards, and can each hold hundreds of hours of audio – they’re intentionally simplistic since they have to be usable by people who cannot read, but the devices are sophisticated enough that you can share data by connecting them using a USB cable, and they come with a microphone, capable of recording voice feedback.

The devices are being custom built with assistance from ARM, with a goal of improving battery efficiency.

Source and Original Content by Ndtv

Vicar Charged with Assault and Drink-Driving

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Vicar Charged with Assault and Drink-Driving

A former Army chaplain who’s been a priest for more than thirty years has been charged with assaulting a woman and drink-driving.

Revd David Davies was arrested on suspicion of beating a woman, before driving off in his Jaguar car.

When police stopped and breathalysed him, Mr Davies was almost three times over the legal drink-drive limit.

He is yet to enter a plea in court, and has been granted bail. He’s been asked not to contact three women and not to go to the vicarage in Monterey Close, Torquay.

Mr Davies became the vicar of Torre and Cockington parishes in Devon in October last year.

He was sacked in September this year.

In a statement on behalf of the Diocese of Exeter, Venerable Clive Cohen said: “The diocese has been working to support him and his family pastorally and practically throughout this period.

“We were very grieved when the police informed us of the charges against him.

“We do not condone the alleged actions in any way.

“We are continuing to offer pastoral care to his family.

“My prayers are for David’s family and David himself in this immensely difficult time. I would ask that they be given privacy now.”

“I also pray for the parishes of Torre and Cockington.”

Davies was due to appear in Torbay magistrate’s court this week, but was excused after his solicitor submitted a letter explaining his intended absence.

He next appears in court on December 8.

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Christian Leader Says Muslim Faithfuls must Condemn ISIS

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Christian Leader Says Muslim Faithfuls must Condemn ISIS

The leaders of Iraq’s Christians have called on “the moderate majority of Muslims” to condemn attacks on Christians and other religious minorities by ISIS.

Patriarch Sako, made the plea at an interfaith conference organised by the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious Dialogue in Vienna, Austria.

He also expressed concern that Muslim leaders had not strongly spoken out against attacks carried out “in the name of the Islamic religion” which targeted Christians, Yazidis, Shi’a Muslims and others.

He said: “It is quite shocking to see the insufficiency of the official Islamic community that only denounced these acts by shy and helpless statements, showing the absence of a real role in raising the awareness of the public about the impending danger of ISIS in the name of religion.”

The patriarch went on to call on Muslim scholars to refute ISIS’s arguments from Islamic law and denounce their actions: “Silence doesn’t befit you because ISIS and their followers will direct more distortionary strikes on Islam. ”

It’s dangerous to give them that chance because people will think that Islam is a threat to world peace.”

Stressing that the response to ISIS had to come from within Islam, the patriarch said: “I believe, you were equally shocked as we were by the barbaric acts that swept through the towns of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain against the Christians, Yazidis and other minorities who were uprooted empty-handed from their homes and villages overnight, heading towards ‘an unknown future’ struck by fear and terror.”

The Chaldean Patriarch went on to describe the problems faced by the 120,000 Christians who had been forced to flee their homes as ISIS advanced.

He said: “We, as minorities without protection or care, are targeted, our children are threatened and kidnapped, our homes were robbed or looted publicly as if it is legitimate (Halal).”

Adding: “Our families were living in their own homes with dignity and pride, today they live homeless in several towns and villages, in tents or in caravans or in a room which is provided rent-free from the Church.”

Earlier this week the first Muslim to address the Church of England’s parliament said persecution was a ‘disease’ that we all had to deal with.

Dr Fuad Nahdi of the group Radical Middle Way had been taking part in a panel discussion at the General Synod on the issue of religious freedom around the world

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Kenyan Islamic Militants Attack Bus ,Kill Christian Passengers

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Kenyan Islamic Militants Attack Bus ,Kill Christian Passengers

A number of Christians are thought to have been on board a bus in Kenya which was hijacked by Islamic militants.

Al Shabab extremists shot 28 people dead after they were unable to read a passage from the Koran.

The bus was travelling to the capital Nairobi when it was hijacked 31 miles from Mandera town.

Police say the gunmen singled out non-Muslims and most of the dead were on their way home for the Christmas holiday period.

Since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October 2011 it’s been the target of several terrorist attacks.

Authorities say there have been at least 135 attacks, including the Westgate Mall massacre in which 67 people were killed.

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Protest at Downing Street in Honor of Murdered Pakistani Couple

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Protest at Downing Street in Honor of Murdered Pakistani Couple

A protest and memorial service is taking place outside Downing Street for a Christian couple killed in Pakistan earlier this month.

26-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 24-year-old wife Shama Bibi who, was four months pregnant, were beaten, tortured and burned alive in a furnace.

They were attacked by a mob of Muslims after a claim they had ripped up a Koran was shouted from mosque loud speakers.

Protesters will gather in London between 11am and 1pm to be addressed by Rubab Mehdi Rizvi a Muslim Barrister and former Spokesperson for the Ministry for Human Rights in Pakistan.

Muslim members of the Christian Muslim Forum will also be present to show their support.

Wilson Chowdhry from the British Pakistani Christian Association is leading the protest and told Premier the UK government should stop sending aid to Pakistan.

He said: “These funds should now be taken away or removed if Pakistan refuses to change its human rights record.

“I can’t believe people in this country want to see money going to a nation that treats people in such an awful manor.”

The Evangelical Alliance is calling for Pakistan’s place in the Commonwealth to be reconsidered after the attack.

Director of Advocacy at the EA, Dr Dave Landrum, said this latest incident is a clear misuse of the country’s blasphemy law to persecute Christians.

“This barbaric act represents the latest in a long line of brutal acts of religious intolerance against Christians in a country which is set to receive more than £400 million in aid from Christian taxpayers in the UK,” he said.

He added that ‘consideration should be given’ to Pakistan’s membership of the Commonwealth because of its failure to reform or repeal its blasphemy laws.

Source and Original Content by Premier Christian News

Right to Pray Restored in North Carolina

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Right to Pray Restored in North Carolina

A federal district court lifted its order against the prayer policy of Forsyth County, North Carolina, Thursday in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision affirming prayer before public meetings in Town of Greece v. Galloway.

After winning that lawsuit in May, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Forsyth County asked the district court to lift its order against the county’s prayer policy. The order required the county to censor the way people pray to ensure only generic prayers are offered at public meetings.

“All Americans should have the liberty to pray without being censored, just as the Supreme Court found only a few months ago, and we are delighted to see this freedom restored in Forsyth County,” said ADF Senior Counsel Brett Harvey. “The Supreme Court affirmed the freedom of Americans to pray according to their consciences before public meetings. For that reason, the district court was right to lift its previous order against Forsyth County’s prayer policy, which is clearly constitutional.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina’s order in Joyner v. Forsyth County in 2011. Although the Supreme Court declined to review the case, it upheld a similar policy from the town of Greece, New York, on May 5 and affirmed that Americans are free to pray according to their own beliefs at public meetings. That cleared the way for uncensored prayers to resume in Forsyth County.

In March 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the Forsyth County Commission on behalf of three individuals because they claimed to be offended by simply hearing the invited speakers deliver prayers that included a reference to Jesus Christ or any other named deity. They demanded the county discourage or prohibit invited speakers “from including references to Jesus Christ, or any other sectarian deity, as part of their prayers.”

In its opinion in Town of Greece v. Galloway, the Supreme Court rejected the argument “that legislative prayer may be addressed only to a generic God” and warned that attempts to limit the way people pray are unconstitutional.

“Our tradition assumes that adult citizens, firm in their own beliefs, can tolerate and perhaps appreciate a ceremonial prayer delivered by a person of a different faith,” the court wrote.

Source and Original Content by Charisma News

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