36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like it You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.
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1 And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.” 2 Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me. 3 And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. 4 For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ 5 As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.
6 “And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 7 You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious. 8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
9 Now when I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. 10 Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.
1 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.
3 And He said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.” So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.
4 Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel, 6 not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
10 Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears. 11 And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear, or whether they refuse.”
12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: “Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!” 13 I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, and a great thunderous noise. 14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
| TROKOSI--the practice of some but not all traditional shrines in West Africa in which a human being, usually a young virgin, is forced into ritual servitude to pay for alleged crimes of family members or ancestors (almost always male), or for the priest to lift certain curses placed upon her or her family at the shrine. She is acclaimed to be a "wife of the gods," but those forced into such servitude usually feel they are slaves of the priests, who often use them sexually, treat them harshly and inhumanely, force them to worship and serve the shrine idols, and force them to work hard without compensation and sometimes with barely enough food to keep them alive.Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world today,surpassing drug dealing and illegal arms trade.Experts on slavery estimate that 17 million children worldwide are held in conditions amounting to slavery. Most are in India, Pakistan,where parents drowning in poverty and debt sell their children into labor. In other regions like West Africa, (Ghana) child-traffickers arrive in villages and buy the children -- as young as 4 or 5 years old -- from parents. Some of the families know what awaits their children. Others fall for promises that the children will be educated or get jobs that will allow them to send money home.Children are held in forms of slavery all over the world, and there are examples of children smuggled into the United States to work as prostitutes. Unicef estimates that 200,000 children are enslaved by cross-border smuggling rings in West and Central Africa larger number are held in bondage in their own countries. These children work agriculture, sweatshops, fishing and domestic service, or as prostitutes. |
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Cancer Is so limited...Because of the tremendous challenges in our world with terrorism, Mutual Faith has launched a vital outreach in regions of rage around the world. This was initiated after the events of 9/11, and the Biblical scripture in Isaiah 30:25 began to grip the heart of Keith Hershey - "There will be on every high mountain and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the tower fall"
This passage was the prompting for the Operation Life Cell ministry expression. The following explains the entire OLC ministry...
THE PROBLEM: TERROR, FEAR AND RAGE
What went through your mind on that fateful day, September 11, 2001 when terrorists attacked the United States! All over the world, people felt violated as terror and rage was released in a new way.
Indeed the Christian community hasn’t had much of a presence in some of the tough regions of the world, particularly the 10-40 window. How do you present the Gospel in an area where you can be killed for saying “Hallelujah” or “Praise the Lord?” How do you share the love of God in a region where it’s illegal to open a church?
THE PROMISE – “WATER WILL BE AVAILABLE!”
“There will be on every high mountain and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.” (Isaiah 30:25)
What a powerful proclamation! What a definitive declaration! There will be water available in the high places and the hard places of the planet when pressure is applied in a community.
This scripture has no specific reference to the towers falling in New York City, or the thousands who died during those terrorist attacks. I really believe that the living water of Jesus Christ is going to be prominent and prevalent in every region of this earth.
THE PROVISION – “GOD WILL ASSIGN WATER BOYS!”
In order for water to be available there needs to be a delivery system! In other words there needs to be water boys and water girls available to refresh and bless people everywhere.
When I was a young boy, I was privileged to be invited by the varsity basketball coach to serve as the water boy for the varsity team. It was a high honor for me to go to the practices and the games and refresh the players when they came off the court. I would give them drinking water and a towel and that simple assignment helped encourage them to stay on the playing floor, the real battle zone, to go for victory!
In like fashion we are called to connect with people, in mutual faith to refresh them and bless them so they are better equipped to do the work of God in their regions of the earth.
The assignment God has given us is to teach and release 10,000 LIFE Cells in regions of the world where there are ‘terror cells.’ These ‘terrorist cells’ have a tremendous impact on the work of church ministries. Churches have been attacked and burned to the ground. Reports have come in that leaders were killed by the extremist groups.
THE PROCESS – “HOW TO CONNECT WITH RAGING PEOPLE!”
The Lord has given a model for ministry. He gave an assignment to one named Ananias to go and connect and communicate with a terror filled man named Saul. (Acts 9) Saul was bringing havoc and terror against the church.
The Lord spoke to Ananias and commissioned him to go and talk to the terror filled man, Saul. Ananias didn’t like the idea! I’m convinced that there are many times God will speak to our spirit about doing His will and it will frustrate our flesh. Many times what God speaks for us to do for the purpose of His Kingdom will cost us time, money or other precious commodities that we so value. Eventually, Ananias was brave enough to be obedient to take the assignment and go talk to this raging man.
Years later Saul who became Paul gave testimony as to what Ananias said to him, the words that were used that preserved him from terrorism.
“The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will and see the Just One and hear the voice of His mouth. For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.” (Acts 22:14,15)
These five principles are so powerful! According to Paul, these are the truths that allowed him to triumph over terror! Think of what was actually said:
1. GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU. (YOU ARE LOVED!)
This is the most refreshing phrase of the human heart! Men and women everywhere are redeemable! God is on your side!
2. YOU SHOULD KNOW HIS WILL! (YOU CAN KNOW HIS PERFECT PLAN!)
In other words you don’t need to be disillusioned any longer. You can have a clue as to what to do! God can give you the details for every aspect of your life.
3. YOU SHOULD SEE THE JUST ONE. (EXPERIENCE JESUS!)
This is the son, His name is Jesus, we call Him our Savior! This is where you communicate the reality of the cross! The death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus Christ!
4. YOU SHOULD HEAR HIS VOICE. (INTIMACY WITH GOD!)
How refreshing that we don’t just need to embrace religion but we can have genuine relationship! God wants to fellowship and commune with His kids!
5. YOU SHOULD BE HIS WITNESS. (GIVE LIFE AWAY!)
This is what all of us are privileged to do, to tell others the Good News! In other words we can be the water boys! We can be the water girls! We can bless and refresh the human race so people can embrace His love. This is the system that we’ve been assigned!
THE PLAN – HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS SIMPLE ASSIGNMENT
Our goal? To teach and release 10,000 LIFE Cells just like Ananias! We are conducting Training Camps in various nations all around the world. We are bringing leaders from these troubled spots of the world and helping them go incognito back into these communities to connect with one person full of rage, terror and frustration! We show them how to get an assignment by the Spirit of God like Ananias received.
Additionally we are providing the training materials for this model of ministry that Ananias used. Also we are releasing these precious brothers and sisters back into their region by praying for them and laying hands on them as they go forth as a water delivery system into their communities.
Counting the cost! As we prayerfully pursue this assignment, we of course must count the cost! We believe that we can teach and release a LIFE Cell for as little as $22. In other words a one-time gift of $22 will allow us to connect with a believer within these communities and teach and train them the Ananias model of ministry.
Our target goal is to sponsor 10,000 LIFE Leaders! (Total needed: $220,000). We are inviting families and churches to sponsor one LIFE Leader as a special missions outreach. In other words if every family unit could believe God for a one time gift of $22 to do something practical and powerful right now to reach out to people who are plagued with raging terrorist world views.
Testimonies from Operation LIFE Cell
“We now have seven Operation LIFE Cell camps set up for the training of those with special assignment from the Lord. The Operation LIFE Cell principles have been embraced by everyone in these training camps. We have enlisted about two hundred people into the program from the seven camps.”
“A Juju Priest or idol priest with a very large shrine has surrendered his life to the Lord after I applied the Operation LIFE Cell method. He and his two wives and ten children now attend our church.”
“A terrorist, known as a Jihad leader, has been saved and is now the leader
of Operation LIFE Cell for all of the North of Nigeria. His father is an Islamic priest.”
“Our Operation LIFE Cell is doing good in reaching the Muslim rebels here in Mindanao. Another Abu Sayaf rebel is added, and we have now two Muslim rebels saved and born again under our care.”
The biblical foundation for Mutual Faith is found in Romans 1:11-12 which reads, "I long to see you that I might impart to you a spiritual gift, to the end you will be established; that is by the mutual faith both of you and me."
Mutual Faith is a biblical term that simply means there is multiplied potential in the Kingdom of God as people join together in faith. The Bible teaches in Deuteronomy that one will chase a thousand to flight and two will chase ten thousand. There is multiplied power as God's people come together.
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