Julie Lopez’s unique testimony is shedding light on the ways Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy, and how we can navigate against these attacks.

Growing up in a family where witchcraft was a generational practice, Lopez had terrifying up-close-and-personal encounters with entities at a very young age.

“…I was really young, I was like around four and I remember this demon enter[ed] my room,” Lopez says. I was trying to sleep. I wasn’t dream[ing]; I was literally awake. And this demon entered the room and the first thing that I remember is that this demon started to speak in tongues as he was singing, and he was entering the room.”

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“I was in my bed, shaking, sleeping next to my mother,” she continues. “This demon came next to me and he started to touch my feet, and by the time he was touching my feet I could literally feel his hands were really hot, like boiling hot, and I remember from that moment something was placed on my legs because I grew up having a lot of leg issues. I was doing sports, I was doing basketball, ballet, running, I was always quite active. And I remember at age 13 I had to quit because I had knee issues.”

Lopez says she learned later on after becoming a Christian that this was a way the enemy was placing a curse on her so she couldn’t use the gifts and talents the Lord had given her.

“The enemy always tries to bring the opposite of what the Lord has called you to do,” Lopez says. “For example, if you have been called to be a mother of nations or father of nations the enemy is going to try to release an orphan spirit so you don’t fulfill the mission the Lord has placed in your life.”

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After seeing her great-grandmother act as a medium and witchcraft run rampant in her family through generations, Lopez says this kind of activity was part of the family DNA. After becoming a Christian, Lopez says she didn’t share her story for years afterward because she felt ashamed of her past. However, God placed it on her heart to expose the darkness so the light of Christ could flourish.

“I realized, ‘wow, there’s so many people, there’s so many Christians doing witchcraft,” Lopez says. “The church is sleeping and there’s not enough people talking about the spiritual darkness and how we as the body of to be trained, needs to be prepared, and the body of Christ needs to be aware that there is a spiritual realm that we have to come against.”

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One of the ways that the enemy has been playing, counterfeiting against God’s people is in the area of spiritual gifts. This attack, especially on the gift of speaking in tongues, is not talked about, yet Lopez has seen the evidence of Satan trying to ruin this beautiful gift God has given us to communicate directly with Him.

“I didn’t realize they were demonic tongues until I became Christian. But also, me growing up, as we were doing rituals and witchcraft, we were also speaking in tongues,” Lopez says. “That’s why for me, when I became a Christian I struggled so much with accepting and speaking in tongues.”

“That’s when the Holy Spirit brought repentance to my heart and He told me, ‘The enemy doesn’t create. The enemy copies everything,'” she says.

She learned that the demonic tongues were a counterfeit to the heavenly tongues of the Lord. With all spiritual gifts, God has given us something beautiful that was made to glorify Him. Nothing from the enemy is original, and it is less than the very best.

During this time, let’s pray for wisdom and discernment to see the difference between the real and the counterfeit in our lives.

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Following his exit from Gateway Church, James Morris, Robert Morris’ son, has revealed the name of his new church.

James and his wife, Bridgette, discussed starting their own church with leadership at Gateway before they left. Now, they are ready to take that step into a new season.

Their website, talks all about their call to start up a new ministry.

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“We are excited to announce the beginning of an extraordinary journey that started as a dream in our hearts to be Pastors of a vibrant church passionate about the presence of God and filled with people who love God and love people,” the site reads. “We believe God gave us this dream and many prophetic words, beginning when we were young, for such a time as this.”

The site further notes that the couple was taking time to seek the Lord through rest and prayer to hear from God on what should come next.

“We are filled with anticipation, expectation, and hope as we hear from God about when, where, and how to plant a church. This journey is not just about reaching a destination but about embracing the profound experiences and growth along the way. We are confident that God is good and in control.”

Now, after this announcement, they have revealed the name of their new church plant.

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According to the Christian Post, the name of the new church was shared on X.

“Thank you for praying with and for us!” The post read. “We have spent the past few weeks praying and seeking the Lord, and we feel like God has confirmed the name through multiple scriptures and people. The name is Passage Church!”

The post describes how the couple landed on the name Passage Church, first referencing the word passage as a synonym for Scripture, and as a journey from one location to another.

“Passage Church is on the move and filled with people pursuing God in every season. Every person’s life is filled with transitions and journeys; we will be a place that helps people no matter what stage of their journey, pointing them towards Jesus and a relationship with God.”

Right now, they are planning on having an interest meeting in October and are still looking for a location for the church to meet.

Both James and Bridgette shared posts on Instagram about the coming launch of the church with the Scripture reference of Habbakuk 2:3.

 

 

 

 

 

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As this couple launches a new church, keep them and their family in prayer, along with all of those who call Gateway their home church during this time of transition.

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During his Tucker Carlson Live Tour, Carlson had special guest Glenn Beck come to the stage and talk about his time with Fox News, good and evil in our world today and the signs of the end times.

In our especially crazy and upside-down world, Beck pointed out that it actually “feels” as though we are in a last days era.

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“It feels like the end times,” Beck says. “Enough of the signs are here that it could happen quickly.”

One of the biggest signs of the end times that Carlson and Beck point to is the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.

“We think we’re God. And what’s really bad is we’re about to create ‘god’: AI,” Beck says. “We are about to create a being. These scientists think they can handle have to understand that is an alien life. They don’t even know how it comes up with answers.”

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“We create this new life form; we don’t even know how it thinks or comes up with its answers,” he continues. “It is an alien life form.”

Carlson makes the point that we do not know when the end will come, wondering why we should be afraid. Beck believes the book of Revelation is meant to provide us with the information we need so we can clearly see when the end is coming near.

“That’s the point of the book of Revelation. That’s the point of prophecy,” says Beck.

Beck and Carlson are both former media personalities for Fox News. Beck says he knew that working for Fox was taking a toll on the well-being of his soul.

“My prompting was, ‘if you don’t leave now, you won’t leave with your soul,'” Beck says. “I want my soul.”

One story Beck shared with Carlson was how he was asked to stop telling people to pray while he was on air, and to quit using the name of God. He claims that former Fox CEO Roger Ailes told him that God had bigger problems to worry about than the viewers’ prayers.

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“He said, ‘And another thing: God’s got wars and big issues to deal with. He doesn’t want to hear from all of these people.’ I looked at him and I thought he was joking at first, and he didn’t crack a smile. And I said, ‘I don’t think you understand how that works.’ And he said, ‘Well, here’s how it works here: Stop saying God. Stop saying God,'” Beck recounts.

A month after this, Beck says Ailes called him into his office for continuing to speak about God.

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Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross so that we may be set free and made whole for eternity, and for our lives here on this earth.

In a recent podcast interview, Isaiah Saldivar and Alexander Pagani discussed what it means to be delivered from the bondage of sin and how to stay free.

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One of the first things Pagani warns about is making deliverance ministry, or any ministry for that matter, more important than God Himself. Idolatry of deliverance is something in itself that believers must be wary of. He also says now is the moment for fine-tuning the deliverance ministry movement so that it will continue to last and more people will be set free for years to come.

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“Deliverance is not fighting the darkness,” Pagani says, “It’s turning on the we dwell in the light that is preventative maintenance for deliverance. That is submitting to God, resisting the devil and he will flee.”

Pagani and Saldivar also warn against the assumption that everything is demonic. Instead, some things require discipline and correction.

“You’ve got to realize not everything’s a demon,” Saldivar says. “And some things take discipline. So, we might use deliverance as an excuse not to live a disciplined lifestyle, and when we blame everything on a demon and not our own flesh or our own discipline, then we can fall into error.”

One of the key pieces to maintaining deliverance is using the Word of God.

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“…there is, for lack of a better term, atomic nuclear power in the Word of God,” Saldivar says. “When you speak forth the Word of God, there is unlimited power, unlimited authority.”

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“One thing that I have found is that when you begin to meditate on the Word and you place a high value on Scripture, and also a high value on is preventative deliverance in Scripture by meditating on the Word,” says Pagani.

Saldivar also makes the point that instead of asking questions about what is and isn’t okay for Christians to do, we should be asking whether or not certain actions bring glory to God.

“Let’s change the narrative to ‘Is it holy? Is it set apart?’ Holiness and worldliness are the opposite. Worldliness is what everybody else is doing; holiness is what nobody else is doing,” Saldivar says.

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Sometimes the mysterious truly does happen in our world.

Recently, it was discovered that St. Teresa of Avila’s body was still in tact when her tomb was opened for research in Spain last month.

Fox News reported that the Catholic saint, who died in 1582, still appears to be the same as when she passed away.

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The tomb was previously opened in 1914. The group of Discalced Carmelite nuns, priests and monks made the decision to open it back up to “study the relics of St. Teresa’s heart, hand and arm,” according to Fox News.

Catholic News Agency reported how the opening of St. Teresa’s tomb was compared to the 1914 opening of the coffin.

“The parts uncovered, which are the face and the foot, are the same as they were in 1914,” Father Marco Chiesa said. “There is no color, there is no skin color, because the skin is mummified, but you can see it, especially the middle of the expert doctors can see Teresa’s face almost clearly.”

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This comes after last year’s “Missouri Miracle,” where experts found a nun’s body from 2019 that had not decomposed. According to Fox, the nun, Whilhelmina, was not embalmed at the time of her death.

These unusual discoveries are certainly a strange occurrence most of us never would have expected to see happen.

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In one of his latest videos, Isaiah Saldivar discussed how believers dealing with demonic activity in their homes can command these entities to flee.

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“If you open up a door, and I’m talking in your physical home, and you give a demon a legal right, they will come in to disturb you,” Saldivar says. “And a lot of people don’t know what to do when they have a demon in their home.”

While many people might not know what to do in this situation, Saldivar reminds Christians that they have the ultimate authority over these demonic entities.

“No matter how much you’re being harassed, you have authority over these spirits. You have authority over these persons without bodies, these demonic, unclean beings. You have power and you have authority over them. Do not let them bully you. Do not let them torment you,” says Saldivar.

One of the first things to do to rid your home of the paranormal is to make sure you don’t have items inside of it that call attention to demonic activity.

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“People oftentimes will bring in things that are demonic and they think it’s innocent. Maybe this is a dream catcher, maybe this is a fortune telling book, maybe this is tarot cards, maybe this is a Ouija board. These items invite demons into your home,” Saldivar says.

Spending time doing unbiblical actions like New Age practices with burning sage will also attract demons into your home. Saldivar further advises staying away from negative talk, bickering and bitter speech because demons are drawn to that type of language.

“First thing, is destroy everything that gives the demons legal right,” Saldivar says.

He also recommends getting some anointing oil and anointing the doorways of your house. Another recommendation is also for a Christian to speak out loud, commanding the demon to leave.

“Verbally command every demon to leave and never return. Don’t be shy about this. The demons can hear you. We’ve got to be bold in our home. Walk every single room, go to your kids’ room, maybe when they’re at school, go to your bedroom when your husband’s at work or whatever, whatever demon you’re fighting, and say, ‘I command the demon to leave in Jesus’ name. You have no power here. You have no authority here. And you will never return,'” Saldivar advises.

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Saldivar points out how crucial it is to dedicate your home to the Lord after commanding the demon to leave.

“It’s a simple prayer. ‘Lord, I dedicate this house to you. I want this to be a place where Your Spirit can dwell,'” Saldivar prays.

This goes along with also asking the Lord to fill your home with the Holy Spirit.

“In the same way you ask the Holy Spirit to fill you and to anoint you and to touch you and to fill your family, ask the Holy Spirit, ‘fill my house,'” says Saldivar.

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In a new prophetic message, rabbi and New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Cahn revealed new insights about the 2024 election and how it relates back to biblical figures.

“[If] you want to understand Donald Trump, you need to understand Jehu,” Cahn says. “Jehu was an unlikely man to become king of Israel, Trump was an unlikely man to become the President of the United States. Jehu wasn’t a politician; he was a fighter and a warrior. He was wild, unpredictable. Trump wasn’t a politician; he’s a fighter, a warrior, wild, unpredictable. Jehu was, despite everything, called of God, anointed, used of God. Trump was, despite everything, called of God, anointed, used of God.”

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Cahn makes the point that just as Jehu was the biblical figure known for contending against a female with evil agendas for the rule and reign of Israel, Trump has done the same thing, once against Clinton and now against Harris.

“So, the Jehu prototype involves his contending against a woman ruler for the leadership of the land. So, if Trump is following the Jehu prototype, could that be part of the mystery of Trump?” Cahn asks. “Notice something; up to this point in American history, there’s only been one person who has run as a presidential candidate against a woman ruler.”

Trump’s striking similarities can even be found in historical artifacts.

“I wrote of the Jehu prototype in ‘The Paradigm.’ I put in a certain picture of Jehu in the book. It was an old lithograph drawn by Gustave Doré. Doré was a famous artist of 19th century was recently looking at it. I noticed something strange, and I’ve never seen this in any illustration or image of any king of Israel,” says Cahn.

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The image Cahn references depicts a scene from 2 Kings 9 when Jehu commands for Jezebel to be thrown out of the palace. In this image, is something not noticed by most people: Jehu’s ears are pierced.

“I’ve never seen that on a depiction of the king of Israel,” Cahn continues. “His ears are pierced for some reason.”

In a similar fashion, Trump’s ear was pierced by the bullet that hit him in July when an assassination attempt on his life took place. However, this is only the beginning of the uncanny connection between Trump and Jehu.

“[There] is an image even more ancient, much much more ancient. It comes from a 3,000-year-old object. The object is called the Black Obelisk. The Black Obelisk of King Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria, whose reign is dated from 858 to 824 B.C. The Black Obelisk contains ancient engravings. But what is most significant and amazing about the Black Obelisk is that it contains the only ancient representation that we know of on planet earth of a biblical figure that is actually done from ancient, biblical times,” Cahn says.

The biblical figure on the Black Obelisk is none other than Jehu. In the depiction of Jehu are a few key pieces that connect this image to the person of Donald Trump.

“There’s only one American leader, one American president, who unlike the rest of presidents and leaders, is unique in that he’s often seen wearing a cap on his head–Donald Trump,” Cahn says.

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The image of Jehu from the Black Obelisk also depicts him wearing a cap. From here, the connection between Trump and Jehu continues to become even more obvious.

One of the most famous images of Donald Trump since the assassination attempt on his life is of him bowing down. Yet, Trump is not the only one to have been depicted in this manner before. Jehu was also shown in a bowing position on The Black Obelisk.

“Both the ancient Jehu and the modern Jehu are bowed to the ground. Both are captured in profile. Both their heads are bent over. And notice the modern Jehu has his hands resting on the ground right under his face. Now notice the 3,000-year-old image of the ancient hands are resting on the ground right under his face. No human could have orchestrated this,” Cahn says.

“And notice,” Cahn continues. “You see the shoes or the sandals of the man standing by Jehu, but you don’t see the shoes of Jehu. The shoes of Jehu are missing from the image. So when Trump went down, his shoes were missing, were gone, removed from his feet.”

So, what does this all mean for the 2024 election?

“Could it be that God is calling Donald Trump to seek Him, to follow Him, with all his heart?” Cahn asks. “By this, if he did that, he could be even greater than Jehu.”

“The only hope America has is God. The only thing that can save, the only thing that can do it is repentance, turning and revival. And the leader of the nation is to actually lead the nation,” Cahn says.

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A pastor was arrested after being caught up in a weeks-long stand-off with police officers.

As the BBC reported, police have been trying to arrest Filipino pastor Apollo Quiboloy after he was charged with crimes of sex trafficking, coercion and fraud. The Western Journal noted how Quiboloy had “sex with women and underage girls who faced threats of abuse and ‘eternal damnation’ unless they catered to [him].”

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Quiboloy claimed to be the “appointed son of God,” using his role of authority for evil. His ministry, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, is reported to have between 6-7 million followers. The ministry is said to have locations in 200 locations. Part of the crimes Quiboloy committed included trafficking children from the Philippines to America, where the BBC says they were “forced to solicit money for a bogus charity.”

During the two-week manhunt, The followers of Quiboloy stood their ground against the police on at the complex which has around 40 buildings, a school, hanger and Cathedral.

Kingdom of Jesus Christ Ministries was started back in 1985, with its United States location in the Van Nuys region of Los Angeles. Back in 2021, Charisma News reported how Quiboloy reported how around $20 million from America was sent to the church of the Philippines between the years of 2014 and 2019. The ministry’s nonprofit was supposed using the funds from their nonprofit Children’s Joy Foundation USA which was supposed to be for the purpose of helping children in the Philippines. However, it is believed that the money was used Quiboloy and other leader’s grand lifestyles.

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This incident is not only heartbreaking because of the people who were abused and duped by Quiboloy in one way or the other, but because it shows how easily so many people were deceived by a false shepherd. Many will come in the name of Jesus, but we are to be on guard and use wisdom and discernment so we can tell who is truly of the Lord and who is not.

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Are changes heading our way for the month of September?

In an Aug. 30, 2014 prophecy, Kim Clement prophesied about a September where a tide would be turning which would greatly affect Israel.

“Listen to the Word of the Lord. What do I have planned for September? What about Israel? What I’m about to tell you, says the Spirit, is not only for the land of Israel and the people of Israel, but this is for you, says the Lord,” Clement prophesied. “The tide is turning for Israel. The tide is turning for you.”

Clement’s prophecy further talked about something peculiar coming as we move into autumn where a great fall would take place. This goes right back to Clement’s prophecy about a “Strange July” and a “Hypnotic November” where he prophesied, “Is it that possibly the Spirit of God will cause many to fall in the fall?”

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“A very strange thing shall happen in September moving into the fall where there shall be a great fall,” Clement prophesied. “Fall of the enemies, fall of kings, fall of princes. I shall do a strange thing in Egypt again, but even as David met an Egyptian who was the son of Amalekite, who had been rejected because he was sick. David was about to go and take back what was stolen from him. David and his men were tired, and they came to an Egyptian, fed him and he revealed to them where the enemy was. I shall use Egypt again.”

Clement’s prophecy further discussed how many would be offended by God’s decision to use Egypt, but that the Lord says He will be revealing a “strange thing.”

“I will reveal a strange thing. Some of those who have been enemies of Israel shall suddenly turn and change their tune for a season, and I will restore and I will deliver and I will bring friendship for a season. And many of the enemies that now stand shall be nonexistent, says the Spirit of God. It shall take two years. Two years! But watch how I bless Israel, watch how the rain comes to America, watch how the rain comes to my Kingdom, watch and see, for God says beginning in September I will turn everything around, and my people shall see an intervention of a kind that they have never seen before,” said Clement.

Clement’s prophecy also detailed the nation of Syria and its role in the coming days.

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“You say, ‘What of Syria and what of a man who is on the golf course?’ The Spirit of God says I have given opportunity after opportunity. Now shall I use Israel again to defeat the Syrian. To defeat those who creep closer,” Clement prophesied. “There’s something falling from the heavens today while we are gathered together, something is coming down over Syria, over Israel, over Gaza, over Egypt, over some of the states of the United States of America.”

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Each day we see the Middle East becoming more and more contentious especially following the attack on Israel from Hamas. As followers of Christ, we are meant to support and bless Israel, meaning that this prophecy is certainly one we should heed today.

Clement further gave a prophecy of a five-year grace period which would come at this time.

“The time has come. The time has come for the nations to know the power of My Word, and My Son,” Clement said. “They shall open their hearts. The five-year period of amazing grace is coming.”

As we look back on these prophecies, we can hope expectantly that God will do everything He has promised through His Word.

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During his latest sermon to the congregation at Global Vision Bible Church, Pastor Greg Locke gave a brief update about the incident last week where his home was shot at while one of his children was at home. Thankfully, everyone in the Locke family was safe.

“God protects His children in supernatural ways,” Locke says to the congregation. “We could’ve been having a very, very very different conversation this morning. If any conversation at all for that matter.”

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“We were doing some things actually for the museum in Pigeon Forge,” says Locke. “We were coming back the next day, we were going to stay the night and we decided that we would go ahead and come back.”

Locke says that on their way home, he needed to stop. His wife, Tai, was driving separately, so he knew he needed to call her and tell her he was making a stop. She then told him that while she wasn’t stopping, she felt the Lord asking her to get in the right lane and slow down.

“The Lord tells you to slow down, you better slow down. I don’t care how strange it seems to anybody, and I don’t care how much they honk at you; slow down,” Locke says.

As the family approached their home after the pit stop and slowdown, Locke saw what he thought was glass everywhere. He got out of the car to investigate, and what he found was not glass but something much more lethal.

“It was spent shell casings,” Locke says. “So, at that point I didn’t know what had transpired so quickly, and how severe of a situation it was.”

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Locke says he then called the police and reported what he saw. In the past, the Lockes have had dead chickens placed in their driveway, the church pulpit vandalized and other various crimes committed against them.

Locke played a recording of a sound that was picked up near his yard when the incident happened. Rounds upon rounds of bullets being shot off can be heard in the distance.

“Sixty rounds in less than three seconds,” Locke says. “Sixty of them. The detective said he’d never seen that many spent shell casings in a drive by shooting situation like this.”

Locke says he and his family have not been allowed back at their house since the shooting took place. Despite all of the horror, Locke still acknowledges God’s goodness in the storm.

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Continue to lift up the Locke family in prayer during this sensitive time, that God’s protection may continue to be upon them as they do mighty works for the Lord.

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