Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is calling it “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.” Forty-nine people were killed in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch and more than 20 others are seriously wounded.

The tragic event marks the worst act of violence in the nation in almost 30 years.

Ardern did not mince words, calling it a terrorist attack. And New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Mike Bush is warning not to “presume the danger is gone.”

My ministry has two Awakening Blaze prayer cells in New Zealand, one near Christchurch and another in Auckland. We’re coordinating prayer through these cells. You can find them at AwakeningBlaze.com.

At this time, I want to remind the world of a prophetic word I released over New Zealand while holding meetings there in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland:

I will move and you will see Me move in extraordinary and unusual ways. But it’s not going to look like what you think. So, don’t reject what I do, the new wine that I’m pouring out. But prepare your heart even now to receive it.

In this season, as you read the Gospels, as you read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and you read the miracles of Jesus, I’m going to give you new revelation, new insight, a new perspective on that what you have read many, many, many times before because I’ve called you as change agents in your nation. I’ve called you, yes, as revival carriers, as kingdom releasers, as glory dwellers in your nation, and I will send you to and fro, not just with the word, but a demonstration of My Spirit.”

Even as Smith Wigglesworth prophesied a Word and Spirit movement in the last day—the combination of My Word and My Spirit—I will use you to demonstrate and to manifest this movement among your people in your land. This will spill out upon the edges of this great nation. This will spill out over into the nations of the earth as the glory will cover the earth in the last days. The knowledge of the glory of the Lord— the knowledge of the glory of the Lord—will come from this nation.

When I was preaching from this word, the Lord showed me He wanted to bring a new voice of healing movement to New Zealand. He showed me He was putting the government of the nation back into the hands of the intercessors.

Here’s how you can pray:

—Pray for the hedge of protection to rise up around New Zealand.

—Pray for an end to terror in New Zealand.

—Pray against this constant attack on New Zealand’s spiritual inheritance; bind the hand of the thief that is working to dampen fervor for awakening.

—Pray that intercessors on the land will repent for the sins of the land and work as agents of healing.

—Pray that the Lord would empower politicians and police with strategies to eradicate terrorists and thwart future attacks.

—Pray that intercessors in New Zealand will not grow weary.

Keep on praying.

Yael Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, warned the spirit of Haman is attacking just days before Jews are set to celebrate Purim.

“It’s amazing how we can from everything being quiet and calm to war in a matter of seconds. We’re not at war yet, thank God, but we just had two rockets launched at Tel Aviv,” Eckstein says in a Facebook LIVE video.

The rockets were launched at Israel’s most populous city from the Gaza strip.

“What we know is Islamic Jihad is taking responsibility for this, and what this means is a huge escalation, because they think long and hard before they launch any rocket,” Eckstein says.

Islamic Jihad denied these allegations.

No matter who fired, there’s a significant spiritual angle attached to the attack.

Watch the video for more.

Hallmark reportedly fired actress Lori Loughlin, who appeared in the hit series When Calls the Heart as well as several films, after news broke that Loughlin and her husband allegedly participated in a bribery scheme to get their daughters into college. Makeup brand Sephora dropped her daughter, Olivia Jade, over the same incident.

“We are saddened by the recent news surrounding the college admissions allegations. We are no longer working with Lori Loughlin and have stopped development of all productions that air on the Crown Media Family Network channels involving Lori Loughlin including Garage Sale Mysteries, an independent third-party production,” Crown Media Family Networks said in a statement sent to USA Today.

According to People magazine:

Loughlin, 54, is among dozens charged in an alleged college admissions scam involving elite colleges and universities including Yale, Georgetown, the University of Southern California and Stanford. Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 to make it appear that their daughter had been a rower, the indictment states. (Olivia Jade is not currently listed on the USC women’s rowing roster. It’s unclear if she was aware of the alleged scheme, and she was not charged.)

Both Loughlin and Giannulli were both arrested this week—she on Wednesday and he on Tuesday—on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Giannulli appeared in federal court on Tuesday and was released after posting a $1 million bond. Loughlin made her first appearance in federal court on Wednesday in Los Angeles where a judge set her bond at $1 million, according to the Associated Press, the Orange County Register and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

The scandal made headlines around the globe and garnered the attention of some Christian leaders.

“The Faith and Education Coalition is thankful to our law enforcement and justice system for exposing these cases of dishonesty and bribery in the college admission process,” says Girien Salazar of the Faith and Education Coalition – NHCLC.

“We are committed to biblical justice in American education and to issues of education equity and high standards in public education for the expressed purpose of ensuring college-career ready students. We want all students, regardless of their family’s income level, ethnic background or area of residence, to have the same opportunities to succeed in education, and that includes getting into college. We are thankful for tests like the SAT that allow students to be evaluated based on aptitude, for colleges that consider a students robust application and not a prominent last name and for federal grants that assist financially burdened families,” he continues.

“However, we are heartbroken that a small community of individuals would use their wealth, status and position to abuse these systems and subvert justice and fairness for selfish ambition. We pray that the persons and universities involved would repent of their actions, find forgiveness and restoration in Christ, and commit to a fair and equitable college admissions process,” Salazar says.

Actress Felicity Huffman was also charged in the scandal.

They’re called summoning circles, and on Twitter especially, users are posting images of candles wrapped around something they desire.

What some people may view as a silly meme has a deeply demonic connection, though.

According to Know Your Meme, “In Wicca and other related magic rituals a circle is used as a protective barrier for the magician and the summoned. Traditionally, circles were believed by ritual magicians to form a protective barrier between themselves and what they summoned. One Twitter user parodied this practice with emojis.”

The trend has picked up since February, with major corporations jumping on board.

summoning circle, hope this works:

unused

vacation

days

— Universal Orlando Resort (@UniversalORL) March 14, 2019

Summoning circle, hope this works.

A PHI win

A CBJ loss

A CAR loss

— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 12, 2019

summoning circle, hope this works

decent sleep schedule

— Streamlabs (@streamlabs) March 11, 2019

Summoning circle, clearly works

team spirit

pic.twitter.com/2t6dREI5pT

— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) March 11, 2019

Have you noticed this? Do you think it’s a harmless fad or something deeper? Sound off below.

Edward Byrd and Joshua Buchanan emanate light and joy. They laugh easily, encourage freely and share what God has done for them without hesitation.

They’re friends now, bonded over how Christ set them free from homosexuality.

In the last episode of Overcomers: Leaving LGBT, the duo joined Charisma News to share their testimonies.

“From the time I was 13, I got physically abused by a close family member,” Byrd says. “And I will always wonder, like, why was I the target of his anger, like, he would lash out on me? … All those things just created this, like sadness, this brokenness, this emptiness, this abandonment. And so I totally started to create a whole other person. I changed my name, I lost a lot of weight, I started dressing more feminine or becoming more gender fluid. My name was Remy at the time. I started wearing makeup, my hair was long eyelashes, I was doing the whole thing. And I was just out here having this whole persona, being very promiscuous in the clubs, like going to the club like Sunday to Sunday, like partying.”

But God has a way of shining High light into the darkest places.

“While I was in this club, and this lady had comes in the club and she touched me, prophesies to me while I’m in the club. And she says, ‘You know that there’s a light inside of you. And God has a purpose and a plan for you,'” Byrd recalls.

Buchanan’s story started out a little bit differently.

“When I was 10 years old, my parents ended up splitting up and getting a divorce,” Buchanan says. “And coming from a broken home, it really takes a toll on you, even at a young age. Because I felt like I couldn’t do anything. There was nothing that I could do, and was just a part of life. And it kind of hit me really quick. And so in the process of all of this, not growing up in church, and not having a relationship with God, and not really knowing who He was, I turned to so many things to try to find love.

“So my journey kind of started out with experimenting with drugs,” he continues. “At that point in time in my house. I grew up with my dad and I was exposed to marijuana at a young age. And so I kind of saw that, and there was something inside of me that wanted to try it. And so I ended up starting with, you know, smoking marijuana and taking pills and snorting pills. And just getting into this whole place of trying to fill these voids in my life.”

Buchanan was diagnosed with HIV in his early 20s, which led him to the altar and an incredible experience with the One who made him.

Listen to the podcast to hear what God did next for each of these men.

South Carolina Pastor John Gray told The Real that he had an emotional affair.

“Over a year ago, my wife and I were in a very difficult place in our marriage, and in that time, I began to converse with someone—other than a counselor, other than a pastoral leader, which is where I should have taken my issues and challenges—and began to converse, and I was even in the presence of that person one time. But being in the presence of someone is not the same as sleeping with them. I did not sleep with anyone,” Gray told host Adrienne Bailon, who is married to Israel Houghton.

Gray pastors Relentless Church in Greenville. Previously, Ron Carpenter pastored the congregation and called it Redemption Church.

Gray was open with his congregation about many of his marital struggles, which sparked rumors.

“There’s no baby, none of that,” he said. “It’s important for me to take responsibility for the areas where I did come up short. Sharing things about my marriage, outside of my wife and outside of trusted counselors, is an emotional affair. It was wrong. I take responsibility for that. But I will not take responsibility for that which I did not do.”

Watch the video to see Gray’s full explanation.

“If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me – Psalm 139:9-10.”

So reads a post by Pius Adesanmi the day before he died. The professor is smiling at the camera, holding his passport.

He was one of more than 150 victims who died in the Ethiopia Airlines crash over the weekend.

Adesanmi was a professor with the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

“He worked tirelessly to build the Institute of African Studies, to share his boundless passion for African literature and to connect with and support students,” said Pauline Rankin, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University. “He was a scholar and teacher of the highest caliber who leaves a deep imprint on Carleton.”

Adesanmi posted several other faith-based posts on his Facebook, including a personal prophecy:

Adesanmi was awarded the Penguin Prize for African Writing in nonfiction in 2010 for a collection of essays titled, “You’re Not a Country, Africa!”

Sunday’s crash, minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa for a flight to Nairobi, inflicted a particularly heavy toll on the United Nations, which has large offices in both cities, according to Reuters. The 157 victims, including 149 passengers and eight crew members, came from more than 30 countries, the airline said.

Also among the dead were four Catholic Relief Services employees from Ethiopia. Sara Chalachew, Getnet Alemayehu, Sintayehu Aymeku and Mulusew Alemu were headed to Nairobi for training, their employer said.

Photographer Rainer Schimpf experienced his own Jonah-like moment off the coast of South Africa recently.

“It was going for the fish, and I happened to be in the wrong spot. I was collateral damage, and I’m sure it was as frightening for the whale as it was for me,” Schimpf says.

He was capturing photos underwater when he says he felt something tug at his hip.

“Nothing can prepare you for when you end up inside the whale,” Schimpf says.

But it appears Schimpf wasn’t fleeing the call of God on his life when the marine mammal caught up with him.

“I was just holding myself and bracing myself and calming myself down not to be panicked, and it worked out,” he said. “He spat me out, and everybody’s happy.”

Watch the video to hear him recount the incident.

Katariina Rosenblatt was 13 the first time someone tried to sell her for sex.

“She approached me and made me feel like I was valuable,” Katariina tells Charisma News of the grooming process. A woman named Mary groomed Katariina. Mary was a prostitute who recruited younger women for sex work.

“She talked to me and told me that I was special and sort of relayed everything I said to her back to me, so it seemed like she was listening. And traffickers will do that when they’re recruiting their prey. They will mirror the same pain that you feel like they can relate to you. So over the course of a month, Mary groomed me.”

Initially, Mary tried to sell Katariina to a young man, but when Mary found out she was a virgin, plans changed.

Mary then dressed Katariina in white and set her up with an older man.

The buyer offered $500. Mary argued for more. Together, they settled on $550.

Though Katariina came from a broken and abusive family, she knew her worth in Christ. She had recently been saved through a Billy Graham crusade, and as Mary and the buyer went back and forth, Katariina felt the Holy Spirit tell her exactly what she was worth in His eyes.

When the woman she viewed as an older sister left the room so the man could rape the teenager, Katariina’s world shattered.

Katariina broke free, but the incident was far from isolated. She was later recruited at 14 by a girl in her middle school for a pedophilia ring run by the girl’s father. The family hooked Katariina on cocaine, and she eventually sold her body and went deeper into drugs, even marrying the son of a Colombian drug dealer who worked for Pablo Escobar.

But enough was enough, and when her son was 18, Katariina took her daughter and left the family. Now, Katariina holds her master’s degree in law and, after a thorough dissertation on human trafficking, her Ph.D.

She runs There Is Hope For Me and penned a book about her story called Stolen.

Listen to the podcast for her incredible testimony and to hear how God was faithful through it all.

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Anwar Fazal leads the largest church in Pakistan and a 24-hour prayer house where miracles happen every day.

Fazal was born into a family of Christians, and his family even received a prophetic word before his birth that he would be a pastor. As he grew up, however, he rejected the Lord because he says it was his family’s decision, and not his own.

But in 1995, Fazal met Marilyn Hickey at a prayer festival. That’s when everything changed.

“She’s my mentor, my heart, my love,” Fazal says. “My mother and father are passed away in heaven, and God blessed me with my spiritual mom, Marilyn Hickey. She’s guided me all this time, she prays over me and teaches me like a son, and I love first Jesus, then I love my mom, Marilyn.”

Hickey’s influence is undeniable, but Fazal has become recognizable in his own right for his work advancing God’s kingdom in Pakistan.

Fazal runs Isaac Television Network, Eternal Life Church, a prayer house and spends part of his time in the United States with Frank Amedia.

At Fazal’s prayer house, he says he’s seen a man come in with cancer devouring his body and leave completely healed in the name of Jesus. In another instance, Fazal says a lame young woman actually saw him in her dreams, and he healed her, so she walked into church the following week.

And that’s just the beginning.

Listen to the podcast to hear his miraculous stories about what the Lord is doing in Pakistan.