Pastor John Amanchukwu knows his limits. He knows he’s not as bold and courageous to stand up to people in a public forum as he would like to be.

But when the Holy Spirit gets hold of him, Amanchukwu says “look out.” When the Holy Spirit takes the lead for him, Amanchukwu says he will testify and be a witness to the truth of God and His Word, no matter what the subject.

It’s what leads him to speak in front of school boards about pornographic books in school libraries, and it’s what leads him to be a fearless defender of biblical justice on issues like abortion and the lie of critical race theory.

“Well, it’s always the anointing of God, it’s not me,” Amanchukwu told Charisma News’ John Matarazzo in a recent interview. “It’s not me. I’m man and I’m fallible, born in sin and sharpened in iniquity. Christ has forgiven me for my sins and covered me with His blood. But at the end the day, I’m human.

“So, I depend upon the third part of the Trinity, and that’s the Holy Spirit that dwells within me and gives me the proper words to say in the proper timing. I believe that when you have the Holy Spirit, number one, it will testify of Christ beyond just speaking in tongues. You will testify and be a witness to the truth. And that’s what I did at that moment (at the school board meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, recently).

And Amanchukw, a contributor for TPUSAFAITH, says he lives by Mark 13:11, which reads, “But when they arrest you and hand you over, take no thought before, or premeditate what you should speak. But speak whatever is given you in that time, for it is not you who speaks, but the Holy Spirit.”

Many people speak their minds about many subjects, including well-intentioned believers. But their words fall short of effectiveness because the Holy Spirit is nowhere near the conversation.

That’s why when he spoke in front of the Asheville School board, and when he speaks in other public forums, he remains still and waits for the Holy Spirit to prompt him about what should come out of his mouth.

“I had some thoughts in mind about what related to the conversation, but I would have never known in a million yeas that I would be cut off and told to stop reading,” Amanchukwu says. “And all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit just took control. You can see it in the video.”

Amanchuku is crusading for children across the country, speaking out about abortion and the “woke” ideologies that are being forced upon kids in our public schools.

And, he says, the Bible is pretty clear about what will happen to those who “harm children” in any way.

“Luke 17:2 says that it’s better for a man to be thrown in the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for us to do harm or damage to a child,” Amanchukwu says. “There are so many people in this country who are harming children. They are perverting children and corrupting the minds of children. If you consider the abortion industry, they want to eliminate children.

“When you consider the public school system, even some of your private Christian schools, they’ve gone woke. They want to indoctrinate children. There are so many attacks that have been launched and hurled upon children. So, it’s going to take men and women full of the Spirit … consider the power that indwelled Peter on the day of Pentecost. … He began to preach in a manner that they had never heard before. We finally see Peter, the ‘rock man,’ transformed into that strong anchor that Christ knew he would be before He told him that Satan would come and sift him as wheat.

“And so, today, we need boldness. In particular, in the church, we need the pastors to stand up. Many of our pastors have become weak and frail. They have lost their voice and lost their backbone and won’t speak up. Many pastors have blood on their hands because they have failed to be true watchmen. Watchmen are called not simply to watch, but to warn. I got fed up of just hearing about what’s going on in this country. So, I went down to Asheville and I not only showed them what was in the book, but I made a strong stand against it.”

And he did so, of course, with the covering of the Holy Spirit. That, he says, is what believers must do against the evil and tyranny happening in America right now. {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

Passionate about God’s truth, Pastor John Amanchukwu Sr. didn’t mind driving a total of eight hours to speak for three minutes. He didn’t get paid for his appearance, nor did he care.

All he wanted to do was let the Asheville, North Carolina, school board know that many people are fed up with their shenanigans, and they aren’t going to take it anymore.

In this Twitter video, Amanchukwu went on a three-minute tirade to the board about a “woke” book, “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender and Sexual Health,” that is being pushed upon children in that district.

Amanchukwu believes it is pornography—and rightfully so—as the school board members soon discovered after Amanchukwu began reading from the book and was told to stop. Amanchukwu’s reaction to the school board’s reaction was priceless.

“Was it something I said?” the pastor asked. “If you don’t want to hear it in a school board meeting, why should children be able to check it out of the school system?”

Amanchukwu is known as a rising voice for conservatives and Christians who is exposing the racist ideologies of abortion and critical race theory, among other things—like the pushing of pornography and the LGBTQ agenda in schools.

“I’m passionate about truth. I’m a pastor, and I’ve been pastoring youth and young adults for over the past 10 years,” Amanchukwu tells Charisma News’ John Matarazzo in a recent interview. “I’m a father of three children, I’m a husband and I want our children to go to school and not be indoctrinated into ideologies like critical race theory, gender theory, queer theory, and intersectionality.

“So, I drove a total of eight hours,” he says. “I wasn’t going to pick up a check or anything like that. I was going to really address the school board there because Asheville is known as the ‘wokest city’ in North Carolina. It’s deep, deep, deep blue. And I believe the entire school board is Democrat. So, there’s a lot of political indoctrination in Asheville as well.

“And so I want it to go to that city and to address this book,” Amanchukwu adds. “It’s a book that is for children ages 10 and up. There are students in elementary schools and middle schools who can get their hands on this book. And this book is not soft porn; it’s hard porn. It’s hard core, it would give ‘Swank’ and ‘Hustler’ magazine and ‘Playboy’ a run for [their] money. Hugh Hefner has nothing on this.”

The book, the pastor says, features images of straight sex, lesbian sex and gay sex, and he says that’s not “perfectly normal” material to put before a child—or anyone else for that matter.

“That’s perfectly perverted,” Amanchukwu says. “And we have to call out the perversion. I’ll say this as well. I don’t want to get political, but you know, you kind of have to these days because we’re dealing with political issues. There is one political party in this country who supports this kind of stuff, who supports the mutilation of children, the castration of children, the indoctrination of children, the annihilation of children, the murdering of children, and that’s the Democrat Party.

“The entire board in Asheville, they’re Democrats,” he says. “So to them, this is perfectly normal to sexualize children at a young age and to rob them of their innocence; to put things before them that they should not know before their time. The Bible talks about not awakening love before its time. When you crack that egg, that egg is now open. When you take the lid off of passion and lust—because these things are natural even within us—but the Bible tells us that ‘in our flesh dwells no good thing.’

“But when you begin to put things before them—pornographic materials—and make it accessible in libraries in the name of diversity, inclusion and equity, you’re on a slippery slope,” Amanchukwu says. “I went to Asheville to remind them of the dastardly deeds that they are doing to children. And this book is not simply in Asheville only; this book is in schools all around the country.”

A contributor to Turning Point USA, Amanchukwu also works with an organization called The Pavement Education Project, which he says has archived all of the “woke books” in North Carolina—books that talk about critical race theory, intersectionality gender theory or queer theory.

Amanchukwu says all of these books are pornographic, and that The Pavement Education Project has “gone out of its way” to catalogue these books so parents can visit the website and see what books are in their schools in North Carolina.

“This organization is epic,” he says. “I’ve worked with them throughout the state. Go and follow them and support them and see more about what they are doing.”

The first time he read “Perfectly Normal,” Amanchukwu says he was “disgusted.”

“I had multiple emotions,” the pastor says. “I was angry. I was filled with righteous indignation. I was sad, and I was perplexed.”

In the meantime, Amanchukwu warns parents about what their children are exposed to in public schools and asks what they would think if they were that age and had this type of material put in front of them.

“When I was 10 years of age, I could only imagine going to the library and seeing this,” he says. “I tell a joke to people that if this book was in my school library, it probably would have been checked out once and I would have kept it at home and told the librarian I didn’t know what happened to it. I turned it in, and no one knows where it’s at.

“This type of material, to a child, they want to see it because it’s explicit,” he says. “When I went to that school board meeting and read from this book, the school board members, in particular the chairman, told me to stop reading. After 10 seconds I stopped reading, and he said he pretty much didn’t want me to read it aloud. If you can’t read the book in a school board meeting, why on God’s earth is that book in the library? It makes no sense.”

Amanchukwu says as long as the anointing of God is in him, he will continue to crusade against such atrocities being committed in our public schools.

“I depend upon the third part of the Trinity—the Holy Spirit that dwells within me and gives me the words to say in proper timing,” he says. “I believe that when you have the Holy Spirit, it will testify of Christ beyond just speaking in tongues. You will testify and be a witness to the truth. And that’s what I did in that moment.” {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

Evangelist Sean Feucht was leading worship in Orange County, California last Sunday, when suddenly, with the “presence of God so thick,” a vision came upon him. He admits it’s something that doesn’t happen very much to him, but the vision was powerful, and he simply couldn’t ignore it.

While singing “Take Me Back to My First Love,” the Lord gave him a picture of people waking up, getting their morning coffee, reading the Bible and “falling in love with Jesus all over again.”

“It was certainly a spontaneous moment, and the Lord was reminding me that because of the increase in wickedness in this world right now, the love of many will grow cold,” Feucht told Charisma News in an exclusive interview from his California home. “Right now, we’re so full of wickedness. It’s everywhere; it’s all around us.

“You can’t shop at Target and not encounter wickedness. It’s in your face—perversion, slander, darkness. Because of the darkness and wickedness that has ramped heart for God is gone. It’s become discouraging.

“But as we were singing, I saw this picture of people waking up and flocking back to Jesus. And I’m not just talking about revival in a corporate sense. I do love revival meetings, worship and altar calls, but this was about personal revival—revival in the secret place. That is what leads to revival in the public place. Let’s just say I saw people all over America, and all over the world, falling in love with Jesus again.”

Feucht also posted this message on Facebook about his open vision.

And, Feucht says, personal revival will become crucial in the days ahead, especially for families. He knows that the enemy is especially working on breaking up families instead of unifying them. If that happens, Feucht says, Satan will have the world “exactly where he wants it.”

“This is why we have to be even more vigilant. We have to protect our families from all of this nonsense,” Feucht says. “Jesus has to be the centerpiece. He has to take the center of everything that we’re doing. We must prioritize times of family prayer and worshipping together. We must invite Him to be a hedge of protection around our homes. The enemy has an agenda to take out our kids. He has an agenda of perversion, homosexuality, transgenderism. We need to call on God to consistently bring protection, guidance and clarity.”

Not only must we begin with that ideal in the home, Feucht says it cannot be ignored in our churches.

Unfortunately, he says, it is.

“So many pastors across America are not even talking about this,” he says. “Why are they not pounding on this from the pulpits? This is the way are going to fight our battles against the enemy, in the church and at home. Parents need to step up and pray for their families, and do it every day. We need to have these tough conversations with our kids and make sure we’re standing up against the enemy. Christians must do this or things will continue to get darker.” {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

Don’t think there’s witchcraft in the church today? Then you might want to reconsider that position, say Pastors Mike Signorelli, Isaiah Saldivar and Alexander Pagani.

A traveling pastor who attends Lifesong Church in Stockton, California and whose ministry reaches between 6 to 8 million people per week, Saldivar says it’s definitely out there, and that “we have to call out heretical teachings and bad doctrine” that can lead people to hell.

In this video teaching, Saldivar, Pagani and Signorelli give a prophetic warning to the body of Christ in regard to unbiblical teachings happening not only within the church as a whole, but also within the charismatic movement. The three deliverance ministers navigate the complex intersection between spirituality, religion and occult practices and shed light on controversial topics such as the Third Eye, Astral Projection, false prophetic words and more.

It’s a crucial message for both church leaders and their congregations to let soak into their spirit, and it’s one that was adamantly preached in Greg Locke’s recent movie, “Come Out in Jesus Name.”

Saldivar says we need to watch out for false teachers in the church today—and that they are prevalent.

“The devil is not going to come after us with horns and a tail, but he is going to come as a teacher or a preacher,” Saldivar says. “They will be a wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matt. 7:15). They will teach a different Jesus, a different spirit and a different gospel. We have to push back against these teachings. We can’t be OK with a false teaching, a false gospel or heretical message.

“Second Corinthians 11:13-15 teaches us: ‘For such are false apostles and deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.’ … Isn’t [this] the case that when these guys that are teaching this and getting involved in witchcraft, all of these sins start happening. Their marriage starts falling apart, they start cheating, they start getting involved in money and scandals. Watch how all of these sins come together.”

Signorelli, the lead pastor of V1 Church in New York City, says as kingdom leaders, he, Saldivar and Pagani have “an incredible responsibility to the body of Christ and the people that they are shepherding.” They, and others, must be examples to their flocks and “humble themselves under the mighty of hand of God.”

Many church leaders and those who have huge internet ministries, however, are doing just the opposite, Signorelli says. They do it for either financial gain or notoriety, and that in itself is a blatant example of witchcraft.

“People who deceive others are successful in their deception because they give the people what they want,” Signorelli says. “They tell them what they want to hear. What happens is you become self-deceived because you are trying to get something and they are enabling you to get the thing you want. You know the red flags and see the signs, but you ignore them because self-deception becomes the only thing to possess the thing you want.

“The only reason why false prophets and Christian witchcraft exist is because those people in leadership are giving the people they are leading exactly what they want. I don’t know how many times you can violate not just your conscience but the voice of the Holy Spirit through you before you become dead to that voice.”

Signorelli points to the church at Galatia, to which Paul wrote: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified. I want to learn only this from you: Did you receive the Spirit through the works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Have you endured so many things for nothing, if indeed it was for nothing?” (Gal. 3:1-5).

Signorelli says that these false teachers can put individuals—including Christians—”under their spell.”

“Bewitched is used only once in the Bible, and in the Greek it means to cast an evil spell,” Signorelli says. “‘To exercise evil power over someone.’ These people operated under a false anointing that created the conditions where Paul had to come in and call them out.”

Pagani, who wrote about Christian witchcraft in his book “The Secretes to Deliverance” (Charisma House, 2022), reiterated that the apostle Paul’s message to the Galatian church was one that today’s Christian needs to take seriously.

“You’re probably saying, ‘how can a Christian get bewitched?'” Pagani asked. “Recently, I found myself thinking about this one phrase: ‘Giving people the benefit of the doubt.’ Instead of listening to the Holy Spirit on the inside, that warning flag telling you something is off here, we give people the benefit of the doubt because we assume that people are like us. You would never cheat somebody, you would never take that money and everyone is like you.

“But yes, they will do it; yes, they are deceiving someone. And sometimes this benefit of the doubt is found in this one phrase: ‘Oh, everybody misspeaks.’ There is a difference between misspeaking and misrepresenting what the Scriptures actually say. If someone shares with you something that is a misunderstanding, then everyone listening to them gets completely derailed

“Even though you love the Lord, even the Holy Spirit would never allow that, let me say this: Eve was deceived by the cunning craftiness of the serpent. What’s interesting is that Eve was deceived in a perfect environment. Eve was deceived in a place of anointing. Imagine you and I that are not in the Garden of Eden. We are surrounded by the world and the sinful flesh. What we are trying to do is help you break out of being naïve. Even though you have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of me, you can be corrupted; you can be bewitched; you can be led astray. You can fall into seducing spirits and doctrines and demons.”

And, Pagani says, these pastors are not speaking in broad generalities concerning false teachers. He says it also happens in within five-fold ministries.

“There are false apostles and false prophets within the apostolic and the prophetic,” He says. “We are actually talking about that which is within the body of Christ, within this current apostolic and prophetic movement, the current five-fold nobody has addressed. Believe it or not, there are new teachers like Jim Jones out there, and there are new teachers like David Koresh out there. Witchcraft is all over the place.” {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

Thursday marked the celebration of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, commemorating Jesus’ ascension into heaven. It’s historically celebrated 40 days after Easter Sunday on a Thursday. Much of the Catholic Church, however, now celebrates the ascension on the seventh Sunday of Easter, now referred to as “Ascension Sunday.”

But what is the significance, the meaning of the message of Jesus’ ascension to heaven? Member of the Demon Slayer podcast and leader of the HungryGen movement Vlad Savchuk says that Jesus’ ascension signaled the end and success of His earthly ministry, and the return to His glory.

But what does Christ’s ascension into heaven mean for us as believers? Savchuk says there are eight points we should explore:

1. “First, the ascension of Christ marked the end of His humiliation and His entrance into the state of exaltation,” Savchuk says. “In Hebrews 10:12, it says that, ‘But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.’ Theologians believe there are two states of Jesus—the humiliation and the exaltation of Jesus. The humiliation involves His incarnation, Him being born, suffering, death and burial. Exaltation of Jesus refers to His resurrection, His ascension, Him sitting at the right hand of God and Him returning in the glory and power.

2. “The second thing the ascension of Jesus teaches us is that Jesus is now stepping into a new work in heaven as our High Priest. Hebrews 4:14 says, that, ‘Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.’ Jesus will forever remain a member of the human race and He will forever remain the incarnate Son of God. Jesus became humanity’s new priest (see Heb. 7:25). In heaven, He steps into His role as our prayer warrior making intercession for us. We can come to God with boldness.

3. “Thirdly, the ascension of Jesus Christ brought an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The departure of Elijah released a double portion on his disciple, Elisha. The same thing is with Jesus’ followers. The disciples received the Spirit after Jesus ascended. Acts 2:33 says, ‘Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.’

4. “The fourth meaning of Jesus’ ascension is that He will come back the same way He left. In Acts 1:11, when these two men, angels, told the men of Galilee, they said this same Jesus is coming back. He left physically, but He will come back the say way He left. Visibly, He will come back.

“When I was in Israel, I stood on the Mount of Olives, not very far from Jerusalem,” Savchuk said. “It’s a beautiful place. It’s so surreal that Jesus actually ascended from this physical place. It’s even more incredible to have an expectation that He is coming back to this location. His feet will land on the land of Olives. It’s a pattern; it’s the way He will also come back.

5. “Number five, the Ascension gives believers access to God. In Hebrews 4:16, it says after the fact that Jesus is our priest in heaven, ‘let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace in help in time of need.’ Jesus’ ascension gives you boldness, gives you courage to come to the throne of grace. You can receive mercy, you can find favor and receive it in help in time of need. To have Jesus in heaven, the Holy Spirit living inside of us, gives us an extra boost, extra boldness to go to God in His name.

6. “Number six, the ascension of Christ guaranteed an enlarged ministry for the believers. John 14:12 says, ‘Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.’ He says because I’m going to My Father, you guys, My disciples—it’s kinda like we are the Elisha and Jesus is the Elijah—He paved the way. He paid the price for us. He redeemed us, but He also giving us His spirit, He’s giving us the double portion. He’s giving us a great ministry to reclaim the nations for Him. He says you will do greater works.

7. “Number seven, the ascension of Christ foreshadows our future ascension into heaven. In 1 Thessalonians 4:17, it says, ‘Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.’ So that means the same way Jesus was caught up to heaven in the cloud, we will also be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air in the clouds. How incredible is that? We will be the Lord always.”

For those reasons, Jesus’ ascension into heaven has a huge significance to our life and His ministry in heaven.

8. “Lastly, the ascension of Christ made room for us to be seated with Him. In Ephesians 2:6 it says, ‘And He raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.’ This is not speaking of the future, but of the past, meaning in Jesus we have been raised from the dead.”

This means that we are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places. That means Jesus is your identity, the identity of every Christian.

Isn’t it good to know that, as a Christian, these eight facts belong to you?

“Our identification with Jesus does not end with just the cross and the resurrection,” Savchuk says. “It continues to His exaltation.” {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

Messianic Rabbi Kirt Schneider says the blueprint for understanding the end times is not as complicated as many might think.

“Yeshua is not going to come back as we are expecting until the Jewish people are saying—and this is according to the words of Jesus Himself—”Baruch Habah Bshem Adonai, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,” Schneider told Sid Roth on a recent episode of his program, “Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural.”

“Yeshua is not coming back until there is a mass of Jewish people that have received Him and are calling out for Him to return. … It began with Israel and it’s going to end with Israel. The gift and calling of God upon Israel are irrevocable.”

And it is exactly the reason why, as Charisma News reported, that Christian intercession for Jews must become a priority. It would behoove believers to join the Isaiah 62 Fast for Israel, led by IHOPKC and Mike Bickle, which began May 7 and lasts until May 28.

For many Christians, however, there is a discouraging disconnect between the church and Israel. Many refer to it as “Replacement Theology,” which is the view that the church is the new or true Israel that has permanently replaced or superseded Israel as the people of God. It is also referred to as “supersessonism,” and it has fueled medieval anti-Semitism.

How has this happened? Schneider says there are several reasons for this “blurriness.”

“I think that as the gospel went out, Jewish believers began to become excommunicated from the synagogues, just as Jesus predicted,” Schneider says. “The apostle Paul was sent to the Gentiles because the majority of Jews were not receiving the message of Yeshua and eventually what happened was that the gospel spread amongst Gentiles. They had no understanding of Hebrew Scriptures or of the role of the Jewish people.

“That’s one reason that Gentiles are uneducated about the importance of the role of the Jews in God’s plan of redemption. The other reason is that pastors are threatened by it. I think pastors don’t want to give Israel their rightful place because somehow it makes them feel less important, so it’s not being taught. And then I also think it’s fair to say, that many pastors have not been taught this themselves, so they don’t know how to teach it. The result of these things is that most of the church has not been educated on the importance of the role of the Jewish people.”

So what does this have to do with the end times. Schneider explains it through the book of Revelation:

“Over 20 times in Revelation, Yeshua is referred to as the Lamb,” Schneider said. “John the Baptist introduced Yeshua as the Lamb of God. I realize this is Passover language, but to understand the book of Revelation in which Yeshua is predominantly portrayed as the Lamb, I realized that I needed to understand the book of Revelation through the lens of the Passover.

“If you look at Passover, for example, Israel was in Egypt when the plagues fell. In the same way, I believe that the church will be in the world until the final wrath of God is poured out, even as Israel was in Egypt until God’s final wrath was poured out—when he drowned all of the Egyptians in the sea.

“Of course, Yeshua is prefigured in the Passover. Pharaoh is a figure of Satan. When the Lord parted the sea so that Israel supernaturally crossed over to the Promised Land, that’s a symbol of the rapture.”

For believers, it’s simple. Pray for the nation of Israel and its people, and pray for them often. It might just hasten the return of Jesus, which Christians should all be looking forward to.

Please make sure to order Rabbi Kirt Schneider’s book, “Messianic Prophecy Revealed,” to learn more about what will happen in the end times. (Charisma House, 2023). {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

There are many skeptics that say testimonies of healing in Christian crusades are a farce.

Then there are Christians that say that God’s healing power was only for biblical times and does not happen in the modern world.

Evangelist Mario Murillo says that, since his ministry is flooded with reports of miraculous healings, it “starts to become background noise and we tend to lose our sense of credibility of what people say.”

Here are two incredible healing testimonies, Murillo told Charisma News’ John Matarazzo, that are simply undeniable.

It all begins with a man named Steve, who attended one of Murillo’s tent crusades in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last July. According to Steve, he lived in a house, alone, for seven years, and he refused to venture out into the public because, as Murillo said, “he lived on a level of pain that few human beings can understand.”

Steve took several medications every day to deal with the pain of five ruptured discs in his spine.

“There he was, not a Christian, lost, with no hope and in darkness,” Murillo said.

Some friends brought Steve to the Murillo crusade and Steve became annoyed. Not because it was painful for him to sit, but because thought he was coming to a concert and not a Christian event.

“He was perturbed; a lot of anxiety about it,” Murillo said. And Murillo wanted to make it clear that the following was all God, and he had nothing to do even with the opportunity for Steve’s healing.

“I’m in the pulpit, and I point to the back,” Murillo said. “I said right there is a man whose spine is being healed. And at that moment, Steve felt these fingers—and these vertebrae go back into place. Seven years of indescribable pain was gone in an instant.

“And it scared him! He stood up and he ran to the front to be saved. And he was dramatically converted. He went from being a house-bound pain victim to when every single time the doors opened at Radiant Church in Colorado Springs, he’s there. He’s always there. He’s the first one to arrive and the last one to leave.”

The second miraculous testimony comes about a woman named Bri. Murillo says that she had parasites in her stomach. The medication doctors gave her to deal with these parasites started an “autoimmune war in her body where it began to cannibalize itself.”

Murillo says the autoimmune activity affected Bri’s motor skills. It wiped out her energy, and she, a woman 5-feet-9 inches in stature, became helpless as her weight plummeted to 94 pounds.

“When they brought her to the front, they carried her and she’s on her knees,” Murillo says. “But again, her motor skills, her inability to really coordinate … she looked like a skeleton. And she’s in front of the tower of speakers on my left.

“All of a sudden, the power of God came on me and said, ‘Go over there and I’ll be glorified.’ I prayed for her. She knew in that moment that God had touched her. She understood it.

“Within the next few weeks, she could eat whatever she wanted, had no pain, no weakness, her motor skills were restored and she gained 30 pounds. She’s absolutely a walking, talking miracle nearly a year later. We just had her testify a few weeks ago. Those are two of the many things that happened in Colorado Springs, and that’s why we’re going back.”

Murillo says he and his team will return to Colorado Springs for another tent crusade from July 16-19. Catherine Mullins will lead worship at the event.

“It’s going to be a remarkable … we are already flooding the city with workers,” Murillo says. “And we’re going to see miracles.”

If it is anything like the ones Colorado Springs has seen in the past, the enemy better be prepared, because the Holy Spirit is getting ready to do His mighty work once again and destroy satan’s plans. {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

ncing the Jewish people to accept Jesus may very well be one of the most difficult tasks that Christians may ever face.

But as Stuart Greaves, who heads up the Executive Leadership Team at the International House of Prayer of Kansas City says, it’s one of the most important ones because the Jewish people are in dire need of hope and confidence for the future.

The Isaiah 62 Fast, which began on May 7 and will run through May 28, is one of the biggest prayer initiatives for Israel in history. Greaves says Christians must continue to pray diligently for their Jewish brothers and sisters to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

“If there is anything we need in this hour, it’s intercession for the Jewish people,” Greaves says. “The revelation of the Son of God must break in on them for the conviction of sin, so that they would turn to their Messiah.”

This is what the Isaiah 62 Fast is all about—21 days of prayer and fasting for Israel to cover the Jewish people in these end times.

“When it comes to the question of the Jewish people, the question of Israel, there is a need for hope. So what is to be our approach in reaching them?” Greaves asks. “It’s the gospel, because the gospel is the message of hope. I think that’s very important, specifically when it comes to the Jewish people, and here’s why:

“When I think of the history of the Jewish people as seen throughout Scripture in terms of the oppression of Egypt, the oppression of the Babylonians, the oppression of the Romans and the atrocities that happened during Nazi Germany, I think of a people that have gone through more travesties and pain and suffering over millennia than anyone in history. They are a people who need hope and who need assurances about why they exist.”

The people of Israel suffer through daily attacks and threats from terrorists throughout the Middle East, many of whom have claimed that their hope is to “wipe Israel off the map.”

Meanwhile, they go about their normal routine while fear and discouragement have become a staple in the lives of the people of Israel.

Greaves says Jews can draw a great deal of hope from many parts of the Bible, including Daniel 7. Daniel was a prophet in Babylonian captivity, and Greaves says he was a man who needed assurances about the promises of God from Genesis chapters 11 and 12.

“In Daniel 7, we find this glorious plan delineated by God—His divine strategy of who is going to lead His people into the promises He made to His servant Abraham,” Greaves says. “We find there the Son of Man, from the New Testament, and that the Son of Man is the Jewish man Jesus Christ. To Him was given a kingdom and a dominion and authority. But as we find out later in Daniel 7, the people received what the Son of Man received. They received the power, the dominion and the authority. But there was a caveat, a qualifier that was precedes them receiving the kingdom of authority. And that is suffering …. The Holy Spirit highlights that through the angel at least three times in Daniel 7 that you will suffer.”

And indeed, Jews have suffered, just as Jesus Christ did before He came into His glory.

“The gospel gives us the message of hope, the assurance of everything that God promised to the Jewish people, the nations, will come about,” Greaves said. “With Jesus, we, and they, have the assurance of the promises. It says so in Acts 17 that the Resurrection was an assurance. … All of the promises that God made to Abraham are embodied in this man, Jesus Christ, and He will bring it about to the Jewish people and unto the nations of the earth.”

That’s why, Greaves said, it is crucial for believers to continue to pray for the Jews and for their eyes to be opened to the saving knowledge of Christ. {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

It’s no secret that Christians and conservatives have become cancel culture targets from big tech companies over the past couple of years.

Some of the biggest conservative names and ministers have had their accounts censored, suspended or shadow-banned, and it has become quite prevalent recently.

CBN News’ Billy Hallowell is one of the latest to feel the wrath of one of the big tech companies—Facebook.

“You know, it’s interesting because you would assume when you get this alert pop up that says you’ve violated hate speech paradigms, that you’ve said something horrible,” Hallowell told Charisma News’ John Matarazzo in a recent interview. “So, here’s what I wrote, and I wrote this on April 2. I think that’s important because it was a 40-day period that elapsed from the time that I get this alert. I wrote, ‘Jesus died so you could live.’

“That is the message that I wrote. There’s no link. It was just ‘Jesus died so you could live.’ And that is what prompted this response from Facebook. And that response, just so you understand, I’m on my phone, I see it on my phone, I see it on the desktop. At first, I thought maybe it was a mistake. It was a joke. I’m like, ‘What is this?’ I got this alert. It said your post goes against our community standards on hate speech.”

Facebook didn’t go into detail with Hallowell about what made his post violate its hate speech protocol, making it all the further confusing.

“What they did do, and they give you a little bit of information and the wording is so strange, they said, ‘no one else can see your post,'” Hallowell said. “Which I’m like, ‘wait, what?’ We have these standards, because we want everyone to feel safe, respected and welcome. And then the message goes on to say—and this is the part that concerned me—if your content goes against our community standards, again, your account may be restricted or disabled.

“So I’m thinking to myself, wait, so if you arbitrarily decide that some other message like Jesus died so you could live is somehow a problem, you could disable my account. I had never had this happen. And I share messages like this all the time on that page. And then they say, ‘Hey, you can disagree if you want,’ which I did. Yeah, I then went through the process and asked them to review it.”

It only took a couple of hours for Facebook to review the post, and it was immediately removed from Hallowell’s page.

“I laugh because it’s so ridiculous,” Hallowell said. “So I get another alert, which says we have removed your post from Facebook. So, this is a new alert now. Then it says, and this is the best part about this, they remove it even from the preview. So, you no longer see the message that was a problem. It says posts unavailable and that they’re unable to show the content.

“Then there’s a little section on this alert that says what happened. It says your appeal was reviewed and your post does not follow our community standards for hate speech. So, we’re back to the hate speech again. And there’s really nothing you could do at that point. There’s a little section you can go in and see your page health. At that point, I was thinking, ‘okay, they’ve now reviewed it.’ I’m thinking at the time, A.I., right? Maybe artificial intelligence or using some sort of system, which is probably what happened, and maybe the word died is what caught their attention.

“But I found it particularly problematic that I’ve now gone through their system to have this reviewed. I would hope a person reviews it that at that point. And their review still finds that I’ve somehow violated hate speech standards.”

Hate speech has been defined in so many ways in recent months and years, and it appears that anyone that has been offended by anything you’ve said can flag you for hate speech, no matter what you’ve said.

Hallowell says his first reaction was one of confusion as to why he was discriminated against, and who made the determination that what he wrote was “hate speech.”

“My worry was OK, there are two options here,” Hallowell said. “And maybe there are other options I haven’t thought of, but maybe Facebook is using A.I. and this whole system is just messed up and they’re capturing things they shouldn’t. Or, Facebook is intentionally trying to crack down on these kinds of messages, which seems very strange to me. We obviously know there’s bias in Big Tech and we’ve probably all talked this to death. But this one in particular I found shocking.”

“Jesus died for you so that you could live.” Why does that sound hateful?

“If you don’t believe in Christ and have a relationship with Him, you’re not going to be with Him in eternity,” Hallowell said. “Is that why? I was confused, but then my mind was saying I’m not the type of person who likes to just let something sit. So I reached out to the Facebook press department. I also reached out to an individual that somebody had forwarded me to. Not surprisingly, nobody responded to me.”

So, what does Hallowell plan to do about spreading the gospel now that Facebook has flagged his account?

“For me, that’s what it’s all about, right? It’s being able to speak the truth,” he says. “We live in a country that gives us the right to do that. And these issues are complicated, because people are going to argue that Facebook can make their own rules because they are a private company. It is funny to me, because those arguments that are made are not invalid. But when you make the same argument about a small-town bakery or about some other organization or company, suddenly they don’t have the right to make their religious-fueled decisions for themselves.

“But Facebook and Twitter do; they can keep you off the platform, but a baker can’t decline a cake. I think it’s interesting, all of that debate and discussion. But for me, you know, I’m active on a lot of other platforms. I want to be present and I want to be used however God wants to use me.

“But let’s move theology to the side for a minute, just to make the point of we live in America. We have a First Amendment. We’ve built a country, and bad ideas should lose out. But let’s have a discussion about it. If you think my post is untrue, about Jesus dying so we could live, then tell me what you think is the better idea. At the end of the day, the best idea wins. I think we’ve really been abandoning that as a country. We’ve allowed safe spaces, and we’ve allowed emotion to dictate so much. … But we have to hold people’s feet to the fire on this. I really do believe that. We’re called to reach other people for the gospel. And we’ve got to do that by living it.” {eoa}

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.

As a mother herself, revivalist, worship leader and author Jenny Weaver wants all mothers to know they are not a “bad mom.” They are not a failure as a parent in the eyes of Jesus.

In this recent interview with Charisma News’ John Matarazzo, Weaver, in fact, prophesied to women in the body of Christ that they are “soaring,” and that they should celebrate Mother’s Day with joy and gratitude for their children and for Jesus’ influence in their lives.

Weaver said she herself had a mother who prayed her through when she was “out on the streets.” Weaver is so grateful for the prayer covering of a godly mother, and that is what brought her out of the grip of the enemy that could very well have dragged her into hell.

Here is Weaver’s prophecy to mothers for this joyous holiday on Sunday:

“I just lift up every mother right now in the name of Jesus,” Weaver prays. “And I pray, God, that you would strengthen them and their innermost being when they feel that they are failing as a mother. I decree and declare that they are not failing, but they are soaring.

“And God, I thank You, Father, God, that you are breaking the curse of ‘I’m a bad mom’; we break that curse, that lie from the pit of hell off every mother right now, in the name of Jesus, woman of God, you have felt like you have not done enough; you have felt like you have made bad choices,” Weaver prays. “But I hear the Spirit of the Lord say to you today, ‘I will restore everything. I will restore you.

“‘I will make the crooked places straight. I will put the pieces back together,’ says the Lord,” she adds. “And I just decree and declare that over you in Jesus’ name. Nothing is too far gone In Jesus’ mighty name. … Thank you, Lord, I have felt all week, a heart for mothers who have lost children. I just pray right now, that in this time during this Mother’s Day where you see everybody being celebrated, and you’re thinking, ‘But what about my baby that I lost? Am I still a mother? Am I called a mother?

“‘And what about me? When am I going to be restored?’ You’re hurting right now,” Weaver prays. “I pray for the peace of God that surpasses all understanding to guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus right now. I pray, woman of God, that you would know that, yes, you are a mother that has not been taken away from you. And I pray that the Lord would just speak to your heart right now that the Lord would just cover you in the name of Jesus. I pray right now for restoration.

“In Jesus’ mighty name, I pray that you will run and you will not grow weary, you will walk and you will not think in the season,” she adds. “May the joy of the Lord be your strength. You’re going to get your laugh back; you are going to get your dance back. You’re going to get that pep in your step back. You’re going to get your sleep back in the mighty name of Jesus. I just pray over every son and daughter that they will be honorable, that they will be submissive, that they will be kind, that they will be listening they will be teachable. In Jesus’ mighty name.”

Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.