Lauren Daigle says “Love Like This” and “How Can It Be” are two of her favorite songs to perform live in concert. During video taken at an October 31 concert in Brussels, Belgium, Daigle discusses her favorite songs to perform live during a transition between songs.

“I love this song so much,” Daigle says. “People ask me, ‘What’s your favorite song to sing every night?’ One of them is ‘How Can It Be,’ the one we just did. And then the next one is one of my favorites as well. So this song is ‘Love Like This.'”

Watch the video of her live performance of “Love Like This” here.

Steffany Gretzinger may no longer be at Bethel Church in Redding, California, but she’s still producing new worship music. Gretzinger and fellow Bethel Music worship leader Brandon Lake recently released a new song about communion with Maverick City Music.

On “Communion,” Gretzinger sings, “Bring me back to communion/ Lead me back to the moment I saw Your face.”

Watch the 14-minute music video here.

Anne Graham Lotz says Christians must pray for Israel now more than ever. During an appearance on The Jim Bakker Show, Lotz confided that she does not approve of Trump’s retreat from Syria and believes it puts many allies in the area in danger. But Lotz then said that perhaps the U.S.’s retreat could trigger the war prophesied in Ezekiel 38, setting in motion end-times events for Israel.

Referencing both the regional unrest and Israel’s ongoing efforts to establish a coalition government, Lotz referenced Psalm 122:6 and said it’s a critical time for believers to intercede for Israel.

“It’s a time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” Lotz said. “…And what my prayer would be is that when the enemy comes against Israel, that she’ll know—and right now, you know, she’s in an election flux where I don’t think Rivlin is going to approve Netanyahu. They’re just in a mess. They don’t have a leadership right now. The Israelis are divided when the enemies are surrounding them. And could it be that it gets so bad, that like they did in Judges, they’ll cry out? But this time, they’ll cry out to God and say, ‘God, help us,’ and will He send the Messiah to deliver them? So it’s a very critical, strategic time for the nation of Israel, and I believe God’s Word when it says that He blesses those who bless Israel and bless His people. So we can bless them through our prayers for them. Just follow the news. Pray for the leadership. Pray for Israel.”

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Mike Bickle—founder of the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC) in Kansas City, Missouri—prayed that God would bolster Kanye West’s young faith and thanked God for his salvation. Bickle’s prayer was part of a YouTube video posted Friday by IHOPKC in which Bickle reacted to news of West’s radical conversion.

“I think of a man that’s on a platform with millions of people—and therefore millions of opinions—and already I feel empathy,” Bickle says. “Anybody on that kind of platform making a stand for Jesus—some will say you’re a fake, others think you’re utter perfection [and] ready for sainthood, you know, whatever that might mean. And I think our approach should be different from either one of those polarized views. I think we look at him and say, here’s a person who’s making confession: ‘Jesus is King. He’s King of my life.’ It’s a recent confession, and we need to take it at face value that it’s sincere unless he gives us strong evidence in his character in the days to come that it’s false. … But even then, we don’t need to have a big opinion on it because we’re not taking our doctrine from him. We’re not taking our model of Christianity from him. He’s, by his confession, a brand-new believer.”

Bickle encourages fellow believers to give West time and space to grow and mature in his faith, and not to prematurely judge him for inevitable mistakes he will make in the next couple of years.

On the song “Hands On,” West muses that Christians will be the “first ones to judge me” and speculates he will get little love from his fellow believers because of his prior lifestyle.

“I say we give him time,” Bickle says. “As a born-again believer in the family of God, we need to be in a spirit of encouragement to him. He might find some stumbling and some tripping, like all of us in our early days in the Lord. He isn’t going to come out of the ‘spiritual womb’ [with] perfect doctrine and perfect maturity and perfect humility and perfect—no one does. We give each other tons of grace, and I look at this man and I think, ‘You know, I’m so grateful for your confession.’ It says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, and he’s giving a bold testimony.”

At the end of the video, Bickle concludes by praying for West.

“Lord, thank You for Your testimony,” he says. “Thank You that many are checking out the testimony of the gospel of the Lord Jesus in a new way. And Lord, I ask that You’d put Your hand on this young man’s life—Kanye West—and God, I ask You that You would touch him, protect him, visit him, strengthen him. Put godly men and women around him who love Jesus and the Word, and that are not after his platform—they’re not after his money, they’re not after his notoriety—but they’re standing in faith for his soul and for his growth in the love of God and in the grace of God.”

In a video posted to social media this week, actor and comedian Kevin Hart praised God for sparing his life after a near-death accident and said God used the experience to get his attention. Hart was hospitalized after a car accident in September and needed back surgery. He says the accident forced him to slow down, appreciate the good gifts he’d been given and listen to God.

“When God talks, you’ve got to listen,” Hart says. “I swear life is funny, because some of the craziest things that happen to you end up being the things that you needed the most. In this case, I honestly feel like God basically told me to sit down. When you’re moving too fast and you’re doing too much, sometimes you can’t see the things that you’re meant to see. But after my accident, I see things differently. I see life from a whole new perspective. … So don’t take today for granted, because tomorrow’s not promised. More importantly, I’m thankful for God. I’m thankful for life. I’m thankful for simply still being here.”

Dr. Karena Wu told Us magazine that Hart will likely need 18 months to two years to be “100 percent normal” again.

Watch the full video here.

Dr. Reg Morais was 7 years old when he first tried to kill himself. Addled by both Asperger’s Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Morais found his life to be “completely, utterly miserable” and resolved to end it. He walked out into the road in front of trucks, taxis, buses—any moving vehicle he could find. But inevitably, the driver would screech to a halt and brake before hitting him (yelling a few choice words in the process).

So Morais mixed himself a concoction of cordial juice, rat poison and cockroach poison and drank it. Though it caused him immense pain, the poison did not kill him—and he tried to poison himself several times over the next two years.

“I couldn’t die,” Morais says.

What Morais couldn’t have known then was that God had an extraordinary plan for his life, one that involved total healing from his mental disorders and a ministry that would reach thousands of people with the gospel.

Today, Morais pastors Living Faith Community Church (LFCC) in Perth, Australia, which—in conjunction with his Anoint the World Ministries—has planted 764 churches around the world. At any given moment, 160,000 people are worshipping God under his church’s banner, according to Morais. He believes God is raising the church into revival, and he has seen God do miracles firsthand—both in his own life and in the lives of others.

Sprouting Seeds

Morais says that for the first 13 years of his life, he struggled immensely in school because of his autism and OCD.

“It was 13 years of misery,” Morais says. “I had to go through all my personal life with pain, agony, shame and more than anything else fear. … I was riddled with fear.”

But things began to change when his family encountered God in a radical way in June 1982. They attended a crusade by South Korean pastor Dr. David Yonggi Cho in which roughly 80,000 people gathered in a soccer stadium in Singapore. On the first day of the crusade, his parents gave their hearts to Jesus. On the sixth day, his brother followed suit. On the seventh day, Morais finally had his first relational encounter with Christ.

“With everything I had, I didn’t fully understand, but I could see that Dr. David Yonggi Cho was praying for people,” Morais says. “The lame were walking, the deaf were able to hear, the mute were able to speak, and people were coming out of wheelchairs, but I, Reg Morais, was still unhealed. I could not find in myself that a total healing was given. However, in the simplicity of my heart, I told God, ‘I will give my heart to you, and if you were to heal me, I will serve You for the rest of my life.'”

Exactly one year later, Morais’ prayers were answered. He says he was miraculously healed of his autism while in the middle of a geography class.

“All of a sudden, in the middle of the class, there was a dark cloud which just passed me,” Morais says. “Something shook me up, and something told me I’m totally healed. I stood in front of the classroom of 42 kids, and I told the teacher that I was OK. … From there, God healed me from my autism.”

The next year, at 15, he had a prophetic word spoken over his life.

Morais remembers, “[This man] put his hands on my shoulders and he said to [my mother], ‘This son of yours will not live in Singapore for too long. God is calling him into full-time ministry. … He will go into a place called Australia, a place called Perth, and he will study for four years in a Bible college. He will never return to Singapore. He will serve his ministry in Australia for the rest of the foreseeable years of his life.’ … I’ve got to be honest. My head was spinning, and I was spinning, and I just did not know what occurred to me. I literally had an encounter with God. That prophetic word was planted into my spirit.”

He says at least 20 other prophets corroborated that prophetic word over the next several years, making it clear to him that God had set him apart for ministry.

“All these prophetic words kept on coming into my life, surrounding my life,” Morais says. “Those words, as they were planted like seeds in my heart, started to really bubble up, and that started to give me the confidence more than anything else. The faith of God decided to rise up in me, and as that faith started to develop, and as it started to grow, I realized each illness and disease that I used to have started to vanish simply because of the call of God. Walking in the Word of God by faith set me completely free to experience what God is doing in my life today.”

It would be five more years before Morais was fully healed of his OCD, but he says God even healed him of that too—albeit more gradually and less instantaneously than his autism.

“I know some people can get instantaneously healed, and others will get progressively healed,” Morais says. “I think in my case, God progressively healed me over and over again over the last number of years.”

Morais became an itinerant evangelist for the next decade, but despite his call from God, he was dismayed that he never saw any miracles, signs or wonders. Furthermore, few churches and ministries were interested in scheduling such a young man to speak or minister. It so discouraged him that, during a layover in Singapore, Morais told his parents he intended to call it quits on his ministry.

“My dad was about to break down because he felt that I was betraying my call and betraying none other than Jesus,” Morais says. “And I explained to them very carefully and said to them, ‘I can’t see any healings taking place, nor any signs and wonders taking place. I feel right now I should go back into my business field and I think, being in that, I could make more money and still serve God.”

He left his parents and got on a plane back to Perth. But while going through the customs line at Perth, he received an extraordinary vision from God.

“As soon as I landed, I gave my bags to the customs officers right in front of me,” Morais says. “I could hear this thunderous voice, and it said, ‘We are here to meet you,’ and I could not see any of the customs officers. I could no longer see the Perth International Airport customs office; everything had been blanketed with a white cloud. Someone touched me on my right shoulder and said, ‘I am the Holy Spirit. We are here, and we want to speak to you.’ And I realized there was someone else in this room. … [The Holy Spirit] finally says, ‘This person, His name is Jesus, and He wants to meet you.’ As soon as I met Him, I knelt down before Him. I did not know whether to cry or hysterically laugh. I had a confusion of emotions.”

That encounter with Jesus—and the conversation Morais says he had with Him for about 15 minutes—changed his ministry forever. After that, Morais says he became equipped with the gifts of the Holy Spirit—particularly words of knowledge—and Anoint the World became the international ministry it is today.

Ministry of Miracles

Morais believes that many believers’ lives match his own early ministry experience—they don’t see miracles for themselves and wonder what they’re missing. He says he observes basically two kinds of churches: Those that are focused on the power of God and those that are not.

Morais says some churches “act as though the enemy is no longer there or the enemy is no longer going to provoke us. If we were to come to church on a Sunday morning and sing four, five or six feel-good songs and hear a good sermon, we’d feel that’s good as gold. However, … we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but we wrestle against principalities and powers of this dark world. … When the enemy comes, there is no doubt in my mind, heart or spirit that there is a certain amount of fear which he puts onto your life right now. And the only way you combat fear is by confessing the Word of God.”

He says the churches that fail to recognize the supernatural power of God will be unequipped to fight back against the enemy. He believes that is a crucial component to freeing people from the fear underpinning so many mental illnesses and disorders today.

“I think if you are going to defeat this mental illness or any of the fear that you’ve got right now, I think you and I have to passionately fall in love with Jesus Christ, passionately fall in love with the Word of God and passionately know that Jesus is all supernatural,” Morais says. “Jesus carried the anointing on his life, and if you carry the anointing, then I can guarantee you right now, the fear you find in different parts of [your culture] can be broken and diminished once and for all, because the Bible says clearly that Jesus Himself was anointed.”

Morais says because of his own background, he has a heart to minister to and heal children with special needs. He says wherever he goes to minister, he makes time to call up all the parents of children with autism spectrum disorders, OCD, depression and other psychological ailments.

“On behalf of my Jesus, I can proudly say that in the last 20 years or so, there are a lot of cases where God has powerfully healed autistic kids in this ministry,” Morais says. “…I’ve got a burden for those kids, because I know what they’re going through. I suppose anyone can pray. But I think people who have gone through it—like how I have gone through their pain and agony—can understand that they feel almost trapped in their body. They can’t seem to really express their emotions or their speech, and something sort of stops them.”

He says sometimes he takes as long as three to four hours after a meeting to pray for each child individually. Though healing is not always instantaneous, he says he has heard many stories of parents who have noted their children’s condition has improved dramatically in the days following his prayer for them.

“I want to encourage every single person who’s reading this article, don’t give up on God, especially when it comes to mental illness, whether that’s depression, oppression, autism, schizophrenia [or] bipolar disorder,” Morais says. “… When men says it’s impossible, God says, ‘All things are possible to those who believe in Him.'”

Prime Minister Prophecy

Morais says that in recent years he received prophetic words for his country’s political landscape.

“Every time before a new year dawns, God will start to download to me the major events that will take place in Australia and worldwide,” Morais says. “This ministry came out of necessity due to our [local] TV channels inviting clairvoyants and psychics to provide predictions for the new year. One day God said to me, ‘Why don’t you do this for the Kingdom of God rather than allowing these people to give their predictions that are not of me?’

“On December 31, 2017 Jesus appeared to me face-to-face and said, “Start to write down and declare what I am about to say for the world. Within the Senate of Heaven, I (Jesus) have decided to remove the sitting Prime Minister (PM) Malcom Turnbull.’ I remember saying to Jesus that [Turnbull] is riding on a popular vote. Jesus responded, ‘There will be a new PM in your country, and it will be your current Treasurer, Scott Morrison, who will become the next PM.’ When I released this prophecy over different mediums in Australia, I came under attack from all corners for being out of whack. But in August 2018, there was a rumbling in our parliament, the government lost confidence in Turnbull, and three contenders arose, with one being Morrison. That surprised many as he was never considered. God gave him the numbers and he took the PM-ship overnight.

“Again on December 31, 2018, Jesus told me again there would be an election in May 2019, and Morrison would win the unwinnable election, as all polls showed the opposition leader Bill Shorten easily and convincingly winning. But God triumphed and brought in Morrison, a devout born-again Christian, to lead.”

On a local level, Morais says his church holds six to seven services per week, and that people are giving their hearts to Jesus every single day. It’s a trend not exclusive to Australia, he says, based on his travels overseas.

“There’s a phenomenal move of God which is taking place in the United States,” Morais says. “Sure, there are some things that are taking place that are working against the church—whatever the enemy has got—but it seems to me that American Christians are now starting to pull the walls down, and they are now starting to push back the enemy’s tactics and the enemy’s schemes for this time.”

He wants the rest of the world to see the Holy Spirit move powerfully in their lives—just as he has seen the Spirit at work in his own.

“My expectation in God is this,” Morais says. “I feel very strongly that if this Jesus I seem to know can’t do a miracle, then I am either the greatest charlatan, or I have been duped and cheated. But the fact of the matter is that God gave me a hope—and not only gave me a hope, but He also healed me. That same healing is now taking place in different parts of the world.”

READ MORE: Dr. Reg Morais also successfully prophesied the appointment of Scott Morrison to become Prime Minister of Australia. Click here to watch his original prophetic word from January 2018 and here to watch his word from August 2018.

Taylor Berglund is the associate editor of Charisma magazine and host of several shows on the Charisma Podcast Network.

Liberty University and America’s Got Talent winner Kodi Lee performed a stirring tribute to Truett Foster McKeehan—son of Christian rapper TobyMac—who died suddenly last week at 21 years of age. Liberty and Lee helped finish and perform an unfinished song originally written by McKeehan, an aspiring rapper.

David Nasser, senior vice president for spiritual development at Liberty University, introduced the performance at Friday’s Convocation meeting. He provided the background behind Lee’s performance.

“I was just texting Toby yesterday, and it dawned on me that one of the songs—the last time he was here at Convocation—that he had allowed me and Kevin to listen to on the back deck of my house at lunch was a song that his son as an artist was beginning to develop and work,” Nasser says. “And so literally this morning, just in honor and in memory of Truett, I asked Sal if he would let Kodi and him listen to it just for a few minutes. I kid you not—they listened to it [and] in about two minutes, they began to just compose something. So they’re going to use it as an introduction of a bigger song that really is the hope in a moment like this. So if Amanda [and] Toby, if you’re watching, your Liberty family is with you. We’re praying for you. We mourn for you. But here’s the good news in all of this tragedy. We know that this is not an ultimate goodbye. We know that Truett belongs to the Lord, and that he’s ultimately healed and he’s in heaven.”

Lee, a blind and autistic musician who won the 14th season of America’s Got Talent, performed McKeehan’s song. He then segued into a cover of MercyMe’s “I Can Only Imagine.”

Watch the video of his performance here.

During a funeral for the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Cummings—like the prophet he was named after—used God’s power to stand against Jezebel. Somewhat uncharacteristically, Clinton—a lifelong Methodist who is often private about her faith—spoke eloquently about faith, justice and prophets during her eulogy.

“It is no coincidence, is it, that Elijah Cummings shared a name with an Old Testament prophet, whose name meant in Hebrew ‘The Lord is my God’ and who used the power and the wisdom that God gave Him to uphold the moral law that all people are subject to—and because of it, all people are equal,” Clinton said. “Like the prophet, our Elijah could call down fire from heaven. But he also prayed and worked for healing. He weathered storms and earthquakes, but never lost his faith. Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. And he looked out for the vulnerable among us. He lifted up the next generation of leaders. He even worked a few miracles.”

Clinton also began her remarks by quoting Psalm 118:24.

“This is the day the Lord has made,” Clinton said. “Let us rejoice and be glad in it, because this is the day for the homegoing celebration of a great man, a moral leader and a friend.”

Other Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi and Bill Clinton, also spoke at the funeral. During his eulogy, former President Barack Obama referenced Jesus’ parable of the Sower and praised Cummings’ “prophetic voice” and heart for the vulnerable.

Rick Joyner believes that American Christians must repent of its negativity and judgmental attitude, and that through our negativity we have created the anti-Christian pushback sweeping culture. He made these comments on a recent episode of The Jim Bakker Show, after Jim Bakker bemoaned to Joyner the current anti-Christian state of American society.

“You know why there’s such an assault on the church?” Joyner asks. “We’re reaping what we’ve sown. … America is now the most negative country on the face of the earth. How did that happen? We used to be the most positive. We are now the most negative, concerned to these parameters, and I believe that started in the church. What we release in the spiritual realm gets released on the earth. Why are Christians so quick to condemn? To believe the bad reports? Doesn’t 1 Corinthians 13 and other places say our default should always be to believe, to hope, to see the best in people, not the worst? We have been some of the worst in condemning people who do make mistakes and all, but carrying it to incredible extremes.”

Joyner says we must repent of our attitudes of condemnation and hostility against people we disagree with, and that God will first judge the “household of God” for this sinful behavior. Watch the full video clip embedded here.

Bible teacher Randy Alcorn says that he expects pets who have died on Earth will be reunited with us when God creates the new heaven and the new earth. Alcorn, who has studied the subject of heaven for years, says he did not originally believe that, but that studying Scripture changed his mind.

During a Q&A session recorded on video, Alcorn makes the following statement:

“Look at Genesis 1 and 2, and the highlight of all creation built up to is people. But right before people came animals. Those living beings, the first living beings that God made, animals. And it’s magnificent and wondrous that the first responsibility God gave to human beings along with to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth was to manage and care for animals. Adam named the animals. With the Flood, God makes a covenant not only with people but with animals. This is stated again and again in Genesis 6 through 9 and the Flood account. What we find in Isaiah 65 is the wolf and the lamb—and he specifically calls this the New Earth, so this is not just the Millennium. This is the New Earth. In verse 25 of Isaiah 65, ‘the wolf and the lamb shall graze together, the lion will eat straw like the ox,’ and then in Isaiah 11, it’s got leopard, goat, calf, cow, bear, ox, lion, cobra. When God remakes the earth, why would he not remake it with animals? Well, we know He will for sure because of these passages that have animals on the new earth, but also because Romans 8 says the entire creation has fallen. Creation fell on the coattails of human beings. So animals suffer death because humans sinned, and humans suffer death. But it says in that passage that not just human beings but the entire creation—well then, who does that leave that has suffered on this earth? Animals will experience the resurrection of the sons of God. So since some animals who have suffered [and who are] alive in this lifetime on this fallen earth will … be raised, which animals will those be? I think the most logical answer to that would be—and wouldn’t it be just like a loving God to do this for His children—that He will bring back those precious pets that He has entrusted to our care. We have a golden retriever named Maggie, we had a dalmatian named Moses, [and] we had a springer spaniel before that named Champ. Those dogs are very real to me and I anticipate actual reunion with them in heaven. By the way, I didn’t use to believe that, until I spent those two or three studying Scripture intently every day on that subject. The Bible changed my mind on that subject.”

Check out the full video here.

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