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Pray for Cuba: Protests Explode Amid Food, Power Shortages
Cuba is in dire need of prayer. Last week protests erupted in Santiago, one of the largest cities in the island nation. The food and power shortages have reached such a height that the people no longer can sit still. As NBC reported, video footage shows people in the streets chanting, “We are hungry.” The …
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Alarm Sounds for the U.S. Food Supply
How much more are you spending on food each month compared to two or three years ago? In recent years, our leaders have been flooding the system with money at the same time that global supplies of food have been getting tighter and tighter. On the other side of the world, hundreds of millions of …
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Jentezen Franklin: Follow God’s Priorities
It seems unnecessary to point out how God’s priorities are seldom our priorities. That is the difference in the nature of man and the nature of God. He even said so: “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts,” (Isa. 55:9, …
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Jentezen Franklin: Fasting, Faith and Patience
I don’t really remember what grade I was in, but we did an experiment in elementary school that left a lasting impression on me, even into adulthood. The teacher told us to save our milk cartons from lunch for this special event. We were to bring them back to class with us, where we rinsed …
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Jentezen Franklin: Please God With Your Fast
I am more excited about fasting than I have ever been. Don’t get me wrong—I enjoy eating! Though I enjoy eating, I cannot say I enjoy watching people as they cut into a big, steaming, juicy steak while I’m crunching on steamed broccoli. I have found that hungering and thirsting for God brings with it …
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Jentezen Franklin: Reward Openly for Fasting
God said, “Let the priests, who minister to the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar,” (Joel 2:17). On a house, the “porch” is the part everybody can see; it represents the more public aspects of your ministry. The altar represents private ministry. In the life of a believer, there should always be more …
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Jentezen Franklin: You Shall Be Filled
Our American diets are loaded with sugars, toxins, processed foods, meats, etc. Yet it is possible for us to be eating large meals, be overweight and still be malnourished. In that sense, it is easy to see how our physical lives again parallel our spiritual lives. We can become over-nourished on a hefty diet of …
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Dr. Colbert Unveils the Power Foods to Help Your Brain and Gut Health
In his feature article of Charisma Magazine Online, Dr. Colbert is unveiling the powerful foods to help rejuvenate and revitalize your brain and gut health for the best. “Few people get enough fiber in their diets,” Colbert writes. “Scarcely any of my patients consistently meet their fiber needs, and a mere 5% of Americans fulfill …
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Jentezen Franklin: Fasting for Your Breakthrough
What is fasting? Since there are so many misconceptions about it, I first want to clarify what fasting—biblical fasting—is not. Fasting is not merely going without food for a period of time. That is dieting—maybe even starving— but fasting it is not. Nor is fasting something done only by fanatics. I really want to drive …
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