WHO ARE YOU PRAYING TO?

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Is He, forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call on Him? If not you are praying to the wrong God.

“You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.” Psalm 86:5

 David understood, Psalm 86 is David’s personal prayer — intimate, urgent, confessional. He is in genuine trouble (v.7: ‘in the day of my trouble I will call to , for you will answer me’). And before he brings his specific requests, he grounds his prayer in theology: who is God? His prayer is built on the character of the one he’s praying to.

Three attributes are named in this verse: forgiving (sallāh — ready to pardon, disposed toward forgiveness), good (tōb — inherently beneficial, genuinely favourable), and abounding in love (rav-hesed — rich in covenant love, overflowing with faithful commitment). The word ‘abounding’ is rav — great, abundant, much, full. God’s love is not merely present; it is in excess. And it is ‘to all who call’ — not to those who have earned it, not to those with a sufficiently impressive prayer life, but to all who call. Calling is the only criterion. You don’t have to be worthy of the love; you just have to be willing to call.

You need to understand who you are praying to as David did, only then will you experience real answers to your prayers just as David did. I am sure the answers were not always what David wanted but they were always what he truly needed.

AUSTRALIA NEEDS STRONG GODLY PROPHETIC VOICES

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Today Australia needs true faithful strong Godly prophetic voices. 1 Kings 22 is a powerful narrative that shows the desperate need for the true word of the Lord regardless of consequences. 

A Tale of Two Kings, One Godly, One evil, and a Prophet without compromise

King Jehoshaphat (יְהוֹשָׁפָט meaning ‘Jehovah has judged’; son of king Asa and himself king of Judah for 25 years; one of the best, most pious, and prosperous kings of Judah) visits the King of Israel (Ahab אַחְאָב  a wicked king) as Ahab was facing an enemy and needed help. Although Ahab had 400 ‘prophets’ (1 Kings 22:6), he had no one that spoke the true word of the Lord.  Jehoshaphat asks is there a prophet of the Lord!  In other words the 400 prophets that the King of Israel had gathered were useless as they were simply a bunch of ‘yes men’.

Jehoshaphat wanted a true man of God to speak! How often do people want their ears tickled, their immediate needs met, with no thought for what God wants?

“And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of Him?” 1 Kings 22:7 

Then Ahab says there is one man of God, but he does not like what he says. The King of Israel wanted his ears tickled, but did not want to face up to the consequences  his own sin and the sins of his people.  He was offended by the word of the Lord because it found Ahab wanting.

 “So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!” 1 Kings 22:8

Micaiah (מִיכָֽיְהוּ meaning ‘who is like God’; a prophet of Samaria who predicted the defeat and death of king Ahab of Israel) was a true prophet, not afraid to speak the true word of the Lord regardless of what others thought or the consequences. Ahab even attempted to gaol Micaiah, which was going to be a terrible punishment.

The King of Israel hated Micaiah because Micaiah spoke the true word of the Lord.  If the King of Israel had repented and turned to the Lord all could have been made right. 

After being warned, Ahab ends up dead at the hands of his enemies, with dogs licking up his blood. This happened at the word of the Lord from His prophet and Ahab’s continuing evil.

How does this apply to Australia, especially the Ekklesia (Church)

We believers (you are all ministers of the Gospel) have a great responsibility in administering the prophetic gifts from the Lord. God’s judgement is at hand. Do not say this is only old testament, consider Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11.  God’s grace is also fully available, but judgement is still comes from the Lord at times. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Proverbs 9:10 . As a nation we do not honour the Lord or hold his word holy.

The Ekklesia in Australia is facing a plethora of critical issues  (Trans and gay agendas, ‘safe  schools’, euthanasia, abortion, prostitution, people trafficking, and many other perversions and sins ) and it is time we the Ekklesia need to be speaking the word of the Lord boldly to a nation desperately in need of repentance and salvation.

Ekklesia in the New Testament was used to refer to any assembly of people. In his address to the Sanhedrin, Stephen calls the people of Israel “the assembly [Ekklesia] in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38). And in Acts 19:39, Ekklesia refers to a convening of citizens to discuss legal matters (i.e. governmental authority). In most NT contexts, the word Ekklesia is used to refer to the people who comprise the New Testament church. I.e. God’s people with governmental authority.

This is the word I felt for Australia, especially the Ekklesia, at this time.  I asked the Lord the same question that Jehoshaphat  asked: ‘Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of Him?’. Sadly, today there are some ‘prophetic’ voices that only tickle people’s ears; we need the authentic word of the Lord.

I felt the Lord say that there will not be a single person to speak, but He wanted His Holy, Apostolic, Prophetic, Bride – His Ekklesia – to speak as one. I.e. in both Psalm 133:1 unity and John 17:22 oneness. I recommend reading Ekklesia Rising by Dean Briggs.

Sometime ago I saw a vision of leaders in every pulpit in the nation speaking the word of the Lord with power and truth.  Every congregation were on there knees crying out for His righteousness and truth. Repentance and change begins at the household of God. This is the start of Australia turning around.

The word being preached was without compromise, it was very offensive to sinners and some saints alike, the word of the Lord was also life and salvation through repentance and belief. Many found life in Jesus Christ.

The people of Australia (mostly) are heart sick of the current marxist political trajectory. The rise and rise of One Nation is symptomatic of the people’s cry, but political change is not the real answer.

We cannot see any political change as the end answer to the sins of Australia, only the work of the cross, Jesus as our saviour is the answer.

In the vision, as the clear word of the Lord was declared in unity across the nation many were convicted and fell to their knees crying out to the Lord for help and salvation.

Now is the time for all of us to be the prophet that Jehoshaphat had asked for, we all need to declare the truth of the word.  We the Church are called to manifest the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.  We will not win any popularity contests, but we will be His voice in a dry and thirsty land.

His Ekklesia is awesome and powerful, it is truly apostolic and prophetic.  The Lord is calling all of us to rise up and be His voice of truth in a land that has hundreds of false prophets who speak vanities.

“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” Matthew 11:12 

Arise and Take Action

Join us as we pray and fast for the Church — the Body of Christ — to awaken to and fulfil her calling and mission. We are praying for the Church (Ekklesia) to:

  1. Awaken to her first love for Jesus. (Ephesians 5:14; Revelation 2:4)
  2. Awaken to evangelism so that millions will trust in Christ. (John 3:16; Proverbs 11:30)
  3. Awaken to her prophetic voice to the nation. (Isaiah 52:1; Matthew 14:4)

Article by Kym of Ruach haKodesh Ministries.

THE QUESTION THE WEST IS TOO AFRAID TO ASK ABOUT ISLAM

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Thomas Aquinas questioned Muhammad’s credentials to speak for God. His question remains uncomfortably relevant. Viewed as a philosopher, Thomas Aquinas is a foundational figure of modern thought. Aquinas asked, what evidence entitles a man to claim that God speaks through him? That’s not an unreasonable question. I would argue it’s an indispensable one — especially in 2026.

As Islam seeks to spread its tentacles across Europe and beyond, Westerners are reluctant to critique it. Instead, the modern instinct is to treat every religious tradition as equally mysterious, equally profound, and equally beyond criticism. But Italian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas had no such inhibitions. Writing 600 years after Muhammad claimed to have received God’s final and ultimate revelation for mankind, Thomas Aquinas dared to ask what credentials the Arab had to speak for God.

Conquest Is Not a Credential

Aquinas’s first question concerned divine authentication. Christianity, as Aquinas understood it, was not simply a collection of moral teachings attributed to a charismatic founder. The claims of Jesus were accompanied by miracles and supernatural signs, understood as evidence that His message originated with God.

Aquinas, therefore, asked a rather awkward question: where were the comparable signs establishing Muhammad’s prophetic authority? His answer was devastatingly blunt. Muhammad advanced his cause through force. Aquinas’s observation that military strength is hardly a divine credential is difficult to dismiss. Robbers have weapons. Tyrants have armies. Conquerors have empires.

That hardly makes them messengers of God!

Desire, Discipline, and the Two Faiths

Aquinas was equally pointed about morality. Aquinas argued that Muhammad’s teaching accommodated bodily desire and offered promises of sensual pleasure. Christianity, by contrast, demands the disciplining of appetite and the elevation of the spiritual life above the gratification of the flesh.

Aquinas, therefore, saw a revealing difference in the two systems: Christianity asks man to master his desires; Islam gives those desires considerably more room to manoeuvre — a point well made by French author Michel Houellebecq in his excellent novel Submission. Houellebecq, who had to go into hiding after his book was published, imagined that French men might easily convert to Islam after discovering how generously it catered to their desires.

Truth, Fable, and the Courage to Question

Aquinas third insight concerned truth. He did not claim that Muhammad taught nothing true. His criticism was subtler: he argued that truths were mixed with fables and serious falsehoods in order to create what we now call Islam. That mixture matters because divine revelation ought to possess an authority and coherence that does not depend upon convenient additions from human imagination. Finally, Aquinas questioned the circumstances surrounding Muhammad’s earliest followers and the subsequent expansion of Islam. He contrasted Christianity’s dependence upon preaching, miracles and spiritual conviction with a movement that, as history records, employed military force to secure submission.

In my opinion, Aquinas was very much on point in his critique of Islam. He refused to confuse popularity with truth, conquest with revelation, or desire with virtue. And perhaps that is the lesson we most need to recover in 2026. A society that is frightened to question religious claims is not tolerant; it is intellectually timid.

Respect for individuals does not require surrendering our capacity to examine ideas, doctrines and claims to divine authority. Aquinas understood something that we seem increasingly determined to forget: truth does not become true because millions believe it, because a movement expands, or because criticism makes us uncomfortable.

Religious claims, precisely because they purport to speak with the authority of God, deserve scrutiny rather than exemption from it. We should be capable of critiquing Islam without hatred toward Muslims or contempt for their dignity. But intellectual charity does not mean intellectual surrender. A free society must be able to distinguish between respecting a person and accepting his theology. And Muslims should be able to handle criticism of Islam without resorting to threats or violence.

The veracity — or otherwise — of Islam is not a medieval question. It’s an urgent question for those of us living in 2026. But I fear, a question the West is much too afraid to ask.

Taken from an article by the same name by James McPherson, journalist and a host on Sky News.

FINDING CALM DURING DIFFICULT TIMES – SCRIPTURE COPING STRATEGIES

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Learn the practice of arresting negative thoughts to find calm during difficult times. Discover how naming your struggles can help you regain control. A 95 year old pastor relates some of the most successful ways to regain calm in stressful times.

This video explores a practical approach to mental regulation inspired by ancient psalms. If you often feel overwhelmed by racing thoughts or physical pain, this method provides a way to pause, identify the root of your distress, and shift your perspective before reacting. It is designed for anyone seeking a more grounded way to process daily challenges. By learning to articulate your specific burdens rather than letting them spiral, you can cultivate a sense of stability. He discusses the power of prayer for anxiety and how shifting your focus through intentional thought naming creates space for peace. Understanding these spiritual coping strategies allows you to face discomfort with clarity instead of panic. Practicing this discipline helps you stop emotional escalation at the source.

A PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND NANOENGINEERING ON HOW TO LIVE A SUCCESSFUL LIFE

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James Tour, professor of chemistry and nanoengineering at Rice University, tells Simon Guillebaud how a secular Jewish upbringing and a chance encounter in a college laundry room led him to a life-changing faith in Jesus. He opens up about his addiction to pornography, the moment he sensed God’s presence, and the surprising prayer that transformed his evangelism. Tour also reflects on his extraordinary career—hundreds of publications, a Nobel laureate colleague who came to faith—and why he credits Scripture meditation for his success. It’s a story of grace, intellectual curiosity, and a God who answers when we ask.

You need to watch this video if you want to be successful. James Tour shows you all the scriptures that prove that if you put Him first and meditate on His Word daily, He will make you achieve all that you put your mind to and so much better that you can do on your own. What he has achieved is mind blowing, hundreds of patents, products, and start up companies.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31

THE DEATH OF MORAL JUDGEMENT – BIBLICAL PROPHECY REVEALS JESUS SOON RETURNS TO RESTORE RIGHTEOUSNESS

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When every perpetrator is explained, contextualised and rehabilitated, the victims become an inconvenient detail. We live in an age that has become strangely embarrassed by the existence of evil, and people call good evil and evil good (Isaiah 5:20).

Consider Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who does not deny killing her three children. She claims she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Now, I’m not saying mental illness isn’t real. I’m not saying courts shouldn’t take mental illness into account. But something rather peculiar has happened outside the court where Lindsay Clancy is on trial.

From Perpetrator to Icon: The Lindsay Clancy Case

Clancy has become, in some circles, a feminist symbol — a kind of patron saint of the oppressed mother. And every day, crowds of women dressed in pink have gathered outside the court to yell support for the mum who killed her kids.

Cora, aged 5, Dawson, aged 3 and little 8-month-old Callen were strangled to death by their mum… and yet this perverse display of compassion finds perfectly sane women rooting for the woman who killed them. This is what happens when a civilisation loses the vocabulary of evil. We stop asking, Who did what? and start asking, What social forces made them do it? The perpetrator becomes a patient. Then a victim. Then, if the political conditions are right, an icon. And once evil has been sufficiently contextualised, there is nothing left to condemn.

A society that can’t distinguish between policeman and criminal, victim and perpetrator, innocence and guilt, eventually becomes incapable of defending the innocent. Compassion is a virtue. Understanding is a virtue. Mental-health treatment is a virtue. But compassion without moral judgment is sloppy sentimentality. And sentimentality is a remarkably poor defence against evil. Evil doesn’t disappear because we stop calling it evil. It just becomes harder to stop.

The circumstances that exist in the world today, lawlessness and apostasy in many of the denominational churches, that have abandoned the inerrancy and authority of the Bible, line up with Biblical end times prophecies. Tribulation is ahead for those who proclaim the truth about God and His commandments, and that Jesus is the only way back to a relationship with our Heavenly Father.

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24: 9-14

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6

Will you be one of those that endures to the end proclaiming the truth about God the Father and Jesus?

WAS THE MECCA DEFENCE PACT FORMED TO STOP THE IRAN WAR?

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Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, all Sunni nations have invited Iran, a Shia nation into their Mecca Defence Pact. This defies logic but they all hate Israel and understand that if all of the Middle East Muslim nations band together with this defence pact that both the USA and Israel will end the war with Iran rather than take them all on.

Ezekiel 38: Who Are the Powerful Players in the Gog Magog War?

Just as the Bible predicts, the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East just shifted in a way that defies conventional logic—but aligns perfectly with Biblical end times prophecy. Iran has been offered a seat at the “Mecca Pact” table, a move that could effectively end the current conflict with the USA and Israel while simultaneously assembling the coalition described in Ezekiel 38, and Revelation 17:12. In this update, Nelson examines how this mutual defence agreement between Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and potentially Iran creates a new superpower that pushes the United States to the side-lines and sets the stage for the Gog of Magog war. Is this the start of the formation of the 10 Kings?

SAVEA, KOLISI EMBRACE ‘SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP’ AFTER RUGBY WORLD CUP FINAL

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All Blacks captain Ardie Savea marked the start of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry by going to church with the Springboks’ captain, Siya Kolisi last Sunday. Its all about finding your true identity and that can only be found in Christ. “I am the way and the truth and the life, no one can come to the Father except through me.” John 14:6

New Zealand’s All Blacks are in South Africa to face the Springboks in a series of next-level test matches. The inaugural games are scheduled to occur every four years, alternating between NZ and SA, and are being marketed as “a tour like no other.” Both the current All Blacks and Springboks captains are close friends, and firmly committed Christians. So much so that Savea shared the message and a picture on Instagram, stating,

“Nothing better than being in the presence of the Lord with my brother in Christ. A powerful word today on staying faithful in unexpected places. Acts 28:1-11.”

Savea: Finding Identity in Christ

For Savea, his family and faith in Christ are central to keeping life grounded.

In a July 2024 podcast, Savea said going back to the Bible was essential to that process. Specifically, when he’s hit with a flood of people’s opinions.“Once I found my identity in Christ, and who I actually was, [I] didn’t really care about what other people thought of me. I knew who I was through the Lord,” he noted.

“Every time I get to a point where I start believing people, listening to their opinions that are not good for me, I just get back to the Word and pray.”

“Then I get out of it and talk to people that are like-minded.” He also credited his wife for her support and sacrifices.

One year before this, the All Black dedicated a 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter-final win to the glory of God. As reported by Premier Christian News, Savea told reporters, “All glory to the man above.”

He did the same on social media, stating,

‘”ALL GLORY TO YOU! THANK YOU, JESUS,” wrote Savea, with All Blacks teammate Neo Laulala replying: “JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY!!!”

This week, Savea stepped up even more. He dropped two live devotional walk-throughs on his YouTube channel from a hotel in Johannesburg.

Kolisi: From the Ghetto to Grace

While Siya Kolisi doesn’t have the same prolific presence online, the Springbok captain is prolific when it comes to sharing his story. https://youtu.be/WH5Wqp2TmBk?si=G4O9fOpuXAuFsuC9

In a 2019 piece for SportGoMag, Kolisi wrote candidly about his past, saying, “I was raised by my grandmother because my mother and father were too young to look after me.”

Explaining that he lived with seven others and slept on the floor, Kolisi added, “Living in the ghetto, we struggled to get by.”

“We couldn’t afford to pay for my school and all the fees that went along with it, but I went to school every day because it was where I received my one meal for the day.”

Kolisi goes on to state that Rugby “seemed to keep me away from a lot of the bad things going on around me.”

“I lost a lot of friends because while I was focusing on being the best I could be in my sport, they were falling prey to the struggles and temptations of life in the hood.”

He went pro-ball in 2012, rose through the ranks and now captains one of the world’s top Rugby teams.

“God has been preparing me for such a time as this,” he stated.

“While I grew up going to church with my grandmother, and went off and on in the past few years, it wasn’t until [2019] that I truly gave my life to Christ.”

“I realised,” Kolisi recalled, that “I wasn’t living according to what I was calling myself: a follower of Christ. I was getting by, but I hadn’t decided to fully commit myself to Jesus Christ and start living according to His way.”

“I don’t have to understand everything in life, and there are so many things I don’t, but I know God is in control of it all.”

“My job is to do the best I can and leave the rest in His hands.”

Kolisi then concluded,

“If God can come through for countless people throughout history who had their backs against the world, He can do the same for me.”

Although rivals on the field, both Kolisi and Savea have repeatedly said they’re brothers in Christ off it.

These new test matches between South Africa and New Zealand help to further seal that deal

MAKE DISCIPLES MOVEMENT GROWS OUT OF KENYA HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT

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The Make Disciples Movement has grown out of the Kenya House Church Movement that I have been involved with for many years. Over the time, it has grown from 6 House Churches to over 60 under the leadership of Charles Otieno Owino. If you would like to support this Movement you can do so on this website. Just go to donations where you can make a once only donation or sign up to support it monthly. You will receive regular updates and can be involved in ZOOM meetings with Charles and other KHC leaders.

The first picture is of me with Kenya House Church leaders at a training session in Migori, Kenya in 2015. The second picture was received today.

WHY THERE CAN’T BE MORE THAN 4,500 YEARS OF ANCIENT HSTORY

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Historians often claim humanity stretches back 100,000 years or more—but does the evidence support that? Written records only reach the late third millennium BC, and the earliest dates wobble by centuries depending on assumptions about carbon dating and Egyptian chronology.

What if secular history actually compresses into a biblical timeline after Noah’s flood? From population growth to the pyramids to China’s mythical rulers, Doctor Carter explains why history can’t go back as far as we’ve been told—and why the Bible’s ‘warts and all’ record stands uniquely trustworthy. He is one of Creation Ministries (www.creation.com) best presenters. You will learn a lot of useful information to use in supporting a young earth history.