Brazil is witnessing a seismic shift in its religious landscape that’s rapidly reshaping the country’s spiritual and social fabric. Evangelicals are poised to outnumber Catholics as the largest faith group there. In the heart of Brazil, amidst the rhythmic beats of samba and the vibrant colours of carnival, something spiritually profound is unfolding. “We are on the verge of a religious change in Brazil’, said Brazilian sociologist Dr. José Alves. If there’s one image that symbolizes Catholicism’s influence here, it’s Rio de Janeiro’s98-foot-tall Christ the Redeemer. Inaugurated in 1931, the iconic statute celebrated the country’s rich Catholic heritage. There’s also the beautiful blue Cathedral of Brasilia – one of the largest Catholic churches in Brazil’s capital city. But despite these historical landmarks, Alves says the faith’s dominance is rapidly declining. “In 1950, 93 percent of Brazilians identified as Catholics. The Church was losing about 1 percent of followers every decade,” said Alves. “However, from 1991 onwards, the Catholic Church started to lose 1 percent of followers every year, resulting in a dramatic drop.”
Evangelical Christianity, once a minority faith here, is now growing at unprecedented levels. The surveys show that what was once the world’s largest Catholic nation, will be overwhelming evangelical by 2030. Signs of this growth are everywhere—mega-churches dotting the landscape, filled with thousands of worshippers each week. That includes Andre Fernandes’ church in São Paulo. “We are living in the fulfillment of a promise,” said Fernandes, who pastors Lagoinha Church. “For many decades, we have heard that Brazil would experience a wave of revival that would be exported around the world, and I believe that this is what we are experiencing at this moment.” It also includes Lourival Pereira’s congregation in the Amazon region—boasting more than 10,000 members across roughly 600 cell groups. “The foundation of our growth is these cells,” said Pereira, pastor of a Foursquare Church in Belem. “The real revival is taking place outside the church walls. Every day, people are meeting in small groups in homes; it’s the biblical model.”
Then there’s J.B. Carvalho’s church in the capital city of Brasília. “We started the church in 2003 with only 25 people. Today, we have about 12,000 people in Brasília alone,” said Carvalho of Community of the Nations Church. “We also have another 15,000 people in Fortaleza. Our churches are spread throughout Brazil.” And Silas Malafaia’s church in Rio de Janeiro is one of the largest and most influential Pentecostal churches in Brazil with more than 100,000 members. “In the next seven years or so, we will be the majority in the country,” declared Malafaia of the Assembly of God Victory in Christ church. “Today, we make up about 35% of the population, and God’s Kingdom has influence in every corner of Brazilian society.” Marcelo Crivella, a well-known evangelical pastor turned politician, once served as mayor of Rio de Janeiro. He says that, years ago, evangelical Christians hesitated to get involved in politics—but that’s no longer the case. More than 30% of the country’s legislators are now evangelical. “We are more than 140 deputies and more than 20 senators,” said Crivella, a Brazilian Congressman.
Many of them gather each Wednesday in the halls of Brazil’s Congress for worship and prayer. Celina Leão, the vice governor of Brasília, said that God is also at work in other branches of the government. “I used to participate in those prayer meetings when I was in Congress,” Leao said. “Now, every month in the governor’s office, we meet for prayer, and people come to my office. It’s a wonderful time to see friends and be in communion.” The country’s first evangelical church opened in 1922. By 1990, the number had grown to more than 7,000 congregations. Nearly 30 years later, it grew to almost 110,000. The growth is so staggering that one study found 17 new evangelical churches opening every day across Brazil. “Now in Brazil we have 550,000 churches,” declared Crivella. Ezenete Rodrigues says this dramatic transformation began, as in many great movements, with the most profound of practices: prayer. “I’ve always believed that prayer is like planting: You plant, plant, plant, and at some point, it will sprout, and then the explosion will come,” Rodrigues told CBN News.
Rodrigues is one of the country’s most well-known intercessors. She has organized countless prayer rallies nationwide, urging her fellow countrymen to turn to God. “Brazil has been hungry and thirsty for God, and the key has been intercession—bending our knees, seeking God, and letting the Spirit of the Lord guide us in everything we do,” said Rodrigues. “Today, we can look back and see so many beautiful fruits of this commitment.” Those who have been tracking the explosive growth of the evangelical movement here in Brazil say worship has also played a monumental role in the church’s growth. And one Christian artist, above all, has been at the centre of it all. Her name is Ana Paula Valadao. “Even growing up, I had glimpses of crowds, of multitudes worshipping the Lord,” Valadao said. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, her group’s music became synonymous with a powerful worship movement that emphasized intimacy with God, passionate worship, and personal revival. “As I was songwriting, the whole idea was about transformation, was about changing the nation.” Valadao said.
Paula’s songs played across Brazil, helping many experience a deeper connection to their faith. “It was about healing the land, and we started seeing amazing salvation numbers,” said Valadao. She held concerts in strategic locations, drawing millions of people, many of whom were Catholics. “Like the carnival sight in Rio de Janeiro and in the soccer stadiums, Jesus broke every record, gathering more people than any soccer tournament,” Valadao recalled. Because of her songs, many Catholic services in Brazil today have embraced a more evangelistic style of worship, shifting away from traditional liturgies to incorporate contemporary music. Father Antonio Luiz Catelan Ferreira, who leads the Cathedral of São Sebastião in Rio de Janeiro, says the change is part of an effort to encourage former Catholics to ‘come home.’ “People are attracted to environments where worship celebrations and moments of prayer are done in a more charismatic way,” Ferreira said. “Today, a growing number of Catholics are returning precisely because prayer meetings are conducted in a more Pentecostal style.”
The Bible refers to Jesus’ judging the nations, and mention is made of sheep and goat nations. Hopefully, Brazil will be a sheep nation going into Jesus’s Millennial reign on this Earth.
In his first public address since Inauguration Day, Vice President J.D. Vance assured attendees at the March for Life that the Trump administration has their back and will work to make it easier for families to raise their children. Vance’s address makes him the second sitting vice president to appear at a March for Life. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who served during the first Trump administration, became the first sitting vice president to address the annual event in 2017.
Vance addressed the crowd gathered at the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Friday. His speech comes less than a week after he took office as the 50th vice president of the United States.
Vance reflected on the state of the pro-life movement and the importance of working to “defend the unborn” and be “pro-family and pro-life in the fullest sense of that world possible,” telling the massive crowd that “our country has not yet stepped up in the way you have.” “We failed a generation not only by permitting a culture of abortion on demand but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to live a happy and meaningful life,” Vance asserted. “A culture of radical individualism took root, one where the responsibilities and joys of family life were seen as obstacles to overcome, not as personal fulfillment or personal blessings. Our society has failed to recognise the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society, to begin with.”
“I want more babies in the United States of America,” he proclaimed. “I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are.”
He also brought up President Donald Trump’s pardon of 23 pro-life activists convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act during the Biden administration for blocking the entrances to abortion clinics. “No longer will our government throw pro-life protesters and activists, elderly grandparents or anybody else in prison,” he stated.
“It stopped on Monday and we’re not going to let it come back to this country,” he insisted. “This administration stands by you, we stand with you, and most importantly, we stand with the most vulnerable and the basic principle that people exercising the right to protest on behalf of the most vulnerable should never have the government go after them ever again.”
Vance concluded his speech by thanking the pro-life movement for their work and maintaining that because of their efforts, “America is fundamentally a pro-baby, a pro-life and a pro-family country.”
Gen Z
1997 – 2012
13 – 28
Millennials or Generation Y
1981 – 1996
29 – 44
Generation X
1965 – 1980
45 – 60
Sadly, all three generations, X, Y and Z, have been brought up being taught evolution and the Big Bang, not creation, as the origin of the Cosmos. Also, prayer in the United States, if organised by the school, was banned from public elementary, middle, and high schools by a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1962. Moreover, we now find that due to the woke and transgender curriculum, one-third of children in the USA are racist and not sure of their gender. Even more devastating is the fact that most denominational/institutional churches, including the Episcopal, Anglican, United Methodist, Presbyterian and even the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran church body in the United States, allow for LGBTQ+ marriage and ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy. Hence, the apostate state of the church and the younger generations gives us little hope for revival.
Those who study their Bibles know that we are fast approaching the Biblical end-time prophecy of a one-world government and its ruler, the Antichrist. America is not featured at all among the nations that play a role in end-time events.
“Before Him (Jesus) will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And He will place the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left.” Matthew 25:32-33
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won re-election, attributing his victory to the popularity of his “brand of Christian, conservative, patriotic politics. I am sure God was pleased with the stand for His values that Victor Orban took, and the fact that the majority of the people voted for him, puts Hungary in God’s sheep category from my viewpoint.
Hungarian Prime Minister celebrates election win
Orban addressed the influence of Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros and other forces in the election. “We had to fight the left at home, the Brussels bureaucrats, the international left, the Soros empire with all its money, and the international media” Orban stated. In the election, Hungarian voters also voted on several referendums related to LGBT issues. Voters overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures that would have allowed “sexual orientation sessions for minor children in public education without parental consent,” “the promotion of gender reassignment surgery for minors,” “the unrestricted introduction of sexual media content to minors” and “the display of gender-sensitive media content to minors.” More than 90% of Hungarians voted against adopting each policy proposal. Orban’s re-election follows closely the election of Katalin Novak, an Orban ally, to become the country’s first female president.
In 2020, the government passed an amendment to the country’s equivalent of a constitution, that recognizes marriage as an institution between one man and woman and bans same-sex couples from adopting children. Under the new policy, only married couples in a heterosexual relationship can adopt children. Previously, the Hungarian Parliament passed a measure defining gender as “biological sex based on primary sex characteristics and chromosomes.”
Compare this post on Scotland with my previous post on Hungary. Would God call Scotland a Goat Nation and Hungary a Sheep nation? I know where I would prefer to raise a family.
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.” Matthew 25:31-31
The Scottish government has issued new LGBT inclusivity guidelines advising schools to allow children as young as 4, to change their name and gender identity without their parents’ consent, claiming that it’s possible to “come out” as transgender “at any age.” The 70-page document orders teachers to address students by their desired pronouns, should they choose to identify as the opposite sex, adding that it calls for posters challenging “gender stereotypes” to be displayed in classrooms. The document advises teachers not to tell students that it’s “just a phase” if they say they’re transgender. “Teachers should respect a young person’s wishes and use the name/pronoun they have asked to be used,” it reads. “It’s also important not to deny or overly question their understanding of their gender identity.”
Moreover, the Church of Scotland is compromising with the world’s values: As far back as 2017, the Church of Scotland issued an apology for what it said was historic discrimination against lesbian and gay people. A few months later, the church issued a 30-page booklet, titled “Diverse Gender Identities and Pastoral Care,” which showcased stories of trans and nonbinary-identified Christians while insisting it was not making a theological statement on the issue. The church explained in a press release at the time that the booklet was supposed to be a resource to help congregations be more sensitive to the needs of the community. .
This is wicked and indicative of a world about to come under God’s judgement much the same as Noah’s day. I think it is God’s timing that evidence of Noah’s flood has been found to remind people that God has judged a wicked world in the past.
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man (Jesus return). They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.“ Luke 17:26-27
The following quote is taken from an article in the latest Journal of Creation 2021, vol 35, issue 3Candidate site for Noah’s Ark,altar, and tomb IN SECTION: VIEWPOINT Ken Griffith & Darrell K. White
While researching a Babel candidate site near Diyarbakir, Turkey, on 3 October 2019, Ken Griffith and Darrell White found a complex of sites on the mountain Karaca Dag that, upon further examination, seem to match the description of the landing site of Noah’s Ark, along with a tomb, possible altar, and much more. The tomb is a 60-m-square, rough stone mastaba, oriented to the winter solstice sunrise, with two extensions that make it into roughly a 160-m-long boat shape. The site is marked by six or more geoglyphs, situated along an arc 5 km distant on the northwest side of the mountain. The possible remains of the Ark appear to have had a modern school built on them, now collapsed.
Source for LGBT article – Scotland : Christian post
Lawmakers in Honduras garnered national headlines last week when they voted to ratify a change to the national constitution that effectively bolsters the ban on abortion in the Latin American nation.
The lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favor of the amendment on Jan. 21, with a second ratification vote last Thursday solidifying what supporters call a “Shield Against Abortion in Honduras.”
“The unborn shall be considered as born for all rights accorded within the limits established by law,” the amendment reads. Language was added to the amendment stating that “it is prohibited and illegal for the mother or a third party to practice any form of interruption of life on the unborn, whose life must be respected from conception.”
Jesus said He will judge sheep and goat nations on His return can I suggest that Honduras and Brazil where abortion is a crime will be among those sheep nations. Remember the Saints will have been raptured prior to Jesus return. Jesus will return with the saints to begin His Millennial reign on this earth.
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Matthew 25:31-33
“Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”Matthew 25:34
“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire.”Matthew 25:41
Papua New Guinea have approved the construction of a Pillar of National Identity and Unity. It will replace the existing Totem Pole in Parliament House. The words on the pillar are God honouring and hopefully will present a challenge to other nations.
THE COVENANT – Covenant with the true God based on the Christian faith.
THE PEOPLE – We pay homage to the God of the Holy Bible who is our God.
THE CONSTITUTION – Mother Law generated and guided by the Eternal Word of God for the peace, order, and welfare of our people.
THE WORD OF GOD – The foundation, the Eternal Source of Wisdom, Principles and Moral Conscience.
PNG is truly a sheep nation and will be judged by God accordingly at the Sheep/Goat Judgement of nations. (Revelation 20)
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! Psalms 33:10-12
In my capacity as the 8th Prime Minister of our Nation, people of Papua New Guinea– today I, JAMES MARAPE stand here before God and his people with an overarching thought which permeates my spirit “THAT A NATION WHO FEARS THE LORD GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, SHALL BE BLESSED”.
In my heart, I know that the event of this day marks, not just a National Occasion in our National Calendar but a GRAND OCCASION. I emphasize – It is a grand occasion, because, today marks a day on which our Nation invokes the Creator of all things, to intervene in our National affairs.
OUR NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND DEPENDENCE SPEAKS OF US ACKNOWLEDGING GOD OF ISRAEL AS OUR STRENGTH AGAINST OUR ENEMIES, SOURCE OF SUSTENANCE AND ORIGIN OF OUR VERY EXISTENCE. Therefore, the value of this occasion is far too greater than every other occasion on our National Calendar.
My brothers and sisters, this day is different in that it is not a National Public Holiday – rather it is a solemn day of our people coming together in unison, to BOW BEFORE GOD IN HUMILITY AND PRAYER, seeking His forgiveness, love and direction in a turbulent time of confusion, fear and panic. As leaders in the public domain, occasions and event are our norms – BUT, I do not take such as event of this VALUE and greatness today, lightly.
Today, the Nation of Papua New Guinea rises in one voice, reaffirming our deepest convictions regarding fundamental issues which matter most to us as a Nation.
Prime Minister James Marape leading church leaders in greeting the crowd at the Sir John Guise Stadium on Aug 26 for National Day of Prayer and Repentance address.
As you all know – we have declared our intension to “Take Back our Nation and make it the richest Christian Nation on Earth”. The occasion today is GRAND because I stand here with this vision – seeking God’s wisdom, His strength and direction that He may establish His eternal will and purpose for us as a Nation just as He prayed – THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH OR IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
Brothers and Sisters, this DAY must not be confused with our TRADITIONAL DAYS OF WORSHIP.This is the NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND REPENTANCE – declared and gazetted by the Government of Papua New Guinea, therefore, I, as the Prime Minister of our Nation– stand here today, not as an invited Guest to a Church meeting. Rather, I stand here today as the Chief Executing Officer of the Government of Papua New Guinea, Paying Homage and Tribute to the King of the Universe, the Lord Jesus Christ, invoking His unmerited Favour and Grace upon my Government for the sake of His Name and for the sake of His own People of this blessed nation.
So, I stand to Offer to our KING, the Highest Order of Protocol by leading and officiating this Prayer Occasion with a higher purpose to cause the People of our Land to come with me to stand before our God in Solemn Prayer and declaration of our collective faith without fear, intimidation and shame.
I stand today before our God, to call on our mothers, our fathers, our sisters and our brothers, our girls and our boys including our substances and our possessions, our visitors and friends from other Nations, to pause for a moment with me, to acknowledge THE MOST HIGH GOD OF THE UNIVERSE – the God of Israel, who is now our GOD through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Distinguished worshippers, brothers and sisters,
I take this occasion as a Servant of the Most High God, appointed and mandated by Grace, in His season and timing, to be His Mouth Piece and His Instrument, to unleash a message that is un-quenchably burning and fiercely yearning in the heart of every genuine Citizen of our Land. I must state from the outset, that I have ONE BUSINESS that I must complete, for which I had made it vehemently clear on the day I took Office as the Prime Minister.
For this reason, I was born and raised, and for which I am prepared to sacrifice and forego everything that the World could Offer – And it is the message of our unshakable, inerasable heritage, crafted by the Hand of God, meticulously and miraculously, giving us our NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, our very IDENTITY and our priceless gift of NATIONAL UNITY.
The National Day of Prayer IS THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT of our National Calendar, which symbolizes this special blend of National Sovereignty, under which 864 known language groups of our Land are gloriously WOVEN into ONE UNITED PEOPLE, ONE NATION. We truly are the Unite Nation on Earth – the United Tribes of Paradisia.
Ladies and Gentlemen – listen to my words attentively and carefully. I came today to discuss without any apology, the very spirit of our Sovereign State, the very being of our Nationhood. We are not just another collection of people aggregated into particular geographical location, demarcated by a political boundary. We are put here by design, not by fluke or by an evolutionary chance.
This is what I have come to announce and discuss with you on this solemn occasion. The message is very simple and clear, yet so deeply profound, that it is impossible to be resisted, stopped or destroyed. The World would desire so much to know “how such a difficult and diverse people, trapped in rugged terrains and scattered atolls, could be brought together as one people.
How could any Leader possibly carve a Nation out of an extremely fragmented tribal People? What really was the undercurrent power that worked day and night to aggregate a greatly diverse people into one Nation? What power indeed colonized our people and created a Modern PNG?
Today, I came to discuss these questions and reaffirm the answer. The Answer that I came to deliver today is coded wonderfully in these few words that I have thoughtfully selected: IT WAS OUR COLONIAL MASTERS THAT GAVE US INDEPENDENCE, (and we thank God for them) BUT – LISTEN TO ME – IT WAS THE WORD OF GOD THAT MADE US, IT WAS THE BIBLE THAT MADE PAPUA NEW GUINEA – IT WAS GOD WHO GAVE US OUR IDENTITY AND ESTABLISHED OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND OUR MODERN HISTORY.
Therefore, today we came together to reaffirm our faith and declare in unison, that our nationhood hangs entirely and safely on our Faith in God as our Creator, Jesus Christ as God’s only Begotten Son and our Saviour and the Bible as the infallible Word of God, which are the fundamentals of our common Christian Faith, that made us who we are. We came today to trumpet this message through out our Land and “shout again for the whole World to hear” who we are. We are here with this intend and purpose.
I am overly delighted today to know that the Preamble to our Constitution acknowledges the “GUIDING HAND OF GOD” who led this Nation of a thousand tribes, 864 known different languages and cultures to be stitched into one independent Sovereign State.
Lest we forget, this Solemn Occasion today tells the story of how a greatly fragmented nation on Earth with a 1000 tribes, was meticulously woven into One Single Nation! Our Nation is one of the last “Wonders of the World” – so greatly divided geographically, culturally and linguistically, yet so miraculously stitched into One People. This is out timeless gift from the Lord through the work of the early Missionaries.
Therefore, LEST WE FORGET, this occasion today also marks a solemn moment to reflect on the selfless sacrifices that the earlier Missionaries and our pioneering converts made – to give us our National Identity and our Unity that is solidly founded on the Word of God.
It was the work of the early missionaries and the early converts with the Word of God in their hands, who made the biggest and profound difference in our modern history. The missionaries and our local pioneering Church Leaders with the Message of Salvation, Love, and Forgiveness, were the frontiers and undercurrent power that worked tirelessly day and night making untold sacrifices.
It was the work of the early Christian Churches that laid the Foundation for our Unification well before we were given Independence in1975. Today, we came together to remind ourselves, that this is an inerasable part of our national history which transcends our diversity and inspires our shared history as one people.
The early political parties such as PANGU Pati undoubtedly rode on the waves that were created by the Power of the Gospel, to unite our Nation. It is therefore fitting also that the PANGU PATI, which led the fragmented Nation into independence, riding on that wave, will yet again, after 40 years, under my leadership, consolidate the true and timeless Foundation of our National Sovereignty, our Identity and our Unity.
Today, we came together to reflect on the Power that made us. Many of us are products of the early Missionaries. If not all, a vast majority of learned Papua New Guineans today were impacted by the Church and the Church-run Schools one way or another. All our founding leaders were trained, coached and mentored by early Missionaries. Many current leaders are sons of either missionaries or Pastors or church workers. One of them is standing before you today to speak to you.
We are here today, also to remind ourselves of work of our Founding Fathers who, under the guiding Hand of God thoughtfully constructed our Constitution, directed the citizens of this Nation to “GUARD AND PASS ON TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER US OUR “NOBLE TRADITIONS” AND THE “CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES” THAT ARE OURS”.
Drawing from, and giving effect to, the Moral Foundation laid in the Preamble of our Constitution, the Founder Father of our Nation, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, officially dedicated our Nation to God on this Day, in 2007, and declared it a “National Day of Prayer. On this occasion, as the 8th Prime Minister of PNG, I want to pay special tribute to our Founding Father for laying the Foundation correct, for the succeeding generations to build on.
On this note, I must also acknowledge the significant event which took place on 31st of July 2015. On that day, our leaders on the Floor of Parliament, unanimously passed a Motion to place the Antique 400 King James Bible in the Chamber of our National Parliament. My predecessor, Hon. Peter O’Neil declared the BIBLE the “NATIONAL TREASURE” of Papua New Guinea.
Honourable Peter O’Neill, willingly accepted the Antique Bible before a sea of People at Jackson Airport on 27th April 2015 and further directed the Bible to be placed in Parliament by a motion, introduced by the Governor of Southern Highlands, Honourable William Powi, representing the Prime Minster, for which, I pay tribute, on behalf of the People of Papua New Guinea.
This action is of historical significant, reaffirming our collective and undeniable resolve as a full-pledged Christian Nation on Earth. It is a symbolic act which recognizes PNG as a Bible believing nation. It is a symbolic act which acknowledges the great work of missionaries in uniting the country into one Nation through the preaching of the Bible.
It is a significant symbolic act that will go down in history and long remembered for many generations to come because the Bible stand above all development models and belief systems as the source of our Nation Identity and our National Unity. It signifies our resolve that the Principles of the Bible must influence policies for long term development of our Nation as reflected in Strategic Pillar 6 of our Vision 2050.
If there is ONE task yet to be executed on our National Journey: that is to formalize our resolve by an Act of Parliament to DECLARE PNG A CHRISTIAN NATION and protect the Bible as a symbol of our Christian faith and our National Treasure. It is my commitment today to work with the Church and our People to ensure that we achieve this goal.
To this end, today, I announce to the Nation that my Cabinet has approved a Law to go before Parliament to OFFICIALLY DECLARE “PNG A CHRISTIAN NATION”.
God’s People of Papua New Guinea, I request you today to join me in acknowledging God’s Grace and his faithfulness upon our Nation, by ensuring that this Law is passed on the Floor of Parliament.
Drawing from the strength of the Christian Church and the declarations of the former Prime Ministers, I stand today, to commit myself to this one cause – to introduce this Law on the Floor of Parliament to capture and protect the historical heritage of our Faith, and to declare that we shall always seek God’s guidance for our development and direction. I represent our collective view that Papua New Guinea is made up of a thousand nations within a nation.
We are culturally and linguistically diverse. The natural divisions are obvious. The risk of disintegration is real. Unless we, as a nation, can quickly identify and embrace a common ideology as the basis of our National Unity for our common good, we are threatened by dangerous external forces and competing ideas that are detrimental to our Christian heritage which is the source of our democratic strength.
PNG as a member of the global community, is open to competing ideas that have the potential to destroy our unity, our identity, our Christian values and Constitutional democracy. How can we craft a thousand tribes into a single nation? What will be the basis to unite this nation – the common ideal? I have a moral duty to protect that which is near and dear to the very fabric our people’s survival as a Nation. You and I are presented with a moral responsibility to build this nation on the sure Principles of the Word of God as the historical roots of our National Unity as it provides the only common ideals.
Therefore, let us all as a united and peaceful Papua New Guinea, as one people, take heed to God’s Word and act accordingly as leaders and citizens to keep proclaiming our well founded motto: “One Nation and One People” founded solidly on the sure Word of God. This is the undeniable truth about us and our proud and the lasting legacy to pass on to the next generation.
In Conclusion:
Today, I am privileged to also announce that, after this program, we will proceed to the Boulevard in front of the National Parliament to Launched a Monument called National Identify and Unity Pillar, that symbolically captures the history of our journey to sovereignty and nationhood, which I have just explained.
The fundament truth that I have echoed today, must be inscribed on every monument and tablet, lest we forget. It must be written in every book and institutionalized in every school curriculum. This truth, our heritage, must be preached, taught and passed on from one generation to another. It must be heralded from the Mountain to the sea….it must be trumpeted again and again for the whole to hear, lest we forget the power that made our Modern Papua New Guinea.
Therefore, the UNITY PILLAR, which I will officiate the LAUNCHING CEREMONY shortly after this program, is a physical embodiment of our sacred and precious national history, which must be practically represented and declared, for ourselves and for the whole world to know that we are a Christian Nation. I am compelled by our short but yet a profound history, to begin the process of rebuilding and restoring our nation founded on CHRIST the Solid Rock. The Foundation Stone of the Unity Pillar has been cut out of a precious gem Stone known as Jasper, which is described in the Book of Revelation Chapter 21 and Verse 19, as First Foundation Stone of the walls of the City of New Jerusalem.
Ladies and Gentlemen, on this precious germ stone, symbolically representing our National Foundation, shall be written the timeless Words from the First Book of Corinthians Chapter 3 Verse 11 which shall read: “FOR OTHER FOUNDATIONS CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS CHRIST JESUS”. This is the sum total – the consummation of our short historical journey and direction that we must take into the future.
Brothers and sisters, as we leave this place, with this message of our National Identity and Unity, which provides the justification for declaring PNG a Christian Nation, May the Lord bless and keep us. May His Face shine on us and give us His Peace. May the Lord of the Bible, who united us and gave us our National Identity as a Christian Nation, strengthen our Faith against all forces of darkness. May our heart continue to glow and radiate the SPIRIT OF UNITY though the love of God, His life, His Vision and His Direction for PNG — and that the World may know that God has given no other Name under heaven, by who humanity shall be saved EXCEPT CHRIST and HIM ALONE. This this End, I vow to commit myself. Amen.
Malawi’s newest president, Lazarus Chakwera signals hope for the people of Malawi and for Christians across the African continent. He was sworn into office in late June 2020 and identifies himself as a “man of God.”
Lazarus Chakwera hopes to usher in a new era for Malawi
After Malawi’s much-disputed 2019 election—the results of which were annulled by the court system—Chakwera threw his hat in the ring and was embraced by the country’s large Christian population.
Chakwera’s leadership skills originated in the church. He led Malawi’s Assemblies of God for over 20 years, only leaving his role as pastor when he felt God’s firm call to politics.
“I had to argue with God over a direction in life that didn’t seem natural to me,” he admitted. “God was saying that: ‘I’m extending your ministry so that you’re able to pastor a whole nation.’”
It was a thrilling thought for Chakwera, who then studied the Scriptures carefully to understand God’s design for leadership in the social and political realms of life.
Although he has no intention of turning Malawi into a theocracy, Chakwera understands the importance of Christian leadership for the protection and prosperity of every nation.
“The president believes that government is something that God subscribes to in nations in order to bring about order and progress in society, for the flourishing of human beings,” noted Sean Kampondeni, one of Chakwera’s advisors.
“In Malawi, he feels that the government institutions have been deliberately crippled over the last 25 years to not provide that service and he is there as someone who is offering [himself] to do that.”
Chakwera has spoken openly about his “dream” for Malawi, a dream “that binds us together…to enjoy shared prosperity, not just freedom.”
Now that he’s been elected president, Chakwera is determined to lead Malawi—and surrounding nations—into a season of God-honoring action.
As Christians across the African continent are threatened by violent persecution and terrorist attacks, Chakwera is focused on protecting the vulnerable populations within Malawi’s borders.
“This new Malawi is a home for [everyone] and so long as I am its president, it will be a home in you too will prosper,” Chakwera told the nation.
So far, the president has worked hard to unite the many different factions across the nation.
“He’s got a huge task as the past regime was so openly tribalistic in its appointments of people and people felt sidelined, especially from the central and northern regions,” wrote one journalist.
“Christians dream for a better country and an improved leadership,” added Matilda Matabwa, secretary general of the Malawian Assemblies of God.
“We expect to see and experience the birth of a new nation, and are excited to have a highly respected man of God as the head of state.”
God is responsible for appointing the leaders of nations and I have reported previously on the fact that we have seen God over rule in seemingly impossible situations to appoint His Kingdom man, three notable examples are Donald Trump (God’s wrecking ball) in the USA, Scott Morrison in Australia and Jair Bolsanaro of Brazil. This latest appointment, Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi is an encouraging sign. Sadly in many nations God gives the people the leader they want who will lead them further down a path of judgement and destruction.
At the start of Jesus Millennial Reign we know God judges the nations. It is called the Sheep and Goat Judgement and it will determine those who live on into the Millennium. How important it is that we pray that our nation may be a sheep nation.
LIVING ETERNAL NOW 