Hopes are Up for Canada's Wildfire Crisis

Our last blog asked for prayer that realizes the presence and power of divine Love in regard to Canada's wildfire in Alberta. BBC News reports that a "turning point" has been reached "partly thanks to drizzle and favorable winds," and, we might add, thanks to the omnipresence of the dear One, Spirit, Love Itself, doing what it does in the way of expressing care.

The Scriptures describe God as "[holding] the wind in His fists," -- hence favorable winds manifest as we unite in realization of the power of Good right there where the disaster appears to be.

BBC reports that over 80,000 people have evacuated -- let's see them in the care of the Mother-Love of the universe, supplying all that is needed very moment. Let us transfer all gratitude to the omnipresent One whose presence manifests in helpful winds and bits of rain  -- commonly called "Mother Nature," but rightly known as the Mother-Love. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley happily announces that "the firs had not spread as fast as had been feared."


The Bible gives us rules, instructions, and laws that we must know -- often affirmed as the exact opposite of the evil being witnessed or reported. It is the law of Love that knowing its presence and power brings help in unexpected and wonderful ways.

Many rescue stories and encouragement one of another permeates this scene. Much bravery, boldness, and courage is manifested by the firefighters, by those who are helping despite the danger, by those who have to continue to endure this threat, and by those who have been evacuated. Peace be to each one. Peace and calm be to everyone.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36249083

Prayer for Rain to quench the fire

In Alberta, Canada, a huge wildfire continues to rage and is expected to increase even further in the next 24 hours. BBC News reports that it now "covers an area larger than New York City." The hope is for rain. There has not been significant rain for some time. Everything is dry. 

Let us please unite in prayer that realizes the presence of divine Love. When Elijah prayed to show the presence and power of the one true God, fire fell from heaven. When we pray about the fire in Alberta, rain surely can be what falls from heaven to calm and put out the flames. Pray to realize no fear or panic -- nothing but Love.

Trained personnel are now searching for any remaining persons who need evacuation or help. Divine Love is present with each one of us as His own precious child. Anyone in need of help is getting help. Not one slips through the cracks. Even each small pet creature is in the special care of the dear Father -- all are getting help.

Social Media Panic

Kenya's Chase Bank suffered "panic withdrawals on Wednesday, caused by "inaccurate" rumours on social media (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35989394). Social media constitutes a mixed bag -- blessings on one hand, and dangers on the other. In this case it  caused "hundreds of customers [to flock] to Chase branches and ATM machines countrywide to withdraw their cash on Thursday, only to find them closed." This situation needs positive spiritual attention and prayer so that innocent people do not lose their resources or be denied immediate access to funds that belong to them. The financial reports from the bank and its audits do not appear consistent. There are so many things we do not know in such cases. What can we do? 

Rather than worry over the unknown, we should focus on spiritual facts that are changeless and concrete. What are these spiritual facts? We can find them in the Scriptures. The more we collectively hold to positive truths regarding supply, the better the global economy, and the better your individual financial situation. 

Here are a few spiritual facts from the Scriptures to hold in thought. 

Phil. 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 

Prov. 8:1 ¶ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 

Prov. 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. 

Prov. 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. 

See Mark, chapter 6, "loaves and fishes."

Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Matt. 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Let us pray that these spiritual facts manifest and aid those in Kenya who are dealing with this bank crisis. May God's love rest on them and bring justice and peace. 

Easter Attack and the Healing Response of divine Love

BBC News in Asia today, reports on "the attack against Christians celebrating Easter" at a funfair in a park (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35910124). Hundreds were injured and dozens of innocent children died.  

Although "Jamaat-ul-Ahrar said the target of its Easter Sunday attack was the Christian community," many who died were Muslims. "In the end," unfortunately, "those killed and wounded were simply Pakistani citizens spending a day out in the park with their children."  

After his visits to the victims in the hospital, Mr. Sharif, at a "later security meeting," said that "defeating terrorism was imperative." Absolutely. 

Terrorism is not something new to the world, but it is something the greater part of humanity rejects. It is not in accord with the nature of the Infinite One who is Spirit and Love. Violence does not emanate from the Source of all Being which is Love. This is a powerful fact to realize in prayer because whatever is not aligned to the divine nature has, in reality, no power, since God, Spirit, is omnipotent and supreme. This truth is mighty and realizing this fact causes things to happen in a saving direction. 

In the book of Revelation, evil at its worst is symbolized by the "great red dragon" (12:3). This evil, one form of which is terrorism, is bound with a great chain by "an angel come down from heaven" and "cast into the bottomless pit" for a thousand years "that he should deceive the nations no more" (20:1-3). The nature of the Dragon (evil, terrorism) is deception. The nature of God, Good, is Truth. According to the Master, Christ Jesus, the Truth makes us free. To be free of terrorism we must know the deep truth, or reality, of divine Love's ever-presence and omnipotence. 

There is never a moment when Love is not present. When evil seems violently present as in this terrorist attack, the strongest power against it -- one that will aid those taking practical outward steps to prevent further victimization and loss -- is to humbly ask for the realization of God's presence and power as the Light of Love filling all space and encircling everyone. 

Evil is deceptive. It appears to be present and hurtful. Truth exposes its nothingness and shows itself in protection and healing. 

Even now, to declare that our divine Father was present and protecting His little ones, no matter what it looked like, will bring healing physically and emotionally to those who seem to have been hurt. The dear ones who we mourn, they are in the Father's arms, whole and comforted. Let us pray for that comfort to rest on each of us, and for the healing power that comes with realizing the allness and ever presence of God, Good, Spirit and Love. Let the wounds be healed. Let the uplifting resurrection power be felt by all who suffered in this attack.

Art to Encourage Syrian Children

Diana Brisly, Syrian artist now living in Beirut, sends encouragement to children in her home country. She explains, "You can put philosophy in a painting," and many of her pieces are featured in a surviving children's magazine, Zayton and Zaytona. The aim is to give children hope and help them hold to their dreams while living in a war zone and witnessing things that no one should ever have to face (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35847632). 

It is a natural thing to cover your child's eyes at the sight of something bad or frightening. We do it at the movies and should do it for all presentations of evil. The innocent mind full of natural wonder and love of play should not have ugly, violent, war pictures before their gaze every day, no have to bear the loss of loved family members or damage to their own bodies. Brisly is giving them her best in art; she is teaching and encouraging through paintings that people risk their lives and freedom to distribute. 

What can we give? What can we do to help? How can we reach a child in Syria's war zone right now to protect and give hope? Some of us may find ways to respond hands-on or in-person, but most of us need to respond metaphysically through extraordinarily powerful prayer that becomes practical even at such a distance to a multitude of young children to decrease violence before their eyes. Let's put the beautiful and meaningful paintings of divine Spirit and Love before their eyes instead. This requires seeing spiritually, a thing more difficult for the more mature and educated ming than for a child who embraces spirituality naturally.

Our effective prayer comes with seeing from God's eyes. See the Light of Love everywhere, gently embracing everything, filling all the space in Syria and all the space around each and every child there. See them surrounded in a gentle but impervious light -- the light that is God whose Word changes chaos to order, and senseless fighting and violence to peace, rest, calm, and joy. God is ever-present and "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (II Corinthians 3:17). 

Urgent Need: Christian refugees held in Thailand

Please see the news article on BBC. 
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35654804

The Christians held in Thailand after fleeing Pakistan

By Chris RogersBBC News, Thailand26 February 2016
There is a very urgent need for practical, powerful prayer in behalf of Pakistani Christians who have fled to Thailand, but are now incarcerated or kept in dire living conditions. The U.N. is to investigate each case, but one family that has been there for a very long time, and is in extreme suffering, must wait until 2018 for this to occur. Although these hundreds, or thousands, of Christian Pakistanis are UN-registered asylum seekers, supposedly under UN protection, they still find themselves in long-term suffering through separation from families and/or imprisonment. 

Police in Thailand, tired of waiting for UN help, break into the overcrowded, dingy rooms where asylum seekers live, often taking the husbands and fathers from the family. An example is given of a ma who has lived in a "small, sparce room with no kitchen or toilet" with 10 family members for two years, and who was arrested and taken from the family two months ago. He explains that in Pakistan "a gang threatened to kill [his] family if they didn't convert to Islam." 
A 19-year-old's comment probably speaks for  the majority when she says that they do not have any faith in the United Nations, but they "only have faith in God. He will bring us freedom." We need to be moved with compassion and help with powerful prayer and voicing of Truth in their behalf. The Scriptures give us examples that parallel situations such as these. Of the many to consider, there is the well-known narrative of Moses who freed the children of Israel after 400 years of hard slavery. They were held by Pharaoh who would not budge in his decision to keep them in bondage. But the Law of God was present, and the Spirit of Truth inevitably brings freedom. Man is not made to be held in bonds or to be imprisoned. 
The result of Moses' obedience to whatever God told him to do or say was that hundreds of thousands were freed and walked out of Egypt in plain sight. This law of God is present today with the Christians in Thailand. They are holding to forgiveness and to Christ's example. Good is powerful, and ever-present. Love frees. God fills all space and is in the prison and in the simple shelters. "Where the spirit of God is, there is liberty." Let us hold to this prayer until we see a break in this situation and the people are freed. Let us know that there is no power to hold up right action in the UN -- that there is nothing to delay God's Law, justice and mercy, so the people can be free, the families can reunite, and the conditions for living be normalized. Let us pray to realize the presence of Love and power of Good. 
Again, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." And Spirit fills all space!

The culprit: Aedes aegypti mosquito / The cure: Truth

The Aedes aegypti mosquito appears to be the culprit in the wide-spread Zika virus epidemic moving through El Salvador and spreading through Latin America. The situation urgently needs our prayerful attention. Symptoms can be very mild, or extremely irritating, but worst of all, the virus from the mosquito bites is transmitted to developing babies in the womb. The situation is so bad that the El Salvador government is urging women not to get pregnant during this year (or even next year). The huge problem for the babies is that the virus aims at the brain, and babies are likely to be born with small heads. There is "no known cure." Or is there?

Due to the fact that Christ Jesus healed "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people" and said that his followers should do so likewise, we should seriously and deeply pray about this situation with a healing prayer. Do not waste time with doubt or wavering, just know the truth as the Master instructed. Know the truth and let it operate to "make free" (John 8:32). What is this healing truth we are to know? Is it not the truth of spiritual reality, the allness of God, omnipotent Good that fills all space and consciousness? The Scripture says that "God is Light" and that there is "no darkness (no evil) in Him at all" (I John 1:5). A virus that is evil and works evil is definitely darkness; a virus that attacked innocent babies in the process of development in the sanctity of the womb, is nothing but dark. But in God, in the infinite Light that is Good filling all space (which includes within the womb), there is "no darkness at all." 

Our healing prayer then is to realize the presence of the Light of God, Good, gently illumining and encompassing the babies, holding them gently in the golden glow of divine Love -- safe. Then know that this prayer, this realization, this truth, is making "free" as Jesus promised. These little ones are free from effects of the great fear collectively and personally aimed toward them in this regard -- they are rather under the Law of Him that is Life and Love, who protects them in the Light of His own Goodness. These little ones are developing in Spirit and Love, exempt from harm or Zika danger -- for there is "no darkness" in the Light that is God -- no evil at all in the infinitude of Love. The babies are in "the secret place of the most High" (Psalm 91:1).

Hold to this truth no matter what, and it will manifest, it will help, it will heal, bless, and protect. 



See full news article:
El Salvador launches fight against Zika
By Katy WatsonBBC Mexico and Central America reporter, El Salvadorhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35455871