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By Cindy McGarvie Youth for Christ Australia – National Director Read: 2 Samuel 23:8-23 Further reading for the week: Deuteronomy 20:1-4, Matt 16:18, Matt 18:18-19, Deuteronomy 28:7 The experts tell us that girls learn emotional intelligence and boys learn heroic intelligence. Boys have the potential [...]

I recently preached through the much-neglected book of Lamentations. Set around the time God’s people were defeated by the Babylonians and subsequently sent into exile, it is a profound expression of godly sorry in the face of severe suffering. What is not immediately obvious to [...]

A CALL TO FAST & PRAY -- WEDNESDAY 26th FEBRUARY It has come to our attention that this show about abortion will be on at the Fringe, starting Tuesday 25th February for 5 days. We would like to join with you in a day of [...]

Editor’s Note: The Canberra Declaration team is supporting the 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting Call for the Lost Boys from Wednesday 26 February – 5 April 2020, initiated by Youth for Christ Australia. We commend this prayer call to you, for your consideration and [...]

As Australia’s moral foundation continues to shake, it is our joy and duty to pray continuously for our country and its leaders and people. But to shift a nation’s destiny, our prayers must be greater than individual supplication. We must join together in corporate agreement. [...]

To God be the Glory. It is raining or it has rained in every state of Australia in the last 5 weeks, and there is lot more rain on its way. (See BOM Rainfall maps below). Ever since the intense burst of prayer in the [...]

14 Let the sunrise of Your love end our dark night. Break through our clouded dawn again! Only You can satisfy our hearts, filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days. 15 We’ve been overwhelmed with grief; come now and overwhelm [...]

Extreme Grace There is always a perfect consummation of time with our Lord; His ways are higher than our ways. We think one thing… but His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Australia has suffered greatly for fifty years as the result of legalized abortion [...]

The Aroma of the Victory “God always makes His grace visible in Christ, who includes us as partners of His endless triumph. Through our yielded lives, He spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go. We have become the unmistakable aroma of [...]

Equipped and Standing Firm Our heavenly Father has given us all we need. We are reminded by the Apostle Paul that we are not fighting against human beings, but our enemy is powerful and evil, operating in the spiritual realm. We are instructed to apply [...]

Persistence to the Call There is a principle Jesus taught when it comes to answered prayer, and that is persistence! Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be [...]

Editor’s Note: The Canberra Declaration team is supporting the 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting for the lost boys of our nation from Wednesday 26 February – 5 April 2020, initiated by Youth for Christ Australia. We commend this prayer call to you, for your [...]

The Earth is the Lord's The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein. ~ Psalm 24:1 Australia and everyone in her belong to the Lord -- we have been given stewardship and dominion to subdue, and to [...]

Prisoners of Hope Returning Whenever the Lord is about to do something great, the enemy murders a generation. When Jesus was born, the babies in Bethlehem under two years of age were slaughtered. In Egypt, Pharaoh commanded the Hebrew babies be left to die at [...]

Destroying the Works of the Enemy One way we can pray is to go into the heavenly courts for a judgment, and to use the Lord’s righteous Judgement/Verdict to administer His Justice in the earth. As we attune our ear to the Lord, He instructs [...]

Jesus, the One You Love is Sick As we look at John 11, the death of Lazarus, we can echo the words of Mary and her sister Martha. They sent word to Jesus, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” We could also [...]

Spirit of Truth “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He [...]

Know our God It is vital to know God and be known by Him, that we remain in such an intimate relationship that we will be able to be exactly where we need to be at any time. In the parable of the five wise [...]

No to Abortion – Australia Choose Life Jesus, Who is the Good Shepherd, invites all to choose Him. Humanity was deceived and was separated by sin, so Christ came to reconcile us back to God. All have been given the choice to believe in the [...]

Let Your Voice Be Heard Many who cling to a socialist pipe dream and side with a globalist agenda are making their way into state parliaments and city councils, and local government all across the nation. It is not enough for these political plotters to [...]