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Prayers: Matt. 6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Your Name... Your Kingdom Come.'" When we pray for this, we are praying for two things. Firstly, we are praying for the end – not an end that the [...]

By Mathew Wright Workshop Presenter – Youth for Christ Australia Read: Psalm 16:11, 17:15, 23, 34:4-10 It’s been a crazy few weeks in Australia as together we fight the spread of COVID-19. But there is a much more insidious plague that crept into our society [...]

Prayers: Matt. 6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Your name… When we pray, we are asking for God’s name to be glorified – not ours. Hallowed means ‘make holy’ or treat as holy. We live in [...]

COVID-19 has wrecked havoc on events, meetings, celebrations, and religious services all over the world. It was just announced today that Australians can no longer gather indoors when there are more than 100 people in attendance. In America, that number is 10. Churches are amongst [...]

Prayers: How can we pray? There are hundreds of books written about prayer – how can we pray in this crisis that we face? Let’s do what the disciples did and ask Jesus. His answer? Matt. 6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “ [...]

Prayers: Today's lead prayer is from the Book of Common Prayer – written at a time when plague was far more common than it is for many of us today: “O God, who knows us to be set in the midst of so many and [...]

Editor’s Note: Barbara Miller has written a very prescient article regarding the Coronavirus called, “PANDEMIC, PANGOLIN, PANDEMONIUM, PAN – BUT BE CAREFUL HOW WE PRAY LEST WE ARE FOUND OPPOSING GOD”. This article below, written in response to the terrorist attacks by David Wilkerson in [...]

Pandemic, pangolin, pandemonium, panic, Pan. What do all these have in common – a false god called Pan who creates panic. But let’s come back to that. When there is a crisis, before praying, we need to ask ourselves if this comes from God or [...]

Read: Luke 15: 11-32 Research out of the US is showing that Gen Z, our current teenagers, are the least Christian generation ever (Barna). Australia seems to be in the same position, with many young people walking away from the church, and oftentimes, God. Just [...]

Editor's Note: This letter from a pastor in the Chinese church in the city of Wuhan is brought to us by China Source. We commend their website to your support. ___ Brothers and sisters, peace be upon you: During these past days the Wuhan pneumonia [...]

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 [...]