Welcome to the Impact Prayer Team's Monthly Prayer and Praise Update!
We are encouraged when we see God work, and even more so when we know He’s answering our prayers. Back in October, I shared a praise report concerning our Messenger project. I told you how In Touch would provide 50,000 solar-powered, handheld audio players to U.S. troops.
This month, I’m happy to announce that In Touch plans to send an additional 30,000 Messengers to men and women serving overseas. We are also translating the Messenger into Spanish, French, Arabic and Mandarin to deliver even more biblical teaching worldwide.
Please join me in praising God for how faithfully He’s provided for this initiative. We’re trusting God to continue encouraging and inspiring servicemen and servicewomen through the Messenger. Also, ask Him to bless and empower In Touch as we seek to use the Messenger as a tool for sharing the gospel around the world.
Thank you for your faithful prayer support of In Touch Ministries. We rejoice in God’s faithfulness and ask you to please forward this message to friends and family who also can pray for this ministry. Together, through God's grace, we are impacting lives for eternity.
Prayerfully yours,
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030901429.html
The FARC's Guardian Angel
By Jackson DiehlMonday, March 10, 2008; Page A15
Latin American nations and the Bush administration spent the past week loudly arguing over what censure, if any, Colombia should face for a bombing raid that killed one of the top leaders of the FARC terrorist group at a jungle camp in Ecuador. More quietly, they are just beginning to consider a far more serious and potentially explosive question: What to do about the revelation that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez forged a strategic alliance with the FARC aimed at Colombia's democratic government.
First reports of the documents recovered from laptops at the FARC camp spoke of promises by Chávez to deliver up to $300 million to a group renowned for kidnapping, drug trafficking and massacres of civilians; they also showed that Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa was prepared to remove from his own army officers who objected to the FARC's Ecuadoran bases.
But in their totality, the hundreds of pages of documents so far made public by Colombia paint an even more chilling picture. The raid appears to have preempted a breathtakingly ambitious "strategic plan" agreed on by Chávez and the FARC with the initial goal of gaining international recognition for a movement designated a terrorist organization by both the United States and Europe. Chávez then intended to force Colombian President Álvaro Uribe to negotiate a political settlement with the FARC, and to promote a candidate allied with Chávez and the FARC to take power from Uribe.
All this is laid out in a series of three e-mails sent in February to the FARC's top leaders by Iván Márquez and Rodrigo Granda, envoys who held a series of secret meetings with Chávez. Judging from the memos, Chávez did most of the talking: He outlined a five-stage plan for undermining Uribe's government, beginning with the release of several of the scores of hostages the FARC is holding.
The first e-mail, dated Feb. 8, discusses the money: It says that Chávez, whom they call "angel," "has the first 50 [million] available and has a plan to get us the remaining 200 in the course of the year." Chávez proposed sending the first "packet" of money "through the black market in order to avoid problems." He said more could be arranged by giving the FARC a quota of petroleum to sell abroad or gasoline to retail in Colombia or Venezuela.
Chávez then got to the plans that most interested him. He wanted the FARC to propose collecting all of its hostages in the open, possibly in Venezuela, for a proposed exchange for 500 FARC prisoners in Colombian jails. Chávez said he would travel to the area for a meeting with the FARC's top leader, Manuel Marulanda, and said the presidents of Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia would accompany him. Meanwhile, Chávez said he would set up a new diplomatic group, composed of those countries and the FARC, plus Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, for the purpose of recognizing the FARC as a legitimate "belligerent" in Colombia and forcing Uribe into releasing its prisoners.
In "the early morning hours," the FARC envoys recounted in a Feb. 9 e-mail, Chávez reached the subject of whether the release of Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who is the FARC's best-known hostage, would complicate his plan to back a pro-FARC alternative to Uribe. "He invites the FARC to participate in a few sessions of analysis he has laid out for following the Colombian political situation," the e-mail concluded.
Assuming these documents are authentic -- and it's hard to believe that the cerebral and calculating Uribe would knowingly hand over forgeries to the world media and the Organization of American States -- both the Bush administration and Latin American governments will have fateful decisions to make about Chávez. His reported actions are, first of all, a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373, passed in September 2001, which prohibits all states from providing financing or havens to terrorist organizations. More directly, the Colombian evidence would be more than enough to justify a State Department decision to cite Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism. Once cited, Venezuela would be subject to a number of automatic sanctions, some of which could complicate its continuing export of oil to the United States. A cutoff would temporarily inconvenience Americans -- and cripple Venezuela, which could have trouble selling its heavy oil in other markets.
For now, the Bush administration appears anxious to avoid this kind of confrontation. U.S. intelligence agencies are analyzing the Colombian evidence; officials say they will share any conclusions with key Latin American governments. Yet those governments have mostly shrunk from confronting Chávez in the past, and some have quietly urged Bush to take him on. If the president decides to ignore clear evidence that Venezuela has funded and conspired with an officially designated terrorist organization, he will flout what has been his first principle since Sept. 11, 2001.
Enquanto esse outro jornalista diz que eh tudo falso!
www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/
The FARC's Guardian Angel
By Jackson DiehlMonday, March 10, 2008; Page A15
Latin American nations and the Bush administration spent the past week loudly arguing over what censure, if any, Colombia should face for a bombing raid that killed one of the top leaders of the FARC terrorist group at a jungle camp in Ecuador. More quietly, they are just beginning to consider a far more serious and potentially explosive question: What to do about the revelation that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez forged a strategic alliance with the FARC aimed at Colombia's democratic government.
First reports of the documents recovered from laptops at the FARC camp spoke of promises by Chávez to deliver up to $300 million to a group renowned for kidnapping, drug trafficking and massacres of civilians; they also showed that Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa was prepared to remove from his own army officers who objected to the FARC's Ecuadoran bases.
But in their totality, the hundreds of pages of documents so far made public by Colombia paint an even more chilling picture. The raid appears to have preempted a breathtakingly ambitious "strategic plan" agreed on by Chávez and the FARC with the initial goal of gaining international recognition for a movement designated a terrorist organization by both the United States and Europe. Chávez then intended to force Colombian President Álvaro Uribe to negotiate a political settlement with the FARC, and to promote a candidate allied with Chávez and the FARC to take power from Uribe.
All this is laid out in a series of three e-mails sent in February to the FARC's top leaders by Iván Márquez and Rodrigo Granda, envoys who held a series of secret meetings with Chávez. Judging from the memos, Chávez did most of the talking: He outlined a five-stage plan for undermining Uribe's government, beginning with the release of several of the scores of hostages the FARC is holding.
The first e-mail, dated Feb. 8, discusses the money: It says that Chávez, whom they call "angel," "has the first 50 [million] available and has a plan to get us the remaining 200 in the course of the year." Chávez proposed sending the first "packet" of money "through the black market in order to avoid problems." He said more could be arranged by giving the FARC a quota of petroleum to sell abroad or gasoline to retail in Colombia or Venezuela.
Chávez then got to the plans that most interested him. He wanted the FARC to propose collecting all of its hostages in the open, possibly in Venezuela, for a proposed exchange for 500 FARC prisoners in Colombian jails. Chávez said he would travel to the area for a meeting with the FARC's top leader, Manuel Marulanda, and said the presidents of Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia would accompany him. Meanwhile, Chávez said he would set up a new diplomatic group, composed of those countries and the FARC, plus Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, for the purpose of recognizing the FARC as a legitimate "belligerent" in Colombia and forcing Uribe into releasing its prisoners.
In "the early morning hours," the FARC envoys recounted in a Feb. 9 e-mail, Chávez reached the subject of whether the release of Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who is the FARC's best-known hostage, would complicate his plan to back a pro-FARC alternative to Uribe. "He invites the FARC to participate in a few sessions of analysis he has laid out for following the Colombian political situation," the e-mail concluded.
Assuming these documents are authentic -- and it's hard to believe that the cerebral and calculating Uribe would knowingly hand over forgeries to the world media and the Organization of American States -- both the Bush administration and Latin American governments will have fateful decisions to make about Chávez. His reported actions are, first of all, a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373, passed in September 2001, which prohibits all states from providing financing or havens to terrorist organizations. More directly, the Colombian evidence would be more than enough to justify a State Department decision to cite Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism. Once cited, Venezuela would be subject to a number of automatic sanctions, some of which could complicate its continuing export of oil to the United States. A cutoff would temporarily inconvenience Americans -- and cripple Venezuela, which could have trouble selling its heavy oil in other markets.
For now, the Bush administration appears anxious to avoid this kind of confrontation. U.S. intelligence agencies are analyzing the Colombian evidence; officials say they will share any conclusions with key Latin American governments. Yet those governments have mostly shrunk from confronting Chávez in the past, and some have quietly urged Bush to take him on. If the president decides to ignore clear evidence that Venezuela has funded and conspired with an officially designated terrorist organization, he will flout what has been his first principle since Sept. 11, 2001.
Enquanto esse outro jornalista diz que eh tudo falso!
www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/
Sunday, March 2, 2008
O meu falar, o meu pensar, o meu sentir, o meu agir..
“Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. . . . Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Eph. 4:25,29)."
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Elias x Joao Batista
Mateus 17: "... e tiveram grande medo.
7E, aproximando-se Jesus, tocou-lhes, e disse: Levantai-vos, e não tenhais medo.
8E, erguendo eles os olhos, ninguém viram senão unicamente a Jesus.
9E, descendo eles do monte, Jesus lhes ordenou, dizendo: A ninguém conteis a visão, até que o Filho do homem seja ressuscitado dentre os mortos.
10E os seus discípulos o interrogaram, dizendo: Por que dizem então os escribas que é mister que Elias venha primeiro?
11E Jesus, respondendo, disse-lhes: Em verdade Elias virá primeiro, e restaurará todas as coisas;
12Mas digo-vos que Elias já veio, e não o conheceram, mas fizeram-lhe tudo o que quiseram. Assim farão eles também padecer o Filho do homem.
13Então entenderam os discípulos que lhes falara de João o Batista."
Joao Batista preparou o caminho para o Senhor. Ele era "a voz que clamava no deserto.." (Isaias 40:1-3).
7E, aproximando-se Jesus, tocou-lhes, e disse: Levantai-vos, e não tenhais medo.
8E, erguendo eles os olhos, ninguém viram senão unicamente a Jesus.
9E, descendo eles do monte, Jesus lhes ordenou, dizendo: A ninguém conteis a visão, até que o Filho do homem seja ressuscitado dentre os mortos.
10E os seus discípulos o interrogaram, dizendo: Por que dizem então os escribas que é mister que Elias venha primeiro?
11E Jesus, respondendo, disse-lhes: Em verdade Elias virá primeiro, e restaurará todas as coisas;
12Mas digo-vos que Elias já veio, e não o conheceram, mas fizeram-lhe tudo o que quiseram. Assim farão eles também padecer o Filho do homem.
13Então entenderam os discípulos que lhes falara de João o Batista."
Joao Batista preparou o caminho para o Senhor. Ele era "a voz que clamava no deserto.." (Isaias 40:1-3).
Songbird In The Dark
Malaquias 4:2
"Mas para vós, os que temeis o meu nome, nascerá o sol da justiça, e cura trará nas suas asas;..."
"Mas para vós, os que temeis o meu nome, nascerá o sol da justiça, e cura trará nas suas asas;..."
"For the Christian, the dark sorrows of earth will one day be changed into the bright songs of heaven."
"Para os cristaos, os sofrimentos escuros da terra um dia serao transformados em brilhantes cancoes no ceu."
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Best Friend
"Em Jesus amigo temosMais chegado que um irmao,
Ele manda que levemos
Tudo a Deus em oracao.
Oh que paz perdemos sempre,
Oh que dor no coracao,
So porque nos nao levamos
Tudo a Deus em oracao."
"I’ve found a Friend, O such a Friend!
He loved me ere I knew Him;
He drew me with the cords of love,
And thus He bound me to Him. —Small
Jesus is the only faultless Friend you’ll ever find."
He loved me ere I knew Him;
He drew me with the cords of love,
And thus He bound me to Him. —Small
Jesus is the only faultless Friend you’ll ever find."
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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