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By Adrienne S. Gaines
The Rev. Johnny Hunter and the Rev. Stephen Broden, both longtime pro-life activists, were taken into custody briefly after holding a "prayer picket" outside the White House to publicly oppose the president’s decision not to participate in the National Day of Prayer (NDOP).
“[It’s] the National Day of Prayer, and the president refuses to participate in it?” said Hunter, who leads the Life Education and Resource Networks (LEARN) in Fayetteville, N.C. “Before at least presidents were nice enough to open their doors and let some Christians come in and pray. … Not this one. So since he wouldn’t do it, we took the prayer to him.”
The ministers said they knew they were risking arrest but held signs saying: “Jesus Christ Is Our Lord and Savior. BHO is not” to protest what they see as a dangerous trend toward broader abortion access and acceptance of homosexuality that has occurred under the Obama administration.
"We believe this republic is under great duress right now and stress, and we believe prayer is the means by which we can change things here in America and in this government,” said Broden, pastor of Fair Park Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas.
“… We prayed that God would either stay the hand of judgment or quicken the hearts of men and women of faith for them to recognize that they need to come to the streets, they need to come to the public square and make it clear that we are not in favor of same-sex marriage, we are not in favor of this scourge … [of abortion], we are not in favor of the kind of trickery and gamesmanships that are being played in the house of Congress and the house of the Senate. We are fed up, and we are tired of what this nation is doing and what are leaders are doing relative to their role and responsibility for protecting our freedoms.”
The pastors joined some 2 million Christians, who met in at least 40,000 venues nationwide, in prayer for the U.S. A national service was held this morning in Washington, D.C., led by Shirley Dobson, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Bible teacher Beth Moore. The event was broadcast live on GOD TV, Sky Angel and at the NDOP Task Force Web site and will re-air at 7:30 p.m. PDT during another prayer event in Los Angeles.
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 Every 15 seconds a person dies from a water-related disease. One in every six people lives without consistent access to safe drinking water. And more than a third of the world's population lacks access to proper sanitation. Those are the statistics that motivated Matt Peterson to start a water bottling company and use the profits to provide clean drinking water in developing nations. Known as Zao—a Greek word meaning "to live"—the Clemmons, N.C.-based company works primarily in Kenya and Tanzania.
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By Larry Keefauver
 Some believers focus exclusively on faith as the key to healing. Yet Jesus healed many who apparently had no faith. Some were healed because their friends had faith. Others were bound up by demonic spirits and healed by exorcism, even against their wills.
The truth is that God heals. The myth is that God always heals now at the initiative of our faith.
Faith teacher Frederick K.C. Price has asserted: "The seventh method of receiving healing—[which] I believe is the highest kind of faith—is the highest way to receive healing...If you believe you receive it, you will confess that: 'Bless God, I believe I am healed. I believe I have received my healing...I believe that it is so. I believe that I can walk in divine health all the days of my life.' You are reading after one man who will never be sick, and I'm not being presumptuous."
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