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11th January 2019
Dear faithful Lydias,
As we stand at the gate of this New Year how blessed we are to know the Lord is still in control despite the chaos and confusion we are seeing in our parliament and the news media.
Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendour, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honour come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 1 Chronicles 29:11-12
I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:2 The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. Psalm 135:6
Last February I was able to visit the Churchill War Rooms in London shortly after seeing the film Darkest Hour at the cinema. The War Rooms became the centre for strategy, intelligence, and military decision making during World War and the photos above show the two most significant rooms, the Cabinet Room and the Map Room. I was deeply impacted by the way in which Churchill stood alone in 1940 against all the voices clamouring to appease Hitler. He was God’s choice to inspire and lead Britain at a time of overwhelming crisis and existential threat. David Tidy wrote in a recent email - “I sense that there is a need for a war cabinet against the enemy’s infiltration into the Church and into the Nation. We are the forerunner to His return; we should be manifesting Him and His Kingdom as the Body of Christ prior to His
return. We are to be pillars of the truth and we must stand firmly on the unadulterated word of God.”
I have recently re-read the leaflet written by Campbell McAlpine in 2003 - A Call For Praying Women in a time of crisis. The words he wrote are so relevant to us in this present hour: Most people would acknowledge that the term ‘crisis’ accurately expresses our present situation, domestically, locally, nationally and internationally. God is sending a wake-up call to women, to arise and hear what God is saying! God greatly values His women .... and you! Nations and situations were affected in history by praying women such as Deborah, Esther, Hannah, Anna and many others. Will you join them? Like and Esther... “You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” Esther 4 v 14 The need of the hour is for women to pray, call and cry. Crises bring cries. The great need in the CHURCH of God today, is to be revived, united, empowered.
We need God’s strategy and God’s plans. Let us pray, call and cry for all in authority, that God will raise up leaders of integrity, and to see all Christians in government to be lights that shine in the darkness. How the world needs JESUS.
What a privilege to be living at this time in history! We are in the last days. Prophecy is being fulfilled. We desperately need Divine intervention. God does everything as a result of prayer. Each one of you is alive for ‘such a time as this.’ Be encouraged that where God calls, He always provides and equips. Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with
everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13 v 20, 21
We do not meet and gather in a physical war room but the Lord invites each one of us to approach His throne boldly.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4 v 16 The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. Psalm 25 v 14
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants the prophets. Amos 3 v 7 This is not a time to hold back but rather a time to seek God and pursue His strategy with purity of heart and a true fear of the Lord.
Much love, Kath xx
Lydia England Co-ordinator
Dear faithful Lydias,
As we stand at the gate of this New Year how blessed we are to know the Lord is still in control despite the chaos and confusion we are seeing in our parliament and the news media.
Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendour, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honour come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 1 Chronicles 29:11-12
I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:2 The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. Psalm 135:6
Last February I was able to visit the Churchill War Rooms in London shortly after seeing the film Darkest Hour at the cinema. The War Rooms became the centre for strategy, intelligence, and military decision making during World War and the photos above show the two most significant rooms, the Cabinet Room and the Map Room. I was deeply impacted by the way in which Churchill stood alone in 1940 against all the voices clamouring to appease Hitler. He was God’s choice to inspire and lead Britain at a time of overwhelming crisis and existential threat. David Tidy wrote in a recent email - “I sense that there is a need for a war cabinet against the enemy’s infiltration into the Church and into the Nation. We are the forerunner to His return; we should be manifesting Him and His Kingdom as the Body of Christ prior to His
return. We are to be pillars of the truth and we must stand firmly on the unadulterated word of God.”
I have recently re-read the leaflet written by Campbell McAlpine in 2003 - A Call For Praying Women in a time of crisis. The words he wrote are so relevant to us in this present hour: Most people would acknowledge that the term ‘crisis’ accurately expresses our present situation, domestically, locally, nationally and internationally. God is sending a wake-up call to women, to arise and hear what God is saying! God greatly values His women .... and you! Nations and situations were affected in history by praying women such as Deborah, Esther, Hannah, Anna and many others. Will you join them? Like and Esther... “You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” Esther 4 v 14 The need of the hour is for women to pray, call and cry. Crises bring cries. The great need in the CHURCH of God today, is to be revived, united, empowered.
We need God’s strategy and God’s plans. Let us pray, call and cry for all in authority, that God will raise up leaders of integrity, and to see all Christians in government to be lights that shine in the darkness. How the world needs JESUS.
What a privilege to be living at this time in history! We are in the last days. Prophecy is being fulfilled. We desperately need Divine intervention. God does everything as a result of prayer. Each one of you is alive for ‘such a time as this.’ Be encouraged that where God calls, He always provides and equips. Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with
everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13 v 20, 21
We do not meet and gather in a physical war room but the Lord invites each one of us to approach His throne boldly.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4 v 16 The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. Psalm 25 v 14
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants the prophets. Amos 3 v 7 This is not a time to hold back but rather a time to seek God and pursue His strategy with purity of heart and a true fear of the Lord.
Much love, Kath xx
Lydia England Co-ordinator