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The Daily Brief
"Praying for All in Authority"
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV)
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Introduction
Introduction
Saints of God, as we who are watchmen on the wall all know, in this hour there is MUCH to watch and to pray over -- both in our nation and around the world -- as we monitor the spread of the coronavirus.
In this Special Edition of the Daily Brief, we will share three articles with you, inviting you to pray over each one and to send this information along to others.
Those articles are:
1. Praying for Vice President Mike Pence, as he leads the Task Force on the Coronavirus Outbreak for President Trump. (Published by LifeSiteNews, with a petition included.)
2. Information from a medical professional. Due to space limitations on our Brief, we will divide this news into three separate components, labeled "Medical Alert: Part One"; "Medical Alert: Part Two" and so on.
3. Finally, we will share the website for an article from Jerry Golden, based solidly on Scripture, entitled "The Beginning of Sorrows."
> > > Once again, our desire is not to create an atmosphere of fear or of panic about this medical news, but simply to relay the most accurate information possible about this outbreak, as well as to provide a biblical perspective of this global epidemic.
Thank you, all.
Offering tonight the "sacrifice of praise,"
Sara C. Ballenger, President
Capitol Hill Prayer Partners
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Pray for Vice President Mike Pence
PETITION: Support Mike Pence in prayer to fight coronavirus
Sara,
Vice President Pence is right: We need to ask help from God first, and then get to work . . . instead of political point-scoring over the coronavirus.
This petition, addressed to the Senate and House majority leaders, asks our politicians to unite, to protect Americans as much as humanly possible -- and then, to leave the rest to God.
Please sign this important petition. Thank you!
> > > Background:
Before starting their meeting on Monday, Mike Pence's Coronavirus Task Force was pictured in prayer at the White House (as above).
As soon as word got out, Democratic politicians, and their sidekicks in the media, started to criticize and mock the Vice President's and the White House's effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the United States.
- Democratic Candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders called it "disgusting."
- Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren falsely accused the Trump Administration of having no plan, despite the CDC having already issued a risk assessment and planned response.
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi stated that the President doesn't know what he's talking about, when he is talking about the spread of the virus.
Please CLICK HERE to learn more about this petition. Then, please SIGN!
Prayer should be the natural starting-point for any major undertaking, especially one involving potentially life-and-death decisions.
And, this is clearly not the time to politicize a deadly virus.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition, and pray for wisdom to prevail among our politicians - not trading political barbs - as they work to protect Americans from the coronavirus.
Yours faithfully,
Scott Schittl and the whole Team at LifeSite
Medical Alert: Part One
Medical Alert: Part One
By James R., MD
[Name withheld upon request]
Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Dear Colleagues,
As some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.
The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.
Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:
1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been. 6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!
Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.
Medical Alert: Part Two
Medical Alert: Part Two
What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth - it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY "cold-like" symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are other brands available
Medical Alert: Part Three
Medical Alert: Part Three
Closing Comments
I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.
I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of us! Jim
James R., MD
The Beginning of Sorrows
The beginning of sorrows
By Jerry Golden
Jerusalem, Israel
3-3-2020
So many things are happening so fast it's difficult to write the following without thinking the readers will believe, or think, I should have said this or that, but the this or that takes volumes not a one or two page report. But whether you're Pre, Pro or No rapture you must believe Matthew 24: is straight to the point and easy to understand.
This is not a report on the Rapture but about the time we now find ourselves living in.
These following verses in Matthew are for the Believers in Yeshua, it is speaking about what is happening globally today and what is about to happen.
Matthew
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
[7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
(Read the entire article by going here.)
The Daily Jot
Tuesday, March 3m 2020
The false prophets of Coronavirus
Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden and a host of others in the Democratic Party stable are trying to make the case that Donald Trump is at fault for spreading coronavirus in the United States and around the world. Biden said on Monday's MSNBC's "The Last Word," "The whole question on crises is how much credibility a president has. No matter who the president is, [he] speaks for the nation, and gives great concern to and/or brings some solace to the rest of the world. And this president has-this is not a political comment. It's a literal comment-He has no credibility on this issue." Other Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Michael Bloomberg and the media say the same.
They are repeating that President Trump has called the current flu scare a hoax (not true), and that he has no plan on how to prevent spread of the virus in the US. They are calling it "Trumpvirus" in a New York Times editorial, and are spreading fear across the nation with their comments. Let's look at the facts so far provided by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and other organizations. There are 91,320 confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide. There have been 3,118 deaths reported (a little over 3%). 48,155 have recovered. China, with 80,151 cases, leads the world with South Korea, Italy, and Iran each having over 1,500 cases. The US has 105 confirmed cases and six deaths.
Here is something to think about. The Centers for Disease Control estimates in its weekly Influenza Surveillance Report, "that so far this season there have been at least 32 million flue illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths from flu." CDC reported, "The percentage of death attributed to pneumonia and influenza is 6.9 percent, below the epidemic threshold of 7.3 percent. Key indicators that track flu activity remain high but decreased for the second week in a row. Severity indicators (hospitalizations and deaths) remain moderate to low overall, but hospitalization rates differ by age group, with high rates among children and young adults." Coronavirus in the US is far less a threat than the general flu.
Yet, the Democrats are using scare tactics and politicizing coronavirus. Biden says being presidential is to "bring some solace to the rest of the world," but he and his political buddies are doing just the opposite. The media is doing the same thing. During times of potential crisis, it is best to keep a level head and focus on the facts. Yes, the coronavirus could explode, especially with the lack of border security, which is something else the democrats are adamant about. You see, what people say and what people do contribute to all of this. Christ said in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." We can see plainly who are the false prophets of coronavirus; their fruits are deception
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Capitol Hill Prayer Partners (CHPP) is a ministry which is positioned on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., helping members of the Body of Christ to "pray for those in authority over us" in our federal government. Our primary purpose is to offer intercession on site for the members of Congress and their staffs each day that the Senate and the House of Representatives are in session; and our chief prayer focus is that "God's will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." [Matthew 6:10].
Because Jesus Christ has shed His blood for all, we, too, pray for ALL, in a nonpartisan manner. Also, because the scriptures indicate that "the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" (James 4:17), we are confident that fervent prayer, offered in the halls of the highest chambers of government in our land, can avail much for America. Capitol Hill Prayer Partners welcomes those who feel called to join us, engaging in this strategic work of intercession for our nation: "For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God." [Romans 13:1]
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