Streaming Praise Radio Blog

2009-07-14T17:20:00.000-07:00

ZIKLAG
T H E F I N A L R E F O R M A T I O N

Created by Samuel Buckner

WHAT IS ZIKLAG?
Ziklag was the place where David lived while on the run from King Saul. He lived in many places during his years as a fugitive running from the enemy of his destiny. However, Ziklag was David’s final address before he walked through the door of God’s purpose for his life and became the King of Judah in Israel. While held up in Ziklag, David experienced one of the most devastating setbacks of his entire life. This obscure passage of scripture marks the end of David’s state as a fugitive and the beginning of his reign as King. Many bible scholars overlook Ziklag and it is seldom preached. These few verses of scripture contain a simple, yet remarkable revelation of personal and spiritual triumph that liberates the vanquished souls of men, and catapults them to their called place in the Kingdom of God.

Saul’s purpose was to prevent David from entering into the place God had ordained for him. This final destination or personal destiny of David was the office of the King of Israel. David’s battle began at the tender age of young boy when the Prophet Samuel anointed him. It was from this day forward that the battle for his destiny began.

So often in our lives we are beset by the devices of the enemy that try to wipe us out before we come into our purpose, calling and destiny. The adversary is always at work to this end and has many tricks and traps and may even work through and operate in people around us to throw us off course. In the book of I Sa. 16:23 we discover that Saul was driven by an evil spirit that entered into him as a result of his own rebellion and this spirit sought to kill David. It is important for us not to mistake flesh and blood as our true enemy when we encounter the opposition that stands between us and our destiny. Saul was operating under demonic influences from the moment David was anointed as a young man.

The word of God declares that an evil spirit from the Lord was sent to torment Saul. Strikingly this occurs directly following David’s anointing by the Prophet.
God puts one in position and gives him anointing to do a thing and at the same time God removes it from another who had failed at the task.[1]

I am sure many would agree that they have experienced attacks similar to this when true destiny is near. The enemy increases the fight when he recognizes the destiny of the called believers. Therefore, if you are a man or woman of God with problems and adversities in your life, rest assured that it is because of your awesome destiny in God. The enemy wants to keep you from your appointment with destiny and your Ziklag experience.

Ziklag was given to David by King Achish of Gath when he was running from Saul. David found refuge from King Saul here in the enemy’s camp. David used Ziklag for a home base for raids against various groups who threatened the southern borders of Judah (I Sam 27). Although it was under Philistine ownership through King Achish, it was given to David as a place of refuge and separation from the Phillistine army.[2]

Ziklag was originally given to the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:20,31). Ziklag means winding as in springing from a fountain. Ziklag was a place of transition, a place of regeneration, preparation and it was a hiding place for David. It was David’s final address before becoming King and in Ziklag he spent his last nights as a refugee before being crowned as a king.

While David was with King Achish preparing for the battle the Amelekites invaded Ziklag. The Amalekites ransacked his home base and took off with all his stuff, including his family[3]. When David returned he found his home and his stuff in ashes; smoke bellowing from his roof. All had been lost, including his family and the wives of his 600 men or war. Smashed by the devastation, David and his men cried until they had no more power to cry[4]. David was looking at his entire life’s worth in ashes. I can see him standing there looking at his home still smoking and just falling in the still smoldering ashes and weeping for hours. This kind of devastation will bring you to your knees and cause you to wonder if God is alive.

This situation is very much like what has happened to the church. We have gone about with the mind set of “business as usual” and have not realized that the enemy has made off with our stuff and has left the church in ashes. The power and the wonder of the church was ransacked by the enemy. In this hour we are seeing a recovery of our spiritual gifts, biblical methods, and supernatural Holy Ghost power.

Have you ever wept at what the enemy has taken from you or have you just accepted the lie of the enemy that you will never get your breakthrough? Have you ever just felt that all was lost and your stuff was gone? Isn’t that just like an enemy; all that could not be carried off was burnt up to add insult to your injury. In this hour the church of America is crying out to God for what has been lost and is yearning for God to give the strategy for the recovery of the lost power in these last days.

The 600 men that followed him during his time on the lamb wept also. Once they stopped weeping they were ready to fight. They just didn’t know who to fight so they turned their anger on the one they loved. The Bible says they spoke of stoning David. These were men who trusted David and honored him as their leader and followed him even into the camp of the Philistines who were the enemies of Israel for hundreds of years. These were men that had trusted their lives unto David and they now wanted to kill him.

Have you ever had someone you loved and trusted turn on you in the heat of struggle? It seems like when things can get no worse our loved ones and trusted friends often turn on us and want to walk away; or worse yet stone us for their misery.

In large, what remains in the church world of America is a crop of divisive, complaining, powerless, gossiping, small minded and selfish people who are ready to fight but are focusing their fight amiss. They are not focusing the fight on the enemy. The churches fight each other and refuse to work together and set up denominational borders and territories. The Christian cold war, of who can amass the largest choir, building and Cadillac is being waged by preachers all around America. The church of North America has no concept of spiritual warfare, like David’s men they are looking to fight each other and not the true enemy. The true enemy of the North American Church is greed, envy, lust, apathy and complacency.

America has sat high on the hog for the last 80 years without a major economic depression and has grown more and more affluent each decade. America has it’s problems to be sure, but compared to other countries we remain the homeland of choice for the inhabitants of the world. The affluence and lack of dedication to the lost and prayerfulness of our spiritual leaders has allowed the enemy to come in slowly and steal the true substance of a once great church. Where are the miracles? Where are the wonders and signs that the Bible says the church should operate in? I here of them happening in foreign lands, but not in America; we are still bound in complacency and asleep. God will soon wake us up to the fact that we can recover all. This is not too far off in our future.

When David heard the news he told the resident priest to go get him his prayer cloth and the bible says that he encouraged himself in the Lord his God[5]. (I Sa. 30:6). I can see David with dirt and ashes on his face and mud and dirt between his fingernails reaching up towards God and saying “My God shall provide all my needs, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High God shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” David began to sing songs and worship God and revive his spirit.

The difference between what he was doing and what his 600 mighty men were doing is the determining factor. David praised and sought God for a plan. What are we doing in America as it relates to moving the people of God towards the promises of God for end time believers? Have we become so content with trappings of this life that we no longer earnestly yearn for the true manifestations of the sons of God? We can go on to recover the power that once inhabited the church of the living God or go on pretending that it doesn’t really matter. Will we grow up and go up to what God is calling us to become or stand in a perpetual holding pattern and continue making excuses for our lack of spiritual power, authority and kingdom results.

Great man made results are easily dwarfed by kingdom miracles. Those results draw millions to the Lord. Who’s results are we yearning for? Have we been hoodwinked by the enemy to think that our results are supernatural? What is our measuring stick? Since we compare ourselves against ourselves we limit and restrict faith of God to expect supernatural miraculous results when laboring in kingdom business.

THE CHARGE – GO GET YOUR STUFF
David began to encourage himself in the Lord and once he felt encouraged and lifted up and had some hope about his situation he then turned to the lord and asked shall I go after this troop? What troop are you pursuing? David asked God about the specific situation and God responded. “Pursue: for you will surely overtake them and without fail, recover all!”

Wow! What a word from God. God said to David that he would not fail and would recover all. How long will the church sit complaining and fighting one another and trying to one up one another? When will we pinpoint the true enemy, which is, prayerlessness and lack of dedication. God requires a sold out individual through which to channel his glory and his power. This person does not have to be perfect, just sold out and fully committed to live like Christ in every way. No excuses! The Church has too many self made plans going out to battle that simply do not render results.

We are fighting each other while we think we are binding devils. It’s time to get the Lord’s battle plan for America so that we can operate in full kingdom authority. David was anointed to be King at the age of thirteen and did not become king until he was 30 years old. During this 17 year process God was shaping David to be the King. He was 30 years old with 17 years of King’s schooling baked in before he was ready to carry the calling. Even then he only got a portion of the promise as he was anointed king over Judah only at age 30. It was 7 years later that he was anointed King over all Israel. Therefore, the promise took 24 years of preparation before he could carry the calling/commissioning.

Once the battle plan was in hand David moved without hesitation. David did not wait a week or a month to act. He acted immediately. The very next verse starts off with, “So David went, he and six hundred men that were with him.” David got up and went off to execute the battle plan! How many times have you heard the word of the Lord come into your spirit in a service or a book or tape or perhaps God spoke directly to you about a battle plan and you stood still in fear and apathy? How many days, weeks, months and years have crept by us as we have held on to this battle plan and knew that it was from God. God gives out battle plans that may cause you to suffer or endure hardship but, he offers a full guarantee in that you will not fail! Failure is not an option with God’s battle plan for your life. I Sa. 30:8 says you will not fail if it is the battle plan of the Lord. Prophetically, I can tell you that there are some reading this right now with supernatural destiny and ministry callings that have refused to sell out completely.

As a result of complacency and making excuses they have not entered into their calling or commissioning. It is all on hold until they develop the character and the discipline required to carry the calling. God will wait until the appropriate time before he builds; being the master builder and the potter he does not go to work until we are ready. Are you ready? When will you be ready?

THE FINAL REFORMATION BEGINS
It is time for the church to rise up and put the plan in place that God has given us to work. The church of America is impotent when compared to the first century church. We are in dyer need of a reformation movement. The people are merchandise and the ministers are compromised and there is no demonstration of God’s power because there are no true Apostles in our midst. God is raising them up, even now to restore the church back to it’s pristine position of power and preeminence. This restoration move of God will bring back the Apostle and Prophet ministries.

Ziklag is the place of final preparation and is the launch pad for kingdom ministry. This form of ministry is full and complete and is built upon years of foundational preparation. The body of Christ as a whole is converging upon Ziklag and the call to order is being made. The body is waking up to the fact that we have been burglarized by the enemy and the spiritual gifts and power that were bestowed on the bride are all but gone. The church of America has been burglarized of it’s supernatural power and we must inquiry of God as to how to recover it from the enemy. Men and women of God are mobilizing all over the world and recovering what the enemy has stolen. North America is being prepared and the Pastors are being shaken and God is going to perform a mighty work between 2005 and 2008 in North America. There will be an incredible surge of revolutionary ministry sparked all around the country in 2007 and 2008. Men will rise up and call the church to arms against truth compromisers and challenge them to go and recover the pure truth’s of God’s Word. A new standard against spiritual compromise is being raised in this hour and the stuff being recovered is the supernatural power of the Spirit of God in operation where signs, wonders, and miracles are manifested.

[1] I Sam. 16:13-14
[2] I Sa.27:5
[3] I Sam. 30:1
[4] I Sam. 30:4
[5] I Sam. 30:6

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2009-06-01T18:43:00.001-07:00

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2009-05-26T08:54:00.000-07:00

The Eyes of The Lord

2009-05-18T03:57:00.000-07:00

The Bible says, "For The Eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him." - 2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV

Many of you are going through a season of transition. You have questions, you're facing some violent battles at work, home or just in your own minds. I pray as you read this that your spirit be open and seeking God's face this day...and that you stretch that out to the end of this week. As you can see from the scripture above, God wants to show up and fight for you. But, only if your heart is for him.

I see husbands/significant others taking care of their wives/girlfriends. From shelding their ladies by walking closest to the traffic on the street, to taking up for them when the occasion arises due to poor customer service. Whatever it is, these men show themselves strong because they love their lady. Well, how much more is your heavenly Father willing to show himself strong for you? The bride of Christ?

If you've let other things take a hold of your mind or attention, you've allowed that thing or person to be the lord of your life. Whether it be worry, fear or even aniexty. Make up in your mind to rely on God today and EXPECT him to show up for you. Men like that (LOL).

Father, please heal the hearts, open the eyes, and bring peace to the minds of the person reading this message. Remind us that you alone are God.

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Peace. Love. Wisdom & Understanding.

Liberty

2009-05-10T17:30:00.001-07:00

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The Seed

2009-04-30T12:32:00.000-07:00

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.

Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.

"The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special SEED.

I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you.

I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO."

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed.

Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.
Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing.
By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however... He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection.

Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right.

He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- in all shapes and sizes.

Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives.

Jim just tried to hide in the back.. "My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!"

All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front.

Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"

When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed - Jim told him the story.

The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer! His name is Jim!"

Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed.

"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.

Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.

All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers.
When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you.

Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"

* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust

* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends

* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness

* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment

* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective

* If you plant hard work, you will reap success

* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

* If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest

So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later..

"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"

Sacred @ Streaming Praise Radio.COM

2009-04-03T05:05:00.000-07:00

LIDIA SORBARA RECIEVES LIVER

2009-03-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

LIDIA SORBARA RECIEVES LIVER

AN OUTPOURING OF CANADIAN LOVE

2 weeks ago, a 19 year old daughter Alyssa Sorbara was fighting to save her 46 year old mother’s life, by making a desperate public plea for a liver donation.
Over 1000 people responded across Canada to her plea. This was an incredible outpouring of love.
On March 16, Alyssa’s prayers were answered , a liver was available for Lidia. Lidia is now recovering
Press Conference
Location- Toronto Hospital –Elizabeth Entrance @ Tree of Life
Date – March 17 @ 11:00 am

Close the ceremonies with the Torch Of Life lit and a prayer for 4000 Canadians on the waiting list

Contact George Marcello
gmarcello@rogers.com
416-651-6154

EX-Masturbator

2009-03-05T19:20:00.000-08:00

Running Back To You

2009-03-04T08:15:00.000-08:00

Over the past 24 hours, I’ve received emails and telephone calls from friends and family asking for IMMEDIATE prayer.

Among the requests are individuals who are physically ill, contemplating suicide, or those who are under such mental duress that they are on the brink of losing their minds.

Ahhh Lord Jesus…what is really going on?!?

I’ll be honest with you, it is somewhat overwhelming, but I’m sure it’s far worse for the people in above situations.

As I sat in my desk this morning, asking God why is this happening, I could feel the anxiety rising within me. Then I heard a voice from deep within say, ‘He will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him.’ So I exhaled.

Anytime we see in the bible mass hysteria, illnesses or things of that nature, it was solved through prayer and repentance; and ultimately, us having faith in God’s healing power.

God told his children, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

By no means am I implying that everything that is going on in your life, my life, or the lives of your loved ones has to do with sin. What I am saying is that this would be the perfect time, for us as a people, to run back to the arms of our heavenly Father.

Will you join me? I’m right there with you.

"Lord, we're not exactly sure where we went wrong, but we don't want to be in the dark any longer. Like the prodigal son, we know that anywhere with you, is better than where we are right now.

We know that you haven't left us, but we have left you, and we're sorry. You told us to seek you first, but jobs, people, wants and ungodly desires got in the way and became our idols. And for that we're sorry. Our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and friends are dying physically and spiritually, because many of us have not kept your word and commands. So Lord, we're humbling ourselves right now, and running back to you. Hear our cries dear Lord, and heal our land."

Peace.Love.Wisdom&Understanding.

Liberty

Artist: Deitrick Haddon
Album: Revealed
Song: Running To You

2009-03-02T15:25:00.000-08:00

46 Year Old Mom Desperately Needs Liver Transplant
Rare Blood Type O Positive and Rarer Liver Disease
19 year old daughter trying to save her mom’s life
Press Conference @ Queens Park
March 4 2009 @ 1:00 pm
1:30: Torch of Life will be lit in prayer @ MacDonald Statue south end of Queens Park

Alyssa’s plea for her mom
My name is Alyssa Sorbara and my Mom Lidia, (Lily), desperately needs a liver. Although the liver is one of the few organs that can be donated by a living donor, Lily has complications.
Thirty years ago my Mom diagnosed with Wilson’s disease. This is a rare disease that clogs the liver preventing it from doing its’ cleansing job. In pursuit of a normal life, Lily controlled the disease with a very disciplined health regimen. Without notice, Wilson’s disease returned last November ravaging my Mom’s body. In a heartbeat, this vibrant woman is in the Intensive Care Unit at Toronto General Hospital.
The reason a donor hasn’t come forward yet is simple. Lily’s blood type is the rare O positive. There are many conditions for a successful transplant, but blood type is the first. Everyone in our family, including me, has been tested to be a possible living donor. None have a blood match.
Lily is a single Mom. She has worked while raising me and caring for her mother who has Alzheimer’s. This is a classic “sandwich” generation parent who now has the additional challenge of a life threatening disease.
If there is someone with this blood type and in good health, please talk to me. Please consider the possibility of giving life to my Mom.
Live Liver Donor Hero Clairmont Humphrey helps the family
46 year old Clairmont Humphrey saved 14 month old baby girl Jaida Fairman’s life on November 18 2008 by donating a piece of his liver to her. Mr. Humphrey will join Ms Alyssa Sorbara at Queen’s Park to inspire the public about becoming a live liver donor.
1:30: Torch of Life Prayer @ MacDonald Statue Following the Press Conference
Contact George Marcello 416-509-5719 for more information

The Gift of Life given By Clairmont Humphrey and Daniel Badmus

2009-02-25T18:09:00.000-08:00

Be Inspired......Nick Vujicic (life without limbs)

2009-02-24T16:26:00.000-08:00

Are You Going to Finish Strong

2009-02-24T16:25:00.001-08:00

The Sermon In A Song

2009-02-24T15:46:00.001-08:00

Liberty's Top 5 Worship Tracks

2009-02-11T01:34:00.000-08:00

Blessings Beloved!

For those who know me, know that I love worship songs. There's something about listening to a song (whether fast or slow), and through the words, melody or simply the act of being still before God, that results in that precious moment of true intimacy with our Heavenly Father.

That being said, I present to you my Top 5 Worship Songs of the week (because my list is ever changing *smile*).

Enjoy!

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Peace.Love.Wisdom&Understanding.

Liberty

5. Empty Me by Jeremy Camp

4. Bow Down by Bishop Paul S. Morton and the Full Gospel Fellowship Mass Choir

3. Chasing After You (The Morning Song) by Tye Tribett

2. God by Joann Rosario

1. Moving Forward written by Israel Houghton Richardo Sanchez

Here's the extended version, live from Lakewood Church in Houston, TX.

Be Encouraged - When Nobody Cared HE Loves You

2009-02-11T01:26:00.000-08:00

Title: Nobody Cared
Album: Kingdom Business
Artist: Canton Jones

Thank you all for Praying for us

2009-02-05T20:20:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to leave a little note of thanks, for all those who have been praying for both Jaida and myself. We are doing extremely well as God continues to pour out His healing balm and blessings on both of our lives.

Now that I am back out to work and it does get tiring by the end of the day (I am in my 11th week of healing since Surgery), I thank God for the opportunity of using me in such a magnitude. When I look my scar and know that God has use me to heal little Jaida, I feel extremely honored and humbled to know my life is indeed, in Gods hand. I thank Him and praise Him for His Grace and Mercy that He given me and Jaida.

Once again Thank you and keep on Praise God for He is GREAT and I know JESUS is coming SOON!

Clairmont Humphrey

Here are some phases you can use to Praise God in your Devotions; God Bless You All!

-PRAISE/WORSHIP STATEMENTS-

LORD/GOD:

-I thank You, I worship You, I glorify You, I adore You, I love You, I appreciate You

-There is none like You

-You are the Most High God, Omnipotent God, Omniscient God, Omnipresent God

-From everlasting to everlasting You are God

-You are the King of Kings. The Lord strong and mighty

-I give You glory and honour and praise

-Hallelujah, hallelujah; thank You Lord

-You are worthy to be praised; You are Holy

-Lord God, blessed be Your name

-From the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same You are worthy to be praised

-You are the invisible Almighty God

-The All-Powerful One

-You are the great I am and I magnify Your holy name

Hello Family!

2009-02-05T19:27:00.000-08:00

Note: As you'll read below in The Message...I encourage us not to focus on stuff and our personal requests today. Soak in his presence and his word and let HIM fill you today. God has made the commitment to you to provide all of your needs, once you seek him. I believe if we all do this in unity today, that we should hear some great testimonies shortly (if we keep at it of course).

The Message
We had the pleasure of hearing Kirk Franklin preach, and he was soooo on point. In this day that we're in where so many people 'appear' to be loosing jobs, houses and homes; he reminded us that God does NOT WANT STUFF to occupy his room in our hearts. That humbled me greatly, and my prayers have already changed.

1. As we spend time seeking God today, please ask him to reveal to you what is occupying space that he requires in your heart, so that you can SURRENDER it to him...before he takes it away.

2. At bible study last week the emphasis was on Matthew 6:25, 33; "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" v 33 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." It's easier to seek him, once you surrender and give him ALL of you.

Scripture reading
Please take some time today, or this week to read, Judges 16. It's the story of Samson's fall and Second Chance (*pun intended*).

a) Three times Delilah deceived him and finally the King James version said, 'she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed... and he told her all that was on his heart (v16-17). What types of associations or relationships have you allowed to enter and take residence in your life that may be quietly leading you away from God? To the point that you no longer hear his voice as clearly as you want to or once did? Samson was so focused on Dalilah that he didn't see that the spirit of God (the source of his strength) had left him.

b) If you are dealing with condemnation (constantly thinking about something that you've already repented of and ask God to forgive you), know that once you humble your heart and surrender your will to God (so that your motives line up with his plans); he will use you for his glory and yours (v28 - 30).

This reading has so much more to teach us, however, I've taken up enough of your time for now. Plus, as you read it I know that the Holy Spirit will minister to you what you need to hear.

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Peace.Love.Wisdom&Understanding.

Liberty

God's Got your Back!

2009-02-05T19:20:00.001-08:00

God's Got your Back!

We're living in a time that for many has never been seen before.

Properties are still being foreclosed, the job market is heading south (or east); and to be perfectly honest with you, I'm thinking about withdrawing everything from my bank account and putting them under my mattress!

However, all jokes aside, we wouldn't truly be representing the kingdom of God if we thought, walked and acted in the fear and doubt that many of us have witnessed over the past three or four months.

What separates us as believers who live in the victory that Jesus gave us over 2000 years ago – is that we have to and practice renewing our minds. For some this is daily, hourly or even minute by minute.

I don't know about you but, I'm able to best renew my mind or 'wooosah' and relax when, I turn off the news, radio and television; I get off facebook and twitter and I pick up my little pocket bible and read. Since, King Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun, I figure there's got to be something in one of these chapters that will remind me that God's got my back.

Today, I read II Kings 7.

In the midst of the long famine and inflation that transpired in and around the neighboring kingdoms; God fulfilled his promise to his people by paying their bills and putting food on their tables. Instead of the Israelites having to physically, fight their enemies; God created mass hysteria and confusion which caused their nemesis' to flee the camp leaving all their food, money and resources around. Remember, the Israelites didn't even lift a finger. God literally gave them the victory.

So, as you head into this week, I encourage you to renew your mind and remember that you are victorious. Instead of anticipating what else may go wrong, and ask God to show you what battle he has 'already' won and left the door to the camp open for you.

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Peace.Love.Wisdom&Understanding.

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2009-02-04T16:05:00.001-08:00

2008-12-16T07:12:00.000-08:00

George Olliver Gospel Soul, Will be live on Streaming Praise Radio.com. Look for him with a live interview on The Cafe' from 6-9PM right here on www.Streamingpraiseradio.com. In January 2009.

2008-12-06T19:00:00.000-08:00

The first step of 50 million steps 1997-2008
The begging of STEP BY STEP Foundation

2008-11-29T06:02:00.001-08:00

Toronto SUN
News Canada
Selfless donor saves ill baby
By JENNY YUEN, SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 26th November 2008, 3:37am
Story
Click here to watch the video
Radio host Clairmont Humphrey talks about his decision to give away part of his liver to save a little girl.
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MISSISSAUGA -- Baby Jaida Marae Fairman received the best Christmas present this year -- a second chance at life.
The one-year-old was diagnosed last December with biliary atresia, a rare liver disease in which the common bile duct between the liver and the small intestine is blocked or absent. She was only 11 weeks old when the news came that she needed a liver transplant.
It was a stranger who answered the call.
"When God speaks to your heart, you've got to operate," donor Clairmont Humphrey said yesterday.
"People thought I was a bit crazy because I didn't even know the child. But that doesn't matter. For me, it's just doing what God would call anyone out to do."
Humphrey, 46, a father of four and the host of the gospel Internet radio station Streaming Praise Radio, said he first met Jaida last summer when she was at the Hospital for Sick Children. The baby was related to his ex-wife.
"When I visited her, she was actually sicker than I thought, and without a liver transplant, there's no chance of life," Humphrey said.
Four people, including Jaida's father and grandfather, previously tried donating a piece of their liver to the tot, but there wasn't a compatible match.
The operation took about 41/2 hours last Tuesday, when surgeons removed a piece of Humphrey's liver.
What remains is a 38-cm hockey stick-shaped "war scar" stretching from his stomach to his right hip and a numbness of his muscles in that area.
Leading up to the procedure, Humphrey, a hemo technician assistant at Toronto General Hospital, said he wasn't scared.
"The doctor explained that one of the things that could happen is death and I still didn't fear it," he said. "If me doing this can give somebody life, that's an awesome experience."
Jaida's mom, Melissa Fairman, declined to speak to media yesterday because "her daughter is still in critical condition," Sick Kids spokesman Evelyne Jhung said.
It will take between six to 12 weeks for both Jaida and Humphrey to recover.
"She still has some setbacks here and there, but she's doing well," Humphrey said. "She seems to have more energy than I do. It tells you she's more resilient than I am."
Today, Humphrey, Jaida's family and friends will march from Queen's Park to Sick Kids' hospital to visit the baby girl and to provide hope for families anxiously waiting for organ and tissue transplants -- an estimated 2,000 in Ontario alone.
"Jaida's going to get her Christmas present -- it's called life," Humphrey said. "And I kept my word."
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FACTS OF LIFE
- A liver transplant is an operation that replaces a diseased liver with either a whole or portion of a healthy, donated liver.
- Every other day, a Canadian dies while waiting for an organ transplant. More than 2,000 Ontarians are registered as waiting for a transplant -- 800 to 900 of those need a liver.
- One cadaver can save up to eight people's lives and restore the tissues of 30 others. A live donor can give a liver, kidney or lung, and can save one life.
- Number of liver transplants in Canada each year: More than 300.
- Diseases treated by liver transplants: Chronic hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and alcoholic cirrhosis. In children, biliary atresia.
- Success rate for liver transplant: 87% of adult patients and 93% of children.

Update on Jaida's Operation

2008-11-24T08:49:00.000-08:00

Both Jaida, the recipient of the liver, and Claimont, the live donor, are doing well and are recovering in the hospital. The operation was a success and we wish a quick recovery for both recipient and donor.

Clairmont and Family

Clairmont in recovery

2008-11-16T17:21:00.000-08:00

In the fall of 2006, My Mom was acting weird and was really confused, So my Dad took her to the hospital, Where they discovered her potassium level was dangerously low. The hospital ended up getting her levels back up.
In the being of February, My Mom went back to the Doctors to have some more test done, At that time,The Doctors said,"There's something not right about your Blood the tests your Liver".
Months went by before her case was transferred to Kingston General Hospital, during this time, My Moms condition seemed to be getting worst, She seemed more tired, She had bloating in the Stomach & Confusion.
In Nov of 2007, My Mom ended back up in Kingston in a Coma State from the Toxin bypassing her liver and going to her brain. I remember that day in early Dec/07 when my Dad called me, Saying he didn't think she was going to make it.
Kingston ended up getting her condition under control. A few weeks later, She was moved from ICU to a step down unit, She was aware of her surroundings. The Hospital ended up doing a lot of test on my Mom, Including a Liver Biopsy.
The Biopsy ended up showing she had Cirrhosis of the Liver caused by a virus & that she would require a Liver transplant, At that time, I stood right up and said, I want to be tested so I can donate half my Liver to my Mom.

In May/08 , My Moms case ended up being transferred to Toronto General Hospital.
My Mom & Dad have been going to Toronto once to Twice a Month for meetings & tests,
In Sept/08, Toronto General Hospital ended up giving my Mom & Dad a pager and informed them, That my Mom is now on the waiting list from a Cadavric Donor or Deceased Donor and the waiting time frame could be 2-3 years.
At that time, TGH called me to start my testing to be a Living Liver Donor.
On Sept 4/08, I was at TGH for the whole day going through number of tests & blood work.
On Sept 15th, The Coordinator called me from the Donor Team at TGH; She informed me that most of my test showed up great except I had a Moderate to severe Fatty Inflammation in my Liver and I would require to lose a little weight, I asked her how much does she think, She replied about 20-25 LBS, And that we will set up another date for an ultrasound in about 6 weeks.

So I stepped on the scale, My weight was 202 LBS.
From that day on, I started a Diet, went for walks. 2 days later, Toronto called and said, I have another Ultrasound on Oct 21st. That only 5 weeks away, So I better work hard,
On Oct 21st, I showed up to my ultrasound weighing 180 LBS, Wow! That Was a 22 LBS weight loss,
When I had my ultrasound, I was suppose to bring the report up to Cailin for the results, She looked at the report and said, The ultrasound shows a great improvement, So we are going to move forward with the testing and schedule a Biopsy.
The Biopsy was schedule for Nov 10th/08, I showed up at the Hospital weighing 177 LBS now, That 25 LBS since my Diet.
At 10:30am, Nov 10th . The Biopsy was completed, I had to stay there in bed for 4-5 Hours.
At 3:00pm. I was getting my coat on to leave, when Cailin came into the room with a paper in her hand, She said to me, " Congratulation, Your Liver Biopsy showed less then 10% Fat,The required Fat in the Liver for a Transplant.
So at that time they Scheduled a Surgery date for Monday, Nov 24/08.
But now things could get postponed, My Mom is in Kingston Hospital fighting 3 different kinds of Infections, 1 of them is a Cat Bite from there house Pet.
So I'm praying everyday for a speedy recovery for my Mom, So we can move forward, So I can Give my Mom the Gift of Life, and give my Mom Carol a 2nd chance at Life.

I would also like to thank my Beautiful Wife Amanda for all her love & support, Because deep down I don't think I could have did all this without her beside my side, I Love YOU AMANDA & Thank-You again for everything.

Regards,
Ted Smith

Life for Jaida

2008-11-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

Well Hello Everyone,

It is I again, bringing you up to date, with the Jaida Story http://streamingpraise.blogspot.com/2008/10/jaidas-story.html and my donation of a potion of my Liver to save her life. I am requesting your prayers.

As you know, donation of any organ is not always that simple, for some it does not work but for most it does. This Liver transplant has been done many times in Toronto General Hospital and has been successful. However, we know that, we wrestle not against flesh and blood and there is a real Devil out there who would like nothing less than, to mess plans up. So, I am asking you to pray that the operation will go smoothly and both Jaida and myself will be well. Pray that Jaidas little body will not reject the Liver she will be getting from me and that it will go well in the operating rooms.
Now, THE BIG DAY IS NEXT TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 18th 2008, starting at 8AM in the morning.

I thank you all for your prayers and may God continue to bless you all.

Your Brother and Friend In Christ

Living Donor Liver Transplantation

2008-11-10T17:46:00.001-08:00

donor hepatectomy

2008-11-10T17:43:00.000-08:00

The Woman Who Had Four Transplants

2008-11-06T19:58:00.001-08:00

Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech

2008-10-28T17:35:00.000-07:00

Ministers will intentionally violate ban on campaigning by nonprofits in hopes of generating a test case.

By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 25, 2008

Setting the stage for a collision of religion and politics, Christian ministers from California and 21 other states will use their pulpits Sunday to deliver political sermons or endorse presidential candidates -- defying a federal ban on campaigning by nonprofit groups.

The pastors' advocacy could violate the Internal Revenue Service's rules against political speech with the purpose of triggering IRS investigations.

That would allow their patron, the conservative legal group Alliance Defense Fund, to challenge the IRS' rules, a risky strategy that one defense fund attorney acknowledges could cost the churches their tax-exempt status. Congress made it illegal in 1954 for tax-exempt groups to publicly support or oppose political candidates.

"I'm going to talk about the un-biblical stands that Barack Obama takes. Nobody who follows the Bible can vote for him," said the Rev. Wiley S. Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park. "We may not be politically correct, but we are going to be biblically correct. We are going to vote for those who follow the Bible."

Drake was the target of a recent IRS investigation into his endorsement last year of former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. In the end, Drake was cleared.

Drake and 32 other pastors who have signed on to the "pulpit initiative" have sparked loud condemnations by fellow clergy and advocates of the separation of church and state.

These critics, such as Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argue that Sunday's sermons at churches in Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and other states will violate federal tax law by politicizing the pulpit. That, they believe, will undercut the independence churches have long enjoyed to speak out about moral and ethical issues in American life, including women's suffrage, child labor and civil rights.

"The integrity of the religious community is at stake when religion and politics become entangled," said the Rev. Eric Williams of the North Congregational United Church of Christ in Columbus, Ohio.

Williams was recruited for the defense fund but instead joined with 54 other Christian and Jewish clergy members to file a complaint against the initiative with the IRS.

The religious leaders asked the agency to stop the Arizona-based defense fund from recruiting churches and to investigate whether its efforts may jeopardize its own tax-exempt status.

Representing the religious leaders are three Washington attorneys, all former IRS officials, who also filed a complaint accusing defense fund attorneys of violating IRS rules by helping the churches break federal law.

Meanwhile, a separate group of 180 ministers, rabbis and imams also has sought to counter the "pulpit initiative."

Members of the Interfaith Alliance -- which includes the nation's top Episcopal bishop -- have signed a pledge to refrain from electioneering in their houses of worship.

"Political activity and political expressions are very important, but partisan politics are . . . . a death knell to the prophetic freedom that any religious organization must protect," said the Rev. Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, who signed the pledge.

All Saints survived a nearly two-year IRS investigation after former Rector George Regas spoke out against the Iraq war on the eve of the 2004 presidential election. Bacon repeatedly said the church did not engage in campaigning.

The IRS dropped the case last year even though agency officials indicated that they still considered the sermon to be illegal.

All Saints leaders voiced frustration Wednesday at pulpit initiative backers for using the Pasadena church's fight with the IRS as fodder for their cause.

"These people are wanting to promote one candidate over another and that's a huge difference," Bacon said.

At the heart of the controversy is the Johnson amendment, named after former President Lyndon Johnson, a senator from Texas when it was enacted in 1954. The measure stated that nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations cannot participate in political campaigns for or against candidates for public office.

Many churches have appeared to step over the line, but legal scholars could recall only one church that lost its tax-exempt status -- a congregation in New York that urged voters not to vote for Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential race.

The defense fund said churches targeted by the IRS would serve as clients for lawsuits against the agency in federal court.

The defense fund issued seemingly contradictory statements about the initiative. On one hand, it insists pastors will not endorse candidates and will simply exercise their constitutional rights by addressing "the differing positions of the presidential candidates in light of Scripture."

On the other hand, the defense fund describes its efforts as a "strategic litigation plan" that seeks to "restore the right of each pastor to speak scriptural truth from the pulpit" without losing a church's tax-exempt status.

"The bottom line is that churches and pastors have a right to speak freely from the pulpit," said Dale Schowengerdt, a defense fund attorney working on the project. "They should not be intimidated into silence by unconstitutional IRS regulations or rules."

Still, recognizing the confrontational nature of their strategy and wary of protests, the defense fund released the name of only one pastor ahead of Sunday -- the Rev. Gus Booth of the Warroad Community Church in rural Minnesota, who already is the subject of a complaint filed with the IRS over a May sermon in which he urged congregants to oppose Obama and Democratic New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because of their positions on abortion.

"There is nobody who will ever tell me what I can and cannot say from behind my pulpit," Booth said, "except the spirit of God or the word of God."

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What do you think? Should Pastors endorse political candidates from the pulpit?

US-Iran: Raid on nuclear fuel market

2008-10-21T15:17:00.000-07:00

by Rudo de Ruijter,
Independent researcher,
15 September 2008*

In the background of the political joust about Iran, a few countries are reshaping the world. They are taking possession of the global nuclear fuel market. New IAEA regulations should keep newcomers away. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and Japan will become the world’s nuclear filling stations. Under the auspices of the IAEA these suppliers will dictate the rules, the prices and the currencies they want to get paid in. Iran has become the pretext and test case for their plans. The problems of tomorrow’s world economy are being shaped today.

Contents:
· History
- Iran and the Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Iran’s nuclear history
- From shah Reza to Khomeini
· The accusations against Iran: 130 Grams of uranium
· US’ usual agenda: The oil, the dollar and the foreign debt…
· The Iranian Oil Bourse
· Seeking allies
· The strange European delegation
· Russia and China
· Why does Iran want nuclear energy?
· Is enrichment in countries without nuclear weapons dangerous?
· Birth of a new world order
· Questionable elements
· The UN theatre

History

Iran and the Non-Proliferation Treaty

US President Bush wants us to believe that Iran has plans for nuclear weapons. Well, we remember, in 2002 he accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction. That turned out to be a lie, so let us look more closely at the facts.

Iran is a member state of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from the very beginning in 1968. [1] The NPT is a treaty not only to stop proliferation of nuclear arms, but also to help develop civil nuclear energy. [2] In the treaty, the nuclear-weapon states (US, Russia, China, France and England) promised nuclear disarmament. (So far, they have not kept their promises.) The other members had to sign agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), NPT’s watchdog, for the implementation of controls. IAEA’s agreement with Iran entered into force on May 15 1974. [3]
Iran’s nuclear history

At that time shah Reza ruled Iran. Thanks to the Anglo-US’ operation Ajax in 1953 he was still on the throne. From 1957 Shah Reza wanted to develop nuclear energy in Iran. [4] The US offered everything he wanted: a research reactor, enriched uranium and plutonium. The research reactor was started in 1967, but had critical problems soon after. Then the French became good friends too. They promised to repair the reactor. The shah made a $ 1 billion loan to the French for the construction of an enrichment plant in Tricastin in the South of France. From 1974 still more countries offered their services to the shah. Agreements followed for five reactors and fuel from France, two reactors and fuel from the US, regular purchases of uranium from Australia and two reactors from West Germany. Denmark delivered 10 kilo of highly enriched uranium and 25 kilo of natural uranium. Technical staff came in from Argentina and India, while Iranian students went to the UK and West Germany. Discussions took place with Pakistan and Turkey for regional nuclear cooperation. The Iranian budget for the atomic energy rose from $ 30 million in 1975 to $ 1 billion the following year, and still more reactors were ordered from the US. By the end of 1978, with not a single reactor completed, the shah ran out of money. Meanwhile, popular opposition against the shah’s blood shedding oppression rose to a climax.
From shah Reza to Khomeini

The opposition against the shah had grown since 1953, when popular hero and Prime Minister Mossadeq had been overthrown by a joint coup of the CIA, the English and the shah. [5] Mossadeq had successfully strived to nationalize the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP). Sued by England, Mossadeq had won the case at the International Court in The Hague. [6] During the coup, the shah initially fled the country, but came back after the army had succeeded to beat down the protests of the population. In 1960, to please his American friends, he granted diplomatic immunity to all US’ personnel working in Iran. A young opponent, called Ruhollah Khomeini dared to criticize the shah publicly. The first time he was jailed. Recidivist a few years later he was expelled. The shah’s oppression continued to increase over time. In riots many hundreds of opponents were killed and thousands injured. By 1977 all opposition movements finally united and in January 1979 the shah definitely fled the country. Khomeini returned to Iran in triumph and on April 1st 1979 the Islamic Republic of Iran was established by referendum. In November 1979, when Iranian students heard that the shah had gone to the US, they stormed the US embassy in Tehran to claim the extradition of the shah in order to summon him to trial. A long hostages crisis followed. A US’ attempt to free them failed. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, a good friend of the US at that time, invaded Iran, announcing he would be in Tehran within three days. However, the war between Iraq and Iran would last 10 years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

In the first year of the war, on June 7 1981, Israel bombed the nearly completed nuclear power plant of Osirak, in Iraq. [7] Israel disposes of nuclear weapons and is not a member of the Non Proliferation Treaty. Many countries feel threatened by the Israelian nuclear arsenal.

With the end of the Warschau Pact in 1989 and Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, the US attitude toward Iraq made a 180-degree turn. Iraq and Iran were both US’ enemies now. However, with respectively 10.5 and 10 percent of world’s oil reserves, it was unlikely the US would just ignore them. The US remains world’s largest oil consumer with 25 percent of world’s oil consumption. Today it has less than 2 percent of world’s oil reserves. Its dependency on foreign oil is rapidly increasing and, according to Bush, it was 60 percent in May 2006. [8]
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The accusations against Iran: 130 Grams of Uranium

On June 16 2003 the International Atomic Energy Agency announced, that Iran had not reported an import of uranium in 1991 and its subsequent stocking and processing. That is true. But from a confidential IAEA document of June 6 2003 we learn, it contained just 130 gram of uranium. [9] According to article 37 of the official agreement between the IAEA and Iran, in force since May 15 1974, nuclear materials containing less than 1 kilo of uranium are exempted from the IAEA safeguards. [10] The IAEA accusations made the world believe that Iran had violated the rules.

Similar jousts are about the Additional Protocol. During the embargo against Iraq, when proof had to be found of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not willing to grant more rights to the UN inspectors, the IAEA developed additional rules to make controls easier. The new rules also made it easier to discriminate among members: excessive rules for one country, friendly rules for others.

In June 2003 only 33 of the 188 members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty had accepted to sign the Additional Protocol. Nevertheless the US and a delegation of the European Union formed by France, Germany and the United Kingdom, wanted to force Iran to sign. In exchange, the three European countries (E3) promised to come up with interesting commercial deals. Iran was willing to hear what they had to offer. This is not so surprising. The EU is Iran's principal trading partner, with 36% of Iran's exports going to the EU and roughly 40% of EU imports coming from Iran. [11] [12] Spring 2003, Iran had even switched its oil sales from dollars to euros, which is good for Europe and bad for the US, since it weakens the dollar.

During the talks about new commercial deals with the Europeans Iran voluntarily agreed to suspend its research program for uranium enrichment and to grant additional rights to the IAEA for extended checking of their nuclear facilities. However, after repeated Iranian requests it became clear, that the E3 countries had no intention of following through on the incentives they had promised. They just wanted to keep the talks going on indefinitely, meantime preventing Iran from enriching uranium. So, Iran resumed the program it had voluntarily suspended and re-established the contractual conditions for the IAEA controls. This resulted in the attempt by the US and E3 to have the UN Security Council condemn Iran.
US’ usual agenda: The oil, the dollar and the foreign debt…

So, if the so-called proofs against Iran appear to be fabricated, what is the real issue? I think the general idea is clear to all. With its excessive energy consumption the US thinks, it is necessary to have pro-US governments in Iraq, Iran and, (for the UNOCAL pipeline projects), also in Afghanistan. During the Cold War Saddam Hussein in Iraq and shah Reza in Iran were useful US’ allies, but those days are over. Thanks to Bush we now have wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran is located in between. Considering the reputation the US has built up in Iran, a spontaneous uprising of a pro-US government is not likely to happen soon.

The second thing that explains more immediately Bush aggressive stance against Iran is their part in the weakening dollar. At a glance, this is how it works. Nearly all oil and gas on the globe is sold in dollars. The first advantage is that the US can always dispose freely of gas and oil. If necessary, it can simply “print” the needed dollars. [13] The second advantage is that foreign countries need dollars. Since 1971 the US has enjoyed the advantage of being the petrodollar supplier to the world. Supplying dollars to foreign countries means, the US can create dollars and purchase goods, services and investments with it. Since the foreigners need these dollars to buy oil, and keep them also in use in the international trade outside the US, the US has never had to deliver anything in return. Merely supplying money means free shopping. This way, the US imports twice as much goods as it exports. For each second container it imports, nothing is delivered in return. [14] The amount is simply added to the foreign debt. According to the Federal Reserve, US’ net foreign debt was 2,500,000,000,000 dollars in December 2007. [15] If at some point the world starts selling the trillions of dollars they currently hold, the exchange markets would be flooded with dollars, and, as a result, the value of the dollar would drop to next to nothing. It would trigger a financial crisis, but if the dollar becomes worth next to nothing, it also means the foreign debt would vanish. So it is very advantageous to deliver currencies that are permanently needed and wanted abroad. And that is the case as long as the world needs dollars to buy oil and gas.

However, with US’ sky rocketing debt, the dollar is vulnerable. When Iraq, that disposes of the second largest oil reserves in the world, switched to the dollar on 6 November 2000 [16] [17] , it set in motion a long descent of the dollar rate. [18] Other countries had plans to break away from the dollar too. [19], On 4 July 2002 the situation had become that serious, that the IMF warned over a possible dollar collapse. [20] Three weeks later the plans for the invasion of Iraq were discussed at Downing Street (London). [21] On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney asserted, "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." [22] By the end of 2002 the dollar rate had fallen 18 percent. On March 20 2003 the US overruled the UN Security Council and invaded Iraq. They switched back the Iraqi oil trade into dollars on June 6 2003. [23] But from spring 2003 Iran had also switched to the euro, and during the two years that followed the dollar rate lost another 12 percent.

The US free shopping advantage (import more than export) only works as far as foreign countries need additional dollars. So, each time when oil prices increase on the US controlled IPE and NYMEX, more dollars are needed in the world. [24] As 85 percent of the oil trade takes place outside the US, for each extra dollar needed inside the US, seven dollars are needed outside and result in free shopping.

To increase the foreign dollar demand still more, the US treasury sells Treasury Securities to foreigners, which reduces the amount of dollars abroad. This lowers the offer on the exchange markets and makes the dollar rate rise. To avoid the exchange rate to rise continually new dollars have to be “delivered” to the foreigners, resulting again in free shopping. If the US wants to lower the dollar rate, it can just import more. In fact, as long as world demand for dollars keeps growing, the US can decide itself about the rate of their currency and enjoy free shopping. For the sole year 2004 the latter represented an advantage of, in average, $ 2,167 per US’ inhabitant.

When countries break away from the dollar, the dollars related to their trade normally become superfluous and overflow the exchange markets, resulting in lowering dollar rates. When these dollars cannot be mopped up in time, the dollar may collapse. A logical, but somewhat obscure solution is to pray that the oil prices rise at the IPE and NYMEX, in order to pump the dollars back into the oil trade again. To absorb the dollars of the Iranian oil and gas trade, and to sell extra dollars to finance Bush’ warfare, the oil prices would have to increase substantially. Well, the prayers of the Treasury have been heard. Between May 2003 and September 2005 the oil prices almost tripled. [25]

The Iranian Oil Bourse

It was in this situation, that Iran was to open a new Oil Bourse, independent from IPE and NYMEX. [26] It had been announced since several years [27] and the opening had been scheduled for 20 March 2006, the Iranian New Year. Assuming it would succeed in creating enough trade to establish a recognized world oil price, and assuming they would keep the price stable, oil prices on IPE and NYMEX would not be able to rise freely anymore. The credit merry-go-round may stop and that would trip up US’ hegemony. Towards March 2006 tensions rose high again, although, officially it was about the alleged Iranian plans for nuclear weapons and not about the Oil Bourse. On March 20 the Bourse did not open. In April it was announced for May. [28] But in May, President Putin announced that Russia would start a rouble denominated oil bourse. [29] [30] Less than one month later, on 8 June 2006 the Russian bourse (RTS) was ready and started trading. [31] [32] [33] Because Russia has a much bigger share in world’s oil exports [34],[35], it took away the interest of the Iranian Bourse. In February 2008 the Iranian Bourse finally opened for oil related products, but still not for crude oil yet.

Seeking allies

In its conflict with Iran the US needs allies. Allies are useful for sharing the cost of military operations and to clean up the mess, as in Afghanistan and Iraq. Before allies fight along, they generally want the enemy to be condemned by a resolution of the UN-Security Council. The problem for such a resolution is, that members with veto-right must not vote against it. So the US should not get opposition of France, the United Kingdom, Russia or China. If the US would tell, that they want the might over the Iranian oil and gas reserves and switch back the trade into dollars, they would not have a chance. So, they have to come up with something, that would get the veto-countries on their side. Well, veto-countries are the victor states of the Second World War. They happen to have in common to be nuclear weapon states, all disposing of uranium enrichment facilities. So how about a project to reward them with the exclusive rights for uranium enrichment and for the supply of all nuclear fuel to all non-nuclear-weapon states? [36]

The strange European delegation

Then, in the diplomatic stage-play about Iran, the UK, France and Germany, the so-called E3, join Bush. They would represent the European Union. This strange composition of an EU-delegation starts to make sense, when we notice that these countries are the European countries possessing enrichment facilities. Camouflaged under the flag of the European Union, they have their own special interest in uranium enrichment and reprocessing.

How European are these E3 countries? It is very strange, of course, that this E3, on behalf of European Union, tries to get Europe’s interesting trading partner Iran condemned by the UN Security Council. It indicates they are playing poker for high stakes. They deliberately risk disrupting their trade relations with Iran and therewith the oil supply priced in euros. Because US’ final goal is to have might in Iran, Bush wants a trade embargo and for the moment “Europe” kindly goes along with the first steps. A trade embargo can be a redoubtable weapon to weaken a country, like the UN-embargo against Iraq between 1991 and 2003, during which nearly two million Iraqi people starve.

Bush would probably not mind, if the Iranian power plants under construction were bombed, like Israel had done with the Iraqi nuclear power plants in 1981. Then Iran would have to consume its oil, instead of selling it in euros.

And what role does the UK play in this EU-delegation? Of course it has its own interest in the nuclear fuel market, but with its London based IPE oil market always playing in symbiosis with the NYMEX in New York, and its subsequent inability to adopt the euro, the UK is, first of all, the messenger-boy of the White House, as usual.

The tone of the E3 talks with Iran is not the one you would normally expect between trade partners who wish to improve their relations. The reports about the discussions are long litanies of obligations the E3 seeks to impose on Iran. Iran is treated like a naughty child, who will have to obey one way or the other. [37] In January 2006, French President Chirac even covertly threatened with a possible nuclear attack. Threatening with the use of nuclear arms is in breech with the Non Proliferation Treaty and, of course, such an attitude can only be counter-productive.
Russia and China

To reach a Security Council resolution with sanctions against Iran the US, France, UK and Germany have to convince Russia and China not to use their right of veto. Since Russia and China are enrichment countries too, that seemed easy, but failed until now. Russia and China do not want any armed intervention against Iran.

Russia still has large reserves of oil gas and coal. Since the catastrophe in Chernobyl in 1986 it has not build any new reactors. (This is changing soon now.) Russia does not want a new US' invasion in its back yard.

China has good relations with Iran and contracts for the supply of oil and gas during the coming decades. If it wants to let Iran down, it would have to look for alternative solutions for their high needs of energy. China does not seem to share the aggressive stance of the US and the E3.
Why does Iran want nuclear energy?

It may seem strange, that a country disposing of oil, wants nuclear energy. Iran exports oil, but imports refined oil products. [34] These are needed for lighting, heating, transport and industry of its growing population. For many Iranians the real price of these products would be too high. That is why they are sold cheap, with losses for the Iranian treasury. The switch to electricity should provide affordable energy for the whole country. Iran needs the revenues from its oil exports to pay for the import of many other products it needs. That is the reason why Iran does not want to consume its oil itself.
Is enrichment in countries without nuclear weapons dangerous?

Natural uranium contains 0.7 percent of U-235 atoms, against 99.3 percent of mostly U-238 atoms. To use it as nuclear fuel the proportion of U-235 atoms has to be increased to 3 to 5 percent. To do so, the uranium must first be purified and converted into a gas. In this form batteries of centrifuges can filter out a few of the heavier U-238 atoms in a long and energy swallowing process. Risks in the enrichment process are those of the chemical industries and not so much the low radiation. This uranium is not suitable to make bombs. For bombs you need a degree of enrichment of at least 90 percent. [38] If a country, as for instance Iran, decided to develop such highly enriched uranium, it could take 3 to 5 years to produce sufficiently for a bomb. Besides, according to scientists, for high enrichment much larger centrifuge facilities are used. The oft-repeated but mistaken belief, that one could fabricate unnoticed highly enriched uranium in a civil nuclear plant, now serves Bush’ contention that enrichment should remain in the hands of world’s nuclear-weapon states.

Birth of a new world order

The idea of limiting enrichment capability to the nations that already have it is not entirely new. The accusations against Iran, the successful misleading of journalists, politicians and diplomats had created the ideal circumstances to speed up its realization. The idea appeared in a UN brochure in 2004. [39] Then it was still in the form of a call for a voluntary and time-limited moratorium on the construction of new facilities for enrichment and reprocessing. In February 2005 the United Nations further elaborated the idea as the Multilateral Nuclear Approach (MNA) [40]. Already in April 2005 Ambassador Kenzo Oshima of Japan’s mission to the UN put the question, “if the MNA would not unduly affect the peaceful use of nuclear energy by those non-nuclear-weapon states that carry out nuclear activities in faithful and transparent compliance with their NPT obligations.” [41]

On February 6 2006 the US’ Department of Energy announced its version of the idea in their plan for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). The following day, at the Oarai Conference in Japan, this GNEP is presented as an idea of IAEA’s head ElBaradei and a proposal of Bush. [42] And, of course, such a supreme idea should not lack of glamour. So, a few days later, DOE compliments itself as follows: “Finally, the partnership arrangement between fuel-cycle and reactor-only states envisioned by GNEP will help supply the world with clean electrical power by offering non-fuel-cycle nations commercially competitive and reliable access to nuclear fuel, in exchange for their commitment to forgo the development of enrichment and recycling technologies. “ [43]
Questionable elements

The new world order comes in the form of new safeguards within the IAEA control system. Considering the spirit of the Additional Protocol we should not count on equal rights or fair relations.

Within the Non-Proliferation Treaty countries, only the nuclear-weapon states, plus Germany, the Netherlands and Japan have enrichment facilities today. [44] The rest of the NPT countries would see their rights to enrich uranium taken away. In exchange, they will get the solemn promises of the nuclear-weapon states, that the latter will always deliver the nuclear fuel. Promises? Weren’t these the countries that promised in 1968 to strive for their nuclear disarmament? As we know, they did not keep their word up to now. Worse, France has even developed a new generation of nuclear weapons to make the step to nuclear war easier and progressive. In 2006, France and the US were still using their nuclear arsenal to threaten the world. And now, non-nuclear-weapon states should give away more rights and become dependent of IAEA’s club of nuclear fuel suppliers?

To seduce non-nuclear-weapon states, this new plan promises lower electricity prices. Today, on a global scale, enrichment facilities would have about twice the capacity the world needs. By preventing the construction of new enrichment facilities, a better use could be made of the existing capacities. This would enable lower prices for enriched uranium, and thus of electricity… Should we believe these words? The enrichment industries are not driven by the concern to lower world’s electricity prices. In spite of the world’s over-capacity the Europeans are considerably expanding their production in the UK, Netherlands and Germany. [45] They strive for more market share and more profit! And if by new IAEA regulations no new competitors are allowed on the market, this can only result in excessive pricing of enriched uranium, and thus of electricity.

The new plans foresee a highly regulated and closely monitored fuel supply distribution system. The IAEA would become the intermediate between fuel producing and fuel consuming members. At first glance this may look like a trustworthy construction, since the IAEA is a UN body. However, the IAEA is also the policeman in the system. I do not think it is wise to let policemen trade with the parties they should inspect. Besides, the UN is not some sort of democratic and integer government that would be able to guarantee their policemen’s impartiality.

The plans for the distribution system recommend minimal national stocks and joint regional buffers in different host-countries. Strange, isn’t it? The purpose of minimal stocks inside the countries and regional stocks elsewhere is hardly to defend as a security issue. Even with enormous stocks of 3.5 percent enriched uranium you cannot produce any nuclear weapon. Why would the IAEA want countries to dispose of only small quantities of fuel at a time? I fear there is only one plausible answer: to keep the non-nuclear-weapon states in a firm grip. That is a lot of power for our NPT-watchdog. This power goes far beyond what is needed for their inspections. This is pure power to overrule nations’ sovereignty. If a nation does anything that the watchdog or its masters do not want, the fuel tap can simply be closed to obtain its immediate submission. It smells like a dictatorship on world-level. Of course, the fuel supplying countries will never be affected. They produce their own fuel.

In theory the master of the IAEA is the United Nations Organization. But does it work that way in reality? The IAEA has a difficult role, because it cannot ignore tensions and conflicts of interest between NPT members. The IAEA’s independence from parties’ national interests is constantly under strain. Its limited budget forces the IAEA to make choices, which are influenced by occurring conflicts. During the embargo against Iraq, we witnessed an IAEA driven crazy by Bush, who demanded each time more and more thorough controls. The dog was sent out over and over to make sure Iraq could be safely invaded. Although the IAEA has the obligation to keep all sensitive information from their investigations undisclosed, the US military constantly received sensitive information, with which they prepared the invasion in 2003. (And finally, to invade Iraq, Bush simply overruled the UN’s Security Council…) Today, we see the same US’ influences in the IAEA’s investigations in Iran. Bush shouts and the dog runs to search for the stick.

The rules for the new world order are presented as “an idea of ElBaradei and a proposal of Bush.”. I presume that both plans, the IAEA’s Multi-National Approach (MNA) and Bush’ Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), will merge into a final version dictated by the US.

Of course, getting a firm grip on all non-nuclear-weapon states as soon as they get addicted to nuclear energy is a major strategic coup. But there are far more advantages for the nuclear fuel suppliers. United under the umbrella of the IAEA, the market will be completely regulated. All producers cooperate in the same organizations and all of them will be interested in the highest possible earnings. Together they will set world’s nuclear fuel price. Just like today’s world’s oil prices are decided on the market places of IPE and NYMEX, nuclear fuel prices will be decided by the happy few.

Now comes the tricky part. Nuclear fuel has to be paid for. The question is: in what currency (or currencies) will the customers have to pay? These currencies will become the most needed and wanted currencies in the world. You can compare it to today’s US-dollar.

Apparently these currencies have not been decided yet. But, if each fuel supplier asks to be paid in its own currency, the world would widely accept Japanese yens, Chinese yuan renminbi, Russian roubles, euros, English pounds and US-dollars. There will probably be some preferential order due to each supplier’s capacity to deliver nuclear fuel. Each of these countries will know the advantages of the supply of their currencies to the rest of the world. Of course, in the long run, each of them will also experience the negative effects on their economies and, after decades, let their currency collapse to get rid of the sky-rocketing foreign debt. In short, this is what can happen when each supplier demands payment in its own currency.

However, the fact that the plan mentions, that the IAEA should become the intermediary between suppliers and customers, may indicate that the IAEA will decide in which currency the customers will have to pay. Bush surely hopes that this will be the dollar. When nuclear fuel has to be paid exclusively in dollars, demand for US-dollars and therewith the US hegemony will be assured for many decades to come.

The UN theatre

With the project for a new world order prepared discretely in the background, we now have an anti-Iranian alliance of the US and E3. They smell the opportunity for a coup to seize world’s nuclear fuel market. To succeed, they would just need some legal sauce on a prohibition of uranium enrichment by non-nuclear-weapon states, with Iran as example. And a UN Security Council resolution would be enough, if it legalizes IAEA’s stand that it can forbid countries to enrich uranium.

Of course, they would make it impossible for Iran to stay within the Non-Proliferation Treaty then. To succeed their coup, they will have to take care, that Iran does not leave the organization before such a resolution is successfully voted. For, if Iran leaves the treaty before, there would not be any ground for a resolution anymore. Countries outside the Non-Proliferation treaty, like Israel, India, Pakistan, Cuba and Brazil are free to enrich uranium and to do what they want.

The question is: will the US and E3 succeed in seducing Russia and China? In May 2007 the US, Russia, China, France and Japan met to explore the possibilities for co-operation for the suggested international nuclear fuel banks… [46]

In the event, that such a raid by the nuclear-weapon states would succeed, it would probably put the Non-Proliferation Treaty under enormous strain. These organizations might loose all credibility and see many non-nuclear-weapon states leave. The result may be opposite to the purpose of this treaty.

References and sources:

[1] NPT members:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/Tracking_Ch02map.pdf
[2] NPT text:
http://disarmament2.un.org/wmd/npt/npttext.html (See article IV)
[3] Agreement IAEA-Iran:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/infcirc214.pdf
[4] Iran’s nuclear history:
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/1825_1826.html
[5] Growing opposition against the shah:
http://www.countriesquest.com/middle_east/iran/history/growing_opposition_to_the_shah.htm
[6] Mossadeq:
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/oil_nationalization/oil_nationalization.php
[7] Israelian attack on Irakian power plant in 1981:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7/newsid_3014000/3014623.stm
[8] 60 percent dependency on oil imports:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ar4D7HVGikXo&refer=top_world_news
[9] 130 gram of uranium:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/iaea0603.html (last line)
[10] article 37 of IAEA’s agreement with Iran:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/infcirc214.pdf
[11] 40 percent of EU imports come frome Iran
http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/r16004.htm (Item 14)
[12] EU imports from Iran consist for 90 percent of energy
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/bilateral/countries/iran/index_en.htm
[13] To print money is just an expression. Today, over 95 percent of all money in the world simply consists
of numbers on bank-accounts.
[14] US balance of payments and trade 2007
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/international-affairs/economic-exchange-rates/052008_report.pdf , page 9
[15] US net foreign debt 2007
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/kroszner20080901a.htm
[16] Fred Eckhard stating UN’s permission for Iraq’s switch to the euro:
http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2000/20001031.db103100.doc.html
[17] Statistics of Iraqi oil exports in euros:
http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/background/oilexports.html
[18] Descent of the dollar rate
http://www.courtfool.info/en_Cost_abuse_and_danger_of_the_dollar.htm (last chart) & http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/data.html
[19] Colin Nunan, Petrodollar or Petroeuro:
http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/nunan.htm
[20] IMF warning over dollar collapse 4 July 2002:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2097064.stm
[21] Downing Street Memo 23 July 2002
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article387374.ece
[22] Cheney’s lie 26 August 2002
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/Default.aspx?src=project_home&ontext=key_false_statements&id=946
[23] Financial Times, June 5th 2003
[24] More dollars needed
http://www.courtfool.info/en_Cost_abuse_and_danger_of_the_dollar.htm (first graphic)
[25] Oil spot prices 1997 – 2008
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_top.asp
[26] How can the dollar collapse in Iran?
http://www.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/Zeitfragen/__Collapse_in_Iran/__collapse_in_iran.html
[27] Oil Bourse Iran article September 2004
http://www.iran-daily.com/1383/2093/html/economy.htm
[28] Announcement Iranian Oil Bourse 26 April 2006:
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=212013&n=32
[29] RTS Putin announces Russian Oil Bourse 10 May 2006:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060510/47915635.html
[30] RTS announcement 11 May 2006:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060511/48003539.html
[31] RTS will start in 2007 22 May 2006:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060522/48444227.html
[32] RTS will start 8 June 2006:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060522/48434383.html
[33] RTS first oil trade 8 June 2006: 1751 rubles ($ 65.20)
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060608/49205699.html
[34] World Oil Exports
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/index.cfm
[35] Iranian imports 400,000 bbl/d of gasoline
http://hormuz.robertstrausscenter.org/iran_oil
[36] GNEP
http://www.gnep.energy.gov/ (Note: The content is different now from that in May 2006.)
[37] IAEA E3 report:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/2005/infcirc651.pdf
[38] Uranium enrichment:
http://www.uic.com.au/nip33.htm
[39] UN brochure 2004:
http://www.un.org/secureworld/brochure.pdf
[40] MNA expert group February 2005:
http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/NENP/NPTDS/Downloads/SMR_CRP1_SRWOSR/2005/RCM1/Add%20materials/mna-2005_web.pdf
[41] Kenzo Oshima: MNA unduly affects peaceful use?
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/speech/un2005/un0504-4.html
[42] ElBaradei’s idea and Bush’ proposal. February 7, 2006:
http://www.jaea.go.jp/04/np/documents/sym05_01_endo_en.pdf
[43] DOE compliments February 2006
http://energy.gov/news/3184.htm
[44] Map of world’s nuclear fuel stations, uranium enrichment capacity:
http://www.wise-uranium.org/umaps.html?set=enr
[45] Uranium Enrichment and Fuel Fabrication
http://www.wise-uranium.org/epeur.html#UREGRONAU
[46] US, Russia, China, France, Japan
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/chinainstitute/nav03.cfm?nav03=60775&nav02=59973&nav01=57272
Articles:
Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse
by William R. Clark (Friday August 05 2005)
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17450
Killing the dollar in Iran, By Toni Straka
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GH26Dj01.html
America's Foreign Owners, Thursday, September 22, 2005
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=1712
The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse, Krassimir Petrov, Ph. D., January 17, 2006
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/petrov/petrov011706.html
Trading oil in euros - does it matter?,
by Cóilín Nunan,
Published on 30 Jan 2006 by Energy Bulletin.
http://www.energybulletin.net/12463.html

Letter from the heart

2008-10-12T09:25:00.000-07:00

Good Morning My Family and Friends,

I would like to share something with you that I see as another call on my life for this season, as the Lord would permit me to do. It was an easy decision for me to make and as I felt it impress on my heart I said yes to the call.

I would really like you to read everything and get an understanding of what this is all about. I guess for me it was Love at first sight.

This is Jaida's story.

Jaida Marae Freeman

About Biliary Atresia

Biliary Atresia (BA) affects approximately 1 in 15,000 births. The cause of BA is unknown, however, it is known that it only affects newborns; it is not hereditary; it is not contagious; and it is not preventable. BA is not caused by anything the mother did during pregnancy.

Cells within the liver secrete a yellowish-green liquid called bile. A network of tubular structures and tiny ducts form the biliary system to drain bile from the liver to the small intestine where it aids in the digestive process. BA is the closure or disappearance of the biliary system. If insufficient bile reaches the intestine, the baby will not be able to digest the fat in its food. This makes it difficult to gain weight. A child with BA may look quite jaundiced if bile flow has not been achieved; the liver may become enlarged, creating a 'pot-bellied' appearance. Frequent hospitalizations and long periods of feeling unwell may delay development of sitting, walking and other activities. Mental development, however, is usually normal.

BA causes inflammation and obstruction of the bile ducts which results in the back up of bile in the liver. The bile destroys the healthy liver and forms scar tissue further trapping the bile and causing cirrhosis of the liver and finally liver failure.

On December 12th, 2007 Jaida (at 11 weeks old) had an 8 hour surgery performed called the "Kasai" procedure. The surgery consisted of removing the damaged/non-functioning bile ducts outside her liver and attaching her small intestine directly to the liver at the spot where bile is found or expected to drain. The surgery was initially successful as bile drainage was achieved and Jaida was jaundice-free for approximately 3 months post-surgery. However, in March 2008 Jaida became jaundiced again which is the result of her progressive liver damage.

Jaida currently has cirrhosis of the liver and without a liver transplant she will not live.

It is at this point where I felt the tug at my heart to be a Liver donor to little Jaida. For me it was not a hard decision, but I am still yet to be cleared to proceed with the donation.

I have started with the pre-examinations to make sure I am a match, healthy and well enough to be able to give a piece of my Liver to Jaida Freeman. As you know your Liver do grow back, well not quite. What happens is this; they will take the left part of my Liver and the right side will grow to compensate for the missing left and all will be well.

Jaida is an O+ and to my surprise I am too, that is the first step. Now I am on the physical examination to make sure I am healthy and well, I have started that as well. Hopefully all goes well with me and we are on to the big day, the actual surgery to transplant, and give little Jaida a long and healthy life.

I am asking you all to pray that God will see it fit to make this transplant happen or completely heal Jaida Freeman. Really and truly I am praying that little Jaida will get a wonderful Christmas gift a New Liver and A Healthy LONG LIFE.

Please Keep little Jaida in your prayers and pray that everything works out well with my pre-examination to be able to be a complete Liver Donor.

Jaida and I at Sick Kids Toronto Ontario, where she is at Present waiting

For a Liver Transplant.

God Bless You All and Thanks for your Prayers

Clairmont

The Wave

2008-10-09T19:08:00.000-07:00

Jaida's Story

2008-10-09T18:36:00.000-07:00

Jaida Marae Fairman was born on September 26th, 2007 to the delight of her parents Melissa and Marlon – she is their only child. Jaida was given a clean bill of health from the Pediatrician on duty and was released from the hospital the very next day. Jaida became jaundiced on her third day of life and was taken to her Pediatrician for a standard check up. After numerous blood work-ups and abdominal ultrasounds, it appeared that Jaida had a very rare liver
disease. Jaida's jaundice became worse and she was officially diagnosed with Biliary Atresia in December 2007 at 11 weeks old.

Biliary Atresia (BA) affects approximately 1 in 15,000 births. The cause of BA is unknown, however, it is known that it only affects newborns; it is not hereditary; it is not contagious; and it is not preventable. BA is not caused by anything the mother did during pregnancy.

Cells within the liver secrete a yellowish-green liquid called bile. A network of tubular structures and tiny ducts form the biliary system to drain bile from the liver to the small intestine where it aids in the digestive process. BA is the closure or disappearance of the biliary system. If insufficient bile reaches the intestine, the baby will not be able to digest the fat in its food. This makes it difficult togain weight. A child with BA may look quite jaundiced if bile flow has not been achieved; the liver may become enlarged, creating a 'pot-bellied' appearance. Frequent hospitalizations and long periods of feeling unwell may delay development of sitting, walking and other activities. Mental development, however, is usually normal.

BA causes inflammation and obstruction of the bile ducts which results in the back up of bile in the liver. The bile destroys the healthy liver and forms scar tissue further trapping the bile and causing cirrhosis of the liver and finally liver failure.

On December 12th, 2007 Jaida (at 11 weeks old) had an 8 hour surgery performed called the "Kasai" procedure. The surgery consisted of removing the damaged/non-functioning bile ducts outside her liver and attaching her small intestine directly to the liver at the spot where bile is found or expected to drain. The surgery was initially successful as bile drainage was achieved and Jaida was jaundice-free for approximately 3 months post-surgery. However, in March 2008 Jaida became jaundiced again which is the result of her progressive liver damage.
Jaida currently has cirrhosis of the liver and without a liver transplant she will not live.

Jaida is truly a blessing from God. Our little fighter is 1 year old now; she has such a wonderful personality and a distinct little attitude to go with it. Jaida brings so much joy to everyone around her and once you look in her beautiful bright eyes it's hard not to fall in love.

Share Your Faith - Somebody Needs It!

2008-10-08T09:14:00.000-07:00

"Then I will teach transgressors your ways." Psalm 51:13 (NIV)
Roger Simms was hitchhiking home when he was picked up by Mr. Hanover. As they drove towards Chicago, Roger felt God urging him to share his faith. When he overcame his fear and asked the man if he would like to receive Christ, Mr. Hanover stopped, bowed his head on the steering wheel, began to cry, and accepted Christ. "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me," he said.

Shortly afterwards he dropped Roger at his house and went on to Chicago, which was about an hour down the road. Years later, while preparing for a business trip to Chicago, Roger came across the gold-embossed business card Mr. Hanover had given him years earlier. When he arrived in Chicago he decided to look up Hanover Enterprises and found it located in a skyscraper downtown. When he asked the receptionist if he could see Mr. Hanover, she said, "No, but his wife is here."

"You knew my husband?" the woman in her 50's asked. Roger explained that her husband had given him a ride and how he'd led him to Christ. "When was that?" she asked. "May 7th, five years ago, the day I was discharged from the army." She began to sob. After several minutes she regained control and said, "I prayed for my husband's salvation for years, believing God would save him. But right after he let you out of his car, on May 7th, he was killed in a head-on collision. I thought God had not answered my prayer, and I stopped living for Him five years ago." That day she recommitted her life to Christ.

Bishop E. Earl Jenkins, Share your faith - somebody needs it!

Find something to die for

2008-10-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren't fit to live. You may be thirty-eight years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid that somebody will stab you or shoot at you or bomb your house. So you refuse to take the stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at thirty-eight as you would be at ninety. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for justice....

Don't ever think that you're by yourself. Go on to jail if necessary,but you never go alone. Take a stand for that which is right,and the world may misunderstand you, and criticize you. But you never go alone, for somewhere I read that one with God is a majority. And God has a way of transforming a minority into a majority. Walk with him this morning and believe in him and do what is right, and He'll be with you even until the consummation of the ages. Yes, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I've felt sin breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul, but I heard the voice of Jesus saying, still to fight on. He promised never to leave me alone, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. No, never alone.

Martin Luther King Jr, Sermon at Ebenezer, November 5, 1967

NEW BLOG DESIGN

2008-10-05T09:52:00.000-07:00

StreamingPraiseRadio.com has change the design of its blog.