Many of us are not surprised by this top research scientist working for Big Pharma in confessing that data was manipulated by the CDC that obscured a higher incidence of autism in African-American boys.

The abstract of the paper that has been taken down pending investigation indicates that: When comparing cases and controls receiving their first MMR vaccine before and after 36 months of age, there was a statistically significant increase in autism cases specifically among African American males who received the first MMR prior to 36 months of age. Relative risks for males in general and African American males were 1.69 (p=0.0138) and 3.36 (p=0.0019), respectively. Additionally, African American males showed an odds ratio of 1.73 (p=0.0200) for autism cases in children receiving their first MMR vaccine prior to 24 months of age versus 24 months of age and thereafter.

Conclusions: The present study provides new epidemiologic evidence showing that African American males receiving the MMR vaccine prior to 24 months of age or 36 months of age are more likely to receive an autism diagnosis.

Here is a well produced and horrifying Video that gives a perspective of what is going on.

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This report has been removed from the public domain because of serious concerns about the validity of its conclusions. Apparently the whistle blower-William Thompson, Ph.D, who wished to remain anonymous, has reportedly given a public statement claiming he regrets to his co-authors for omitting significant information “in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics.”

The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data was collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.” Isn’t that too late for the whistleblower to retract his findings-You cannot push the chick back into the shell.

It is a well known fact that vaccines cause seizures in children, brain damage, fevers, vomiting, commas and even death. The risk of becoming known to the public was so great that a private court known as the “vaccine court” was set up to pay off parents of vaccine-damaged children while requiring them to sign non-disclosure agreements to force them into silence.

Dr. Hooker stated: “The CDC knew about the relationship between the age of first MMR vaccine and autism incidence in African-American boys as early as 2003, but chose to cover it up.” The whistleblower confirmed this.

According to Dr. David Lewis, Ph.D., a former senior-level microbiologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development, government agencies routinely skew scientific data in order to save face and perpetuate the illusion of relevance.

Working for the government is no different than working for corporations. You either toe the line or find yourself looking for another way to make a living,” Lewis says. “No one would be surprised if Merck published unreliable data supporting the safety of its products. Why would anyone be surprised that the CDC is publishing skewed data to conclude that the vaccines it recommends are safe? We need a better system, where scientists are free to be honest.

The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered BabyJabs to remove information relating to the alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Though the medical authorities strongly refute any link between the MMR vaccine and autism we note that an Italian Court, based on independent medical advice, ruled in March 2012 that the MMR vaccine had caused autism in a 9 year old boy. This suppression of truth about vaccines and their damage is revealed in the following video released by the Canary Party and narrated by actor Rob Schneider who is reportedly an advocate of parental rights when it comes to conventional medicine.

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I know a good number of concerned friends and relatives in the African/black community that have been injured by the MMR vaccine. One relative told me that as soon her son was injected with MMR, he was damaged and today he’s autistic. Our son developed all kinds of complications after the vaccinations. But by God’s grace, he is more stable in his overall health. Mike Adams of Natural News has done an exhaustive research about the dangers of these vaccines. He writes:

The global population has been inoculated with a wide range of vaccines that are supposed to protect us from a host of diseases. In reality, these vaccines take out the immune system. It turns out that vaccines contain all kinds of toxic substances that consist of bacterial and viral elements in a water or salt solution with a tissue fixative (formaldehyde, aluminium phosphate, aluminium hydroxide) and a conserving agent (thiomersal, or thimerosal, which contains mercury). Worldwide, thiomersalis associated with, among other things, autism, heart diseases, hyperactivity and nerve conditions.”

Could this be the reason why during a TED conference in 2010, Bill Gates, who is the founder of Microsoft and a philanthropist, said, “The world today has 6.8 billion people…. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”?

Any person with commonsense can tell that this statement implies that vaccines can be used as a method of reducing populations. And so are “healthcare” and “reproductive health services.” Is it a coincidence that Gates’ foundations have given millions of dollars into vaccine programs to people all over the world, especially the poor people? According to Natural News.com, Autism is now an epidemic with an increase of 1,500% in the UK in the last 10 years…. There is a strong connection between all forms of vaccinations and autism.

A U.S. study found that children who received vaccines containing a preservative called thimerosal, which is almost 50 percent mercury, were most than twice as likely to develop autism than children who did not. Although mercury has been removed from regular childhood vaccines due to growing safety worries, it is still present in other vaccines children might get.

The mercury in the vaccines causes autism, brain damage and disease. Similar research published in the Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology back in June found that perinatal exposure to Thimerosal, or exposure to mercury in vaccines shortly after birth, is directly responsible for inducing neurotoxic effects on the developing brain. Particularly in the cerebellum, mercury was found to stunt gene expression as it pertains to hormone regulation, particularly from the thyroid gland, which is responsible for brain development in humans.

The vaccines themselves cause the body to be in an unnatural state and set you up for major disease. In the Natural Cures book Mike Adams recommends several books to discuss vaccines. They are: A Shot in the Dark, by Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher; Vaccines: Are They Really Safe & Effective?, by Neil Z. Miller; and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children’s Vaccinations, by Stephanie Cave, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., with Deborah Mitchell.

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract written around 1762 described the government, not the individual, as the one who would define property rights. Environmental protection would occur “not by purchase but through the police power of the federal government.” That is why foreign investors want to buy land in poor countries after all as Rousseau noted, under bad governments, kings holding the land are quite confident of holding the inhabitants.

Rousseau understood that under bad governments, this equality is only an illusion; it serves only to keep the poor man in his poverty and the rich man in the position he has usurped. In fact, laws are always of use to those who possess wealth and harmful to those who have nothing. It follows from this that the social state is advantageous to people only when all have something and none too much. It’s the reason why the vision of Agenda 2030 is in the form of an ordinance that will be enforceable with fines and other penalties.

They become decision-makers and influence policy and legislation. When you own land you are the decision maker. That’s the reason why Western elites are buying large chunks of land in Africa.  Africans just don’t know how much wealth they have by owning land.

In debt-ridden Western countries, the purchase of land for agricultural purposes or a farm can be hit with mandatory loans, sharing and capital levies. Furthermore, prices of land are doubling every year even in rural areas, and the agricultural farms can likely be confiscated by those in power just as Rousseau predicted.

It’s been noted by many analysts that the West (Europe and America) shape the subconscious mind of many Africans who live within five kilometres of a town centre. Whites are admired and at the same time resented for the superiority complex. As Frederick Price asserted in Volume 1 of his book Race, Religion & Racism, many blacks will not accept anything from another black man as having value until the white community has given its approval of it. Why? We’ve been trained like that and have no confidence in ourselves and it’s getting worse, especially in African countries.

Most Africans have imitated the lifestyles of the West forgetting that this kind of lifestyle is not yet applicable in our banana republics. Instead of utilizing the fertile soils that God has endowed us for growing enough food, we are selling our land to buy other liabilities and bowing down to the god of instant gratification.

I know a man in Christ whose relatives sacrificed long-term assets in the form of land for these short-term benefits, yet these same items could buy one plot of land in some parts of Africa. My friend whom I will name Peter told them not to sell the land but to delay gratification until the Lord had given them a creative idea on how to use that land but they couldn’t listen. Instead, they ignored his advice and went to the extreme of being offended by Peter’s advice. Why? Because they preferred things that could easily be converted into cash.  They sold the land and they no longer had the assets to use for generating further capital.

When Peter’s father died, his remaining estate was not in good shape because of mismanagement, family squabbles, and poor estate planning. So when Peter was about 18 years old, he naively thought he would be the problem solver when it came to matters of family wealth. He desperately wanted to be part of the solution forgetting the fact that this was a matter of life and death.

Peter’s half-sister emphatically told her that he would die if he didn’t give up on a certain piece of real estate after all the land title was legally owned by her mother. According to the will of Peter’s deceased dad, the share of the money when the property was rented or sold had to be distributed fairly and each child was to receive at least a portion according to each one’s needs.

However, Peter had a half-elder brother whom he was counting on to make the right moral decision regarding this piece of estate. To his surprise, however, his brother abused the trust of his deceased father and decided to profit from the family’s misfortunes and seized all portions of the estate after he had sold it.

Peter was in the UK and he was told that this land was sold by the person he had trusted to make the right decision at least in fairly distributing the proceeds that came from the sale. After all as a family they were all entitled to a share of the value of that property but family matters can be very complicated especially if they come from polygamous homes. Remember each of the wives will be looking out for their children.

There is another story I heard from a gentleman called Joshua whose grandfather owned 2800 acres of prime timberland in Alabama United States. He said his grandfather died at age fifty-five and lived most of his life as a logger. He had seven children, five boys and two girls. One of the boys died early, which left six children. My grandfather was considered a good businessman, even though he lived in a small town.

“Over the years, working with his sons, he accumulated this large tract of land. He bought the land, cut and sold the timber, and paid for the land, one tract at a time. He continued until he owned twenty-eight hundred acres, and over the years his land appreciated in value because of a hunting camp he had opened on the Dog River….My grandfather’s main possession was his property. When he died unexpectedly and without a will, my grandmother did not receive full ownership of the property. She received an equal share with the children…..”

Grandmother loved all her children but could not decide what the best way to handle this land issue. Every time our family talked about how to divide the land they had inherited in order to keep the land in the family, no plan ever materialized. One recommendation was to take the plots, divide them into seven parcels, and let each child draw number. This didn’t work because they all feared they might draw the lowlands, and this would be unfair. Since they could not agree on any settlement, they were forced to sell the land. Grandmother was allowed to keep the homestead.

The money was divided equally between my father and his brothers and sisters. Joshua said, “This turned out to be one of the worst options but seemed the only way to settle the matter. Within five years, the two sisters used their shares to buy homes in Detroit. Two of the brothers bought property in other locations. The other two unwisely spent their share of the money and went completely broke…..

At every family meeting, there were arguments about the property. The equal shares scenario totally split the family apart. No one had controlling authority.” The bad thing about this whole situation was that seven years later, they discovered oil on that tract next to Dog River.”

God wants us to think Generationally

What lessons do we learn from this? God wants us to think generationally. First, although Joshua’s grandfather had been a hard worker and a good provider who wanted the best for his family, he had never made provisions for his property or taught his children how to manage his estate. Consequently, his lifetime possessions were not directed in the way he had intended, which was to stay and benefit the family.

This story illustrates how important it is for families to organize their family financial affairs, do estate family planning and make adequate financial provisions. Many similar stories exist especially in African countries.

According to the Bible, land seems to be God’s first order of prosperity. The first thing God gave man was land or real estate. (See Genesis 2:8-15) God wanted us not only to enjoy the wealth He gave us; He wants our children and grandchildren to enjoy it too. The Bible says: “A good man leaves an inheritance of moral stability and goodness to his children’s children and the wealth of the sinner finds its way eventually into the hands of the righteous, for whom it was laid up. (Proverbs 13:22)

We are to preserve and reserve for the future. For example, Joseph was sent to Egypt ahead of his brothers and his father Jacob because God knew a famine was coming, and they would need to be preserved. When the famine struck the land, Joseph’s family needed a place to survive and prosper when times got better.

So if you are a young or older person and your parents left you land, please don’t exchange your inheritance for a pot of soup like Esau (see Genesis 25:29-34). Avoid the trappings of self-indulgence, live a simple life and please keep the land because there is wealth in it and it doesn’t matter which location or part of the world that land might be in.

According to estimates, nine hundred and sixty-three million people go to bed hungry every night. Meanwhile, 4 million tons of food is incinerated or dumped in the ocean every day to keep prices high. The root cause of this hunger crisis is the increasing concentration of control over food-producing resources in the hands of few people.

Many analysts have noted that when small-scale peasant farming is replaced with mechanization, centralization, and capitalist agribusiness, the result is not only greatly increased energy use per unit harvest and reduced production per acre, but also less agricultural employment.

The peasants are forced off the land and are thereby denied employment, housing, and food. They are then pushed into urban cities and are rendered powerless and useless except as objects to be used for someone’s gain. The land which once sustained them now produces luxury crops and products for people in the Western world; products these peasant farmers cannot afford to buy. The profits go to the rich, many of whom are Western corporations. This pattern has been repeated in country after country.

Although corporations reap huge profits from this form of slavery, Africans don’t sell your land as long as it’s still available. Until you own land, you will still be poor and insecure. You have to up give your independent lifestyle and become a slave to the government that has sold your land to corporations.

If the Lord tarries, it would be useful if you can, to move away from the city centres, and go back to the basics like engaging in agriculture, understanding science and the mastery of craft trades using the land God has provided for us. Regardless of whether real estate/land prices fluctuate, there will always be a special prosperity in growing your own food and owning agricultural land.

There was nothing significant to talk about in the United States–Africa Leaders Summit. It’s still the same old story. The summit commenced on 4 August 2014 and leaders from fifty African states attended the three day summit that primarily focused on trade, investment and security of the continent.

Africa is the richest continent on earth in natural resources. These natural resources include gas, oil, gold, silver, diamonds, uranium, iron, copper, tin, lead, coal, timber, cobalt, wood, coltan, chromium, and much more. But why is Africa one of the poorest continents yet has natural resources that are in great demand?

One explanation is that developed nations are rich because they supply things that are scarce but are in high demand. Undeveloped nations, on the other hand, are poor because they supply too many things for which there is relatively little demand.

But this does not answer the question of poverty in these poor nations such as the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, and others. Congo supplies the world with diamonds and Nigeria is the world’s ninth largest producer and supplier of oil. Trinidad also has oil, Jamaica has bauxite, and Guyana is rich with gold. Yet every one of these countries is borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

One of the main reasons this is happening is because the corrupt leaders of these poor nations have allowed other special interests in the world to take advantage of Africa for decades or even centuries. They trade worthy and valuable goods in return for unworthy goods, deceiving contracts and political promises all at the expense of the people. Through such deceptive trade deals, the elites of this planet receive and control the natural resources of these countries by keeping them in a constant struggle and war.

These countries remain in need of outside help and this is where the imperialistic politics of the world powers come in to play. More misleading aid and assistance is promised to problems they helped create in return for natural resources. The leaders who are meant to lead the Africans by example trade Africa’s worthy and valuable goods in return for unworthy goods, deceiving contracts, and empty political promises. And the cycle just continues to repeat itself until poor countries are made poorer and rich countries get richer. Lead researcher of Rema Marketing Reece Woodstock says:

The media portrayal of Africa is not the real accurate picture of a continent that many believe to be the birth place of Adam and Eve and the location of the original Garden of Eden from which mankind fell…..Unfortunately, many people are genuinely unaware of the real truth, which is that Western Freemasonry has for hundreds of years systematically enslaved Africa and other so called third world nations in a financial debt that would take hundreds of generations to repay. Africa’s resources have been pillaged and the West have been influential in ensuring that many of the leaders placed in positions of power in African states are ones whose presence serves only to ensure that the nations they run, remain impoverished and in chaos. What Cecil Rhodes started has never fully changed. Only the perception has been camouflaged.

Interventions from governmental bodies like State visits of African leaders to Washington which again reflects the West’s scramble for Africa’s resources will never change the character of any nation’s economic system. This has been called the recolonization of Africa, which has made the indigenous people slaves and the leaders puppets for their foreign masters.

In 2011 the Guardian reported that…

Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people off their land …

… No one should believe that these investors are there to feed starving Africans, create jobs or improve food security …

Much of the money is said to be channelled through London-based Emergent asset management, which runs one of Africa’s largest land acquisition funds, run by former JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs currency dealers. Emergent’s clients in the US may have invested up to $500m in some of the most fertile land in the expectation of making 25% returns.

“These agreements – many of which could be in place for 99 years – do not mean progress for local people and will not lead to food in their stomachs. These deals lead only to dollars in the pockets of corrupt leaders and foreign investors.”

“The scale of the land deals being struck is shocking”, said Mittal. “The conversion of African small farms and forests into a natural-asset-based, high-return investment strategy can drive up food prices and increase the risks of climate change.

Research by the World Bank and others suggests that nearly 60m hectares – an area the size of France – has been bought or leased by foreign companies in Africa in the past three years…..Most of these deals are characterised by a lack of transparency, despite the profound implications posed by the consolidation of control over global food markets and agricultural resources by financial firms,” says the report.

We have seen cases of speculators taking over agricultural land while small farmers, viewed as squatters, are forcibly removed with no compensation,” said Frederic Mousseau, policy director at Oakland, said:

“This is creating insecurity in the global food system that could be a much bigger threat to global security than terrorism. More than one billion people around the world are living with hunger. The majority of the world’s poor still depend on small farms for their livelihoods, and speculators are taking these away while promising progress that never happens.”

African leaders should instead protect individual freedoms and human rights and stop being Western puppets. The contradiction is that their talk for human rights seems to be positive on the surface, but underneath they deny that the family is the economic foundation of society.

These summits only suggest alternative causes of poverty and don’t explain or give realistic answers about how to alleviate poverty in developing nations or outline strategies for how the poor might become productive and self-sufficient without stealing their land or depending on other nations for support.

Africa Doesn’t Need Aid

Every effort to distribute wealth from richer nations to poorer ones through debt, taxes, and other donations will never work. This is because the poor will always need to be fed and therefore poverty cannot be eradicated by stealing land and wealth from one nation and giving it to another. It’s impossible.

The one thing the West could usefully export to Africa is knowledge— knowledge of how to structure a nation’s laws to secure freedom and prosperity for its people. This is what some early Christian missionaries tried to do by incorporating free enterprise and Christianity in African nations. “But those in the West who make African aid their vocation; as one writer has noted, “this knowledge appears to be a commodity that is sorely lacking.” James Shikwati aptly points out,

History teaches us the strategic importance of learning from successful cultures is a tool to build one’s own. To think, and assume, that knowledge and experience are a preserve of a few is to relegate Africans to unthinking objects. Promoting free trade is the driving solution to poverty in Africa. Africa doesn’t need aid from Western governments and international organizations. Aid doesn’t eliminate poverty, instead it does more harm than good to Africans based on the central arguments that “it is mainly used either by politicians as a tool to manipulate people and influence votes, or as a mechanism for dumping subsidized foreign agricultural products onto local markets at below cost making it nearly impossible for African farmers to compete. Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted. Africans should be taught to be independent not beggars. In addition, development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens the spirit of entrepreneurship that we so desperately need.

Conclusion

What Africa needs applies to any other nation: free enterprise that provides businesses and creates wealth and job opportunities. Farmers in Africa need infrastructure to connect to their farm inputs and to foreign markets. Therefore, governments should invest in infrastructure, safeguard property, and the rule of law.

The wealth and natural resources in developing nations are tremendous, but the problem is productive capital and the knowledge of how to use it. But what do we expect from the self-serving dictators and Western elites who control every means of production and distribution? Of course they would be against biblical principles of wealth creation.

I needed to take a break from writing because there is too much going on that we are almost overwhelmed with this cloud of darkness. No wonder Jesus said because of multiplied lawlessness and iniquity, the love of the great body of Christ will grow cold (See Matthew 24:12).

Having said that, we need to ask the Lord to teach us to pray after all He says, we should keep awake then and watch at all times [be discreet, attentive, and ready], praying that you may have the full strength and ability and be accounted worthy to escape all these things [taken together] that will take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man (Luke 21: 36). So the question is what is prayer and intercession?

Prayer is not a technique. I believe prayer is communion with Jesus Christ and it takes place within your spirit. Prayer is simply being with God. Dialogue with God is Spirit to spirit and it is simply being with God, whereas intercession is described by Alice Smith as a special grace given by Christ to pray for extended periods of time on the basis of an intimate relationship.

True intercession is likewise founded upon a desire to be united with the Lord, not just an effort to get Him to do something. The Lord wants us to come to the place where we no longer want Him to fulfil the selfish desires of our hearts, instead we need to know the desires of His heart, and to become intercessors that He can use in His priestly ministry.

Rees Howells, (10 October 1879 – 13 February 1950) born in a Welsh mining village and best known as the founder of the Bible College of Wales says, “There are three things that are to be seen in an intercessor, which are not necessarily found in ordinary prayer: identification, agony and authority.” This identification of the intercessor with the ones for whom he intercedes can be perfectly seen in Jesus Christ. The Bible says:

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors (Isaiah 53: 11-12 KJV).

Jesus tasted death for every man. He also understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin (Hebrews 4:14-15). He became poor that that we through His poverty we might become rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9) Even though Jesus was God’s Son, He learned obedience from the things He suffered.

That is why “in the days of His flesh [Jesus] offered up definite, special petitions [for that which He not only wanted but needed] and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was [always] able to save Him [out] from death, and He was heard because of His reverence toward God [His godly fear, His piety, in that He shrank from the horrors of separation from the bright presence of the Father] (Hebrews 5:7 AMP).

God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). All this proves that the Lord understands everything that we go through. Because of this He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them (Hebrews 7:25). So the Lord indentifies with our needs, trials and sufferings because He has gone through the same things we go through on a daily basis.

Then the Holy Spirit is also an Intercessor. Jesus promised that: “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever” (John 14:16). For the Holy Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26-27).

It is the Holy Spirit that shares His groaning within the hearts and bodies of where He dwells. But an intercessor has to be acquainted with grief and death. You have to be able to literally lay down your life for the person or people you are interceding. Jesus said that Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends (John 15:13). We see this example in the Life of Moses and Paul. When Israel set up the golden calf, God was ready to destroy the whole nation because of their sin. The Lord God was bent on executing justice and He said to Moses:

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel that brought you out of the land of Egypt! And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation” (Exodus 32: 8-10 NKJV).

But Moses would not let Him alone. He fell down before the Lord and fasted for forty days and forty nights in an agony of intercession on behalf of the sinning Israelites. He neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all their sins which they had committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. (Deuteronomy 9:18) He was willing to literally lay down his own life and lose his own salvation.

Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! “Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written” (Exodus 32:31-32).

So the Lord changed His mind about the terrible disaster He had threatened to bring on His people. Paul also shared a depth of love for the Jewish people that he was willing to be forever cursed. Like the Lord Jesus, and Moses, he was willing to sacrifice his own life and salvation so that his Jewish brothers would be saved.

I tell the truth in Christ; I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen (Romans 9: 1-5 NKJV).

Paul’s intercession led to being given a revelation of how God would ultimately save the Israel in Romans chapter 11. Or, as there was with John Knox when he pleaded: “Give me Scotland, or I die!” In Rees Howells’s biography, Intercessor Norman Grubb writes that:

But before He can lead a chosen vessel into such a life of intercession, He first has to deal to the bottom with all that is natural: Love of money, (See Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13; 12:13-21; 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 19:16-30) Personal ambition, (See Galatians 5:19-21; James 3:14; Ecclesiastes 4:4) Natural affection for parents and loved ones, (See Matthew 10:34-38) The appetites of the body, (See John 6:27; 47-58) The love of life itself, (See Luke 14:26; John 12:24-26) All that makes even a converted man live unto himself for own comfort or advantage for his own advancement, even for his own circle of friends has got to go to the Cross (See Matthew 16:24-25).

It is no theoretical death, but a real crucifixion with Christ, such as only the Holy Spirit can make actual in the experience of His servant. Both as a crisis and process: Paul’s testimony must be made ours: “I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me” (Galatians 2:20 AMP).

The self must be released from itself to become the agent of the Holy Spirit (See Philippians 2:12-13) As crucifixion proceeds, intercession begins. By inner burdens and calls to outward obedience, the Spirit begins to live His own life of love and sacrifice for a lost world through His own life of love and sacrifice for a lost world through His cleansed channel.

We need to ask the Holy Spirit for the grace of prayer and intercession so that we can pray for a great spiritual awakening in our families, homes and nations. Many believers think there can be no revival because we are in the last days, but all past revivals have happened in the last days. We’ve been in the last days since the Day of Pentecost and we are now in latter part of the last days as Peter tells us in Acts 2:17-21.

No longer is it enough for God to raise up just a small handful of intercessors in every church; the whole Body of Christ in all nations of the world must turn to God in weeping and travailing for God to intervene.

Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do super-abundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]—To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it) (Ephesians 3:20-21 AMP).