Podcast 13 Transcript--Follow Me, My Beloved: "Do not fear. Shine your light."


Podcast 13: FAST Day 35/40
Follow Me, My Beloved
 “Do not fear. Shine your light.”
International Solidarity Day

Whoever serves me must follow me;
and where I am, my servant also will be.
My Father will honor the one who serves me.


"Do not be afraid. Go through the door."
Detail of painting.

Opening
Welcome to Into Integrity.
This is Michèle O’Donnell.

Thanks for joining us as we follow Jesus, living integrity and confronting corruption. Today is day 35 of the 40 day FAST. And it is the 15th day of Kelly’s combined food-fast and hunger strike.

Our theme focuses on following Jesus as children of light who courageously shine our light in the world. This is a podcast permeated with prayer. We are praying for courage, purity, and power, to go into dark areas, venturing through the doors that God opens for us, doing good, confronting evil, for His glory. We are praying for specific people and organizations who we believe can join together in solidarity to assist in disclosing about the NCI fraud and to right the wrongful dismissals.

Jesus says, in John 12:26:
Whoever serves me must follow me;
and where I am, my servant also will be.
My Father will honor the one who serves me.

So come with us now in following Jesus and to seek Him together in prayer!
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Today is also the United Nations International Human Solidarity Day (20 December, logo above). It is a day to: “to celebrate our unity in diversity; to remind governments to respect their commitments to international agreements; to raise public awareness of the importance of solidarity; to encourage debate on the ways to promote solidarity for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals including poverty eradication; …to encourage new initiatives for poverty eradication.”

Today is thus a day to consider how you might join in solidarity with others to help make the world a better place, locally through globally.  And likewise, it is a day in which we invite you again to join with us and others in solidarity during the Into Integrity FAST (6-26 December 2019). Our purpose is to shine the light by:

….calling attention to--and confronting--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations, leaders, people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related dismissals that we have experienced. It is a combined food FAst for genuine contrition and a hunger STrike for resolute action by specific people and organizations primarily within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

You can find a transcript of this podcast with resources and links on the Into Integrity weblog.

Join in solidarity. Pray.
Do not fear. Shine your light.
Take a stand, speak up, and live in integrity.

Please join us as we seek the Lord in prayer now.
We pray, Lord, prayers of grace, mercy, forgiveness. Show us our wrongness. Help us in our weakness. Renew our strengths. Guide our intercession, Lord. May the incarnate Word of God—the incisive Sword of the Spirit, the illuminating Spirit of Light—penetrate deep into our hearts and lives.

We collectively pray especially for specific people, past and present, in YWAM, Mercy Ships, Mercy Ministries/Le Rucher, Youth For Christ, Crossroads Church, WEA-Mission Commission, Member Care-Europe, and others who could have helped but did not.  And for ourselves sinners in need of Your mercy. May people have the courage to join in solidarity with fellow colleagues, people of goodwill, breaking ranks as necessary in order to break the silence about NCI and how people have been affected. Help us to fear You, Lord, and not people. If we were still trying to please people we would not be Your bond servants, Jesus.

Follow Me, My Beloved. Courage! Shine your light. Love truth, peace, and people


“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." 
The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you”. Romans 16:20

We resist you, Evil One, and all your cohorts and all your works. We put on the full armor of God, the armor of light, to confront the schemes of the Wicked One, the Thief who comes to kill, steal, and destroy the peoples of our world and ourselves. The Lord rebuke you Satan, even the Lord who has chosen His Beloved Bride. We acknowledge that our weapons are divinely powerful for tearing down strongholds; get behind us Satan, for we set our minds on the purpose of God and not on our own or others.

We set our faces like flint to go to Jerusalem with You, Jesus, laying down our lives in obedience to suffer outside the walls of Jerusalem with You. For it is written you shall fear and worship God alone We know that this type of the demonic, the insidious, hideous strength that has marred the Church-Mission community through NCI, only comes out with the steadfast, Spirit-led prayers and fasting of courageous people who join in solidarity to walk in the light. And we will see the Prince of the power of the air falling like lightening from the skies, and in this we rejoice with You, Jesus.

Follow Me, My Beloved. Courage! Shine your light. Love truth, peace, and people.

We pray for the courage to walk in integrity and to confront corruption, including our own hypocrisy, and any lofty, corrupt thing raised up against the knowledge, character, and purposes of God. Help us to walk in purity. We acknowledge that corruption flourishes in our lives, organizations, communities, nations, and the world, when we choose to do nothing about it, or to do some ineffective, non-resolute “thing” and then to move on. Forgive us O Lord. May zeal for our Father’s house consume us, for Your sake and glory, and for the healing of Your Body, from all nations, peoples, tribes, and tongues.

Follow Me, My Beloved. Courage! Shine your light. Love truth, peace, and people.

Closing
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Into Integrity. Thank you for praying together today, on International Human Solidarity Day.

You can access a transcript of this podcast along with related resources and links, on the Into Integrity weblog.

Thank you again for your encouragement, prayers, and support as we continue Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (6-26 December).

Follow Jesus in solidarity. Pray.
Do not fear.  Shine your light.
Take a stand, speak up, and live in integrity.
And spread the word.


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