At the Holiday Inn Alexandria - Carlyle
2460 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, Phone: 703.960.2000
5 minute walk from Eisenhower Ave Metro station
For info/tickets, call Evelyn: 703.850.7607 or Kathleen: 703.451.5737
Cost: $16 - Includes Buffet Breakfast and all tax/gratuities, a great price for a Buffet Breakfast and guest speaker!
If you wish to stay at the hotel on Friday night, ask for the CWIA discounted rate (for the breakfast meeting). Bring a friend. Great speakers, fellowship, praise & worship. Men and women are invited. The Lord is waiting for you! There will be a healing service afterwards.
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November 23rd Guest Speaker: Tanti
Tanti, and husband Leo, married 22 years, are a devoted Catholic couple, blessed with 7 children whom they homeschool. Leo served honorably in the Navy, and Tanti currently works for the Mt. Vernon Columbus Club. Tanti is originally from Singapore, where she met Leo when they both worked at the U.S. Embassy. Tanti later worked for the State Department. She grew up as a cradle Muslim in Singapore, a multi-ethnic country, comprising of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and other faiths. God planted the mustard seed in Tanti during her adolescent years, in spite of being raised by practicing Muslim parents. Her curiosity led her to search for the true faith, and in the process, she met Leo, who then encouraged her to attend RCIA classes. Realizing this was a monumental risk, Tanti nevertheless, forged through her faith formation and entered the Catholic Church. Now a Catholic for 22 years, Tanti continues to pray for her Muslim family back in Singapore. Come here her conversion story, and bring a friend. Men and women are welcome!
My Brothers and Sisters in the Lord Christ Jesus, I greet you in His wonderful Name.
As I encounter so many people, it seems to me that so many need to hope more in what the Word of God tells us - hope for the hopeless: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Prov.29:18)
Without hope, our lives go downhill. We lost sight of God’s future, and the present becomes dull. If Christ had not been raised, St. Paul tells us, “we are all men-women most to be pitied”, for we’ve been basing our lives upon a hope that is false. We might as well just eat, drink, and be merry, “for tomorrow we die.” (1Cor.15:19,32) If there is no future beyond the grave, many today just live for the now because now is all they have. We’re in a “you only live once” culture, and so feel the need to cram as much as possible into every moment. There is a fear of missing out, and worrying that we might not be living every experience we can before we drop.
What’s the result of this? We’ve become narcissistic, and consumed with engineering our best life, acquiring happiness, and sucking what we can out of people to fill our hunger.
Ironically, seeking to fill ourselves often leaves us more empty inside, and we wind up cynical and convinced that there’s nothing more. All that’s left is a bleak outlook on life and eyes vacant of hope. But — when we lift our gaze to the “hope laid up for us in heaven” (Col.1:5), it ignites a power within us. We understand “the hope of His calling” and comprehend “the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints”.
Yes, God will one day bring heaven to earth, but we can live right now in light of His inheritance that is coming! God’s hope is a fortress (Zech. 9:12) in which we find ourselves surrounded by an unshakeable confidence in His coming to set things right. This means no matter what we’re facing, God is able to “make the valley of Achor a door of hope”. (Hos.2:15) The fulfillment of God’s Kingdom is a future reality, but we also know the Kingdom of God is at hand! Jesus tells us, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of time.” (Mat.28:20) Pray about how you can best live into that reality right here, right now. Even if you’re experiencing hardships, He walks us through the most difficult places and circumstances to ultimately bring us into the life we were made for. We can live faithfully, no matter what surrounds us, for we through the Spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness.” (Gal.5:5) AMEN!!!
If I do not see you at our prayer breakfast, I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year!!
Your servant in Christ,
Stella Davis
A beautiful miracle happened at our prayer meeting on Monday! A man came who has had all sorts of physical ailments and pain, including three hernias in the spine. In addition, an accident occurred at his job many years ago that prevented him from working. After he and his family were prayed over, we saw him healed right before our eyes! But even more importantly, the Lord baptized him in the Holy Spirit! This same man ended up speaking in tongues for the very first time, praising God! Halleluia! Thank You Lord for your many many blessings!
Our Prayer Breakfast in July was phonomenal and the Holy Spirit rested on us in a mighty way! Some have been calling me to provide the prayer of protection for our homes that I read. This prayer is as follows:
Dear Lord Jesus, please surround us, our families, friends and our homes with a perimeter of Your love and protection throughout this day and night and every day - 100 yards in all directions. Lord Jesus, render any demons that are here or should try to come deaf, dumb, and blind. Strip them of all weapons, illusions, armor, powers and authorities. Disable them from communicating or interacting in any way. Bind, sever, and separate them, binding them directly to the foot of the cross, without manifestation or harm to us, or to anyone else, to be dealt with by You, Jesus, as You see it fit. May Your precious blood cover us. May the Holy Spirit fill us, and Blessed Mother, place your mantle of love and protection around us in our homes, from any event of fire, theft, vandalism, flood, storms, elements, and accidents of any sort, distress, hardship, curses, and all unwanted things. I ask all this in Your name, Jesus Christ, and through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and in the power of the Holy Spirit. We call upon St. Michael, St. Joseph, St. Padre Pio, and St. John Paul II, and all the saints and angels, to pray for us. Amen.