Christian Women In Action

• Intercessory Prayer Meetings: Mondays at 10:30am. Call Patti for schedule and details.

• There were several prophecies at the May 26th prayer breakfast. Click HERE to see!

• Our next CWIA Prayer Breakfast Meeting will be on Saturday, September 29th at 9AM at the Holiday Inn-Carlyle. The meetings are always on the last Saturday of the month, and there just happens to be five Saturdays in September. Pre-Registration is required.

• Stella just returned from leading the CWIA Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Israel) where your prayer requests were prayed over and remain there. Check back in the coming week for news from this amazing trip.

• JOIN US at the Annual CWIA Catholic Charismatic Conference on October 12-14, 2018. Pre-registration is required. Click HERE for registration info and other details. 

• UPDATE:  We are happy to announce that Father Ignatius Mary Okoroji will be one of our featured Conference speakers in October! Currently the Chaplain at Princeton University, many healing, blessings, deliverance, conversions, and breakthroughs have accompanied his preaching and Holy Masses. In all these, he gives "all credit to God (Ps.115:1-2) who has chosen him, one of the weakest among all priests, to show His power."

• UPDATE:  You are now able to reserve your room at the Holiday Inn - Carlyle at the special CWIA conference rate by clicking HERE, or by calling call their central reservations team who have access to the group rate at (855) 857-9861.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord Jesus, 
As we have celebrated Independence Day, we have many reasons to be thankful, but there is also cause for concern as we observe the tragedies that have happened in our country in the last 3 years. We hear about school shootings terror attacks and bombings that take innocent lives. We may wonder where God is in all this. Why does He allow these tragedies? Couldn’t He do something to prevent them?

The most basic answer to this question is that we live in a fallen world. Disasters, crime, evil, violence, hatred, and death are the result of sin which entered the world when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Everything and everyone has been affected by it, and none of us are exempt. Yet, knowing this, we may still question why God allows these tragedies to occur. If He is good and loving, wouldn’t He protect HIs creation from harm? The truth is there are some things in life we will simply not be able to understand. In Isaiah 55:8-9 God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” So how are we to respond to tragedies when we don’t understand what God is doing?

For Christians, our first response should be to trust God (Proverbs 3:5). It’s easy to trust Him when we can feel His loving hands reaching out to strengthen and guide us. But, when God’s wisdom and purpose transcends our limited minds, and we aren’t capable of comprehending His ways, we must rely on what He has told us about Himself in His Word, and trust Him like small children trusting their parents. We need to get into God’s Word to see what He says about Himself. And the best time to do this is before tragedy strikes so we’ll have a firm foundation that will support us in times of need. Once we have a scripturally accurate view of God, we will understand how to respond and go through calamities because we’ll know that God loves us and holds us in His sovereign hand.

Secondly, we should respond with courage. Terrorist attacks and mass shootings naturally cause fear. For those who don’t know Christ, this can be overwhelming. But for us Christians, we have confidence that transcends circumstances. Psalm 56 3:4 says, “When we are afraid, we put our trust in You. In God, whose Word we praise, in God we have put our trust. We are not to be afraid. What can mere men do to us?”

Third, we should respond with compassion and love. When we hear about the tragedies done to people our hearts should go out to them in sympathy and in prayer. This is an essential character trait of anyone who is a follower of Jesus - look at his or her response. In Matthew 9:36, “Seeing the people He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” Sometimes our reaction to a national tragedy is to say “I’m glad I wasn’t there.” But we Christians are told to put on a heart of compassion and kindness (Col. 3:12). This applies to both those we know and those we have never met. Although we not be able to put a comforting arm around strangers on the other side of the country, we can express empathy for them by bringing them before the throne of God in prayer - not only for physical and emotional healing, but for salvation as well.

Fourth, we need an eternal prospective. The unexpected loss of life has a way of opening our eyes to the fact that life is transitory. James reminds us not to presumptuously expect our lives to turn out as we plan it, saying, “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.” (James 4:14)  There is one thing we can learn from calamities, is that we will die, and we don’t know when. That’s why we must always be ready to meet the Lord and share the Gospel with the lost sheep so they will have the opportunity to be saved. It may be tempting to withdraw in fear as we see the world becoming a more dangerous place, but this is a time when Christians need to be salt and light to a dark world.

Although we don’t have all the answers to why tragedies happen, we Christians are the only ones who have the message. We Christians are the only ones that can change someone’s eternal destiny, by offering them the Good News of the Gospel. Sharing the Gospel is the most compassionate and loving thing we can do in times of calamities. As we walk in these uncertain times, let us make it our ambition to live Godly lives that are honoring and pleasing to God and not to the world. Although we have no assurance that tragedy will not one day come our way, we can have confidence in the goodness of God. He has promised to work all things for good to those who love Him, and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). God Bless You!
 Your Servant in Christ,  Stella Davis 

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.