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Joel Rosenberg: President Trump Suspends All Travel to Europe, Right Move!

Pastor Dewey Moede

New post on Joel C. Rosenberg’s Blog

UNPRECEDENTED: President suspends all travel to Europe, China. Right move. More may be needed. Why? We absolutely must avoid repeating the 1918 pandemic that killed 50 million people. Here’s the latest.

by joelcrosenberg

(Washington, D.C.) — Unprecedented.

That’s the word that keeps coming to mind as I watch this coronavirus crisis unfold.

I’m still moving forward with my book tour, which kicks off next week. And I’d be grateful for your prayers for health and protection as I travel and speak and meet with people all over the country.

Yet clearly the crisis is altering Americans’ behaviors in extraordinary ways.

Yes, we have faced epidemics and pandemics in the past. This is different.

That was a national health emergency, as President Obama rightly declared on October 24, 2009. And yet….

  • It didn’t set into motion never-before-seen actions like banning all travel to or from Europe.
  • It didn’t cause us to ban all travel to and from China.
  • It didn’t cause a run on grocery stores in every state as if we were all about to be hit with a Category 5 hurricane.
  • It didn’t cause concerts, sporting events and so many other events to be canceled.
  • It didn’t cause vast numbers of companies to tell their employees not to come to work. Not to meet in large groups. Not to shake hands. Or get close to one another.
  • It didn’t cause countries like Italy to quarantine the entire country.
  • It didn’t cause countries like Israel to ban all travel to and from the country, or to ask all tourists to leave.

Unprecedented.

I’m nearly 53, and I’ve never seen anything like this.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying Washington or the public is over-reacting to the coronavirus pandemic. Many think so. Many are saying this is a hoax, or a media-created crisis. I don’t believe that. This is a real threat to our health and safety. We have to act hard and fast to get ahead of real devastation.

The White House is acting prudently. Before December, the coronavirus had never been known to exist before. It wasn’t even named until January. Now it is fundamentally re-shaping the world in ways we’ve never seen before.

The President’s address to the nation tonight was thoughtful, reassuring, and right on point. I’ve been critical of him at times, but these were the most presidential remarks he has ever made. He has acted fast and smart to protect the American people and economy, thank God. And I was encouraged by the new steps he announced tonight.

What is the President trying to head off? What should we all be trying to avoid? Anything remotely on the scale of the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918. Consider what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has to say about that horrific pandemic:

“It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.”

  • Please pray for President Trump, Vice President Pence and all world leaders and health authorities to have the wisdom — and God’s mercy — to save lives and quickly and effectively stop this virus before it becomes a worst-case scenario.
  • Please pray that the Lord would be gracious to those whose jobs and businesses are being adversely affected by the virus.
  • Please pray for God’s mercy on the 120,000+ people (as of tonight) who have already contracted the previously unknown disease for which there is currently no vaccination or unique cure.

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joelcrosenberg | March 12, 2020 at 2:28 am | Categories: Epicenter | URL: https://wp.me/piWZ7-95N

‘THINGS WILL GET WORSE,’ HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY ABOUT CORONAVIRUS

, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Judie Shape, who tested positive for coronavirus, visited with her daughter through a window in Washington state.
3:32AM
There could be 70 million to 100 million coronavirus cases in the United States, says the attending physician to Congress. President Trump announced he is sharply restricting passenger travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days.
  •  Americans snap to attention on virus as big events canceled
  •  Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive for
  • From Sister Shonda Savage:

  • Which is worse—the coronavirus or fear?

    While I believe the coronavirus is a genuine health concern and safety precautions need to be taken, I believe the spirit of fear is the greater epidemic.

    Actually, fear has turned into a pandemic. According to Dictionary.com, a pandemic “is essentially an epidemic that has spread even further than outside its epicenter.”

    Fear is a tool of the enemy. Here’s what 2 Timothy 1:7 says,

    “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline” (NLT).

    FEAR IS A SPIRIT THAT WANTS TO INCAPACITATE BELIEVERS SO WE WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH THE PLANS THE LORD HAS FOR OUR LIVES.

    Here’s a testimony of John G. Lake:

    John G. Lake, a great missionary to South Africa in the early 1900s. In his account, many people in South Africa were dying of disease. While assisting doctors during a bubonic plague outbreak, Lake was asked why he had not contracted the disease, since he used no protection. He said, “It is the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.” To demonstrate, he had them take live bubonic plague germs still foaming from the lungs of a newly dead person and put them in his hands, and then examine the germs under a microscope. The germs were dead! The energy and presence of God was invisible to the naked eye but magnified under the microscope’s lens—there proved to be a real formidable, existing power that killed the virus. This is how John G. Lake explained why he did not get sick—he carried the cure in his body and spirit to heal disease through the power of the Spirit through Jesus. In another amazing testimony, John G. Lake asked doctors to bring him a man with inflammation in the bone. He asked them to take their instruments and attach it to his leg while he prayed for healing. Then he asked them what they saw taking place on their instruments. They replied that every cell was responding positively! John G. Lake replied, “That is God’s divine science!”

    The same power that Lake tapped into is available to every believer. The Lord has equipped us and gave us power to defeat the enemy, including the spirit of fear and any disease.

    Here are our weapons against fear and disease …

    1. The Word of God

    Believe what God’s word says more than what the news reports say. Confess the Word with your mouth every day. The word promises that “no plague shall come near our home” (Psalm 91:10).

    1. The Blood of Jesus

    Revelation 12:11 tells us we overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb. And Romans 5:9 says, “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him” (NKJV). 

    1. Pray in Faith

    The enemy wants us to focus so much on the problem and bind us in fear to stop our prayers. Our prayers for ourselves and others are powerful.

    James 5:16 says, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results” (NLT).

    Pray for our communities, our countries, and the countries around the world. Pray for our President and other leaders to have wisdom.

    Today choose to conquer the pandemic of fear and the virus by confessing the Word of God, applying the blood of Jesus, and praying in faith.

    Click here to download the Psalm 91 prayer.

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    The prayer of protection from Psalm 91 plus more than 30 Scripture-based prayers are included in Appeal to the Courtroom of Heaven.

    In Appeal to the Courtroom of Heaven: Petitions for Prisoners and Prison Families I share my unexpected prison family journey testimony. I also point out how the Lord redeemed the worst-of-the-worst offenders found in the pages of the Bible and explain an effective prayer strategy I learned from this experience.

    I pray my transparency and vulnerability points to the source of HOPE for those who lost hope in the midst of despair.

    Available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other online book retailers.

    OR, Click here to learn on how to order this book.

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