October 2, 2024 From Bitterness to ForgivenessALEX NSENGIMANA Lee en español "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 (ESV) Bitterness can't withstand the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. That's what God revealed after bringing me through the Rwandan genocide. When I was only 6, my grandmother and uncle - who were taking care of me - were both killed by our neighbors when tribal unrest broke out in Rwanda. My whole life was shattered. The little faith I had was gone, and I often wondered why my life was spared in those months of horror. A first glimpse of hope came into my life when I received my Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift. At my orphanage, many children were displaced, so to have my own gift was special. Joy overwhelmed me, as I had toys to play with and a comb I kept for years, but the most profound impact was realizing someone around the world was thinking about me. That planted a seed of hope during a time when I felt lost. A year later, God began revealing the miracles He'd done to save my life. I gave my life to the Lord and started abiding in Him daily, as Jesus instructs in John 15:5: "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." The more I abided in God, the more He pruned away my bitterness. Abiding was the only way I could heal from such pain. In my healing process, I prayed that I'd meet those who killed my family. While I wanted to face the people responsible for so much pain in my life, I also prayed God would give me strength to forgive. God diligently weeded out the bitterness in my heart, making room for His fruit of forgiveness. In 2013, on a return trip to Rwanda, God answered my prayer. I visited the man responsible for killing my uncle, and by God's grace, I shared that I forgave him. What started with a shoebox gift led to my salvation, healing and ultimately miraculous forgiveness. I'm not perfect at abiding in God. For a time, I was even angry at God for my pain - but in anger, I was blinded to the miracles God did to save me and glorify His name. I'm challenged to abide in Jesus daily because my healing process is ongoing. We may never forget pain, but we don't have to live bound to bitterness. I pray you take your next step toward forgiveness. Do you need to stop blaming Jesus for past hurts and instead accept Him as your Lord and Savior? Do you need to forgive someone or ask for forgiveness? Or you may live in peace, but you still need to share the gospel with someone. Whatever the case, may you abide in Jesus and allow Him to transform your heart. God, thank You for forgiving our sins against You. Uproot bitterness in our hearts, and bear forgiveness in us as a fruit of Your Spirit. As You walk us through healing, help us abide in You. In Jesus' Name, Amen. OUR FAVORITE THINGS Receiving an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift was a defining moment in Alex Nsengimana's life. Since receiving his shoebox gift, Alex was adopted into a Christian family in Minnesota. Today, Alex travels around the country sharing about the impact of Operation Christmas Child and God's transforming message of forgiveness. When you pack a shoebox through Operation Christmas Child, you share God's love with children around the world. Learn how to pack here, and help Proverbs 31 Ministries reach our goal of packing 500 online shoebox gifts! ENGAGE Keep up with Operation Christmas Child on Facebook, Instagram and X/Twitter! FOR DEEPER STUDY John 15:6-9, "If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love" (ESV). Who is someone in your life God has asked you to forgive? What step do you need to take today toward healing and forgiveness? Share your thoughts with us in the comments! © 2024 by Alex Nsengimana. All rights reserved. Proverbs 31 MinistriesP.O. Box 3189 Matthews, NC 28106 www.Proverbs31.org The post From Bitterness to Forgiveness – Encouragement for Today – October 2, 2024 appeared first on GodUpdates.

While speaking at the ‘Rescue the Republic’ event in Washington D.C. on Sunday, Dr. Robert Malone issued a warning from his recent trip to Japan. “I just came back from Tokyo where they had a 30,000 person rally because they’re about to deploy self-replicating RNA vaccines. Japan is being used as the guinea pigs for the world for this new technology. The Japanese people are calling this the third atomic bomb,” Malone said. “This is being deployed in a cooperative agreement between a US company, Arcturus, a Canadian company, I’m sorry, an Australian company called CSL and a Japanese company,” he continued. “Now the CEO of the Japanese company recently gave a press conference. What did he say? He said anybody that is spreading misinformation, we’re going to go after him legally, we’re going to try to have them jailed. If you say anything against their self-replicating RNA vaccine technology that’s never been rigorously tested, we don’t know if it’s going to infect other people. We don’t know if it’s going to spread. We know it’s going to replicate. We don’t know if it’s going to get into the brain of the elders in Japan,” Malone explained. “But we do know that if we say anything about these concerns, the CEO is going to come after us and try to put us in jail. That’s the new world order. That’s what we’re coming into. That’s what they want to implement on us,” he continued. “They want to shut us down. They want to prevent us from speaking. They want to completely control the narrative and they want to be able to deploy psychological warfare on all of you to control you, to train you, to respond to the fear narratives about avian influenza and monkeypox and whatever it is they want to deploy next in order to control you, in order to teach you to shut up, sit down, stay in your homes, and do what you’re told. Now I’m not okay with that, I don’t think you’re okay with that, and I hope that you join all of us in fighting this new tyranny,” he added. WATCH: Dr. Robert Malone: "I just came back from Tokyo where they had a 30,000 person rally because they're about to deploy self-replicating RNA vaccines. Japan is being used as the guinea pigs for the world for this new technology. The Japanese people are calling this the third atomic… pic.twitter.com/l0gXRxa78y — Camus (@newstart_2024) September 30, 2024 “Global biotechnology leader CSL and sa-mRNA pioneer Arcturus Therapeutics today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLWs) granted approval and authorization for their updated self-amplifying mRNA (sa-mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine, KOSTAIVE®. The updated vaccine is targeted to protect against the JN.1 lineage of Omicron subvariants for adults 18 years of age and older,” CSL announced last month. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved CSL and Arcturus Therapeutics’ self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in November 2023. Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Approves CSL and Arcturus Therapeutics' ARCT-154, the first Self-Amplifying mRNA vaccine approved for COVID in adults Do NOT take this!! https://t.co/noOLB0JRR8 — Kelly DNP Functional/Integrative Medicine (@kacdnp91) November 29, 2023 “The updated sa-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is tailored to protect against the JN.1 lineage of Omicron subvariants,” CSL stated. “Meiji Seika Pharma, CSL’s exclusive partner in Japan, will begin vaccine distribution in time for the October COVID-19 vaccination campaign,” it added. We are delighted to receive approval in Japan for our updated sa-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and remain committed to advancing innovative vaccine technology for viral respiratory diseases. Read more here: https://t.co/jO0YUl5nsG. pic.twitter.com/eSzzL7H0Ri — CSL (@CSL) September 18, 2024 Per CSL: CSL’s exclusive partner in Japan, Meiji Seika Pharma, will begin distributing the updated vaccine in time for the October COVID-19 vaccination campaign, marking the world’s first commercially available sa-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for adults 18 and older. In May 2024, a Japanese health ministry panel recommended that COVID-19 vaccines be updated to target the JN.1 lineage of Omicron subvariants for the 2024/2025 national immunization program. This aligns with recent recommendations from the World Health Organization. “We are pleased to receive the updated approval from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and remain on track to distribute KOSTAIVE® in time for the October COVID-19 vaccination campaign,” said Emmanuelle Lecomte-Brisset, Senior Vice President and Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, CSL. “We look forward to introducing KOSTAIVE® in Japan as a safe, tolerable and more durable option in protecting against COVID-19.” “We believe KOSTAIVE® has the potential to change the paradigm for COVID-19 vaccines in Japan,” said Jonathan Edelman, M.D., Senior Vice President, Vaccines Innovation Unit, CSL. “Today’s approval further demonstrates CSL’s promise to pursue, develop and deliver new innovative treatment options to protect public health.” The approval is based on clinical evidence supporting the safety and effectiveness of CSL and Arcturus Therapeutics’ sa-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, including published data demonstrating superior immunogenicity to Omicron BA 4/5 compared to a conventional mRNA COVID-19 vaccine booster and follow-up data demonstrating duration of immunity lasting up to one year. “We are pleased that our sa-mRNA technology will be available to vaccinate people in Japan against COVID-19, which remains an ongoing risk to public health around the world,” said Joseph Payne, Chief Executive Officer of Arcturus Therapeutics. “We look forward to continuing to work with CSL and regulators to explore the development of KOSTAIVE® in additional countries.”

Governor Tim Walz seemed to stumble during the vice presidential candidate debate, confusing Israel and Iran. 

'Nervous As Hell': Bewildered Walz Emerges From Media Quarantine Only To Get Shelled By Vance

If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s Washington, D.C. politicians not following the will of the people. That’s not the way, of course, the Founders hoped it would work—but as all of us know, it is what too often happens. But why? The Daily Signal’s politics editor, Bradley Devlin, is launching a new show, “The Signal Sitdown,” this Thursday. Devlin, who joined us from The American Conservative, understands that the American people deserve answers, not excuses and obfuscation, from Washington. Every Thursday, Devlin will be getting those answers on “The Signal Sitdown.” He’ll interview lawmakers and other movers and shakers—people who understand the D.C. swamp and how to take it down. “‘The Signal Sitdown’ will take you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., as they happen. We’ll analyze the policymaking process from an unabashedly and unapologetically conservative perspective and together reclaim government from the self-serving elite,” Devlin says. The first show airs this Thursday, and features Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Watch or listen on your favorite platform. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when the first show airs Thursday. The post A New Show to Expose Washington appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Network news media outlets continue to offer obvious home field advantages to Democrats in this year’s election debates, as they have for as long as I’ve observed politics. But Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, delivered a masterclass in how to deal with biased moderators in his vice-presidential showdown with Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday night. Not only did Vance handle obviously skewed questions, but he refused to allow the moderators—“CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan—live “fact check” him without calling them out on it. More on that in a bit. There’s no doubt that the NBC moderators of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate were nearly as biased as the CBS moderators in the September presidential debate. Their questions were mostly cherry-picked to be more of interest to a left-leaning audience, and they clearly steered the discussion toward topics to benefit Democrats. Climate change is a bottom tier issue in poll after poll for the American people but is super important to a narrow band of highly engaged liberals. So, we get a climate change question in every single debate, while somehow issues like the threat of Communist China seemingly never come up. This kind of bias has been a problem for a very long time, though the media is far more shameless than they used to be. Long ago, CNN host Candy Crowley actually apologized for live fact-checking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election. A lot has changed since then. They don’t just ask biased questions these days; they now actively participate in the debate to help whatever Democrat is on stage. There was a funny moment, at least to me, when Vance pushed Walz on a Minnesota law that allowed babies to be killed after a botched abortion. It was a law that he signed. Walz didn’t and seemingly couldn’t answer the question. Instead, he just pointed to the moderators and said that they “fact checked” it last time. He clearly wanted the “moderators” to step in and help. They didn’t deliver the life preserver this time, but it’s understandable why Walz thought they would. Presidential and vice-presidential debates shouldn’t be like this. The media should be letting politicians speak for themselves. But it appears that the network channels can’t help themselves. To a certain extent Republicans are in a tough spot. It’s clear that Democrats are simply unwilling to have a debate that isn’t on their home field at this point. And having no presidential and vice-presidential debates at all—especially given that Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris so rarely have to answer tough questions—would be bad for the country. Given this challenging environment, Vance did a remarkable job of staying on message, answering questions seriously—but on his terms, and delivering clear, logical answers to every question. And when the two moderators became obnoxious about interjecting and live fact-checking (even though NBC said they wouldn’t), Vance didn’t just let it go. Trump said after the ABC debate that he regretted not going after the biased moderators, and Vance seemed to have learned from that. When Brennen tried to interject with a comment about Haitians and Springfield before moving on to the next question, Vance stopped her. She tried to cut him off with a “we just don’t time with all these questions to allow you to respond,” but Vance wasn’t having it. “Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact check, and since you are fact checking me I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” Vance said. He went on to explain how illegal aliens can use an app to apply for legal status, which he said was a part of the Biden-Harris open border policies. The moderators continued trying to cut Vance off, but he kept speaking. They even cut his mic off. But Vance didn’t look reckless or like a boor. He looked like a guy who took the discussion—and the intelligence of the American people—seriously. This is how it should be done. The only people who looked bad in the exchange were the moderators. Vance is clearly quite good at this, but one way or another he provided the model for how to walk into a biased debate and come out looking better at the end of it. It will certainly be difficult to convince the American people that Vance is “weird” after that. The post Vance Delivers a Masterclass in How to Deal With Biased Moderators appeared first on The Daily Signal.