Awaken! UCR!

Since I got connected with Eddie Brown through Love Tent, the 40 hours straight worship/prayer event back in February 2008, it has been on both of our hearts for Eddie to come to UCR to mobilize, encourage, and stir up the revival fire in the body of Christ on campus.

After TheCall was over, me and Eddie got in touch again and spoke of this vision and conviction for him to come and help me, and other revivalists, in bringing revival to UCR. The date of the event was set to be this Monday, November the 24th. Eddie wanted to come and model what he and his team have been doing on UCSD campus of raising a voice of truth and love in the university, and to plant prayers here at UCR. In less than a week of coordinating and planning, gathering up my UCR comrades and getting permits, reservation and equipments ready for the event, everything was ready to go for Monday! (I know, I'm always last minute. IMPACT style. lol. j/k)

It was scheduled to be a two hour event (10am-12pm) at the center of UCR campus, the Belltower. To be honest, I was only expecting about 30 people to show because of the last minute invitation and notification. We had an emergency prayer meeting last Thursday night and an emergency praise team practice on Sunday night to plan all the details and procedures for the next morning. (Who brings what, who's in charge of what...etc) Seriously it's by God's grace that everything was settled on time and people were convicted in hearts of the importance of this event.

Everyone was very excited yet nervous of what's gonna happen on Monday. It felt like we were preparing to fight a battle that we're not ready or equipped for. However, through persecution faith is raised. There rose a great sense of unity of heart-linked attitude to put complete trust in the Lord, knowing that He already has victory over UCR. It was a "if we die, we die together" attitude.

On Monday, I woke up 2 hours late!! oh-em-gee!! I was supposed to be up by 7:30am to help out with sound equipments and set-ups, but woke up at 9:30am. (I was freaking out when the 7th phone call finally woke me up from my deep sleep!) Thank You Jesus for giving Daniel the persistence to ! Eddie and his team actually arrived 2.5 hours later than scheduled time, which was 8am. Anyway, to make the story short, at the end everything worked out perfectly.

The first thing I noticed right after I arrived on the site were these huge and white feathers that were just everywhere on the ground!! (Click to enlarge)

We were praying for God to send down thousands of angels to assist us in this spiritual warfare. This definitely boosted up our faith and courage!! Holy God!!

In the first hour of no amplified sound, several worship leaders began to lead the crowd into prayer and worship. (I was still at home snoozing. So proud of them!) By 10am, there were already 30+ people gathering at the Belltower pressing into God's presence and preparing the spiritual battleground for the war with worship and prayer. (Many were not in the picture for they're setting up)


We had many wings in this battle...
1) Brynn, my former TA who became my good friend and my personal intercessor, brought two of her best friends, who are also very strong intercessors, to pray protection over us and Eddie during this event.
** Brynn has been praying for UCR revival for 10 years ever since she entered UCR in 1998, and she shared with me that she felt the Monday event was the entire purpose of her intercession and presence here.** (Amazing.)
2) Jake Hamilton, who came to UCR prepared with his guitar and intercession as a watchman on the wall.
3) JHOP team, who backed Eddie up in prayer.
4) Several IMPACT college revivalists, who backed me and the entire event up in prayer.

Eddie gathered everyone and shared of his vision of raising up a voice in the wilderness, from the universities, which proclaims God's love for the homosexuals and others.


After stating his intention, Eddie said, "If you are not radical Christian for the revival of this campus, I now release you to go get lunch. It's useless for you to stay here." And guess what? No one left. 70+ PEOPLE STAYED!! That's unity right there!


In the middle of Eddie's preaching, he asked the crowd to do a loud shout just like how Joshua and his army did it in which brought down the walls of Jericho. We ought to shout together as one to bring down the walls of UCR! It was very amazing and encouraging to see everyone declaring the Lord's victory, commanding the walls to break down in Jesus' matchless Name, and cry out for revival in UCR. No one cared about what others who were passing by thought of them, even though there were hundreds of students passing by at that time. The Lord was using Eddie in a mighty way.


The keyboard guy, Joe, is blind!! Super anointed worshiper + prophet!
(Jake Hamilton right behind me wearing black cap and shirt!)


After the event, Eddie shared with me that he really felt much wind to come down to UCR and do this once a month. He will continue to come until he felt we can handle it on our own, then he'll stop coming and leave it to us. It was mind blowing and unbelievable for me when I heard him say that. I was thinking about it today when I was driving back home, and it suddenly hit me that I've actually initiated something that's way bigger than my imagination and controllable territory. That these prophecies of revival hitting UCR by the end of this year or next quarter are not in vain, but are actually taking shape to visible appearance. I am so excited for what the Lord is gonna do in the next few months in UCR. It's gonna be so overwhelming!!

WATCH ONLINE VIDEO REPORT ON AWAKEN! UCR!
A girl came up to me and asked, "Hi I'm from Palestra and I'm a film reporter. Can I interview you and some people on this event?"
"Anti-Abortion Rally at UCR" (I don't know why they titled it like this... = =+)
http://palestra.net/schools/761/19281

Testimonies:
1) Two guys were debating with Eddie on the issue of homosexuality and marriage. At the end of the discussion, both guys came up to Eddie and thanked him for doing this. One guy, a student, said, "Eddie, I was a Christian before I entered UCR. I lost faith after I started going to this school, but after having that talk with you I felt like I found God again. Thank you."
2) Me and Crystal were holding the sign that says "Free Prayer". A guy named Chris came up to us and asked for prayer. We prayed for him and tears streamed down his face. He told us he doesn't go to UCR, but his girlfriend does. They are both Christians and are not facing financial difficulties together. God used us to give him words of encouragement, edification and comfort. Praise the Lord!
3) Eddie prophesied over one of Brynn's friend, gave her word of knowledge that was exactly what she needed to hear. She was having a difficult time teaching her children and felt much discouragement, Eddie said to her, "The Lord's word for you is that you are a great mom." She was extremely encouraged and blessed by the words.
4) Jasmine, my friend who's got crazy gift of discernment, asked me to go pray for this one girl. I went up to her and I felt much heartache, so after praying for her I asked her if she's sad or depressed. She said yes, and so I gave her some comforting words and God's promises for her. She was really touched and thankful. Hallelujah!
... I know there's a lot more that I don't know about... but PRAISE THE LORD!!!! =D

-sala<3

Midnight Cry

Last night, at 12am, seven people gathered in the living room of a small apartment in Riverside. We were all from different campus ministries or just individual revivalists. It was intense harp & bowl for almost three hours straight. Everyone's heart was burning to intercede for what's on God's heart and many organizations on campus, including the LGBT group. We were renting our hearts crying out to God. Pleading mercy, repenting, interceding for our newly elected president, Mr. Obama, and the unity among His people at UCR. Many shed tears with the outcries from our hearts.

I believe the Lord has been moving hearts in UCR, uniting His people to gather together to fast and pray for the territory we're assigned to. Next week we start the LIFE siege on campus. We're planning to do it once every week. I pray for people who would commit themselves to this.

On Thursday, LGBT group is going to host a rally of "NO MORE H8TE" at the center of our campus. Please intercede for us. Lord, open up their eyes so they can be revealed to the truth and hearts tenderized to be changed by God. We cry mercy for the lost sheeps!!

I praise God for these prayer warriors in UCR. Lord, I ask You to raise up even more prophets, teachers, evangelist, pastors, and apostles from UCR. Rise up a whole army who would deny themselves and devote all of them to You for the preparation of the coming of Your Kingdom.

-sala<3

Wake up!! Stop everything!

12 hours of repenting, fasting and praying, worshiping and crying out.
I believe the Lord has heard our prayers and our hearts.


This was the night before the election. YES ON 8 vs. NO ON 8 rally on UCR campus.


Election is over. But the raging war between light and darkness has just begun.
It's no time to play around anymore. There's simply no room that right now.
As God's people, we must consecrate ourselves, separate from the world, fast and pray constantly. We are standing at the gap between this nation and God's wrath.
Are you aware of that? Get that picture in your head and start crying out.

UCR revivalists have been meeting up to pray and share what God's been showing to the individuals. It's amazing to see that there's lots of common ground of great significance.
1. Called to consecrate, separate, and pursue the holy. (Individual conviction confirmed corporately)
2. LIFE Siege on UCR campus specifically at Belltower (4 visions of confirmation from 4 individuals)
3. Prayer is the key to breakdown the enemy's wall and deception.

This is what Eddie Brown from JHOP said to me this morning as we were talking...

"It is time to start a reformation in the Church.
Stop everything and fast and pray.
Stop Church as usual.
Shut down all the glitz and glamour and get right with God.
Shut down all the pizza parties and begin to fast and pray.
This is our only hope.
Shut down the freeways where we go a million miles an hour to no where.
Stop and return to the Lord.
Stop capitalist greed and competition at work to fast and pray.

That is the calling right now.
We must get the voice back.
Or we will continue to get swept away by the tide of this culture."

Wednesday night we were having a Bible study, we didn't know which passage to talk about so we asked the Lord to show us. He gave us Isaiah 40. A power chapter on "Comfort to my people". Talks about the might, power, greatness of our Lord and that we need to stand at the top of the mountain and have the boldness of declaring and standing for the truth no matter what the consequences will be. We must get the voice back!!! YOPP!!!

I need to go to class so... I'll continue after I'm back.

-sala<3

What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts

This is going to shock many of you...

By Brian Camenker
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html

Anyone who thinks that same-sex “marriage” is a benign eccentricity which won’t affect the average person should consider what it has done in Massachusetts. It’s become a hammer to force the acceptance and normalization of homosexuality on everyone. And this train is moving fast. What has happened so far is only the beginning.

On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its Goodridge opinion, ruling that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex “marriage.” Six months later, homosexual marriages began to be performed.

The public schools

The homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon after the November 2003, court decision.

• At my own children's high school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate same-sex “marriage” in early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their same-sex partners and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination. Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was handed out to the students.

• Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September, 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, MA, told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'” she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have vaginal intercourse using sex toys.

• By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
  
  Second graders at the same school were read a book, “King and King”, about two men who have a romance and marry each other, with a picture of them kissing. When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or allow them to opt-out their child.

• In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children! Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
  
  Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!

• In 2006, in the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents of a third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man undergoing a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.” School officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal were considered “inappropriate behavior.”

• Libraries have also radically changed. School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
  
  Over the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled “Courting Equality” into every school library in the state.

• It’s become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students.

• “Gay days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may exist against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle schools across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors such as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee member recently announced that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority.
  
  Once homosexuality has been normalized, all boundaries will come down. The schools are already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals.

Public health

• The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is “married” to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful being gay” and he wants to make sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them.

• Since homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS has risen by $500,000.

• Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives “tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex.

Domestic violence

• Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.

Business

• All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex “married” couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc.

• Businesses must recognize same-sex “married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both employees and customers.

• The wedding industry is required serve the homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc., must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination.

• Businesses are often “tested” for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual activists often go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each other to test whether the establishment demonstrates sufficient “equality” — now that homosexual marriage is “legal”. In fact, more and more overt displays of homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state to reinforce "marriage equality".

Legal profession

• The Massachusetts Bar Exam now tests lawyers on their knowledge of same-sex "marriage" issues. In 2007, a Boston man, Stephen Dunne, failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer the questions in it about homosexual marriage.

• Issues regarding homosexual “families” are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts legal system. In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing family law must now attend seminars on homosexual "marriage". There are also now several homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts family courts.

Adoption of children to homosexual “married” couples

• Homosexual “married” couples can now demand to be able to adopt children the same as normal couples. Catholic Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions rather submit to regulations requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in their care.

• In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) honored two men “married” to each other as their “Parents of the Year”. The men already adopted a baby through DSS (against the wishes of the baby’s birth parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption was final DSS approached the men about adopting a second child. Homosexuals now appear to be put in line for adopting children ahead of heterosexual parents by state agencies in Massachusetts.

Government mandates

• In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the Peace decided to resign.

• Also thanks to Gov. Romney, marriage licenses in Massachusetts now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.” Romney did not have a legal requirement to do this; he did it on his own. (See more on this below.)

• Since homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”, the Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth is made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups which target children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000 of taxpayer money to go into the public schools.

• In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state Medicare laws to include homosexual “married” couples in the coverage.

The public square

• Since gay “marriage”, annual gay pride parades have become more prominent. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and further. There is now a profane “Dyke March” through downtown Boston, and recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women who have had their breasts surgically removed so they could “become” men. Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian” 17-year old daughter in the 2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing a black & blue flag, whips and chains!

The media

• Boston media, particularly the Boston Globe newspaper, regularly does feature stories and news stories portraying homosexual “married” couples where regular married couples would normally be used. It’s “equal”, they insist, so there must be no difference in the coverage. Also, the newspaper advice columns now deal with homosexual "marriage" issues, and how to properly accept it.

• A growing number of news reporters and TV anchors are openly “married” homosexuals who march in the “gay pride” parades.

Is gay marriage actually legal in Massachusetts?

Like everywhere else in America, the imposition of same-sex marriage on the people of Massachusetts was a combination of radical, arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians.

The Goodridge ruling resulted in a complete cave-in by politicians of both parties on this issue. Same-sex “marriage” is still illegal in Massachusetts. On November 18, 2003 the court merely ruled that it was unconstitutional not to allow it, and gave the Legislature six months to “take such action as it may deem appropriate.” Note that the Massachusetts Constitution strongly denies courts the power to make or change laws, or from ordering the other branches to take any action. The constitution effectively bans “judicial review” – a court changing or nullifying a law. Thus, the court did not order anything to happen; it simply rendered an opinion on that specific case. And the Legislature did nothing. The marriage statutes were never changed. However, against the advice of many, Gov. Romney took it upon himself to alter the state's marriage licenses to say "Party A and Party B" and order officials to perform same-sex "weddings" if asked, though he had no legal obligation to do so. Technically, same-sex marriages are still illegal in Massachusetts.

Nevertheless, we are having to live with it. And furthermore, this abdication of their proper constitutional roles by the Legislature and Governor has caused a domino effect as "copycat" rulings have been issued in California and Connecticut, with other states fearful it will happen there.

In conclusion

Homosexual “marriage” hangs over society like a hammer with the force of law. And it’s only just begun.

It’s pretty clear that the homosexual movement’s obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of them actually want to marry each other. Research shows that homosexual relationships are fundamentally dysfunctional on many levels, and “marriage” as we know it isn’t something they can achieve, or even desire. (In fact, over the last three months, the Sunday Boston Globe’s marriage section hasn’t had any photos of homosexual marriages. In the beginning it was full of them.) This is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise. To the rest of America: You've been forewarned.

YES ON 8!!!

-sala<3