Gunman shoots at controversial pastors house.
Kamala Harris distorts scripture for political gain with pastors.
Prepare for empty shelves.
Michael Snyder gives 50 things that you need to prepare for the coming chaos
and more Morningstar mayhem as Rick Joyner and Chris Reid release statements.
Plus, Russell Brand prays a powerful prayer on stage in front of thousands.
I'm John Madarazzo for CharismaNews.com, and these are your top stories of the week.
We're going to start off by talking about this powerful moment with Russell Brand
and Tucker Carlson and joining me today is the author of this article, James Lasher.
James, it's great to have you here on CharismaNews.com.
Thanks for having me, John.
Really, really appreciate it.
And just amazed by this this viral video now of Russell and Tucker on stage
and just the subject matter that they were talking about.
Yeah, so they had a bit of a long conversation.
This is part of Tucker's tour.
And he's going city to city and having great interaction with different people.
And he had Russell Brand on stage.
What are some of the things that they were talking about that that drew our attention?
So one of the things that you see in the videos that have just gone viral now,
millions of people are viewing this and it's really how Russell Brand is fulfilling
the call that Jesus gave to us in the Book of Matthew.
And specifically, the verse that really drew my attention was when Jesus spoke
to his disciples and those listening to them.
If you will pronounce my name, if you declare my name in front of man,
I will say your name in front of the Father.
And that is exactly been what Russell Brand has been doing ever since his life
transforming baptism in the River Thames this past April.
I know there was a lot of kind of skepticism people had towards Russell Brand,
because when you think of a Christian spreading the name of Jesus worldwide,
Russell Brand was not really the person image that came to your mind.
He might have had the look, but he didn't have the character.
Yeah, 100 percent.
But it has been nonstop with Russell.
He continues almost daily to put out at least one video talking about his faith.
Also, this includes questions he has.
He's still very young in his faith, which he admits,
but he's digging deep into the word, which is what we all need to do.
No matter if you've been a Christian your entire life,
if you're new to the faith, if you're somewhere in between,
he just keeps going back to the word, back to the word,
and he keeps declaring the name of Jesus.
He's not just giving the kind of generic, I believe in God that we see a lot in American culture.
People will say, well, I'm spiritual.
I believe in God.
Not what Russell was doing.
Russell was saying Jesus Christ is my personal Lord and Savior.
I believe that he died on the cross and rose three days later from the grave
and has power over sin and death and that he's going to come back.
He's going to come again and establish his eternal kingdom.
What Russell is doing, I can't think of a celebrity salvation or celebrity transformation
so just authentic that he has been doing for months now and it hasn't stopped.
That's the thing.
He, if anything, he is growing now in the scope because what we see in this video is he was
invited in Phoenix, Arizona at the Tucker Carlson Live Tour and this is now being viewed by millions
of people worldwide and what they're viewing is an evangelistic event almost with the amount that
Russell is talking about the importance and of Jesus Christ but also the spiritual warfare
that is going on behind the scenes of the political arena worldwide.
Yeah.
Well, let's take a look at a short clip and then we have a longer clip later of this powerful
prayer but right now I'm going to play this clip where he's talking about his son and I want to
get your comments.
Thankfully by the excellence of those surgeons and by the grace of our Lord God and my personal
Savior Jesus Christ, my son is well.
Right there he says, my Lord and Savior, my personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
He doesn't just go with the generic God term.
He's naming Jesus.
Absolutely.
And he comes from a very logical place.
He talks about rationalism a lot in his videos and he acknowledges like there were surgeons
who performed this.
It wasn't the case which we believe God has certainly done many times where somebody was
just healed without medical intervention but he does also recognize the source, who gifted
these surgeons their abilities, who created them.
God is the creator of all things.
He created us in his image and even he gives the Lord praise in all things for, I mean,
the very idea of your 12-week-old son going into surgery or your child, son, daughter,
your child going in for such an important surgery and now it's done nothing but boost
his faith even more and in turn he's telling people, you know, we will overcome by the
blood of the lamb and the words of our testimony.
And this is part of Russell's testimony and it's really hitting with a lot of people.
It's resonating in their hearts because when they hear the name of Jesus, they're hearing
the truth and that is what Russell is pointing people back to just again and again.
It's Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Amen.
Well, let's take a look at this powerful moment at the end of this interview here and we can
interject as we need to here.
Right.
Or who was the most radical being that we have ever known?
Who loved more than anyone else?
Who forgave more than anyone else?
Who gave themselves that we might live?
I can think of, I can't see in secularism any solution.
I can't see in politics anything other than the green shoots of possible change in the
alliances that we've touched upon.
But in our Lord and Savior, I can see the hope and redemption that was promised us and
that will be my path.
Wow.
That's, that's very powerful there.
And then Tucker responds in a way that is very unique and we're going to continue this right here.
So I, I've never asked this before.
We haven't talked about this and I, I mean this in the most open possible way.
Not everyone's going to share your beliefs from my beliefs, but would you close in prayer?
Oh yeah.
He's excited about this.
This is great.
He is so stoked to be able to pray for the group there.
I call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, our heavenly Savior, Lord Humbly in this great
congregation in Phoenix, Arizona with my host Tucker Carlson in deference to him, but in
ultimate deference to you, our Lord and Savior to whom we are all your younger siblings and
your children.
I pray in your name that the forthcoming election be an opportunity for unity for America and
for Americans, for forgiveness and for grace.
That the dark and demonic forces that appear to operate at the level of the state, the deep
state and the corporate and global world experience your light Lord, that we are guided, that
you guide all of our tongues and all of our words and all of our hearts, that we feel
your forgiveness and that we feel your grace.
Thank you Lord for the many gifts that you have best, bestowed upon us.
Thank you for the glory of consciousness itself in which we can experience you and live you.
Thank you for the beauty of nature in which we see your wisdom and your creativity and
your infinite glory.
Thank you Lord for the many leaders and thank you Lord that you were born and died
that we may be forgiven and that we may have eternal life, not through merit or anything
that we have individually achieved for surely all of us are fallen, but in your holy name,
we are forgiven by your act of redemption, by your sacrifice.
In your name we pray.
Amen.
I got chills brother.
I got chills when he was praying about that.
What do you take away from this?
I mean, you can almost kind of see him doing a stadium evangelism at this point because
like you said, he gets excited to pray and what he did, and I am guilty of this myself at times,
he did not get partisan with this.
He didn't get tribal.
He didn't select out individuals.
What he prayed for was to the one person who can unify the world and that's Jesus Christ.
Jesus uses people to bring about this, you know, he uses us as his hands and feet, the light of
the world, the salt at his flavor, but he called for Jesus to intervene in these attempts to get
unity like he talked earlier, the radical love, the radical forgiveness, which Jesus was, you know,
to the modern day religious leaders, a complete radical.
They called him a heretic because he said, I am the son of God.
I am, you know, he is the Messiah and to those who didn't have, you know, the Lord in their heart,
that they were religioso in how they were acting, you know, brand really brings about
that Christ like behavior.
He's calling for the people in these corrupt institutions worldwide that they find Jesus
Christ, that they in turn be saved.
There is no division in his prayer.
It's just about unity, finding Christ, finding that salvation and the redemption that he
mentions is found in Jesus Christ.
It's shocking.
It really is to see what the Lord has done in his life in such a short amount of time and
a lot of, you know, not naming any names, but, you know, there are pastors now, especially in the
United States who won't get political.
They won't say, oh, I'm not touching that subject whatsoever, but he's saying we can talk about it
without being offensive.
He's praying for those in positions of power who make these decisions and that's what we are
called to do, to pray for our leaders.
You know, regardless if there's an R or a D next to their name, like he is really walking the walk
from everything that I've seen in these months that he's been sharing this transformative
journey and it is just amazing.
And he's definitely growing more and more.
And I want to encourage everybody watching to put in the comments what your thoughts are about
this prayer, about this, this transformation that is happening in Russell Brand's life.
Now we're going to go on to some other stories in just a moment, but James, your story, the whole
article, as well as links to watch the entire video are charisma news.com.
The specific article is going to be linked in the description for this video, but James, thank you
so much for taking time to talk more about this.
It feels a little bit historic in some ways, especially in our, in our world.
Yeah, maybe the page has been turned.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Thanks for having me, John.
Thank you.
Kamala Harris distorts Bible verse for political gain.
In this video, which you can see in the article, which will be linked in the description, Vice
President Kamala Harris managed to send a video greeting to a Christian conference quoting
scripture out of context about Jesus Christ and then didn't even bother to mention his name in
the video.
She said to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Conference, we know that we are just 10 weeks out
from the election and I know you are already hard at work organizing souls to the polls, making
sure your members are registered and ready to vote.
Harris is preaching the gospel of salvation through government, trying to use a Bible passage
about Jesus Christ to do it.
That certainly feels sacrilegious, according to this article.
We'd love to hear what you have to think about Kamala Harris's use of scripture in the comments
here.
Next, we have a gunman is targeting Pastor Greg Locke's home in a shocking attack.
And in this picture, you can see all of these tags for the where the bullet casings were found out
on the street in front of Pastor Locke's house.
Pastor Greg Locke and his family were the targets of a gunman late Tuesday night, September 3rd.
Locke gave the update on Facebook to let people know that he and his family were safe and unharmed
by God's miraculous grace.
He wrote in his post, it's 2 a.m.
And for the last three hours, our home has been a full blown crime scene.
According to the security cam footage, we pulled into our driveway exactly one minute after a madman
unloaded an entire magazine of bullets from an automatic weapon into our house, garage and my truck.
The sound on the video is truly horrific.
Detectives will still be here for a good while tonight.
Locke said that one of his children was at home when the shooting took place, but thankfully,
they were in a different part of the house.
You can see the post and multiple pictures that Pastor Greg Locke has posted in the article as well.
We are all being security escorted to a hotel tonight.
We have no further details.
The only detail that matters is that Psalm 91 is true and God protected us in unimaginable supernatural ways.
Please pray for the Locke family tonight.
We love all of you.
Now, this came just as Pastor Greg Locke released his newest book literally on the same day,
The Generosity Journey.
At this sensitive time, we ask that you keep Pastor Locke and his family covered in prayer.
In our next article here, Michael Snyder says, prepare for the worst.
Fifty things everyone should stockpile for chaotic times.
Are you getting prepared?
Millions of Americans are stockpiling food and supplies in anticipation of what they
believe is coming.
We are approaching an election.
There's rapidly escalating war in the Middle East.
There is alarming natural disasters and there's a potential for another great global pandemic.
He says that Newsweek has reported that doomsday prepping has become a $2.46 billion industry.
Now he lists 50 basic things that he believes that everyone should be stockpiling.
He puts this in the article here and you can read the entire thing here, but just to highlight a few.
A generator, water filter, emergency medical kit, different types of non-perishable foods,
and last but not least, he says this is a list but not completely comprehensive or in orders.
But he says Bibles for every member of your family as well as a bug out bag for every member of your family.
There's important things about this list and you need to check this out and make sure that you are prepared for what is coming.
Now we have Rick Joyner releasing a statement over his frustration over Chris Reed's abrupt resignation.
After a surprise departure of Chris Reed from Morningstar Ministries last week, the founder,
Rick Joyner, spoke to the congregation on Sunday, September 1st about Reed's resignation.
Joyner said he was shocked but not surprised. He said,
I did not feel that there was a shepherd's heart revealed. A shepherd lays down his life for the sheep and certainly has regard for them.
I don't feel like there was regard for me, for our board, any of this stuff that we had entrusted a lot to him.
And I don't think to just quit like this is what we ever need to do with anyone and with no notice.
You can watch the full video for yourself and read the article. The link will be in the description below.
In our top story right now, Chris Reed makes a statement following his Morningstar resignation.
Chris Reed released a statement in a newly uploaded video to YouTube about his resignation with Morningstar Ministries.
Hello friends, family. Just to come to you tonight in response to regards to a couple of things.
Number one, there seemed to have been some more confusion over my departure from Morningstar.
He gives more details about that situation. He said, regarding the suit that is pending,
I could not because I know the victims. Many of them, we've gotten to know them.
I made a tough, painful, painful choice and I just didn't care, you know, if I lost everything.
If I defend the ministry, then it was like I'm having to go against the victims.
If I defend the victims, then where does the ministry stand?
It all happened before we came here and that is why I left. There was absolutely no other reason I left.
Reed also addresses something that was previously reported on regarding a woman who was connected to Morningstar a few years ago.
Reed acknowledges that his relationship with her was wrong, but says this situation was not part of his decision to leave Morningstar.
Further, he apologizes for what has happened.
You can read more details about this in the article, which will be linked in the description below.
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