In This Month's Report:
* Editorial - A Word for 2008 - Part One
* October Events - Media Blacks Out Marriage Rally Attended by Thousands of Citizens
* October Ministry - Impacting the Northeast and beyond
* Tips and Resources -  Help Your Congregation Stand Strong
* Products - Three New Resources (see link below)
* Partnership - Invest in God's Program for the Northeast of America
* God Thoughts - Francis Frangipane

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This month, we begin a two part prophetic message for 2008. Look for Part Two in next month's FMI Report.

The United States – Rocking the Role
Tumultuous and perilous times are ahead for the United States in 2008. Her role as leader of the free world will be challenged, but will persist. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Only those with their feet firmly planted on the ‘Rock’ will be able to stand during these times.

Matthew 7:24-25 will be a key verse for survival and advancement during this coming year, "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.”

America has always been a ‘can-do’ and task-oriented society. This has been a key component in making this nation great. However, the Church has become a spectator culture. The predominance of teaching ministry in America has helped us to be familiar with God’s Word, but there is a growing gap between the talkers and the doers.

If the Church does not shift from talking, as opposed to doing, there will be significant decline throughout 2008.

America’s future does not depend on her powerful military, economy or political system; it depends on the goodness of her people, and that depends on the strength of the Church. If America declines, then western civilization will also decline, and we surrender our future to the forced and austere beliefs of Jihadists.

* Pray that the Church in America will reactivate, navigate, and not capitulate throughout 2008.

The Presidential Election – ‘The Last Chance Saloon’
A nation always gets the government it deserves! The dichotomy of American politics leading up to the presidential elections will descend into a diatribe of division, dangerously pushing America toward a precipice of decline (Luke 11:17, "...Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls.").

The push by the Clintons to get back into the White House will result in Hillary’s nomination by the Democrats, but great exposures of ‘dastardly doings in high places’ will awaken the giant of the sleeping Church at the last moment, and a man of righteousness will be elected.

This will be America’s ‘last chance saloon’! It will be God’s final call to repentance. As He spared Nineveh, He will spare America. But if America does not turn back to God, judgment will be released undiluted.

* Pray for national repentance from the White House to the church house and for righteousness to prevail in our nation.

The Church – The Distraction of Busy-ness
Distraction and busy-ness will rise to untold heights in the coming year, both in leadership and in congregations, as the enemy endeavors to neutralize the Church’s effectiveness in the same way he tried to discredit it with major moral failures during the eighties and nineties.

In the year ahead, those who have stood their ground and passed the test, despite opposition from man and satan, will come to a point of breakthrough. This will be especially true of those whose pure motives have been misunderstood by a religious system that misguidedly believes it is serving God.

The greater the trial, the greater the witness! Those who persist will break through into levels of spiritual authority not previously contemplated.

The Church will explode in those nations experiencing persecution. It will continue to dwindle in comfortable nations. Saints from the south will lead the Church world-wide out of the wilderness of western materialism and godless ideologies.

* Pray that the Church will stay focused on its primary mission – to make disciples of all nations. #

Next Month: A Word for 2008 - Part Two: It’s All About Jerusalem!, The One New Man, The Wheat and the Tares, Look for the Signs, The End of the Matter.
 

Media Blacks Out Marriage Rally Attended by Thousands of Citizens - About 3,500 supporters of marriage, God's style, gathered around the steps of the Capitol Building in Trenton, New Jersey on Sunday, October 21st. This report is from Len Deo, President of the New Jersey Family Policy Council:

TRENTON – Oct. 22nd – Yesterday, thousands of New Jersey citizens showed up on the Capitol steps in Trenton to show their support for marriage between one man and one woman. 'Mainstream media' in New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York were notified of the marriage event, hosted by the New Jersey Family Policy Council, yet only one newspaper reporter from the Trentonian showed up and reported on the event. When the press were contacted by phone for confirmation that someone would attend the event to cover it, callers were met with hostility about the subject matter by many members of the press.

The results of the marriage amendment efforts in New Jersey will affect marriage in our society across the nation, and anti-marriage groups realize this. The pressure groups seem to be infiltrating the mainstream media newsrooms quite heavily and blocking news about conservative issues and the pro-family, pro-marriage movement. It is an abuse of the press and the overriding question is: Are values voters being marginalized? The answer is obvious.

Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, says it appears secular media is reluctant to cover traditional marriage rallies as pro-family forces continue efforts to get a marriage protection amendment before voters. "If there were five gay activists on the steps of Trenton... everyone would have showed up [to hear] about some complaint that they were making," says Deo.

Nevertheless, efforts will continue, says Deo. 'We will continue to communicate with our legislators here in New Jersey about the issue and also to let them know, as we continue in the process of doing a petition drive, the great support for preserving marriage,' he explains.