"you guys can't do church like that!".....JUST HIDE AND WATCH!

When you walk with Him, He will walk with you. It is not about who we are, it is about who we are in Jesus. When we see that we are free in Him, when we let go and go with Jesus. Our lives are changed. We died on the cross with Him. So why do most people have a hard time of letting go and letting Jesus minister to us daily. It is all about Repentance not excitement. We need to see who we are. The spirit that is in us, is real, when we let go of who we use to be and become who we are in Christ. He didn't ask us to be Jesus like, but to be Christ like. To move in His anointing in us. For us to move in Him in complete victory, we have to go to Him with a pure heart. We have a natural heart which is a pump. This keeps the natural body that we live in alive. When we accepted the Lord as our Lord and Savior, we received a spiritual heart, which is of Him. This the heart we use to love and to care and to be full of the fruits of the spirit. Paul states in Philippians 3 that he used all His energy to forget his past, so that He could see what was in front of Him, so that he could reach the goal that God had for Him. Do we look at ourselves or do we live in our past. When we became born again, Jesus took our past from us, so we need to work at staying in the spirit with Jesus, so that the Devil must stay behind us. The devil is a spiritual being, so why do most people try to defeat Him in the natural. We have the victory and in the spirit have all the blessings of Abraham. We are chosen spiritually, and have all the blessings of Abraham. Revival comes from Repentance, not from a feeling. John the Baptist said repent or burn. People talk about the healing of Smith Wigglesworth, but he preached repentance, so did Charles Finney. True revival comes from looking at ourselves and changing into the image of God, not our flesh.

I hear people talk about if revival last or do people go back to where they were before God touched them. When we were in Truckee a woman who came to the meetings in Tulare came and told how she has never been the same. She also told how she received a prayer cloth for a friend who had a tumor who couldn't be operated on. They put the cloth on the tumor and in a few weeks the doctor popped it our with tweezers. We still hear from Steve in Florida who traveled across the country to California in his pick up truck. His life was touched and he was healed of taking many pills each day. His story was in Charisma. He is still growing after what happened to Him. Many stories like this. In Hayfork CA were the meetings are still going each night, stories are still coming in how, those who have been changed are still changed and growing daily. Valerie who could not hear out of her right are and could just about hear out of her left still has perfect hearing, also she was set free of major hurts in her life is still walking free, Also, her husband who would never come to church or have anything to do with God, because of all of her past hurts, sees such a change in her that he has been coming to church. Lives are being changed daily, We are in the middle of our third week in Woodland = Davis area. Last night we were at the New Testament church with Pastor Zeck. There were also about 5 other pastors there. Two people stood up and gave testimonies how they received creative miracles. The young lady with the ruptured ear drum who has been transformed from a broken woman, to a woman on fire for God. A man who leg was torn apart in a motorcycle accident and the doctors wanted to reconstruct His leg, by taking the tendons from the front of his leg and putting them in the back. Plus pins and other things. He came one night and got healed emotionally and then his leg was totally reconstructed by God. This happened the first week. He never said a word until last night. Many things are happening each night very subtly without much fan fair. Rachel who was a fearful woman who wouldn't come within 4 feet of me, now after her life being set free is on fire for God and people who wouldn't ever come to a church have come because of the difference in her. So many yet, so peaceful.

People are coming from Sacramento, Vacaville, Dixon, Woodlands and Davis. Pastor Zeck has stated that what is happening that he had a vision of it. That the woodland and davis are would have a revival of the heart. It is happening and the Lord showed that it would touch surrounding area. Five churches are working together and not worried that they would loose members instead are gaining members. What happened last night, is happening in all the churches involved All the pastors have been praying together now for awhile for a revival in the area and unity in the churches of the area. 5 pastors working together. Much more but it would just take to long to tell about everything. All I can say it is not about any man it is all about getting out of the way and letting God be God in our lives. It is very humbling to see what Jesus is doing when we all let Go and let Him live through us.

God Bless

Joe Cicchino
vision of love
www.visionoflove.net

Dear friends of the River of God:

As Joe Cicchino's meetings in Davis and Woodland, California continue, God is giving us unexpected surprises.

Here is one that is special:
On Saturday in Woodland, a lady received a glorious miracle. After receiving progressive emotional healing over the course of the evening, the Lord told Joe that he wanted to touch her personally. Joe called her up and told her what the Lord said. Joe did not touch her and as he walked away she fell softly in the arms of the catcher. She went back to her seat and in a short while came across the room toward Joe exclaiming with an shocked look on her face, "I can hear. I can hear. I can hear out of my left ear!" She then told her story. Her abusive boyfriend had hit her in the ear the night before. She went to the emergency room and an ear specialist and was told her ear drum was ruptured and she would not be able to hear in the left ear. BUT GOD, had a better plan. First he healed her emotionally then physically. Wow -- A creative miracle!! What a wonderful Savior we serve! Every service is different, meeting the needs of those who attend. Joe is not showy. He simply gets out of the way and lets the Lord have His way. The only encouragement I give to people who come to the meetings - Get ministered to by Joe three times or more at each meeting.

Art Defenderfer
Word of Life Christian Center
Davis, CA
(530) 758-7750
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Hello Art and brothers and sisters -
I was at this particular meeting, and it was awesome, everything Art describes is true - our Lord is there to touch each heart as needed - those of you in the greater Sacramento area - from pastors to marketplace ministers to evangelists, etc. - go, get refreshed, get refilled, get touched by the Lord, so you can continue to "go into all the world".
- Connie Wilson

Who are we, who do we think we are, or are we who God thinks we are. Until we understand who we are, we shall never see His presence and Glory in our lives. "When you find ME, you find who you are in ME". When we are hurt when we are young we go into shock. A shock that is there so that we can hide all the pain of our lives Pain that controls our emotions and feelings. A pain that never allows us to be free and be who we truly are. This pain is so hidden that we never realize that it controls us the way it does. Who caused this pain is not important. What is important is seeing what it has done to us and letting it go. We never want to face it, because it hurts when we think of it and we run from it. We go into drugs, alcohol and other abuses, so that we can feel horrible without looking at the pain. But when we finally decide that we want more of Jesus, we have to make a choice: to hold on to the past and move with Him in the natural with sometimes being touched by God or letting go completely and moving in the spirit with Him. It sounds so simple but letting go of hurts and pain could be the most difficult thing we have ever done in our lives. Many of us have gone through many years of counseling with some results. Other forms of deliverance with some results. But when you let the Holy Spirit become part of the process and when He revels the hurts of the past and you finally forgive with your heart like the scriptures tell us to do you are truly set free and free indeed. Then comes the process of sweeping the leaven out of our lives. This is what is happening at the different churches in Yolo county. Many things are happening to people without anyone understanding what is happening around them. People's lives are being changed before our eyes without any big commotion. Jesus is in the house and He is doing all the work. Last night at New Testament church in Woodland we saw many things happen. People set free of their past, physical healings, in the children's church seven salvations and the presence of Jesus was so strong that people were weeping and crying. One pastor's wife saw Him sitting on the step leading to the platform and told her daughter that He is up their let us go and sit with Him. Others felt Him presence went where they knew He was. It was a night of Glory and deliverance from who we are, so that we can be who we are. We have been in three different places so far and in each place the same thing is happening, the same thing that has been happening for the last 2 1/2 years with us. When we go somewhere the presence of the Lord is present and free to do His will, not ours. When we get out of the way and do what He wants done through us, His Glory shines forth and we see the word and the spirit working together just like in the book of Acts. More of Him and less of us and we will have the victory in Him not in us. Tonight and Friday, we are going to be at:: Word of life Christian center, 415 Second street (upstairs in the I.O.O.F. building) Davis CA 95616.----contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750 God Bless Joe Cicchino vision of love http://www.visionoflove.net/

By Daniel Pipes

It ain't just the Jews, folks.

A sustained assault on Arab Christians has led to their fleeing the birthplace of Christianity. The likely result will be reduced to empty church buildings and a congregation-less hierarchy with no flock

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of Sep. 3-4. That's when fifteen Muslim youths from one village, Dair Jarir, rampaged against Taybeh, a neighboring all-Christian village of 1,500 people.

The reason for the assault? A Muslim woman from Dair Jarir, Hiyam Ajaj, 23, fell in love with her Christian boss, Mehdi Khouriyye, owner of a tailor shop in Taybeh. The couple maintained a clandestine two-year affair and she became pregnant in about March 2005. When her family learned of her condition, it murdered her. That was on about Sep. 1; unsatisfied even with this "honor killing" — for Islamic law strictly forbids non-Muslim males to have sexual relations with Muslim females — the Ajaj men sought vengeance against Khouriyye and his family.

They took it two days later in an assault on Taybeh. The Ajajs and their friends broke into houses and stole furniture, jewelry, and electrical appliances. They threw Molotov cocktails at some buildings and poured kerosene on others, then torched them. The damage included at least 16 houses, some stores, a farm, and a gas station. The assailants vandalized cars, looted extensively, and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary.

"It was like a war," one Taybeh resident told The Jerusalem Post. Hours passed before the Palestinian Authority security and fire services arrived. The fifteen assailants spent only a few hours in police detention, then were released. As for Khouriyye, the Palestinian police arrested him, kept him jail, and (his family says) have repeatedly beat him.

As the news service Adnkronos International notes, for Palestinian Christians "the fact that the Muslim aggressors have been released while the Christian tailor-shop owner is still being held, at best symbolizes the PA's indifference to the plight of Palestinian Christians, at worst shows it is taking sides against them."

A cousin, Suleiman Khouriyye, pointed to his burned house. "They did this because we're Christians. They did this because we are the weaker ones." The Khouriyyes and others recall the assailants shouting Allahu Akbar and anti-Christian slogans: "Burn the infidels, burn the Crusaders." To which, an unrepentant cousin of Hiyam Ajaj replied, "We burned their houses because they dishonored our family, not because they are Christians."

This assault fits a larger pattern. According to the Catholic Custodian of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Christians in the Bethlehem region alone have suffered 93 cases of injustice in 2000-04. In the worst of these, in 2002, Muslims murdered the two Amre sisters, 17 and 19 years old, whom they called prostitutes. A post-mortem, however, showed the teenagers to have been virgins — and to have been tortured on their genitals.

"Almost every day — I repeat, almost every day — our communities are harassed by the Islamic extremists in these regions," Pizzaballa says. "And if it's not the members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, there are clashes with … the Palestinian Authority." In addition to the Islamists, a "Muslim land mafia" is said to operate. With PA complicity. it threatens Christian land and house owners, often succeeding to compel them to abandon their properties.

The campaign of persecution has succeeded. Even as the Christian population of Israel grows, that of the Palestinian Authority shrinks precipitously. Bethlehem and Nazareth, historic Christian towns for nearly two millennia, are now primarily Muslim. In 1922, Christians outnumbered Muslims in Jerusalem; today, Christians amount to a mere 2 percent of that city's population.

"Is Christian life liable to be reduced to empty church buildings and a congregation-less hierarchy with no flock in the birthplace of Christianity?" So asks Daphne Tsimhoni in the Middle East Quarterly. It is hard to see what will prevent that ghost-like future from coming into existence.

One factor that could help prevent this dismal outcome would be for mainline Protestant churches to speak out against Palestinian Muslims for tormenting and expelling Palestinian Christians. To date, unfortunately, the Episcopalian, Evangelical Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, as well as the United Church of Christ, have ignored the problem.

Instead, they pursue the self-indulgent path of venting moral outrage against the Israeli bystander and even withdrawing their investment funds from it. As they obsess with Israel but stay silent about Christianity dying in its birthplace one wonders what it will take to awaken them.

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JWR contributor Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum.

When the Lord moves on your heart you do what He wants you to do, not what you want. For six weeks we were in the Truckee Tahoe area of California. Many things happened in our lives. Nevada people who came to the meetings in Silver Springs came to tell us how their lives had been changed in the tent when we were there. For this week end the Lord told me to go back to Hayfork where the meetings are still continuing nightly since I left back in May. It is so nice to see that the fruit that was produced still being productive. The lives that were changed are still changed. A pastor who walked away from the Lord 25 years ago, still going to church every night and growing deeper and deeper with the Lord. It makes you excited when you see that what the Lord has done is still going strong in people. When the Lord sets you free you are free indeed. Everyone has been excited to tell me how they are doing and to give me a hug and to thank the Lord for sending me. Like I said over and over, we give Him all the glory and honor. But it does bring tears to your eyes when you see a broken person having victory in their lives. We are only broken when we allow the Devil to control our thoughts and motions. When we learn who we are in Christ and live by the spirit, with the spirit, we are truly set free and then can tell the Devil, who is a spirit, to get behind us. Then we walk in His will, not our will.

After this weekend in Hayfork (the Lord told us to come on Friday) we will be in the Davis/Woodland area. We will be ministering in different churches which are working together, seeking more of Him. This about unity and giving of themselves to see God move among them. We have all prayed for this for years and now we will see God put all these prayers into action.

Below are the churches and locations for these meetings. This is all of God, because the Lord told me to go, to the Davis area on Friday when I contacted Pastor Art of Word of Life Christian Center. I met with these pastors on Wednesday with no idea when I was coming, but God knows what He is doing.

Below is a list of where we will be. If you know anybody in this area let them know, so that we all can be touched together and grow in Him.

God Bless
Joe Cicchino

P. S. this whole list was put together by God on Saturday morning by churches who know it is not about them, but God.


Monday, September 12th 7:00 p.m. -- Word of Life Christian Center -- The meeting will be at a private home -- 5308 Marden Street in Davis, CA 95616. Contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750

Tuesday, September 13th 6:30 p.m. -- New Life Community Church -- 601 Walnut Avenue, Woodland, CA 95695 -- Contact Pastor John Gallegos (530) 662-5524 or Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750

Wednesday, September 14th 7:00 p.m. -- New Testament Church -- 108 West Woodland Avenue, Woodland, CA 95695 - contact Pastor Douglas Zeck (530) 662-3956

Thursday, September 15th 7:00 p.m. -- Word of Life Christian Center -- 415 Second Street (upstairs in the I.O.O.F. building) Davis, CA 95616 -- Contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750

Friday, September 16th 7:00 p.m. -- To be announced -- Contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750

Saturday, September 16th 7:00 p.m. -- Lighthouse Foursquare Church -- 23 Grand Avenue, Woodland, CA 95695 -- Contact Pastor Mark Gallego (530) 662-5524

Sunday, September 17th -- 10:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. -- Word of Life Christian Center -- 415 Second Street (upstairs in the I.O.O.F. building), Davis, CA 95616 -- Contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750

Monday, September 19th 7:00 p.m. Lighthouse Foursquare Church -- 23 Grand Avenue, Woodland, CA 95695 -- Contact Pastor Mark Gallego



Joseph Cicchino
pastorjoevol@earthlink.net

Minister Solomon Buckley invites you to Come and Share with him as he speaks the Word Of God at 1:00 PM on September 11, 2005, at the House Of Love Church Of God In Christ (meeting in the old New Covernant Church Building) 4960 E. Linwood Ave, Kansas City, Missouri. Pastor: Bishop James Paden Please Come and Be A PART OF THIS SERVICE

For More Information Please Contact Minister Solomon Buckley at (816) 500-0402 Or SolomonBuckley@aol.com

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Two weeks ago, the "Be a Witness" campaign reported
that it couldn't even pay TV networks to cover the genocide in Darfur

American Progress created a television advertisement for
BeAWitness.org , our netroots
campaign that calls out the television news media for their deplorable
coverage of the genocide in Darfur. Over the last few days, three
Washington DC television affiliates, NBC-4, CBS-9, and ABC-7, informed
us that they refuse to air the ad.

Since the major networks seem to have their hands full covering
stories like Natalee Holloway and the Runaway Bride, the ad does what
the media won't — puts the spotlight on Darfur, and suggests that
genocide warrants increased coverage.

ABC News broadcast just 18 minutes of Darfur coverage in its nightly
newscasts in all of 2004 — "and that turns out to be a credit to Peter
Jennings," as Nicholas Kristof pointed out. NBC News featured 5
minutes, and CBS only had three, "about a minute of coverage for every
100,000 deaths." Now they won't allow us to pay for 30 seconds to urge
better coverage of the genocide.

While this is obviously
inexcusable, it is at least somewhat understandable that TV networks
would be reluctant to run ads criticizing their own failings.

What is odd is that the networks' collective refusal to run this ad
generated almost no print media coverage. And judging by the print
media's own lack of coverage of Darfur, it is easy to see why.

A search of US newspapers for the number of stories that mentioned the
word "Darfur" at least 2 times over the last 19 months shows how
coverage of the genocide increased during 2004, only to all but
disappear in 2005 (we looked for stories that mention Darfur at least
twice in order try to eliminate pieces that mentioned it only in
passing)

January 2004: 8

February 2004: 20

March 2004: 29

April 2004: 72

May 2004: 186

June 2004: 327

July 2004: 713

August 2004: 891

September 2004: 659

October 2004: 369

November 2004: 517

December 2004: 269

January 2005: 397

February 2005: 271

March 2005: 240

April 2005: 275

May 2005: 199

June 2005: 227

July 2005: 260

August 2005: 115

The most staggering thing about these
numbers is that they reveal that there has been a nearly
eight-fold decrease in the number of stories about Darfur between
last August and this August.

The other amazing thing is that, on August 1st of this year, former
Sudanese rebel leader John Garang died
in a helicopter crash. Garang, who only three weeks earlier had been
sworn in as vice president under the terms of the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement that ended two decades of civil war between North and South
Sudan, was seen by many as a man who might be able to bring peace to
Darfur. Yet, despite his death and the implications it holds for the
future of Darfur, coverage of Darfur plummeted.

Nearly one year after the United States called the situation in Darfur
"genocide" and the United Nations found overwhelming evidence of
"serious violations of international human rights law and
international humanitarian law, including crimes against humanity or
war crimes" in Darfur, the genocide is receiving less print coverage
than it did before many had even heard the word "Darfur."

We cannot "be a witness" to the genocide in Darfur if the media
continues to keep us in the dark.