Will Satan Use Covid 19 to Divide the Church?


  There has been a line drawn at the Altar and many Ministers are voicing divisive opinions concerning the state of the church.
  Pastors that close their church are being criticized for lacking the faith that God will protect His people, while those that still hold services are being accused of wanting every dollar they can get.
Is it really that easy to divide the church? Or were we ever the ONE Body of Christ that the Word of God teaches us to be?
It seems that those who closed the doors did so in an effort to protect their congregation from being infected and exposed to this pandemic that is sweeping across the world. It takes extreme faith to believe God will sustain your ministry in the areas of finances and membership without holding a physical service. Just as remaining open could very well be a ministry operating in pure obedience to the Lord.
Paul speaks of divers of spiritual gifts. It seems logical that God would have us all moving in diver ways.
  I know, I know, you’re saying we should all be moving the same way. Consider if we all are being obedient to what God is saying, then we all moving the same direction toward Him.
  Whether online service, prayer lines or small groups the Word of God should be going forth without believers attacking believers. Let us not give the enemy room to tear down the church from within. The world needs the us to be the church Not made with hands now more than ever.


Sr. Pastor Chris McKinney
iEncounter Church Houston
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Arlington senior citizen becomes first coronavirArlington man dies of coronavirus, Fort Worth announces stricter regulationsARLINGTON, Texas - A senior citizen in Arlington has become the first North Texas death related to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Tarrant County Public Health confirmed late Tuesday that a senior citizen who died on Sunday tested positive for the new coronavirus. The person was a resident of the Texas Masonic Retirement Center in Arlington

LONNIE JOHNSON SUPER SOAKER CREATOR AWARDED $72.9M FROM HASBRO

The Atlanta-based company behind the Super Soaker water gun and Nerf toy guns have been awarded nearly $73 million in royalties from toymaker Hasbro Inc., according to the law firm King & Spalding.
Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson have been in a royalty dispute with Hasbro since February when the company filed a claim against the giant toy company. According to King & Spalding, which along with the A. Leigh Baier P.C. law firm represented Johnson, Hasbro underpaid royalties for the Nerf line toys from 2007 to 2012.
“In the arbitration, we got everything we asked for,” said Atlanta attorney Leigh Baier. “The arbitrator ruled totally in Lonnie’s favour.” The attorney also said Johnson “is very pleased” with the outcome.
Johnson could not be reached for comment Wednesday, nor could Pawtucket, RI.-based Hasbro.
The arbitration agreement resolves a 2001 inventors dispute in which Hasbro agreed to pay Johnson royalties for products covered by his Nerf line of toys, specifically the N-Strike and Dart Tag brands, King & Spalding attorney Ben Easterlin said.


In a separate breach of contract suit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta in February, Johnson accuses Hasbro of violating a 1996 agreement to pay him Super Soaker royalties of 2 per cent for “three-dimensional products” based on the appearance of the toy and 1 per cent for “two-dimensional visual representations.”
The suit says Hasbro sold water guns that were “visually similar and based upon the appearance of Super Soaker water guns that incorporate Johnson’s technology.” Johnson also wanted the court to force Hasbro to open its books to determine sales of Super Soaker products from 2006 to 2012.
Johnson, a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University PhD and former NASA scientist, founded his company in 1989. It was the same year he first licensed the Super Soaker, which generated more than $200 million in retail sales two years later, the company said. The toy was licensed to Larami Corp., which was later purchased by Hasbro.
Johnson holds more than 80 patents, with more than 20 pending, the company said, which said sales of the Super Soaker have approached nearly $1 billion.
As an Alabama high school senior, Johnson finished building a remote-controlled robot with a reel-to-reel tape player for a brain and jukebox solenoids controlling its pneumatic limbs, according to a 2008 profile in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After graduating from Tuskegee he joined the Air Force, worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Sandia, worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Mars Observer project, among others. He also helped design the Cassini robot probe that flew 740 million miles to Saturn.
He moved to Atlanta in 1990 before his Super Soaker invention made him wealthy. His inventions have included rechargeable battery technology and thermodynamic energy conversion technology

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Jamaica earthquake - live updates: Caribbean rocked by huge tremor with Tsunami warning also in place for Cuba
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A huge earthquake has struck parts of Jamaica, the US Geological Survey says, sending tremors that have swayed buildings and sparked evacuations as far as Miami, FLorida.
The 7.3-magnitude quake hit off the island's northwest coast, and southeast of Cuba. A tsunami warning has meanwhile been issued for Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

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First there was the gorgeous mother of the bride, Doria Ragland, with her beautiful locs spilling from her beret. Then American Bishop Michael Curry preached the house down teaching that the fire of true love can never be quenched. Not to mention the Pentecostal version of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir, filling St. George’s Chapel with chocolate and pastels. 19 year old, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, awed the world with his solo. He was like Dr. Dre on the Cello. They walked out to “This Little Light of Mine”. Ummm and Oprah was there!  Come on, Now you know this was a black wedding. Okay maybe not really. Let’s just say it was beautiful.
-IamPastorChris

First there was the gorgeous mother of the bride, Doria Ragland, with her beautiful locs spilling from her beret. Then American Bishop Michael Curry preached the house down teaching that the fire of true love can never be quenched. Not to mention the Pentecostal version of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir, filling St. George’s Chapel with chocolate and pastels. 19 year old, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, awed the world with his solo. He was like Dr. Dre on the Cello. They walked out to “This Little Light of Mine”. Ummm and Oprah was there!  Come on, Now you know this was a black wedding. Okay maybe not really. Let’s just say it was beautiful.
-IamPastorChris

#RoyalWedding

Okay, Straight up.
    Is it a coincidence that when you say ,Hip Hop Star', Lil Uzi Vert"s name fast in sounds like LUCIFER? Well once you see the flaming upside down cross on stage as he performs you would consider it devil worship. Tasha Cobbs recorded a song with Nikki Minaj who also walked out on stage with lucifer...oops , I mean Lil Uzi Vert, almost toppless. 
Tasha received loads of push-back from so many in the Christian community,. However, others like myself defended and still defend her "try". Nikki is grown and we can't hold Tasha accountable for Nikki's actions. She is truly doing what she was called to do. 

   While I urge you to be aware of the tricks of the enemy: I also employ the Body of Christ not to give up praying for Lil Uzi Vert , Nikki and so many others in the world, who have yet to find the peace that surpasses all understanding through Jesus Christ.

It's The "Christian Thing To Do"

_IamPastorChris
The Encounter Houston
​GospelRadioNation.com

y  There is a breed of preacher that is starting to change the world of ministry. To see them in a suit or a pair of alligator shoes is a rarity. They normally wear tennis shoes and jeans. They might sport a t-shirt and fitted cap, but do not be deceived, they are definitely Men and Women of God ! O'Quine , Calvin Miller, Global Gospel ,Dubbfresh , Quincy , Dj. Blessed and long list of others hit the streets of Houston with a Powerful weapon ; The Gospel of Jesus Christ! 
   I recall the Children of Israel wandering around the desert for 40 years until the older, who were afraid to go into the new promised territory, died  off. Yes , there are still those in the church that feel as if these young men and scores of young women are not ordained to minister because  " THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE PREACHERS" , but perhaps those in disbelief are the very ones afraid to GO ! 
   There was a time that the children of Israel had not heard mention of the God of their fore Fathers. That means they knew nothing of it raining Manna, the splitting of the Red Sea or The Rock that followed them and gave water. There was a terrible break in communication between the generations that i believe we are experiencing today. 
   I thank God for this NEW GENERATION of preachers that speak the language of not only our youth, but of our today !
Don't be deceived, on the day of Pentecost each man heard the Word in their OWN tongue. Don't you think it's time that we did too?
​- IamPastorChris