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Father, we thank you for actors like Polaha who are unafraid to share the Gospel with their fans. We pray that you would raise up more Christian actors to counter the godlessness coming out of Hollywood.
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Whether on his Instagram live show or on on the silver screen, actor Kristoffer Polaha is determined to remind people of Jesus.

From Movieguide. While many know actor Kristoffer Polaha for his roles in popular movies like WHERE HOPE GROWS, a string of Hallmark movies, and his new role in the upcoming JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION, he recently started a new live show called the Polaha Chautauqua.

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Polaha said that he started the Instagram Live videos at the start of the pandemic to offer people a form of community.

ā€œIt was in response to isolation basically,ā€ he told MovieguideĀ®. ā€œIt was at the very beginning of the pandemic, in the quarantine. I think we were a week into it. Everybody was afraid. The world was terrified. You turn on the news, and it was fear mongeringā€¦ I was curious, what was being manipulated and what was actually really happening and I just wanted to take a pulse….”

Polaha said that while he thinks that his resume as an actor drew people in, they soon realized that his show was not about him….

Polaha, who is open about his Christian faith, said that he wanted the segment to welcome believers and nonbelievers to discuss various topics like race, religion, and current events….

ā€œIā€™m a Christian and I believe in the Christian narrative, but a lot of my listeners and viewers may not,ā€ he added. ā€œIā€™m talking about it in a way that is saying, ā€˜Look at look, this is my POV. This is how I see the world. And when things happen to me, this is how I get through those things. And this is what it means to be in relationship with God. Itā€™s something that is completely Holy Spirit driven.ā€

Whether for an audience of 200 or a role in a blockbuster movie, Polaha said that his faith motivates his decisions.

ā€œSome scripts Iā€™ll read and theyā€™re just too dark, they make your soul sick a little bit,ā€ he said. ā€œBut then there might be a script thatā€™s dark but itā€™s directed by somebody whoā€™s just an amazing artist. If I have a chance to work with that person Iā€™m like, ā€˜Yeah, letā€™s go for it because I want to become better as an actor.ā€™

ā€œ[God] designed me to be an actor and to be a storyteller,ā€ he added. ā€œSometimes that means acting in a film with a Christian message for Christians, and sometimes that means being a light in really dark places, almost like a missionary, where youā€™re gonna be this one character in a movie thatā€™s otherwise kind of dark. But people are like, ā€˜Why is that character so joyful? Like, what was it about that character? And then what was it about the actor that played him? And whatā€™s going on there? And how do you draw people?’ā€

Polaha said that his view of acting changed in the past few years after he realized how he could use his gift as an actor to reach people with the hope of Jesus Christ….

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(Excerpt from Movieguide. Photo Credit: Photo by Krists Luhaers on Unsplash)

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Anonymous
May 24, 2022

Father God, I ask in Jesusā€™ name today that You would bind, hinder, frustrate, and destroy the New World Order and all plans to implement it. We ask You for righteous leaders who will protect and enforce and re-institute FREEDOM in every area, throughout the world

Anonymous
May 22, 2022

Lord God, thwart these evil plans that are commencing TODAY. Do not let the power that has been misused via the pandemic continue to be perpetrated. We pray that increased vaccine mandates will not stand. Do not let Biden cede United States health authority to the World Health Organization. Make all ratified, freedom-stealing amendments and treaties, worldwide, become null and void. We pray that all global health magnates would not have consensus in plans they may seek to make. Let all other related, and unrelated, plans harmful to sovereignty and freedom fall apart, fruitless. Annihilate the World Health Organizationā€™s ratified Pandemic Treaty. Preserve our freedoms, worldwide. Destroy the New World Order and the Great Reset

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