Praying in Agreement with the Israeli Body of Messiah
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
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Priority Prayer Focus
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Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit.
One of the spiritual benefits of being fitly knit together with the Jewish members of the Body of Messiah/Christ is that we are able to partake of the spiritual fruit of “the fig tree.” Inside the Weekly Summary you will find many spiritual treasures in Messianic insights this Rosh HaShana 5771 – actually one of the prophetic feasts, the Feast of Trumpets.
However, the Priority Prayer Focus is an actual sounding of the alarm trumpet to rally in intercessory prayer for the believers of Israel as next Tuesday, Sept 14th an anti-missionary conference is being held calling all activists against Messianic believers to meet together with the leaders. This is a grave threat and ominous gathering which leaders in the Weekly Summary are asking us to join in prayer about.
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Arrows from Zion
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Feasts of Trumpets 5771 a prophetic warning has sounded on several fronts – the last covered in most Israel-supporting organizations shall be first covered in this one.
The anti-Messianic leaders have called for activists throughout Israel to come to conference in Jerusalem next Tuesday 9/14. Pray for a spirit of division in their ranks and that what the enemy means for evil, the LORD will use for good!
In the late 1990’s when Netanyahu was Prime Minister, there was a mean drive to legislate against the gospel and the Messianic believers in Israel to outlaw all sharing of faith. This will be one element of the strategy in the upcoming conference, plus a release to persecute more strenuously. Pray for the threat to be made known to the Israeli public – for a blind eye to cease among government, legal and law enforcement authorities.
In the late 1990’s as activists were trying to legislate against the gospel and Messianic believes, a young ultra-Orthodox stood up and said, “I am only waiting for the Rabbis’ Approval to Kill Them” (source: Haaretz coverage of a meeting held by Rabbi Deri against the Beer Sheva Messianic congregation). That approval has been recently given by West Bank rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yitzhak Ginsberg.
Anti-Messianic believer activism is heating up in Israel, even as rabbis with superb relationships with Christians encourage Christians to reject any Jewish believers who share their faith in Jesus with fellow Jews. This is the valley of decision for many Christians: will we compromise our faith by rejecting the Jewish members of the Body of Messiah/Christ. Pray many will find the courage to stand united as one body.
We ask you to pray over these things, even as the entire focus of many are upon how anti-Israeli forces in the nations are heating up. We agree the latter needs prayer intercession – but first, our prayers must be for the household of faith who are expanding the Lord’s kingdom in Israel & the Middle East.
There is great resistance within Christian circles to the true significance of the humble Body of Messiah in Israel. Pray for those walls to fall like Jericho, and scales to fall from eyes like those that fell from the anti-missionary Shaul, who would become “the apostle to the Gentiles” – Paul.
Pray for the many Christian visitors in Israel during the Fall Feasts – for Divine connections with Israeli believers and awakening to Gentile Church having been grafted into the SAVED natural branches!
Throughout these holidays the believers in congregations all over Israel are preparing themselves spiritually before God for the things coming and to be of greater spiritual service to the Lord of the harvest. Hold up their arms in the battles and the rebuilding work of the paths Israel is to walk in.
Pray for the true repentance – the turning from that which is a false path to the one True and narrow path to God through the only Door of Salvation in His Messiah of Israel, Yeshua/Jesus. May the Holy Spirit prepare hearts to receive Him in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. True VISION restored.
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto Your servants, that with all boldness they may speak Your word, By stretching forth Your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Yeshua. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Acts 4:29-31
Israeli weather forecasters have predicted the coming rainy season will be one of the driest in the past six years. Pray that the outpouring of rain will astound the wise and defy the scientists. Ask God to pour out abundant rains – natural and spiritual overturning the threat of a dry spell.
Whether for richer or for poorer – the Bride in Israel is preparing and adorning herself with the glory of the Lord. This radiant Bride is a shining light of Yeshua’s love to His countrymen of the flesh. Jesus was a Jew in the flesh, and will return for His Bride – both Jew and Gentile in Him – as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Let there be no doubt they are a part of us and we will be full of His glory at His return.
L’Chaim, L’Chaim! To Life, to Life! Pray for the blessing of the Lord to be upon all the congregations and ministries devoted to the pro-life movement in Israel. Every female IDF soldier is allowed 2 free abortions during their military service – but the Messianic pro-Life ministries are saving precious lives.
Pray for God to grant special provisions of Divine wisdom on unsaved leaders in Israel – that His own purposes may be fulfilled by them in leading and preserving the nation. All Israel shall be saved – a spiritual salvation that gives us a basis to appeal to Heaven for natural salvation against the enemies who would try to cut them off before they see the Light of Yeshua.
Pray for the children who are exposed to perversions of the truth and revisionist histories (sound familiar) in Israeli public schools. Pray for schools and for the believers and un-believers in them – for the truth to prevail and false teachings to be stricken from curriculum.
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Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
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Praying the Headlines
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On August 31st the Jerusalem Post ran an Op-Ed by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin title "Dialogue: The Messianic movement". The sub-head to the title read, "There is a minority who use deceptive proselytizing practices to win Jewish converts."
"It is easy to say the Messianic community is a monolith and all wish to bring the Gospel to every Jew. The truth is that many just want to practice their faith in private and have no active agenda in missionizing other Jews.
"However, there is a minority who use deceptive proselytizing practices to win Jewish converts.
"This is spiritually offensive and says those who practice Judaism in its current state are not living a salvific expression of the covenant."
Riskin also denied that any persecution against believers is taking place in Israel. This was an article meant for the consumption of Israel-supporting Christians, so the Messianic believers in Israel would be discounted.
An answer to Rabbi Riskin's JPost Op-Ed by Messianic Jewish minister, Asher Intrater, as it was submitted to the newspaper last week. So far, the editors have chosen not to publish Intrater's response article.
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The Israeli Messianic Marketplace
Feature of the Week:
Israel Today & Makor HaTikvah, Jerusalem’s only Messianic Day school
Also – a report by Asher Intrater on indoctrination in Israeli public schools by politically correct anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian curriculum.
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