Praying in Agreement with the Israeli Body of Messiah
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
KEY PRAYER POINTS FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
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Priority Prayer Focus
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Pray for all the believers in Israel – both Arab Christian and Messianic Jewish – who are increasingly targeted for violence by anti-missionary radicals. Pray for those radicals as well.
In his young manhood, the apostle Paul was a hatred-breathing persecutor of the first believer community in Israel. He had a dramatic turnaround when the Spirit of the Messiah appeared to him on the road to Damascus – pursuing the followers of Yeshua to drag them back to what he believed was their just reward for blasphemy against God.
Paul was spiritually blind, until God revealed the Son to him. This is also what we must pray for those pursuing our spiritual family in Israel. It does no one any good for us to be blind to the hatred of the persecutors. They are the ones who blind – not us! We pray acknowledging their sins against the brethren, not excusing their sins but asking for God to knock them off their high horse as He also did the apostle Paul. It is the true intercession of the Church for Israel in this day.
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Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
KEY PRAYER POINTS FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
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Ask for breakthrough in the greater Body of Christ worldwide in seeing what is happening to our spiritual family members in Israel. A century old Jerusalem church was firebombed that sits on the edge of an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. Tourists sleeping inside the hostel portion escaped but it is a clear increase in violence ….that has barely been reported inside or outside of Israel.
In 2008 the U.S. Embassy in Tev Aviv sent a classified report to the State Department detailing the increase of Yad L’Achim and related groups increasing violence against believes. This is a true report you can access it here. Pray for the truth of this report not to be suppressed or disbelieved among the Israel-supporting church.
Whoever falls under the targeting of anti-Messiah persecution in Israel, the Body in Israel stands together, knowing they are as One in the tribulations and in the joy of their labors in the harvest. Pray for grace and unshakable bonds. What the enemy has meant for evil to be turned to good.
Israel fears openly discussing the increase in ultra-Orthodox violence against the believers, that it will turn the Christian supporters of Israel against her. She is willing to sacrifice the Body of Messiah for the good of Israel (sound familiar? John 18:14) In fact, the Israeli ministries have walked in agreement with this for many years – suffering silently.
Can the Church hold Israel accountable for how they treat the indigenous believers without tilting into the Christian anti-Semitism of the past? Those who are following Yeshua truly can. Can we pray into this?
The Israel supporting Church fears looking honestly at Israel – the good, the bad, the ugly – but if we really love Israel, we can’t help but look at them except through Yeshua’s eyes, who sees clearly into the heart of man and still lays down His life that they might find abundant life through Him. Pray spiritual courage in the hearts of the Church and divided hearts be united.
One Israeli pastor this week speaks of Quiet Desperation or Passionate Involvement. Surrounded by those living in quiet desperation we do have the choice of passionate involvement that pierces the darkness. Do we choose this, or the illusion of comfort?
Another brother spoke this week of our lack of value for emotional integrity, honesty, and transparency in our relationships in the Body. He asked how honest are we about our feelings towards our brethren? How honest are we about our thoughts about how they feel about us? Challenging us to reconcile, dig deeper.
Another wedding between dedicated young Israelis who labor in Yeshua’s Israeli harvest. Mazal Tov to Mr & Mrs A.
“Who Ate Lunch with Abraham” is a new book in English written by Asher Intrater on the multitude of appearances of Yeshua in the Hebrew Old Covenant scriptures. It is an important work that show the Old and New Covenant Scriptures are an inseparable whole in presenting Yeshua. Pray for this work that will be as helpful to Christians as it also is in witnessing to traditional religious Jews.
Cancer is under the feet of Yeshua/Jesus. Please speak the death of all cancer cells in the bodies of a new believer in Tel Aviv, as well as the Mayor of Ariel, Ron Nachman, who has always been so fair and supportive to the Ortiz family in good times and bad. Pray for healing – a powerful touch of God that leaves life-changing witness in the lives of these men and their families.
We are a global village of people who are united with the will of the LORD for His beloved Body of Messiah in Israel. What links us together is the thing that God has stirred in our hearts toward the precious believers in Israel – Jew or Arab – they are precious in His sight and in ours. It is a blessing to know God’s heart in this matter to share in their labors and to pray for their needs. Body life.
Pray for the Beckford’s who are under a stress as the Israeli court hearing their case is not making much of fairness in the proceedings. Let the prayers of the saints encircle them, keeping them in peace. Pray for the congregations of Arad who have been scattered into smaller home groups because of ultra-Orthodox pressures on the new mayor.
Inside the attachments (By subscription only donna@israelprayer.com):
Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
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Praying the Headlines:
Vatican and Israel
By Dan Juster
“The most worrisome statements are from individual bishops showing real anti-Semitism, and claiming that Israel's election was canceled by Jesus. In this regard these bishops are in direct rebellion against official Vatican doctrine”
Ultra-Orthodox town's plan to expand leaves neighbors fearing more 'abuse'
Kiryat Ye'arim draws up expansion plan despite objections of green groups and residents of neighboring Yad Hashmona Messianic Moshav Community and Abu Ghosh.
Israelprayer: After honing their techniques of perpetual harassment on the believers in the Negev region (Beer Sheva and Arad), the Ultra-Othodox haredi along with Yad L’ Achim anti-missionary activists have apparently chosen their next target of harassment: Yad Hashmona, a unique community of Finnish Evangelical Christians and messianic Jews. Think the Interior Ministry committee is going to be like the glove in hand for Hand to Brothers agenda against Yad Hashona? They will rubber stamp this plan in a New York minute!
Teaching Articles:
Whimsical Decision-Making
by SI and Daniel Juster
“…there are many decisions that affect our lives and our future. Such decisions are not made in an instant, but are made through a proper decision-making process, over time and reflection, and with much thought and consultation.”
It is time to take a stand for the indigenous believers in Israel.
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