Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
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Despite our fragmented current appearance, we are one Body being built together as Yeshua prayed that we might be one as He and the Father are One. Hear O Israel, Hear O Church.
"Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh...were without Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Messiah Yeshua, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Messiah. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one...having abolished in His flesh the enmity...so as to create in Himself one new man from the two....Ephesians 2
"Now, therefore, you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Messiah Yeshua himself being the chief corner stone;
"In whom all the building fitly framed together grows into a holy temple in the Lord: In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."
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Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
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To the outside world whose only exposure to Israel is what they see on the nightly news, it looks like a scarily violent environment – a place you wouldn’t want to visit. In pockets and times there are isolated flare-ups but even when flare-ups are happening, throughout Israel life is mostly normal and pleasant. (Except with the tension of knowing at any moment, peace could be shattered.)
The same is true of religious persecution against believers. The rising tide of anti-Messiah persecution is coming from a small pocket of aggressors and mostly targeting certain areas. Most Israelis are normal and pleasant even to their believing neighbors – though law enforcement and the courts aren’t great holding religious persecutors to accountability. We don’t want to ever give the impression that all Israel is aggressively hostile to the faith. It is important to know most Israelis are not mean to believers.
The minority of anti-Messiah activists is still a growing problem in Israel. They are pushing the envelope and again have disregarded life in the Molotov cocktail arson of an Arab Christian church that sits on the edge of ultra-Orthodox neighborhood Mea Shearim.
Pray for the unity of the whole Body in Israel and out with those who are victims of religious terrorism. Whether it comes from Hamas or Yad L’Achim, our duty is to stand with our brothers and openly support and advocate for justice.
Please pray for truth to prevail and for the perpetrators to be caught. The lack of justice in cases of religious persecution will result in an increase of persecution and violent acts against followers of Yeshua in the Land.
Please pray for the truth of the arson to be officially acknowledged, as this will affect things such as insurance coverage. Pray also for the unity of the Body as a 'voice' of love for each other and a witness to all the onlookers.
A certain anti-missionary website has become a sort of clearinghouse for targeting different believer ministries in Israel. If they write about an Israeli Messianic, it is like saying “Sic ‘em!” to the attack dogs.
Pray for those unfairly accused. Ministries with natural appeal to young people are especially vulnerable to accusation because of Israeli laws forbidding sharing with those under the age of 18.
A Messianic attorney for the Jerusalem Institute of Justice is also under a anti-Messiah attack by Yad L’Achim trying to raise hysteria that he is becoming too accepted in political circles. Meanwhile the JIJ has been involved in funding a school lunch program and also in shutting down a human trafficking ring operating in Israel. Terrible, huh?
In the lead of several anti-missionary organizations are people who once proclaimed faith in Yeshua. Pray for Pnina and Benjamin who have fallen from faith and become particularly virulent against the believers.
Pray for the believers who serve in the IDF and also for those who work in reconciliation of the difficult differences that exist between the Jewish and Arab believers in Yeshua in Israel. For example, the widespread conviction among Arab believers that military service is sinful. Tough areas to reconcile even between parties who desire reconciliation strongly. Pray for them.
The organizers of the Israel-wide Harvest Youth Camp during Chanukah (Dec 5-7) are asking for prayers as the counselors, messages and logistics are already underway. Always, the finances are an issue for prayer so all may attend, as well as heart preparation for a deep work of the Spirit.
There are ministries developing strategies and ministry for the believers in Israel to be able to improve in the marketplace – business initiatives, occupational counsel, getting out of debt, excelling in products and service. “when Israeli believers are too dominated by financial pressure they become defeated and are much less able to make disciples” Pray for God’s blessing on all these practical ministry measures.
A nation of immigrants, Israel can be a tough place to earn a living. For many, it is a major step down from not only their earning ability but also their occupation. Many of the ministries have congregations full of these immigrants from Russia, Ethiopia and diverse places. HaTikvah, the Hope, is the national anthem, but in the congregations of the Messiah, hope is experiencing that someone cares even of their poverty.
Each of the ministries understand that practical help is a desperate need of many in their communities, so humanitarian outreach covers everything from providing food, clothing and shelter for the needy and centers where substance abusers can find deliverance and get grounded on the Rock. Many give to traditional rabbis who also feed, clothe and shelter, but do not introduce those being blessed to the Giver of Life. Pray for a reconsideration of priorities in the church on this matter.
Is the UN worth anything? I haven’t seen anything good come out of it for years, only evil and hypocrisy. This is the case in the UN body charged with preserving historical sites deciding to declare Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Patriarchs Cave in Hebron as Palestinian mosques (Muslim). One Israeli ministry noted, UNESCO did this the same week that religious Jews read the Torah portion where Abraham insists on paying full price for the Machpelah cave – 400 shekels (Genesis 23).
Radical Islam, which has been the real reason that Israel has not been able to negotiate peace with her Arab neighbors, has spread like a virulent infection across the globe. It seems every nation is battling to some degree the Islamist agenda to overtake and become the dominant rule.
Every nation is partaking in the hell that Israel has battled against since 1948 while the nations held Israel partially, if not fully, responsible. The spreading of jihad and Islamist evil will either awaken hearts in the nations to our hypocrisy toward Israel, or it will deepen the hypocrisy. Pray for the truth to set many free in regards to God’s will for Israel in these days.
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Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
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You can't Fight an Enemy that Doesn't Exist
Article by Shira Sorko-Ram
WATCH the excellent new Maoz VIDEO - THE ISLAMIC DREAM
http://maoz.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=maoz_islamic_dream_video
Islam is now putting down deep roots in the United States even as it continues to make strong headway in Europe. According to Time Magazine there are already 2.5 million Muslims in the U.S., a hundred thousand more than live in Great Britain. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claims that the real number of Muslims in the U.S. is seven million. Whatever the number, if the trend continues, Islam will very soon be a dominating force in all things American.
Read the full article online
Betrayal in Zion - Israeli ministry leader Barry Segal writing about the Israeli Messianic Jewish experience of being rejected by the traditional Jewish religious establishment and also by many Christians including "Christian Zionists."
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