Praying in Agreement with the Israeli Body of Messiah
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
KEY PRAYER POINTS FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
May be copied for use in Prayer Gatherings
Priority Prayer Focus
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1. A renewed campaign of persecuting Messianic Jewish believers is rising in Israel. This will be a focus for some time to come.
2. Unspoken prayers are catching our attention as a priority at this time. There is always more going on in the undercurrent or on a personal level than the believers can share publicly. The things that come to mind while you are praying for the Body in Israel are likely the unspoken needs.
3. Pray for the second generation of Israeli ministry leaders in the land. More and more are taking their places in positions of ministry and responsibility in the Body. Pray for every grace of the LORD to be upon them – so much will depend on them being comfortable in their own anointing and in their own feet being shod with the preparation of the gospel.
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Arrows from Zion
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Thank God for the prayers of the saints on behalf of congregation in Jerusalem that is being targeted for ultra-orthodox ‘attention’. The demonstration fizzled, turnout was low and the believers stayed away until everyone departed. For the moment the immediate threat past, but your continued prayers are requested for there is surely more rounds to come. This is a planned campaign against believers in the Jerusalem area, so please keep this on your prayer lists in the weeks and months ahead.
Here are a few general directions to be praying:
1. Rising persecution in all its forms begins to silence those targeted by persecution. Pray for God to impart wisdom to know when to speak and when to keep silent.
2. Pray for those wrestling with visa situations based on anti-messianic activists spying on them and making illegal reports to the Interior Ministry.
3. Pray for those who are being targeted by “lawfare” – using the law to wage “warfare” against the believers by wearing them down with stress, expense, etc., of being dragged to court on bogus charges.
4. Pray for the media which is like the media everywhere: there are those seeking the facts of a matter and those who are working an agenda. Pray that as believers are standing in the face of persecutions, that the media who are seeking the truth will be drawn to these stories and communicate the true facts to the Israeli public. Many are in the valley of decision.
A young family man in a congregation near Haifa has received a critical head injury in a car accident and is in an induced coma. (This hits close to home, as earlier this year, my grandson suffered the same and he is still struggling back from the brain injury six months later). Pray for young "A", father of 2 small children and husband of "E", that God will restore him mentally and physically, and raise him up as a mighty testimony to the power of Yeshua to heal and God’s love for the saints. Pray for the medical expenses to be covered fully in the name of Yeshua.
A yet-to-be-born baby has been diagnosed in the womb with a grave, complicated heart defect. The doctors want to abort, but the couple say they will bring the child to birth in August. Pray for this family and for the child who will undergo several complex operations to correct the problem. They need a miracle.
A congregation in a town near Netanya is enlarging its tents – and covering the “widows & orphans” at the same time with a new house of refuge that will open in August. Pray for this work to come together under the favor and blessing of the LORD and to establish many in the days ahead in a solid walk. This is up-close-and-personal discipling in how to live godly that it sometimes takes for a person to pull through. Pray for all involved.
The refuge ministry actually touches three ministries we cover in Arrows from Zion – a congregation and two small individual ministries working to make a difference in the lives of Israelis seeking the answer to life. Pray for "O" & "T" as their families move into a new situation in order to model Titus 2:4-5 to the women taken under their wings.
Mazal tov to the pastors of the Wellspring Congregation (Kehilat Hamaayan), whose son, Lior married his childhood sweetheart from the believing youth camps 10 years ago. We pray often for these children’s and teen camps for believing families and this wedding is certainly a mighty testimony of answered prayer. These summer camps are so key in the life of a healthy Body in Israel. Listen to excerpts from the new worship CD from Lior.
Pray for the congregations who are in the process of purchasing new facility spaces or in continued remodeling of facilities. We know of several that could use an answer to prayer for finances and other practical needs. Even in lack these congregations know they are to expand – for many are coming and continue to come to Yeshua throughout Israel.
As the second generation of Messianic leaders are continuing to emerge in positions of responsibility, pray for these young men and women to be filled with the grace of God. They stand on the shoulders of their parents in the work of the LORD in the land of Israel, and each one is a unique expression of Yeshua’s love for their countrymen. Please pray over them for every blessing and for double portion anointing of their fathers and mothers.
Pray for ministry staffs – for the material needs to be met of those who are in ministry and support positions. This is often on-the-job training, so pray that these laborers would be blessed with the confidence to stand in their positions, receiving God’s grace to minister to the congregations.
Employment is such a great need among all the Israeli believers – all the time. They are not in a slump that just began a couple of years ago, but in a slump unique to Israel where immigrants from all over the world are coming, learning a new language and settling in to a homeland that is the eye of an international storm since its re-birth in 1948. Pray for God’s favor on the believers for work – and needs to be met for those who suffer persecution attacks on their jobs.
The pro-Life movement in Israel is making a difference as many congregations have women’s shelters where women can bring their pregnancy to full term. Pray for the new life and for the mothers to be rooted and grounded in the love of Messiah through the shelter of His servants.
Pray for Kay Wilson who survived a stabbing attack that took the life of her friend Kristin Luken. Kay continues to heal but as anyone can imagine, still needs full emotional healing from the trauma. Also the trial is not proceeding quickly, which is no doubt a stress. Pray for God to turn what was meant for evil in Kay’s life, to be turned into good for her and glory for Yeshua.
Pray also for the Ortiz family who are also being strung along in a trial that never seems to get where it is supposed to be going – to accountability for the murderer and attempted murderer, Jack Teitel, and toward justice for Ami and his family, as well as the Arab families of men Teitel murdered.
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Israeli Ministries on Tours
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Marc Chopinsky - one of the original 3 members of Israel's Hope with Paul Wilbur & Rene Bloch and the worship leader at the Tents of Mercy congregation in a suburb of Haifa, Israel - is on tour now introducing a brand new worship CD called Yes and Amen.
'Yes and Amen' Summer Ministry itinerary –
July 2nd at Baruch HaShem in Dallas TX, Morning and Evening
July 6th at Beltway Park Baptist Church in Abilene TX,
July 9th at Shomair Yisrael MC in Knoxville TN, Morning and Evening
July 13th at Living Waters Church in Shelbyville KY,
July 15th at Hope in Messiah MC in Bowling Green KY
July 16th at Kol Dodi MC in Nashville TN. Morning and Evening
Teaching Articles
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