Arrows from Zion Jan 4 2012

Serving the Body of Messiah in Israel since August 2001 

As we begin the new year of 2012 I want to take a moment to explain a few things to our subscribers about how to use Arrows from Zion and the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israel Ministries. 

 

The Arrows are meant for public distribution.  They are an intensely edited version reflecting the actual requests that are more detailed in the Weekly Summary.  Firstly, we want to put into your hands a brief arsenal of prayer points that truly reflects what we heard from a wide diversity of the Israeli ministries over the previous week.  Secondly, we want to strip out of the publicly distributed Arrows anything that could be compromising to the believers if it ended up in the hands of anti-missionaries.  We ask our subscribers NOT to distribute or forward the Weekly Summary for that reason.

If you are leading a prayer group in intercession for the Israeli ministries, please feel free to speak out the information in the Weekly Summary – but please do not distribute a hard copy in your prayer groups.  If someone would like to receive the Weekly Summary, they must email me and be vetted.  (israelprayerdotcom@gmail.com)

You are also encouraged to share the contact information of the individual ministries that are listed in the Weekly Summary, but are not found in the Arrows from Zion.  One of our greatest priorities is to directly connect believers in the nations with Israeli ministries they may not have known before.

If you have or would like to start an Israelprayer group, I have written an article that will encourage you in that work.  You can read it on one of my Israel blogs, How to Start An Israel Prayer Group.

God bless all of you throughout the coming year of 2012.  God has called you to come alongside a vital work He is doing in the Spirit in the Land of Israel.  In many ways, even though the Israeli Messianic community is increasing in spirit and stature, it is also very much like King David spoke of his son, Solomon:  “David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the temple is not for man, but for the LORD God.”

The work of raising up the living temple of God that is going on in Israel is still a young, tender and vulnerable work that is so deserving and worthy of your prayer cover.  Thank you for hearing and heeding the call of God to intercede on the behalf of the Body of Messiah in Israel.

God’s blessing on you,

Donna Diorio

Dallas, Texas USA

Priority Prayer Focus

These are the days of Elijah, Declaring the word of the Lord:

And these are the days of Your servant Moses, Righteousness being restored.
And though these are days of great trial, Of famine and darkness and sword,
Still, we are the voice in the desert crying, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord!'

Matthew 10:22 “…but he that endures to the end shall be saved.”

Matthew 28:20 “…and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.”

Arrows from Zion Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

This week, we have the usual exquisite mix of soaring spiritual highs and searing spiritual lows – truly as the Paul Wilbur Days of Elijah song we sing in Messianic congregations all around the world.  We are not afraid of the threat and not lulled by the spiritual highs because Yeshua is with us, and in us.  

We take up the admonition of the apostle Paul in Rom 12:12-15 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;  Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Praise God for the powerful report of Revive Israel on its recent ministry time in the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population.  At a Christmas celebration in a stadium holding 200,000 native Christians in this eastern nation, a Messianic Jewish minister from Israel rejoiced to see those who gathered to praise God for the birth of Yeshua.  

Having seen many pictures from this gathering, which cannot be shared (“The immediate danger is not their being Christian but their connection with Jews from Israel.”), it was clearly a mighty stirring in the Spirit at this gathering.  Pray for the nations of the Far East who are entering into their due season in the purposes of God.  To read more on this, see Asher’s teaching, The Church of the East.  

There is a window opening in North Korea and soon in Thailand (Siam) whose king also appears to be on death’s doorstep, for the gospel to come in.  Pray for a breakthrough in evangelism in these areas and for them to enter into their places as watchmen on the wall for the full circle of the gospel as it returns to where it started – Israel.  Inside the Weekly Summary, Revive Israel offers great prayer points for coming into agreement with the heart of the LORD for the Korean and Thailand people.

From David Ortiz in Ariel we received an extremely sobering dream he had that we believe is important for the coming year.  Please open the Weekly Summary to read in full, but in gist, this is a word of warning for those believers who love Israel but avoid the Body of Messiah in Israel for their own personal interests.  See Dreadful Dream.

Some practical steps from David on how not to be one of the ones he saw in his Dreadful Dream:

-          Ps 122;6  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure”.

-          Pray for body of the Lord that lives in Israel.

-          Adopt a person, family or congregation in prayer.

-          Support businesses and buy things made by believers in Yeshua.

-          Request newsletters from credible ministries in Israel so you can stay informed.

-          Support the more than 120 Messianic Congregations which are spread from the Northernmost to the Southern-most part of the country.

-          Read your Bible, understand history, the economy, up to date events, understand disputes, facts about Israel, past present and future, know who are the Ethnic groups and religions that live here.

Each week Israelprayer brings prayer requests from Israeli ministries large and small.  For the smaller ministries, they are often doing critical ministry labors but without the outside funding and backing of larger ministries.  The Arrows from Zion and the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries is where you can find and connect with ministries like the Silveira’s in the Negev who last year lost a major source of their ministry support.  With the downturn of the economy, this is the story of several.  Pray for these precious laborers in the Lord’s harvest of Israel.  There are so many worthy of your prayers and support.

Pray for the vision God has given the Silveira’s for a 24/7 prayer and praise facility for the Negev.  Pray also for their new ministry outreach visiting prisoners.  

Pray also for the Beckford’s who carry a vision for a community center to host the needs of the believers of Arad.  Pray for Brian Slater feeding the needy in soup kitchens in Netanyah and Tel Aviv .  

Pray for Zev Porat a street evangelist declaring Salvation for Israel.  

Pray for Polly Sigulim, who Ark in the Negev is a refuge and discipleship for women in Arad.  

Pray for the Steckbeck’s ministering in places we can’t even mention.  

Pray for Orna Greeman and the Meyuseff’s ministering in Kfar Saba “to the widows and orphans”.   

Pray for several Arab brothers that we dare not share their names because they are ministering and evangelizing in Gaza and the West Bank.  

Pray for Pastor Najeeb and Ruth Nessim in Narhariya.

Pray for Pastor Hani in Acco. 

For Pastor Haddad and so many others!   

These are small ministries you may not have heard of but they are living sacrifices to the Lord’s harvest in the Promised Land.

From the congregation on Mt Carmel, David Davis writes about “The Day of the Locusts” a biblical plague which Davis applies to the waves of “ominous black cloud of lies” that Israel is in a continual battle with.  Read this spiritual viewpoint of current events which disputes the claims of even Christians that Israel is an “Apartheid State” or that it is practicing “Ethnic Cleansing.”  The truth is plain to see with any honest appraisal.

David Silver reviews the events of 2011 that made Israel a more dangerous place to live – YET he continually is urging for Jews to make aliyah.  Whatever the dangerous odds against Israel, David advises that when we see the world shaking apart, that is the time to look up as our redemption is drawing near. Read his overview of 2011 inside the Weekly Summary.

Zev ministers as the Lord leads him, one day in Tel Aviv, the next on the beach of Herzilya.  Pray for the people who are open to speak to those who are sharing Yeshua with their fellow Israelis.  Pray for the Bibles that are shared to become an open book to those who accept it and read. Pray that it will lead to scales falling from their eyes and acceptance of the Hope of Israel.

Urgent Needs: Life and Death is in the power of the tongue

Please keep in prayer the Israeli believers who are fighting for their lives or other urgent health needs:  

Please pray for Lorena and son Kenneth who have celiac disease & cannot eat foods with gluten, also for son Bruchel who also has severe food allergies.

Pray for God’s complete healing of Meir, Bob, Fruma and Katya at Maoz Ministries, Sofie Benson in Carmel/House of Victory, Ariela in Arad and Brookie in the Galilee.  Tom, Nataly and Larissa who have all recently been diagnosed with cancer in Carmel

Pray for Kevin, an elder at Adonai Roi Messianic who has undergone gall bladder surgery and some complication with a hole in this stomach that doctors were slated to repair.  He has been in lots of pain.

Inside the attachment of the

Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries

Arrows from Zion can be shared freely & we’ve included an attachment in a Word document to make it easy to print, but we ask the Weekly Summaries not be forwarded or information republished with consent of the specific ministries. By subscription only, write israelprayerdotcom@gmail.com or donna@d10r10.com

Praying the Headlines

Pray for wisdom for Israeli leaders as Hamas and the PA have entered into an agreement that some Israelis believe represents a valid adjustment that could yield a ceasefire….but other Israelis point out the continued declaration of Hamas leaders is their “Goal is destruction of Israel in Stages.”  Pray for wisdom to prevail over wishful thinking.

Yet again the divide between the religious and secular in Israel is at a fever pitch with many of the Israeli newspapers discussing the increase of Haredi violence and conducting itself as a law unto itself.  We walk a fine line in this issue because we must recognize the reality of this ugly and even dangerous religious conduct – yet keep ourselves positioned to petition for their very souls to be snatched from the fire and transferred to the kingdom of Light.  Pray that these incidents will awaken many Christians who make the wrong assumption that religious unsaved Israel is righteous in its own right.  Pray for it to be a wake up call to connect with the true righteous remnant in Israel – the Body of Messiah.

Teaching Articles

Oil and Oil Press By Asher Intrater

One Last Word

Today is the sixth anniversary since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fell into a coma on January 4^th 2006.  Israelprayer has a few things to say about that…and about a “prophetic” word related to Ariel Sharon’s death that is making the rounds from the now deceased Kabbalah rabbi, Kadura.

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The Israeli Messianic Marketplace  Feature of the Week

Eduardo Silviera (HaMaKoM) has a new tour guide company – and just when the Israeli newspapers are reporting an increase in Christian tourism from South American countries!  Eduardo writes of The Land Tours

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