Serving the Body of Messiah in Israel since August 2001 Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
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Priority Prayer Focus
Pray for Israel’s Messianic Pro-Life Ministry as they speak for Israel’s unborn – intervening to help those who want to choose life.
Open your mouth and speak for those who cannot speak for themselves
in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy
Proverbs 31:8-9
in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy
Proverbs 31:8-9
Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
This
week one strong thread arose in many different prayer letters so that is the leading
focus of our prayers this week: Pray for
the Pro-Life Movement in Israel which many of the Israeli ministries throughout
Israel are being used to reach women in crisis.
This week a private prayer letter crossed our desk that noted: “Calls to the Pro Life lines throughout the country have all but stopped. IF there is no need, Hallelujah. However pray that if something is blocking people from asking for counseling that the calls which need to go through will.”
This does not seem like a natural situation, and considering that the hotlines operated throughout Israel are through the Messianic Be’ad Chaim (“For Life”) organization, it may be there is some sort of tampering going on. If this is the case – or no matter what the case is – please join in to pray for the Pro-Life ministries of Israel, that those who are seeking their help instead of abortions would not be cut off from contact.
This week a private prayer letter crossed our desk that noted: “Calls to the Pro Life lines throughout the country have all but stopped. IF there is no need, Hallelujah. However pray that if something is blocking people from asking for counseling that the calls which need to go through will.”
This does not seem like a natural situation, and considering that the hotlines operated throughout Israel are through the Messianic Be’ad Chaim (“For Life”) organization, it may be there is some sort of tampering going on. If this is the case – or no matter what the case is – please join in to pray for the Pro-Life ministries of Israel, that those who are seeking their help instead of abortions would not be cut off from contact.
One of the leading young prayer ministers who has been connected with the pro-life movement in Israel since his teens and who now leads Bound4Live in Israel, Joel Jelski, just happens to be in north Texas currently. When I Facebook messaged the input about the call lines, Joel wrote back: “That’s weird because in the last few months they have only increased the amount of calls and pregnant mothers who have decided to keep the baby.”
Clearly the pro-life ministry in Israel is an effective outreach and it also clearly needs prayer cover. But the two different pro-life ministries were not the only things that drew attention to the pro-life needs this week. When I tried to copy and paste from prayer requests received from the Hamaayan (Wellspring) congregation of Tony and Orna Sperandeo in Kfar Saba, only one prayer request out of two pages of their ministry prayer letter would copy:
“Pray for the international pro-life conference from March 10th-17th, where many of us are involved in teaching and workshops.” I’ve written to ask for another document form for the rest of their prayer requests, but it certainly drew attention in light of the other pro-life mentions this week!
The
following information was taken from the Be'ad
Chaim (“For Life”) website, which is the leading Messianic Pro-Life organization
in Israel that operates hotlines throughout Israel. Contact Sandy Shoshani prolife@netvision.net.il
An
estimated 40-50 thousand babies are aborted annually in Israel even though according to penal code of 1977,
it is illegal for a woman to have an abortion in Israel unless:
The woman is under
17 or over 40
The baby is
conceived out of wedlock
The baby may have a
physical or mental defect
Continuing the
pregnancy will put the woman in physical or mental danger
In
these situations, a government-regulated abortion committee can permit a legal
(an often state-subsidized) abortion.
In recent years, the number of women seeking the approval of such
committees in Israel has plateaued at about 20,000 requests per year. 98
percent of these requests are approved.
Please
read more about the pro-life movement in Israel at the Be’ad Chaim website,
including their Operation
Moses ministry.
Two
events worth noting this week are the Esther Fast & Prayer (which will be
available online) and the Tel Aviv Women’s Conference. Both start on Thursday.
Chaya
Mizrachi at Adonai Roi in Tel Aviv will be hosting the Women’s conference that
will be in 4 sessions over Thursday and Friday.
Thursday sessions are for pastor’s wives and leadership only, then the
Friday session for all the women of the Body of Messiah in Israel. Dotty
Schmitt from Immanuel's Church in Silver Spring, MD is the main speaker. Pray for the LORD to walk among the women.
Also on Thursday, the annual Esther Fast and
Prayer led by Revive Israel will be doing 12 continuous hours of prayer
together with several congregations and prayer house according to the themes in
the book of Esther. Those in the nations
are invited to join in (6 AM to 6 PM Israel Time). List of prayer topics and
praise watches are available at The Fast of Esther 2013 and Click here to join us live in the prayer room
Howard
and Randi Bass (Yeshua's Inhertance in Beer Sheva) are celebrating their 32-nd new-birth-day the day before
Valentine’s Day – what a blessing that they both got saved the same day, in the
same city – a city they were just passing through together. Now
their lives are given to serve the LORD in Israel shepherding the flock in Beer
Sheva.
Bass
writes that an April conference, “Spring up, O Well” is being organized by a
sister, Elinor, for Beer Sheva. Howard
writes, “There is a growing number of
believers who are beginning to see the importance and significance of Beer
Sheva to God's plan of redemption for Israel. . . . Among the
local speakers will be Avner Boskey and myself.
Your prayers for 'success' in God's eyes will be greatly appreciated.”
It is one thing when one minister has a vision for their place in the salvation of Israel and it is another thing when a congregation catches the vision of their place in the salvation of Israel. But it is raised to an even higher level when a city or region of believers begin to catch a vision of the significance of their city or region in the LORD’s plan of redemption for Israel….and when certain ones in the nations catch the vision with them, then we begin to see the strongholds over the city or region yield to the superior power of the life-giving gospel of Messiah Yeshua.
Pray for the believers of Beer Sheva and Negev who are catching their own significant role in God’s plans for their region, and for those who have been drawn by the LORD Himself from the nations to stand alongside to intercede for open heavens over them.
It is one thing when one minister has a vision for their place in the salvation of Israel and it is another thing when a congregation catches the vision of their place in the salvation of Israel. But it is raised to an even higher level when a city or region of believers begin to catch a vision of the significance of their city or region in the LORD’s plan of redemption for Israel….and when certain ones in the nations catch the vision with them, then we begin to see the strongholds over the city or region yield to the superior power of the life-giving gospel of Messiah Yeshua.
Pray for the believers of Beer Sheva and Negev who are catching their own significant role in God’s plans for their region, and for those who have been drawn by the LORD Himself from the nations to stand alongside to intercede for open heavens over them.
Howard
will be visiting South Africa for the first time between March 1-11.
Pray for anointing upon all his messages and for Divine appointments –
open spirits among the people of Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.
Evan
Levine of the HaTikvah project asks prayers for his wife, Elisa, who has been
dealing with recurring pain in her leg over the past 9 months. Doctors have not
been able to find the source of the problem, and many days she must use
crutches the pain is so great. Pray for
the LORD to heal Elisa and for the doctors also to be given Divine insight to
the source.
One of
the recent recipients of HaTikvah is a family who are recent immigrants from the
Ukraine with 2 small children and no beds, blankets or food as they arrived in
Israel. HaTikvah has been able to help
them with grocery vouchers and other needed practical items as a witness of the
love of Yeshua. Pray as this ministry
seeks to make a difference in the lives of the poor while advancing Yeshua’s
kingdom in Israel.
Last
week there was not enough space to share all of Arni Klein’s news from
ministering ‘down under’ so we inserted a portion from last week where Klein
speaks of re-meeting First Nations leader Lynda Prince after many in
years. From 1998 to 2003, long time
prayer partners of the Klein’s will know there were strong ties developing
between the two ministries.
Arni writes: “In 2003, when it appeared that our work in connecting First Nations with Israel was about to really take off, for no discernible reason it stopped cold. We had some contact with Lynda in the ensuing years, but without any sense of continuing the work. It was at that very time the Lord led us to invest ourselves in Germany. We remarked then how we could never have done both at the same time. Now, after ten years and close to 80 trips to Germany, it seems the Lord might be broadening the horizons. Two weeks ago, Lynda and I were together in Sydney and spent a day together. After ten years we have virtually picked up where we left off. Praise the Lord for His amazing, intricately-woven plans. …Please stand with us for God’s plan to unfold. The First Nations people of Australia have an indispensable part in releasing the nation into the path ordained for them.”
Arni writes: “In 2003, when it appeared that our work in connecting First Nations with Israel was about to really take off, for no discernible reason it stopped cold. We had some contact with Lynda in the ensuing years, but without any sense of continuing the work. It was at that very time the Lord led us to invest ourselves in Germany. We remarked then how we could never have done both at the same time. Now, after ten years and close to 80 trips to Germany, it seems the Lord might be broadening the horizons. Two weeks ago, Lynda and I were together in Sydney and spent a day together. After ten years we have virtually picked up where we left off. Praise the Lord for His amazing, intricately-woven plans. …Please stand with us for God’s plan to unfold. The First Nations people of Australia have an indispensable part in releasing the nation into the path ordained for them.”
Asher
Intrater asks prayer for the following issues:
Rebels connected with Al Qaida have taken over an air force base in Syria with missiles and fighter planes. Pray for divine protection for Israel and for endangered Christians within Syria.
Rebels connected with Al Qaida have taken over an air force base in Syria with missiles and fighter planes. Pray for divine protection for Israel and for endangered Christians within Syria.
Netanyahu desires the widest possible government coalition, but has not
been able to form it yet. Pray for right policy guidelines and coalition
members.
Pray
for health, growth and love in our sister congregations, Ahavat Yeshua in
Jerusalem and Tiferet Yeshua in Tel Aviv.
Pray
for right selection for best possible new Pope for the Catholic Church.
There
are changes in the Tel Aviv congregation Tiferet Yeshua as Ari and Shira
Sorko-Ram begin to pass the baton of the congregational leadership to the next
generation. Asher Intrater, who served
in the congregation in the 1990’s will take oversight of the congregation with
a view toward raising up and mentoring young leaders into mature leaders who
can one day lead the congregation. Ron
and Elana Cantor will also step into a more significant role in the day-to-day
pastoral leadership team. Intrater will
continue in his oversight of the Ahavat Yeshua congregation in Jerusalem, as
well.
The Sorko-Rams will continue as the senior pastors of Tiferet Yeshua, but as the couple in their 70’s view it – in the grandparent role rather than the parent role. Great analogy! Pray for all involved for this transition process to go smoothly and multiple the fruit.
The Sorko-Rams will continue as the senior pastors of Tiferet Yeshua, but as the couple in their 70’s view it – in the grandparent role rather than the parent role. Great analogy! Pray for all involved for this transition process to go smoothly and multiple the fruit.
Urgent HEALING 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:
Pray for God’s complete healing of Katya Morrison at Tents of Mercy (recovering
from bone marrow transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia); Brookie
in the Galilee and Tom both are
believing for victory over cancer in Carmel. Pray
for Kay Wilson still
suffering from PTSD after surviving a stabbing terrorism attack that her friend
did not survive. Continue to pray for baby Netaley who just finished another round of chemo. The Grandmother of the Bat Mitzvah girl mentioned in Eitan Shishkoff's
prayer letter is battling cancer. Please pray with us for this family, as they
endure a difficult time.
Praying the Headlines
Defense Dragging Their Feet in Jack Teitel’s Sentencing
Messianic ministers David and Leah Ortiz write about the sentencing court date last week of Jack Teitel, a religious Jewish terrorist who planted a bomb disguised as a Purim basket at their doorstep in hopes of murdering the family. Their 15-year old son Ami almost lost his life in 2008 when he opened the gift basket and it exploded in his hands. Finally in 2013, Jack Teitel has been convicted, but as David and Leah report, Teitel's attorneys continue to delay sentencing and hope to get him off by claiming his murderous acts were caused by mental instability.
David & Leah Ortiz: “I wish you all
could sit in the court room and behold what we see, how the defense constantly
tries to manipulate the law in order to get a self-confessed, guilty man
off the hook of true justice as much as lies in their power to do so. It is
frustrating but so obvious how the enemy is using them to try to pervert
justice. Another fact to consider is that they are not defense attorneys
assigned by the State of Israel, but privately hired, and we and others from
the legal team and the media are wondering who is financing this! We know
from our own experience how expensive lawyers are.”
Click the title to go to the full article on my IsraelWatcher blog.
Inside the attachment of the
Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
Arrows from Zion can be shared freely. Just copy and paste this email into a Word document to make it easy to print. However, we ask the Weekly Summaries not be forwarded or information republished without consent of the specific ministries. The Weekly Summary is by subscription only, write israelprayerdotcom@gmail.com or donna@d10r10.com
Teaching Articles
Click the title to go to the full article on my IsraelWatcher blog.
Inside the attachment of the
Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
Arrows from Zion can be shared freely. Just copy and paste this email into a Word document to make it easy to print. However, we ask the Weekly Summaries not be forwarded or information republished without consent of the specific ministries. The Weekly Summary is by subscription only, write israelprayerdotcom@gmail.com or donna@d10r10.com
Teaching Articles
Survey
Results, edited by Hannah Weiss
This is an excellent investigative case study of a disturbing, recent prophecy which you may or may not heard of, but the issues raised here are nonetheless relevant to those who pray for Israel and who do not despise prophecy. What is exposed here is part of the public record. Hannah Weiss of Restorers of Zion has done a very professional case study and search of original sources of a disturbing prophecy that was released in the last few months of 2012 which proved to wholly false.
The survey, which Israelprayer participated in, sought to investigate how the Body judges prophecies and how – or if - do we hold the prophetic accountable. The results of the survey and insights to be drawn from it are quite compelling, and hopefully many will take the time to examine it at length – including the several reports drawn from the survey results. Well done, Hannah! This is exceptional work very much in the spirit of Deborah.
Other articles in the series are:
Implications of the Survey Results
The Original “War on Israel” Prophecies
Who Are These Prophets?
How We Test Prophecy... and What It's Costing Us
Israeli Ministries on Tours
BOOKING meetings now (See open dates) Inside
the attached Weekly Summary are
itineraries and open dates for Howard
Bass of
Nachalat
Yeshua (Yeshua’s Inheritance) Congregation;
Ze’ev Nevo of Israel Media Ministries ; Brian
Slater of Yeshua’s Fresh Bread in Israel; Evan Levine of HaTikva Project; and Carolyn & Richard Hyde of Heart of God
Ministries.
Donna Diorio
arrowsfromzion@gmail.com or donna@d10r10.com
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| Fruit of the Fig Tree Spiritual insights
If you appreciate the efforts of this ministry to share both the challenges and the great things God is doing among the Israeli indigenous ministries, please pray about making a financial gift donation. Make donations payable to the order of Donna Diorio and mail to:
Israel Prayer P O Box 111302 Carrollton, Texas 75006
Or click on the PayPal account: donna@israelprayer.com
I do not have tax exempt status.
arrowsfromzion@gmail.com or donna@d10r10.com
Israel Prayer Dot Com |
Israel Watcher – A Second Opinion Mostly political or current events commentary
| Fruit of the Fig Tree Spiritual insights
If you appreciate the efforts of this ministry to share both the challenges and the great things God is doing among the Israeli indigenous ministries, please pray about making a financial gift donation. Make donations payable to the order of Donna Diorio and mail to:
Israel Prayer P O Box 111302 Carrollton, Texas 75006
Or click on the PayPal account: donna@israelprayer.com
I do not have tax exempt status.
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