WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 12/9/2015

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At the end of the year, we know you are getting many requests for Year End Giving,
also that many of you are considering which ministries to financially support in 2016.
I would like to assure you that all the ministries that are featured in this prayer list are worthy ministries to invest your Israeli donations in. If they weren't - I would hear about it and remove them!
I would also like to humbly submit my request for your consideration of my ministry
for a special year end donation and/or addition to your 2016 giving list.
Thank you and God bless you all who are praying from this
weekly summary of prayer requests from Israeli ministries
Warmest of Holiday Greetings to you all
whether a Happy Hannukah or a Merry Christmas is your tradition,

Donna Diorio

Priority Prayer Focus Dec 9, 2015

A few days ago I had opportunity to re-discover this short teaching from Asher Intrater of Revive Israel.

Asher's observation from Oil and Oil Press, in a nutshell:  There is a dynamic relationship between the oil and the press. They are opposites that balance out one another. . . .The oil certainly seems more attractive than the oil press. Yet there is no oil without the press. The oil is produced at the oil press. There is no other way to produce true oil. On the other hand, the purpose of the press is to obtain the oil. To suffer in obedience without obtaining that oil is not according to the heart of God. The press is for the oil. The oil comes from the press.

In relation to the serious health afflictions of the Israel ministries right now, I do believe the Oil and Oil Press has application - I do foresee major healing anointing breaking through among Israeli ministries as these saints continue to battle in faith for their own health situations.  We are to continue to join with them in their battle, for the release of healing and gifts of healing among them.

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Unfortunately we begin this week with the news that another Israeli Ministry leader has been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.  David Davis of the HaCarmel congregation writes,  "In recent months a number of leaders in the Lord’s body here in Israel have been under siege, battling serious life-threatening illnesses. Now I have joined the ranks, as two weeks ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. When I shared this news with our congregational family in my recent Shabbat message, “A Sacrifice of Faith,” we then began to worship the Lord and pray for all those in need of healing, and the Holy Spirit released upon us a fresh outpouring of faith and the joy of the Lord.

Read Davis' exhortation on praying in times of affliction inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

Also read about their 10-day and 8-week programs for worshipping musicians and singers. They are accepting applications to our new Ascend Carmel Worship Programs now.

In Asher Intrater's Moving What Mountain? he acknowledges the universal spiritual principle in Mark 11:23-24, but brings to the forefront the principle meaning Yeshua has as He uttered those words in Jerusalem near to the Temple "mount".  What did Jesus mean when He said "Whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and cast into the sea' .... Yeshua’s statement about the mountain is likely a reference to Zechariah 4:6 – Who are you Great Mountain?.... Isaiah 2:2-4 also refers to the kingdom of God as a mountain. Daniel 2:34-35, 44 refer to the great statue of the Antichrist kingdoms being destroyed in the end times by a supernatural rock that then turns into the mountain of the kingdom of God. Revelation 11:15 states that the last mystery of the plan of God is for the kingdoms of this world to become the kingdom of our Lord.  Is Yeshua pointing the way to the ultimate meaning of mountain-moving faith - to remove all obstacles to the restoring of the kingdom of God in Jerusalem? Read more inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

The Revive Israel prayer letter also takes up the self-martyrdom of two young Arab-Israeli girls - what can cause them to do such a thing?  "Classic Palestinian terrorism started in the 1970's in order to gain attention to the PLO political agenda.  The efforts of ISIS have gone much beyond terror and are more properly termed "Jihad" - their goal is to impose an Islamic State all over the world.  It is more apocalyptic than political.  These two girls actions were neither terror nor Jihad; they didn't advance any real agenda.  They had only one goal: to go to "heaven." ....Their motive was to be a Shaheed – martyr.  Thankfully, some of the parents and relatives in the Arab Israeli community are starting to come out and protest against the education and peer pressure that is causing such sick behavior. " Please pray for many more Arabs to begin to reject what is happening among them.

Revive also shares an update of their ministry team members in Asia (Watch video report) and France, as well as part 2 of Asher's video teaching Bread and wine inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

Ron and Elana Cantor of Messiah's Mandate/Tiferet Yeshua send this video Hannukah greeting

Israel Pochtar shares a report on their evangelistic outreach in Tel Aviv with Sid Roth Ministries which was attended by 1,000 non-believing people!  As the altar call was given, Pochtar reports that almost 800 people stood to receive Yeshua as their Lord and Savior. "Many of these people communicated their desire to receive a Bible, and to walk a path with us in fellowship, to participate in discipleship training such as the Alpha Course, and to receive humanitarian aid. . . . Please keep these new-born believers in your prayers! "  

Avi Mizrachi of the Dugit Coffeehouse ministry writes about their annual Haifa outreach during the month of December with Arabic pastor Edward Tannous as they share the gospel during this strategic time.  "Together, we welcome the multitudes with a free cup of coffee and a big smile.  Every one of us is dressed in a white shirt inscribed with the words, "There is Hope" in both Hebrew and Arabic.  Our message is that there is Hope in the Messiah Yeshua!"  Inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary you will find their prayer points for the outreach, also their final push on the Adonai Roi congregational facility purchase. They've already raised $900,000 and still need $300,000 to purchase.

New father, Joel Jelski files his report on travel in November to Irbil for ministry:  "We got share with them our hearts, and again, we had major favor and miracles in order to get in. Never imagined I would be sharing my faith with government people in a middle eastern country outside Israel."  They also traveled to Cyprus with four Israeli youth and the Succat Hallel staff to "take part in a Middle East Houses of Prayer conference. The conference was a great time of reconnecting with others from this region, developing some new vision and plans for future cooperation across borders." Read more inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary.

The Kehila News Israel mailing brings this article of interest from Jerusalem Institute of Justice attorney Michael Decker: "Investors Visa Arrangement in Israel".  If you are interested in starting a business in Israel, start here.

Harvest of Asher congregational leader Guy Cohen writes about the realities of ending the conflict between Jewish and Arab peoples in his article One in Yeshua.

Howard Bass of the Yeshua's Inheritance congregation in Beer Sheva starts off writing about the controversies that exist on the letter to the Galatians and also on when Yeshua was born.  (This isn't one of those knock-down-drag-out conversations, so you will probably enjoy reading Howard's take inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary .)

Bass asks for prayer agreement on:
--for us to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth

--for the men (and the women) of Yeshua's Inheritance to form Holy Spirit relationships in the bonds of peace and love

--for our son, Tal, who suffered an eye injury a couple of weeks ago, which is improving, but we pray for no permanent visual damage.

Dov and Olga Bikas, also of a Beer Sheva ministry, Desert Flowers Congregation and the Tel Aviv outreach to addicts and those trapped in the sex industry, send their year end review.  "We praise the Lord for the growing attendance of Aviv outreach Center. Dozens of addicts, prostitutes and the homeless visit it every day, 6 days a week. Out of this number, 7 to 10 street people willingly enter Israeli Christian rehabs (ours or those of our partners) each month."  The men's rehab in Beer Sheva is running at full capacity these days with seven live-ins and all on advanced stages of rehabilitation.  "We see, therefore, that the need in outreach activities for drug addicts and for Christian rehab centers remains quite urgent. In the coming year we want to keep working, expanding our activities and facilities as much as possible to meet this need. We want to make our centers more and more effective – and also open new ones, God willing, if we have enough resources."

From their Beer Sheva congregation ministry to Russian immigrants, Bikas writes, "Warmest Christmas greetings to you from our church! We praise the Lord that it keeps growing and that a young leader has arrived this year with his wife and small kids from abroad to help us care for the flock. He is still in Jerusalem, preparing for the ministry, and will move to Beer-Sheva in the middle of 2016, God willing."

Finally Martin Sarvis in Jerusalem writes about the potential spiritual ramifications of the discovery announced last week of "The Signet of a Godly King" - the personal seal of the Biblical King of Judah Hezekiah.  Martin always brings a set of spiritual eyes on the news of the day, including this great discovery unearthed six years ago by archaeologists working in an area separating the Temple Mount from the ancient City of David. 

Sarvis writes, "We would recommend examining the life of this great king (II Kings 18:1-20:23; Isaiah 36:2-39:8; II Chronicles 28:27-32:33) and asking the Holy Spirit to show us ways in which it may guide us in praying for our present land and leaders. Following are a few of our own observations - see inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

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

Please keep in prayer the Israeli ministry leaders and believers with urgent health needs including the fight for their very lives:  Please continue to pray for David Davis; an unnamed forefather of Messianic Judaism; Dr Jurgen Buhler; Ruth Nessim; Eddie Santoro;  Evan Levine; Rachel Slater; Judy, wife of pastor Yaakov K; Moshe Morrison;  Shelly wife of pastor Eitan; Claude Ezagouri; Patti, wife of Dan Juster; Baruch and Karen Maayan;Marike Veldman; Michael E and unnamed Israel-related ministers; Jacob Damkani.  Pray also for Ghazi, the son of an Arab pastor, who is suffering from Leukemia.

Pray for the release of healing anointing among the Israeli ministries to touch the people of Israel with a sign of the goodness of Yeshua.

Praying the Headlines

We so appreciated this Facebook Hannukah greeting from Miriam Abramov, who along with her husband Shlomy, minister in the Rishon LeZion area of Israel.  In honor of the victim of the San Bernadino terror attack, Nicholas Talasinos, a gentile who identified as Messianic and served as a shamash (deacon) in the San Bernadino area Shiloh Messianic congregation.

Miriam Abramav wrote: Nick's candle lit for him in Israel tonight. The slain messianic Jew victim in San Bernardino. Killer told him he'd never make it Israel two weeks ago. He made it. All the way to our hearts here in Israel.

Nick also made it into the hearts of many Jews in America. I saw numerous mentions of Nick as a "Messianic Jew" with no qualifiers discounting the faith - the most eye-catching of these came from terrorist experts and political pundits who are Jews themselves.  The silver lining in the death of this saint of God is that it openly broke up a new level of acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the Messianic faith in the United States, and I would imagine in Israel too.  Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psalm 116:15

Teaching Articles

Within the Messianic community in Israel, some are skeptical as to the authenticity of the miracle story, others assume it to be true.

12/4/15 Avner & Rachel Boskey Beer Sheva  David’s Tent
psalm67@netvision.net.il  http://www.davidstent.org/
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Also via PayPal: www.davidstent.org

Chanukah and Santa Claus – Restoring truth to the Festival of Light  |  Today very few adults believe in Santa Claus, though a significant amount do believe in the virgin birth of Israel’s Messiah Yeshua. At this holiday season childhood legends of men in red suits and white beards come face to face with the miraculous Jewish Babe of Bethlehem. The Jewish Feast of Dedication (known as Chanukah or the Festival of Lights) also has significant legends twined around its holiday menorah – legends that might obscure the spiritual and historical roots of the holiday, and distract from its powerful message, This newsletter focuses on the real meaning of Chanukah. 
     [Excerpts follow inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary, read in full here]

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Donna Diorio 
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