Arrows from Zion
Serving the Body of Messiah in Israel since August 2001
& Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
Serving the Body of Messiah in Israel since August 2001
& Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
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I do not have tax exempt status.
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I do not have tax exempt status.
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I just noticed that this is the 213th upload of Arrows from Zion on this blog.
7-17-2012
Of course, the number of weekly issues of the Israelprayer Summary I've prepared over the past 12 years is more iv the neighborhood of 600 issues. In fact, it was just about this time twelve years ago in 2001 - just a couple of weeks before 9/11 - that I launched the Israelprayer Summary with the first issue. It has been a 12-year labor of love towards the fantastic Israeli brothers and sisters in Messiah who are laying down their own lives to the purposes of God in proclaiming the Name of Yeshua.
"All Israel shall be saved" says the Word of God and these faithful servants are the ones who have accepted the mandate to be the ones to stand for God's full purposes for Israel. God bless them one and all.
I just noticed that this is the 213th upload of Arrows from Zion on this blog.
7-17-2012
Of course, the number of weekly issues of the Israelprayer Summary I've prepared over the past 12 years is more iv the neighborhood of 600 issues. In fact, it was just about this time twelve years ago in 2001 - just a couple of weeks before 9/11 - that I launched the Israelprayer Summary with the first issue. It has been a 12-year labor of love towards the fantastic Israeli brothers and sisters in Messiah who are laying down their own lives to the purposes of God in proclaiming the Name of Yeshua.
"All Israel shall be saved" says the Word of God and these faithful servants are the ones who have accepted the mandate to be the ones to stand for God's full purposes for Israel. God bless them one and all.
Contact information for all the ministries is included
inside the Weekly Summary
(by subscription only)
Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
Recently someone voiced the opinion that an Israeli
ministry should not be wearing a Jews for Jesus T-shirt because it was too
provoking to religious Jews. Hearkening
back to the 70’s and 80’s in Jerusalem this person said in those days when
there were only a few hundred believers in Israel at most, “it was unheard of
to be an offense to the religious in any way because not to raise any
persecution.” The views among Israeli
believers has changed as the Messianic community there has grown into its own
sense of belonging in the mix, which is why I was happy to hear this report
from Howard Bass:
Some of you know about the riot which took place against our congregation on Dec 24, 2005, and the ensuing court case we made against the Chief Rabbi of Beer Sheva and of the anti-missionary organization, Yad LeAchim (read reports here). A couple of weeks ago, a pastor in another city came up to me to thank me, and the Ortiz family, for publicizing and taking on Yad LeAchim in court, because he says that since then the organization has seemingly retreated from being so openly aggressive against the believers and congregations around the country. The reason I bring this up is because this same pastor was not in favor of our going to court in the first place! We know that God has His reasons for things that we do not always understand -- either the process or the consequences. But our responsibility, in so far as we know and understand from Him and His Word, is to obey with faith.
Some of you know about the riot which took place against our congregation on Dec 24, 2005, and the ensuing court case we made against the Chief Rabbi of Beer Sheva and of the anti-missionary organization, Yad LeAchim (read reports here). A couple of weeks ago, a pastor in another city came up to me to thank me, and the Ortiz family, for publicizing and taking on Yad LeAchim in court, because he says that since then the organization has seemingly retreated from being so openly aggressive against the believers and congregations around the country. The reason I bring this up is because this same pastor was not in favor of our going to court in the first place! We know that God has His reasons for things that we do not always understand -- either the process or the consequences. But our responsibility, in so far as we know and understand from Him and His Word, is to obey with faith.
Pray that as the Israeli Body of Messiah to continues
to ‘grow up’ in Israel, that each will be open and flexible to the stages of
maturity they are passing through as a Body in Israel – giving room for changes
to take place as Yeshua brings them out from being God’s best kept secret in
Israel to His lights shining upon a hill.
Pray especially for the emerging young adults of the Israeli Messianic community – that they will find their God-ordained places in Israeli society. Some will go to ministry, but many will go into careers where God will use them mightily to impact Israel – living stones in every segment of Israeli society.
Pray also for the many summer children’s camps and teen camps, the youth and young adult conferences that will bring together Jew and Christian Arab. Pray that all these young people will hear the the voice of the Lord and obey with joy.These are key body-building get togethers for young believers who go most of their school year without contact with believers their age. Pray for the prodigals who have wandered away, that they will return to house of the LORD and to an unshakable faith. Ruth Nessim asks prayers for prodigal parents and grandparents to return to the LORD! Prodigals: return to your senses in the name of Yeshua!
The recent MJAA conference was held and Ron Cantor of Moaz Ministries and Messiah’s Mandate gives a beautiful account of recognizing how even for the U.S., “There is a special anointing on Israeli evangelists and worship teams when they go forth from Zion equipped with the message of Yeshua.“ Please read his report inside the Weekly Summary, and you can even listen to their podcast which was recorded with a live MJAA audience. Listen here.
Carolyn Hyde gives a short report on how they are witnessing in Tiberius and now on tour in the U.S. inside the Weekly Summary. Summer is a time when many Israeli ministries hit the road to attend conference and do speaking engagements and ministry in the nations. Pray for each of them to have fruitful tours, and for the LORD to watch over their families at home, and for many, their congregations.
Leon Mazin of the Haifa Return to Zion Center brings an opportunity to give toward 50 new families the Haifa social services has asked them to supply food for. They have stepped out in faith and said ‘Yes!’ Will you also say ‘Yes” to help them? Read inside how $25-30/ 20-25 Euros can make a difference in the name of Yeshua.
The Beckford’s saga with their Arad landlord has taken a sudden good turn: Lura has signed for a new house in Arad with a landlord who is day-&-night different from the old landlord, and she is packing up with a little help from her friends while Eddie is still in the U.S. Lura sound positively joyful about this move and believes the new house will be even better for the Hebrew and Russian congregations who have been using their home to hold worship services and other times of fellowship. Pray for the believers in Arad – truly they are pitching in to help each other through years of persecution and harassment for their faith. This is a community hanging together for the good name of the LORD. See Lura’s report on other issues they face inside the attached Weekly Summary.
Ruth Nessim, mother of Debbie Figeuras in Arad, is a stalwart believer in Nahariya whose home is continually receiving guests who come to hear this dear lady’s witness. She receives everyone – Christian Arab, Jew; young and old. Pray for her and the CJF congregation in far northern Israel just next to the Lebanon border. Read her testimonies inside the Weekly Summary – it is who we are every day that draws people to His light. Ruth leaves for her U.K. tour at the end of July.
Pray especially for the emerging young adults of the Israeli Messianic community – that they will find their God-ordained places in Israeli society. Some will go to ministry, but many will go into careers where God will use them mightily to impact Israel – living stones in every segment of Israeli society.
Pray also for the many summer children’s camps and teen camps, the youth and young adult conferences that will bring together Jew and Christian Arab. Pray that all these young people will hear the the voice of the Lord and obey with joy.These are key body-building get togethers for young believers who go most of their school year without contact with believers their age. Pray for the prodigals who have wandered away, that they will return to house of the LORD and to an unshakable faith. Ruth Nessim asks prayers for prodigal parents and grandparents to return to the LORD! Prodigals: return to your senses in the name of Yeshua!
The recent MJAA conference was held and Ron Cantor of Moaz Ministries and Messiah’s Mandate gives a beautiful account of recognizing how even for the U.S., “There is a special anointing on Israeli evangelists and worship teams when they go forth from Zion equipped with the message of Yeshua.“ Please read his report inside the Weekly Summary, and you can even listen to their podcast which was recorded with a live MJAA audience. Listen here.
Carolyn Hyde gives a short report on how they are witnessing in Tiberius and now on tour in the U.S. inside the Weekly Summary. Summer is a time when many Israeli ministries hit the road to attend conference and do speaking engagements and ministry in the nations. Pray for each of them to have fruitful tours, and for the LORD to watch over their families at home, and for many, their congregations.
Leon Mazin of the Haifa Return to Zion Center brings an opportunity to give toward 50 new families the Haifa social services has asked them to supply food for. They have stepped out in faith and said ‘Yes!’ Will you also say ‘Yes” to help them? Read inside how $25-30/ 20-25 Euros can make a difference in the name of Yeshua.
The Beckford’s saga with their Arad landlord has taken a sudden good turn: Lura has signed for a new house in Arad with a landlord who is day-&-night different from the old landlord, and she is packing up with a little help from her friends while Eddie is still in the U.S. Lura sound positively joyful about this move and believes the new house will be even better for the Hebrew and Russian congregations who have been using their home to hold worship services and other times of fellowship. Pray for the believers in Arad – truly they are pitching in to help each other through years of persecution and harassment for their faith. This is a community hanging together for the good name of the LORD. See Lura’s report on other issues they face inside the attached Weekly Summary.
Ruth Nessim, mother of Debbie Figeuras in Arad, is a stalwart believer in Nahariya whose home is continually receiving guests who come to hear this dear lady’s witness. She receives everyone – Christian Arab, Jew; young and old. Pray for her and the CJF congregation in far northern Israel just next to the Lebanon border. Read her testimonies inside the Weekly Summary – it is who we are every day that draws people to His light. Ruth leaves for her U.K. tour at the end of July.
In the Samarian Hills,
Charlotte and Uzi Lotan continue to host may guests from around the world at
their House of Praise and serving in their congregation in Kfar Saba. They
report on a highlight during Junes when they attended a conference near the
Dead Sea that was attended by Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jewish
pastors and leaders. Afterwards, the
Lotans hosted a men’s breakfast for the pastors at Beit Hallel – some of the
Palestinian Christian Pastors may have entered one of the Muslim villages
around about us, but they probably have never visited a Jewish Settlement in
Samaria. These are important inroads.
The Sorko-Ram’s of Maoz ministries invites those who would like to provide funds for some of the teens who will be attending the Katzir/Harvest youth camp. You can see inside the attached Weekly Summary how it breaks out for the cost of sponsoring one teen, or one day, or even five teens for the duration.
The Sorko-Ram’s of Maoz ministries invites those who would like to provide funds for some of the teens who will be attending the Katzir/Harvest youth camp. You can see inside the attached Weekly Summary how it breaks out for the cost of sponsoring one teen, or one day, or even five teens for the duration.
Al Hayat Television is
broadcasting a short video program into Egypt by Asher Intrater (in Hebrew with
Arabic sub titles. Pray for this message
to encourage the believers in Egypt and touch many hearts among the
unbelievers. The current chaos in Egypt
is a great opportunity for faith to blossom in the Egyptian people. They’ve seen ugly religion; they’ve seen despotic
dictators; now speak to Egypt that they will see Yeshua – high and lifted up as
a banner of love and shalom over Egyptian hearts.
The offices of Revive Israel were broken into by robbers last week, and they have been threatened with a lawsuit, and a new rabbinic religious group has started a new campaign against them and other Messianic Jews. Many are struggling right now under the weight of multiple challenges and threats. As Lura Beckford wrote, this is the time we must pray for each other!
She also wrote: “Our donations have been cut in half in the past two years and the dollar has gone down in relation to the shekel. Some of our supporters have lost their jobs. Most people are having a difficult time financially. But believers are the ONLY people in the world who can pray in the finances for others when they are penniless themselves. (Ain’t it the truth!)
Many of us are like Moses at the Red Sea – the enemy bearing down on us from behind and no place to go but into the water with hands lifted up in faith. This is the time to call out to the LORD for mighty miracles – even parting the waters so we may cross over on dry land. This is that day.
The Jerusalem Institute of Justice reported on their Lone Soldier project during Passover where soldiers without families and communities can be with “adopted family” over the holidays. JIJ writes that many of the young men and women soldiers have been ex-communicated from their own ultra-orthodox families because they have chosen to serve. “They expressed deep gratitude for your generous gifts” that provided for their Passover Seder among friends. JIJ also offers many other opportunities for these soldiers for fellowship, R&R and even a “life skills” course. You can read more inside the attached Weekly Summary and find out how you can be a part of doing something greater than just sending the troops a pizza.
Daniel Decker, who organizes Christian tours for Jerusalem Eternal Tours, brings a good word called “A Jewish Heart” inside the Weekly Summary. If you are planning a tour in Israel, you can contact Daniel whose family are all well known among the believing community in Israel. See inside the attached Weekly Summary for Daniel’s contact information.
The offices of Revive Israel were broken into by robbers last week, and they have been threatened with a lawsuit, and a new rabbinic religious group has started a new campaign against them and other Messianic Jews. Many are struggling right now under the weight of multiple challenges and threats. As Lura Beckford wrote, this is the time we must pray for each other!
She also wrote: “Our donations have been cut in half in the past two years and the dollar has gone down in relation to the shekel. Some of our supporters have lost their jobs. Most people are having a difficult time financially. But believers are the ONLY people in the world who can pray in the finances for others when they are penniless themselves. (Ain’t it the truth!)
Many of us are like Moses at the Red Sea – the enemy bearing down on us from behind and no place to go but into the water with hands lifted up in faith. This is the time to call out to the LORD for mighty miracles – even parting the waters so we may cross over on dry land. This is that day.
The Jerusalem Institute of Justice reported on their Lone Soldier project during Passover where soldiers without families and communities can be with “adopted family” over the holidays. JIJ writes that many of the young men and women soldiers have been ex-communicated from their own ultra-orthodox families because they have chosen to serve. “They expressed deep gratitude for your generous gifts” that provided for their Passover Seder among friends. JIJ also offers many other opportunities for these soldiers for fellowship, R&R and even a “life skills” course. You can read more inside the attached Weekly Summary and find out how you can be a part of doing something greater than just sending the troops a pizza.
Daniel Decker, who organizes Christian tours for Jerusalem Eternal Tours, brings a good word called “A Jewish Heart” inside the Weekly Summary. If you are planning a tour in Israel, you can contact Daniel whose family are all well known among the believing community in Israel. See inside the attached Weekly Summary for Daniel’s contact information.
Last but not least, Mazal
Tov to Joel and Teresa Jelski who were just married. Pray for this young couple as they continue
to walk out the Lord’s greatest designs for their lives together in Messiah.
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:
- Please pray for the wife of Ariel Ben David, who leads an Eilat Congregation, and also for his worship leader, both of whom were recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Please continue to intercede for Katya Morrison at Tents of Mercy this week to get another bone marrow biopsy then in another 3 weeks, an appointment to discuss the findings: Pray for no leukemia to be the report.
- Tom Bender in the Galilee is believing for victory over cancer in Carmel.
- Pray for Ariel of Succat Hallel.
- Elise Glasser-Levine of Ahavat Yeshua suffering from mysterious and debilitating leg pain for over a year.
- Pray for Kay Wilson still suffering from PTSD after surviving a stabbing terrorism attack that her friend did not survive.
- Keep Baby Netaley’s full recovery in your prayers.
- Harvest of Asher asks for continued prayer for Elena’s full recovery and for minimal side effects as she goes through the chemo and radiation treatments; also grace with the bureaucratic and legal process for receipt of benefits from her employer. They also ask prayer for M. who had surgery not long ago and his system is going through many changes causing the need for various health issues to be addressed on a continuing basis. Please keep him in your prayers.
- Pray for Ami Ortiz for ongoing issues from the bomb blast – and that he would win the appeal for government recognition that he is a terror victim. It would mean benefits for the continuing surgeries and legal expenses.
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 arrowsfromzion@gmail.com or donna@d10r10.com
Praying the Headlines
Egypt By Abu Ali
for Revive Israel Ministries
for Revive Israel Ministries
This week in Tahrir Square in
Cairo, a Muslim singer and a Christian singer sang before a crowd of
approximately 250,000 people. The
moderate Muslims are reaching out for better relations with the Egyptian
Christians.
Testimony
This is an excerpt from Part 2 of David Ortiz’ testimony of the recent surgical complications he went through. You can find the link to the whole testimony at the end of this article, but I really wanted to share this intense spiritual understanding that God gave David during his traumatic health scare:
David: I was in the ICU for two days, and most of the time I didn't sleep . . . .While in bed, I was thinking about several visitors who had visited us in the months before the operations who had made negative comments against organizations or individuals that are engaged in direct evangelism to the Jewish people in Israel. They were saying that they refused to associate themselves with such people because it upsets the Jewish community and the way they felt it should be done is without mentioning the cross, (Gal. 6:12; 1Cor. 1:17) They said that reaching out to the Jewish people should be done only through charity, nursing homes, and different projects showing the love of God. They said our purpose shouldn't be to win them over to belief in Yeshua, that God would take care of that because the Jewish people have a special covenant.
I was
slightly dumbfounded by those statements, because how could they have a
covenant without the fulfillment of the New Covenant? How could they live with
the shadows and not the substance? How could they have Moses without Yeshua?
(John 5:46; Hebrews 10:1-25; Hebrews 8:5-13; Col. 2:16-17). David Wilkerson
once called this a Christ-less Pentecost. He said we were heading towards a
Gospel experience , where everything looks OK, the songs, the verses, and the
preaching, but without the message of the cross. (2 Cor. 11:3-15) Pastor
Cymbala from the Brooklyn Tabernacle said, when talking about the Samaritans
and the Israelites who had fallen away into idol worship, that they invoked the
name of the true God of Israel, but it was the false worship of the True God
(2Kings 17:29-41)
I began to think about the military, and how it is
made up of different units, Navy, Air Force, Infantry (ground troops),
Intelligence and many more. The Navy can shoot their most sophisticated smart
missiles to soften the ground from a relatively safe distance and not even feel
the impact of the war. Everyone can be serving on the ship and when their tour
of duty is finished, go home. The Air Force sometimes can feel a greater impact
of what is taking place on the ground, but still at a relatively safe distance.
They also prepare and soften the ground and remove imminent threats but with
all the units and with all their technology they can never replace the soldiers
whose boots are on the ground. The war can never be won without the ground
troops. Once the units in God's army
stop working together and begin to criticize and compete against one another,
the Good News of the Messiah will never make an inroad into Israeli society.
They will never know that Messiah has come and that He has brought a better
covenant that has ripped the veil in two, that all might enter.
Read the full story here: www.amiortiz.com Click on Leah's Updates
Read the full story here: www.amiortiz.com Click on Leah's Updates
Israeli Ministries on Tours
BOOKING meetings now (See open
dates) Inside the attached Weekly Summary are itineraries and open
dates for Evan Levine of HaTikvah
Project and Carolyn & Richard Hyde
of Heart of God Ministries.
On a personal note
I’m very thankful to note that my sister has begun her long process of healing and we have settled some of the major things that we had to pull together to take care of her here. It has been quite taxing to do the day and night care, while trying to keep up with this prayer list. Appreciate prayers for God’s grace – and for God to continue His work of healing in my sis in every way. Her first doctor’s appointment is tomorrow (July 18) and though we have had some concerns about blood clots forming in her foot, we are praying for God to return any clots to fluid blood and to help us to do the things we need to do to keep any from forming. Appreciate your prayers for us! Like many ministries at this time, donations for this ministry would be gratefully received.
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.
If your weekly Arrows from Zion email does not come in,
check online each Wednesday at 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.
