WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 10/15/2014

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 Oct 15, 2014

These first two prayer letters will give you a better understanding of how sharing the faith of Yeshua often differs in Israel, the Jewish state, than in the nations.  It is the life lived that attracts seekers in Israel, more than messages preached.  The apostle Paul spoke of the Holy Spirit anointing that was different in its working. 

 Galatians 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles).  Acknowledging this truth allows us in the international church to be helpers of these believers in Israel, sharing their faith effectively – more effectively than we ever could.

This week most of the prayer letters that came in are from smaller ministries in Israel.  Larger ministries have more ability to gain support among the nations but ALL of the ministries are important.  Each has their own realm of assignment from the LORD to reach their neighbors.  Oh, for the day when the Body in the nations comes alongside of the brethren in Israel as it is written! 

Contact information for all the ministries is included inside the attached Weekly Summary.
Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

A unique opportunity was presented to Rachel and Gilad Netanel’s ministry which is in Ein Karim just outside Jerusalem.  Rachel writes, “Every year Israel chooses certain houses in Israel based on their unique character to be part of the national ‘open’ house days where people from all over the Land come to see the places that are listed.  Our house, Beit Netanel has gained a certain notoriety in Israel because it has been on the news regarding the battle we have had with the Muslim authorities (Waqf) and because it is was built from an ancient cave.  So, praise the Lord, we have been chosen again this year.”

During these tours of the house she explains, “This cave is over 800 years old and because of my faith in Yeshua, I wanted to create an atmosphere that would be reminiscent of the time of Yeshua.  I created a design that was suitable to the times of Yeshua and also John the Baptist who was traditionally raised in this town.  

“When my story was told to the Ministry of Tourism, they sent journalists and photographers to the house from different countries in the world (including Italy, England, America, Russia, France and India.)  They asked a number of questions about how I knew what was under all of the rubble before I dug it out and how I went about all of the renovations.  This opened the door for me to share about Yeshua and my vision on how to create a home that would bring back the times that Yeshua grew up in.  I wanted to demonstrate that contrary to what many Israelis think, He was a Jew and lived in Israel all of His life. They were excited to listen to me and felt that this was something very unique.”

The day of the “Open House” was September 19^th and almost 600 people came to tour the house that day. Taking groups of 25-30 through at a time, others waited to tour in the garden and were served tea and were able to browse books, Bibles and were hosted by Gilad.  One of the religious neighbors did not take kindly to all this and has threatened to make big trouble for the Netanel’s – and in fact, already has when a delegation from the Waqf came about building a wheelchair accessible bridge to the house. This neighbor came out screaming threats and curses – the Waqf were very alarmed and have not returned since.  Pray that the LORD would have His hands on this. Having at along last won the court case with the Waqf, now please join them in prayer that the religious Jewish neighbor will not become the spoiler.

  Read more about this inside the attached PDF Weekly Summary

Ruth Nessim is a special encouragement to me as she goes about Israel doing good equally to all in her path – Arab or Jew.  It is the simplicity of living a godly life that is recorded in the book of Acts, where Luke summarized Yeshua’s earthly ministry by saying that He “went about doing good” (10:38).  This is the witness that opens hearts to hear about the faith of believers in Israel and although in the thinking of many in the international Church that it is just too simple, this is the way God has moved on so many in the community of faith to sow the seeds of the Gospel.

Anyone who reads Ruth’s prayer letters will become acquainted with several recurring characters in her story of ministering from Nahariya, on the far northern border with Lebanon.  There is ABDM, an Arab in the Palestinian territories who is seriously ill;  an Arab plumber who was touched by Christian teachers in his childhood; an Arab taxi driver who remembers her no matter how many months go by since he saw her last and loves the bible videos she has blessed him with; and her Jewish Holocaust survivor friends who Ruth always asks prayers for the testimony they have heard to bear fruit among.  If His eye is on the sparrow, we know His eye is on those who follow in His footsteps who are “going about doing good” in His name.  Please read more from Ruth’s prayer letter inside the attached PDF Weekly Summary.

Orna Greenman has a small ministry called Ot Oo’Mofet, A Sign and a Wonder, a prophetic scripture taken from Isaiah 8:18, “Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.”  Her ministry is to orphans, widows and single parents in the body of Messiah in Israel.

Orna writes, “The past couple of months have been filled with much training, mostly of young adults. This is an interesting enlargement of the ministry of Ot OoMofet. So far, our work was mostly targeted at the restoration of the widowhood of Israel. Now it seems like the Lord is recruiting us to invest into the orphanhood of the children of Israel. Sounds like a logic enlargement, but somehow I never looked into the orphanhood of my nation, until the Lord started opening my eyes to it.”

“The war in Gaza, the 3 weeks I spent this summer in Germany - it is all connected with this new insight. So these days I am developing a training program, together with my elders (at the Kfar Saba Wellspring congregation) , designed for the next generation of young leaders. I am truly excited about it.”

Orna is about to embark on a ministry trip that will take her to Italy and to the U.S.  You can see her itinerary listed below in the Israeli Ministries on Tours section.  

Shlomy Abramov of Awake Israel ministries spoke at the China Israel conference recently and it was among many opportunities to share the gospel in the past month.  They also launched the humanitarian center in their city, Rishon le Zion.  A short list of prayers, that I’m sure many of the smaller ministries would say “amen” to:

‘Please pray that we as a body walk in the true light and not in the flesh of jealousies and completion as is written. Pray backbiting cease and a right spirit prevail, the Holy Spirit.

Pray for a sincerity and true brotherly love to return to the fellowship of brotherhood in the land. We seem to be encountering the need for that more. pray against an elitist spirit (I am better than you) that wants to invade as well. 

Pray for the little guy on the block, those who don’t have so much money for ministry but labor fearfully and faithfully; to grow in wisdom and strength and nothing stands in Gods’ way and please pray against hindering spirits attacking us every time we advance the kingdom in Israel.

Pray those who received the gospel be saved. Pray for our witness to be bold and fruitful. pray for a pure bride to prepare herself as time is short and Messiah will return.

Succat Hallel, which is a 24/7 prayer and praise house in Jerusalem has moved its location in Jerusalem.  They write about the trip to Erbil, Iraq and to a town in Turkey not far from the besieged Kobani, Syria that two of their staff just returned from. One is a Messianic Jew and the other an Arab Christian.  We have not shared much about this trip because of the obvious dangers to them, but we have been getting great reports from them – and one not so great report when it was time to leave Turkey and protests shut down flights!  Pray for the believers in Israel, who are not content to minister only within the country, but also as opportunities emerge, to go out to be a witness among their Arab neighbors caught in the Islamist dominion battles raging in the Middle East.

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Teaching Articles

Teamwork Leadership
by Asher Intrater Revive Israel, Tikkun International Ministries

Many years ago, when I looked at the promises in the Bible concerning Israel, the Church, the Messianic Remnant and the End Times, I came to the conclusion that no one is strong, wise or righteous enough to fulfill them. If God was calling us to be involved, we had to work together as a team. If we could not develop teamwork, we could not fulfill our destiny.

Praying the Headlines

Messianic Jew Deported from Israel Will Appeal to Supreme Court

Banned from country for 10 years, Barry Barnett fights for rights.

Oct 6, 2014

ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) - A British messianic Jew deported from Israel last year for participating in an evangelistic outreach to Jews confirmed that he will appeal his case to the nation's Supreme Court.

  more inside the attached PDF Weekly Summary

Israeli Ministries on Tours  |  BOOKING meetings now (See open dates)  Inside the attached Weekly Summary are itineraries and open dates for Orna Greenman of A Sign & A Wonder; and Marc Chopinsky of Future Vision Studios

The Israeli Messianic Marketplace 
Feature of the Week:

 Kehila.com  newsfeed aggregates new articles and videos from over 100 Messianic-related websites in Israel. All content is publicly accessible, so please forward to your friends.
Beer Sheva  staff@kehila.com  http://www.kehila.com/

One item featured in this week’s Kehila.com Newsfeed:

Sharing the Gospel with Jewish Friends from oneforisrael.org  

A training outline from EvanTell.org which will help you to share the good news with Jewish friends from a historical, cultural, and scriptural perspective.

Donna Diorio 
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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. 

WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 10/8/2014

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Priority Prayer Focus Oct 8, 2014

This evening begins the biblical Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, which holds great prophetic significance dealing with the salvation of the people Israel.  Many Christians believe that all of the biblical “Feasts of the LORD” have already been fully fulfilled in Jesus. Certainly much of the prophetic significance has but specifically speaking to the salvation of “all Israel” as the apostle Paul wrote about, these feasts which God commanded the Jews to observe “forever” specifically address prophetic destiny for the Jewish people, Israel.  That doesn’t mean that Christians have no reason to look into these feasts, to unearth the prophetic meanings for Israel’s destiny.  No – we have a part to play in these things and God has hidden the keys to our understanding our role throughout the Bible. 

From the Feasts, to Ruth, Esther, Romans, Ephesians there is buried treasure from God – the solid gold of understanding our role in the salvation of Israel.  Israel’s salvation is depicted in the Book of Ruth and the fuller role of how the Church is to be like Ruth (Ruth-like, not Ruth-less) in that labor.is We are to enter into this place as the season of harvest has begun.

This is a day where many have itching ears, wanting to hear “something new” but not necessarily something that actually gives us a practical way to position ourselves into what God is doing in the salvation of Israel in this season.  For those who truly want to be in the full flow of God’s purposes they will have to come to terms with the truth that God still has a plan for Israel's salvation through Yeshua.  – Donna Diorio

Contact information for all the ministries is included inside the attached Weekly Summary.
Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

On Yom Kippur, in what has become an annual gathering for five congregations in Jerusalem, 230 Messianic Jews came together on the first Messianic Kibbutz in Israel for fasting, worship and prayer. Eddie Santoro of Ahavat Yeshua congregation, gives us an encouraging report of the gathering of this prophetic Feast of the Lord in the hills just outside of Jerusalem.  Santoro reports a sense of power and anointing to labor together to see “all Israel saved” was experienced by the end of the final meeting of the conference.

Santoro writes, “Please join us in prayer as we continue to press on in our calling in Jerusalem. The battles are many, the resistance is great but we are freshly encouraged and expect new breakthroughs in the coming days.”

Then, just as soon as Yom Kippur came to an end, they returned home and immediately began to build their sukkot for the Feast of Tabernacles.    “All over Israel, like mushrooms after a summer rain, these colorful succahs spring up. Restaurants build them on the street in front of their establishments so that the people can fulfill the blessing of eating in a Succah, apartment house decks are transformed as these little booths are erected on them and the municipalities deliberately trim the local palm trees to ensure that people will have plenty of "froms" to put on the roof of their Succahs.”

“For seven wonderful days the frenetic pace of this nation will slow down as people observe this joyous Feast. Families will gather together to eat sumptuous meals in their Succahs, the nation's government offices will all close, children will have an extended vacation from their classes and the nation will observe two national holidays on the first and last day of the Feast. In addition, many people will also only work half days during the entire seven days of the Feast. . . . Please pray that God's purposes would be fulfilled and that a testimony of the goodness and love of Yeshua would touch many of our unsaved guests.”

Pray also for the many Christian tourists who pour into Israel during the High Holy Days.  Pray that many will move beyond a fascination for the unfamiliar biblical holy days of the Jews, into seeing how the worldwide Body of the LORD connects to the Israeli Body of the LORD for increase in the LORD’s harvest.

Israel Pochtar of the Ashdod Beit Hallel congregation, gives us a great teaching on the Sukkot feast inside the attached Weekly Summary PDF.

Pochtar also gives us a beautiful testimony of being called out one night when he was very tired to pray for a man dying of cancer.  Pochtar felt a strong stirring and even urgency to go, so he did and spent three hours there talking with the son and daughter of the man, both in their early thirties. At that point Pochtar asked them if they would like to receive Yeshua as their Messiah – they did and prayed to do so. Israel writes, “Immediately the man's son told me he felt a burden was lifted from him and he felt peace. He confessed that for a long time he held an offence against God for "allowing" this to happen to his father. He said his father was a good man all his life and didn't deserve this. He held a deep grudge against God, and only after we spoke about his father, he realized God had nothing to do with it, since his father was actually an atheist all his life.” 

“It was such an amazing moment for me,” Pochtar writes, “being a pastor of a large congregation, leading a ministry, going back to basics and the simplicity of service, and ministering salvation to two people. Simply leading them to Yeshua and bringing salvation into their home. To me it has been an incredible highlight of this feast of Tabernacles, when God comes into people's homes and dwells with them.” 

In a couple of days Pochtar’s congregation will take part in a gospel outreach event with Sid Roth in Jerusalem.  “We'll be taking 12 buses with over 500 non-believers on a special tour in Jerusalem and finishing it with a special gospel celebration event.  We know many will be touched, receive prayer and it will be a powerful night. Pray for salvations and healings.”  If you would like to help them with resources and provision for followup, you can find out how to help  inside the attached Weekly Summary PDF

From Asher Intrater’s Revive Israel ministries are a couple of teaching articles [Ari Blumental’s Discerning the Body of the Lord and Asher’s A Bit of Honor] this week, and a video teaching by Asher, End from the Beginning

David Davis writes about the significant aliyah (return of the Jewish people) that he sense about to occur and the considerable resistance expected, in A Fig Tree on Mount Carmel.  Please read more  inside the attached Weekly Summary PDF and “Please pray for the Jews of Ukraine and France as they prepare to depart from the rising anti-Semitism in their countries.”

Davis also asks prayer for many outreaches that the Carmel Assembly will be conducting during the Sukkot feast days.  Truly, these feast days become important times for believers all over Israel – the prayers of the international Church are so welcome and needed.

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Teaching Articles

The Feast of Tabernacles – Sukkot
by Israel Pochtar
Beit Hallel Congregations
& Voice of Judah Israel Ministries 
Article inside the attached Weekly Summary PDF

Praying the Headlines  |  If you look at your newspapers & news programs as just the bearers of bad news, remember that they are also great prayer list sources.  There are also many Israeli ministries who are providing insights into new events related to Israel, including many who are featured regularly here in the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli ministries.  If you want to pray for Israel – for the Lord’s harvest among Israelis and also for the news that impacts Israel, you cannot do better than to heed what the LORD is putting on the hearts of Israeli ministries.  Their prayer requests will take you to the root issues, and not just dealing with what is easily visible but often just superficial.

Israeli Ministries on Tours  |  BOOKING meetings now (See open dates)  Inside the attached Weekly Summary are itineraries and open dates for Marc Chopinsky of Tents of Mercy & Future Vision Studios;  Howard & Randi Bass of Kehilat Nachalat Yeshua (Yeshua’s Inheritance) Congregation

The Israeli Messianic Marketplace 
Feature of the Week:

Eitan & Connie Shishkoff  Kiryat Yam (a Haifa suburb)  Ohalai Rachamim
Tents of Mercy is the mother-congregation to four other northern Israel congregations
Address:  P.O. Box 1018 Kiryat Yam, 29109  ohalei@netvision.net.il   http://www.tents-of-mercy.org/ 

 

Connie Kind Shishkoff (shown above with hubby, Eitan)loved to draw and paint from childhood and into her early 20's. Subsequently, however, full-time artistry took a back seat to raising 4 children and making aliyah to Israel in 1992.

In 2009, shortly before her youngest child entered the Israeli Defense Forces, Connie finally felt released to passionately dive back into art. Since then she has been prolifically exploring the land and the people of Israel with brush and canvas.

If you want to connect with Connie, she can be reached eckspaint@gmail.com. To enjoy more of Connie's artwork, visit her facebook page "Ckspaint".

Tents of Mercy Congregation salutes Connie's inspiration and creativity. We are so grateful for her encouraging presence.

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