09 Oct 27 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

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“For the LORD will vindicate His people, And will have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their strength is gone.” DT 32:36

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Messiah may rest upon me. 2 Cor 12:9


Arrows from Zion Key Prayer Points
“He ordains His arrows against the persecutors”
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IMPORTANT: I first forwarded the Anti-missionary Organizations May Be Watching You from Jerusalem Institute of Justice to my mailing list on 7/31/08. This is an article that really needs attention paid to it. It is not exaggeration, nor paranoia. Please read (below) and pray over this serious matter. –Donna Diorio

Thank God for the Judge allowing Lura & Eddie to leave Israel for 2 months and good indications in their case to end house arrest. The judge told their lawyer that there are 30 court cases pending of Haredi complaints against various believers in Arad. THIS IS SOMETHING TO APPEAL TO THE HIGHEST COURT!

Pray blessing going out and coming in for Israeli ministries who are touching base with supporters worldwide and ministering to those whose hearts God has stirred with an eagerness to hear what Yeshua is doing in Israel. Grace, Anointing, Favor and Blessing to be the continual path before these.

Thank God for the opportunities to minister that the Holy Spirit orchestrates for believers to share the love of Messiah with their neighbors, friends and families. Thank God for the fields that are white unto the harvest and for the laborers in the Israeli field. Pray that every need would be met – spiritual and material.

While Israel’s political situation always seems to be on the verge of chaos…don’t forget Israel’s ultimate need for an advocate before the Father and Judge of all. That advocate is, of course, Yeshua the Messiah. Speak an opening of eyes and the breath of the Spirit to enter the standing, dry bones.

Pray for a RELEASE on all the HINDERING, BINDING RESTRAINTS holding back the visions from the Lord taking flight among the Israeli ministries – a RELEASE to SOAR, to FLY AMONG the EAGLES with EVERY VISION given by GOD. Speak that the tethers that have bound visions to the ground to be LOOSED in the Name above all names!

It is a continual blessing to read the testimonies each week in the prayer letters that become mere bulleted points in this Prayer Summary. If you are on my mailing list and don’t open the full version, you should set a goal for yourself to once a month open and read the fuller excerpt so you don’t miss the power of what God is doing in the lives of lost and broken Israelis through the Body of Messiah in Israel. Like the excerpt of testimonies included in the House of Victory prayer letter this week.

Continue to pray for the upcoming final trial date in Beer Sheva for Howard Bass and the Yeshua’s Inheritance Congregation. It is a case with impact for all Israeli believers. Also inside is information on how you can help with the cost of the lawsuit which is being represented by attorneys who are also believers in Yeshua.

Pray for the Church to begin to awaken to the truth of the apostle Paul’s statement: “Concerning the gospel they are enemies”. Christians understand the last part of the verse “concerning the election they are beloved” but we are not wise to comprehend the depth of reality that many are ENEMIES of the gospel.

STAND WATCH over where your seed is planted in Israel – for we are accountable. With one hand Christian contributions are received by Israeli unbelievers and with the other hand Israeli Believers are persecuted through Christian funding….and we must wise up and not be conned by disingenuous relations.


If you have not read the special report I sent out over the weekend, Jew on Jew Terrorism - Police May Have a Confession in the Ami Ortiz Case - please do. When the gag order lifts and the story breaks in Israel it is going to be told in much different terms by voices in Israel that many of you listen to – like Nadia Matar of Women in Green, Israel National News, and other religious-nationalist settler spokesmen. They are already laying a foundation of accusations against the Israeli Security Services to deflect the acts of one of them who was arrested in early October for violent terrorist acts – Jew on Jew violence.

This is going to be a case to try the souls of not only Israelis, but also Christians and Messianics who have been supporting these groups. The line between right and wrong has become so blurred that they think “all means are justified” – just as Yuval Azoulay wrote in Haaretz recently (“Unbelievable”).

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. It will come through the agency of the people of the Messiah standing as a witness to the people of the Book in the Land of the Promise.

How to start an Israel Prayer group
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Anti-missionary Organizations May be Watching You
First published in July 2008

If you are a Messianic Jew or a Christian with a heart for evangelism, there is a good chance that you are being spied upon and carefully monitored by a very dangerous group of organizations, whose members will stop at nothing to get what they want. Masquerading under the guise of the “protectors of Judaism,” anti-missionary organizations such as Yad Le’Achim, Lev Le’Achim, and Jews for Judaism systematically promulgate vicious propaganda, inciting hatred and sometimes even violent actions aimed at Christians and Messianic Jews worldwide.

Illegal Political Work According to Yad Le’Achim’s USA website – maintained by the contributions of often well-meaning American Jews who are unaware of the group’s malicious nature – “Yad Le’Achim fights the missionaries in a variety of ways, some of which, due to their sensitive nature, can’t be described in detail.”

Reliable sources have revealed to JIJ that anti-missionary organizations consistently submit information to the Israeli Ministry of Interior regarding local and international Messianics, so that the Messianics may be “blacklisted”, prevented from immigrating to Israel and denied other basic civil rights. We have also learned that Jews for Judaism activists often brief Jewish Agency officials in the US on the subject of how to “spot” a Messianic Jew and prevent him or her from immigrating to Israel. Such organizations pride themselves on having “spies” within Messianic Jewish congregations, who see all that goes on.

The propaganda repeatedly promulgated in the religious press in Israel equates every Messianic Jew to being a missionary and every missionary to be worse than Hitler or the Palestinian terrorists. “What does Hamas want? The land. (The Messianics) want something else: our souls…” the leader of Yad Le’Achim recently told an Israeli daily. More can be read here.

Additionally, these organizations have recently stepped up their campaign of illegal public slander directed against local Messianic Jewish and Christian leaders in Israel. Anti-missionary activists often hang posters in public areas on which are printed the names, addresses, and pictures of Messianic and Christian leaders, along with insulting captions.

We at the JIJ are concerned that such actions may lead to further crimes against the Messianic community, such as was recently the case in a small West Bank town called Ariel. In late 2007, such posters were distributed in Ariel and aimed at David Ortiz, the local Messianic leader. Just a few months later, Mr. Ortiz’s son Amiel was seriously injured when a bomb blew up in his face after being delivered to the Ortiz home. Some suspect that anti-Missionary activists were behind not only the posters, but perhaps even the bombing itself.

You Can Help The greater Messianic and Christian community must not sit in silence as its members are attacked on a daily basis. Almost unbelievably, we are aware of a few well-meaning Messianic and Christian organizations that have been tricked into funding anti-missionary organizations, because these groups claim to “advance Jewish values.” If you live in the United States, we encourage you to write to your local governmental representatives, asking them to help us in our battle to disband the US branches of anti-missionary organizations. If you live outside the United States, we encourage you to visit our donation page and help us in our battle for religious freedom and civil rights in Israel.

Jerusalem Institute of Justice Messianic Attorneys For the Advancement of Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion and Social Justice in the Nation of Israel. Jerusalem http://jij.org.il/

09 Oct 20 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel


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A Ministry of Israelprayer.com
Praying in Agreement with the Israeli Body of Messiah
Donna Diorio donna@israelprayer.com

Thank you
to all who responded to my appeal for financial support of this ministry. It really means a lot – especially from those Israeli ministries who sent donations. The appeal was not meant for you – but it is impossible to say how your response touched my heart.

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My enemies reproach me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. Psalm 42:10-11


Arrows from Zion Key Prayer Points
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PRAISE THE LORD! For news of an arrest made in the terror bombing of Ami Ortiz in the Spring of 2008. The arrest of an Orthodox man was made 2 weeks ago though a gag order which will be in place on the news media until later this week has held back reporting on what appears to be a conspiracy with wider schemes than the horrific Purim bomb that targeted the Ortiz family in Ariel. Praise God and Pray Israeli officials get to the bottom of the conspiracy and all involved would be held accountable to the full extent of the law (for the sake of all the public).

A spate of honest, balanced articles has been coming forth from the Liberal, secular-oriented Haaretz newspaper regarding persecution against Messianic believers. One thing Americans especially should understand – although there is a Liberal, Secular Left and a Conservative, Religious Right in both Israel and the U.S. there are some extremely important difference between to the – especially when it comes to religious freedoms. Pray for more Christians to get this distinction and thank God for honest press about the Body of Messiah in Israel!

Continue to pray ahead of the resumption of the Beer Sheva congregation court case on Nov. 23. Critical case!

Pray for deepening relationships between Israeli Messianic Jews and Palestinian Christian Arabs as they hold annual events together in the next weeks.

Continue to lift up all the Israeli ministries traveling to the four corners of the world – that they bring the Aaronic blessing to the nations, declare the gospel of the kingdom and return blessed by their hosts in all nations.

“Praise awaits You in Zion O LORD!” The Israeli Body is lifting up its voice to Messiah saying, Baruch haba b’Shem Adonai. Pray the anointed Psalmists of the Body in Israel be heard into the Heavens . “Their line (qav) is gone out through all the earth, and their words (millah) to the end of the world.” Psalm 19:4

Join your voice in prayer for the salvation of Jews and Arabs in Israel and the Palestinian controlled areas. There is no other road map to peace but the highway of righteousness, peace and joy in Messiah Yeshua.

Pray for Israeli congregations and ministries who are pouring out the Balm of Gilead on the wounds of its people.

Pray for those who heard the good news of the gospel over the High Holidays at Israeli Messianic congregational gatherings, to be wooed by the Holy Spirit and ushered by faith into the kingdom of the Yeshua Messiah. For the seeds that have been planting to starting breaking forth in the soil of hearts turned to Him.

Pray for the wisdom of God’s Spirit to rest upon the leadership of the Israeli Body of Messiah – for greater clarity over the issues of faith they have been wrestling with and understanding of how it will ultimately influence the Messianic communities throughout the Diaspora. “For out of Zion the law shall go forth….”

Pray for RELEASE of all properties, permits, funds and other needful items that Israeli ministries are waiting on the LORD for relating to ministry operations and expanding their tent pegs. SPEAK RELEASE! RELEASE! RELEASE! In the Name which all other names must bow to – our Yeshua.

Lift up the pastors all those Israeli ministries who do outreach among the different people groups in the Land of Israel – the Arabs, the Druze, the Bedouin, the Ethiopian, the Russian, the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Jews. Like a little melting pot of cultures, pray for these ministries to be anointed and funded to carry the gospel into these communities.

There are many troubling things happening internationally and the stress of the world is pressing in on believers everywhere - How much more the Israelis? Pray for the faith of God’s people to rise up so we might stand as beacons of hope in the Lord in the midst of an increasing scary encroachment of evil in our societies. Peace still the hearts of all those who love the LORD and are called according to HIS PURPOSES.

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'Shalom Brazil' We are happy to announce that our music project "Shalom Brasil" has been completed. This vision was born two years ago when Tony saw the thousands of Brazilian believers coming to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. Last year his book, "The Mystery of Israel and the Church" was translated into Portuguese. This year, the CD is complete and is a bridge between our two nations. You can order this new music album and we will send it to you. The suggested price is $15 or 12€.

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09 Oct 13 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel


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The world seems to be in so much chaos at this time – urgent prayer needs on every side from within our own families, to our troubled nation and onto the realms we have been assigned as watchmen in the nations. It is times like these when we must know that the burdens are not to be borne on our shoulders, but upon His. Let us lift our concerns to the One who sits on High – releasing it to Him so we may not be overwhelmed.

Psalm 61:2-4 From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For You have been a shelter for me, A strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.

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Salvations in Israel are rising like the river of life – like the prophetic vision of Ezekiel 47:2-5 where the river is rising from the ankles to the knees to the thighs and ends up rising so deep that one cannot stand in it but must swim. These are the days to pray for indigenous outreach, evangelism, discipling and congregation planting in Israel.

Please pray for the resources of Israeli ministries. Many with effective ministries are going without being able to draw personal salary the last several months. You can only do that so long. This is good soil to sow your financial seed it – their lack is our collective failure to supply the needs of these critical ministries. (Philippians 2:29-30)

ARAD continues to be a hot spot of anti-missionary and police collusion in the persecution of believers in that small town. The death last month of the chief instigator – Arad’s chief rabbi – has increased the agitated atmosphere over the town. Pray for the eyes of many to be suddenly opened in a Damascus Road revelation of Messiah; and protection of the saints.

Thank God for how He is opening the spirits of saints of Asia to the Body of Messiah in Israel. Pray that God will cause this mighty army of intercessors to catch the vision of the critical harvest the indigenous believers are engaged in among their countrymen.

Thank God for the hearts of Arab Christian pastors who are not only in union with their Israeli Messianic Jewish counterparts, but who are bold witnesses of the gospel among their people in Israel and in Palestinian controlled areas. At often risk of life, and in much material lack, these are lives that layed down to the purposes of God.

Pray for God to sit as the Highest Court in all the court cases that Israeli believers are involved in – from the Beer Sheva major case resuming Nov 23, to the several court cases believers in Arad face, to the judgment compliance case of the believer-owned bakery – Let God arise and the enemies of His WORD be scattered & run in defeat!

Pray for much fruit to be borne from the seeds that were sown by believers during the High Holy Days among their families, neighbors, friends and communities. One sows, another waters and God causes the increase – speak the Light of Salvation to break upon many.

There is a new international political alignment, but the same old machinations against Israel. We stand before the One who watches over Israel without so much as a break to sleep, and agree with His WORD: No weapon formed against Israel shall prosper and every accusing tongue that rises we call down in the Name of Yeshua to become “stunted” and “failing.” No word curses shall prevail over the will of God for Israel and her people.

Pray for an awakening in the nations about the creeping deception of Islamic terrorism and a breaking of the fog of deception that rests over so many who desire to be equitable to all but are indeed fooled be demonic deception. Pray for a great awakening among those who are held captive by the Islamic cult of death- freed to spiritual life!

Pray for an awakening among the people of God – those who emotionally support the religious extremists who want to take the Temple Mount by any means – that this is a Jehu plan not a David plan for establishing the kingdom.

Pray also that the annual High Holy Days stirring up of Palestinian passions to “save the Temple Mount” from Israeli ‘takeover’ would begin to be suppressed. Speak a dousing of those fires that a 3rd Intifada will not be ignited. Speak a suppression on ALL the flames of passions toward violence. Speak Peace over Jerusalem.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Pray for the ‘family resemblance’ to be upon all the indigenous believers of Israel – Jew, Arab, Christians from the nations. The glory of the Lord is bearing His likeness to our world.

Speak anointing and blessing upon every place where two or three are gathered in the Name of Yeshua – for their prayers to be mixed with faith to see the requests hoped for from the LORD.

Pray for the voices of Israeli ministries – from the long established to the new works of second generation believers – to be increasingly heard. Many are a voice to their own people, others a voice to educate the Church. To whomever they are sent, may they be heard and their missions from the Lord fulfilled.

We speak blessings on the new schools being established to train the next generation of spiritual leaders in both Jewish and Arab believer communities. Two such works have recently begun in the city of Haifa. Pray for resources, anointing and sound doctrine to be experience of all who teach and learn there.

A media campaign in Haifa is proclaiming “He changed my life!” on buses and other locations in Haifa. Response has already been powerful. Pray for the boldness of those in the outreach, for much fruit and also for protection from enemies of the gospel.

There are many Israeli ministries still traveling throughout the nations. Pray God would be with them in every way, their congregations and families covered in their absence and much fruit to be borne in every place their feet shall tread.

We believe that the Messianic movement in Israel will be a spark of revival for the nations in the end times. Just as there is an agricultural harvest at the time of Sukkot (the end of the biblical holy days), so will there be a great harvest of souls at the end of the age. Pray for the significance of the prophetic Feasts of the Lord to be unveiled to the Church so we may be a partner in this move of God in Israel.

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A political scandal expose in the Israeli newspapers has uncovered a case of a Knesset Member accused of pocketing $10,000 from a Messianic Jewish ministry in the U.S. that was supposed to go to help Ethiopian refugees in Israel. Apparently the Kadima politician had requested $7,000 from the Messianic Ministry for his campaign deficit and an additional $10,000 was thrown in for aid to the Ethiopian immigrant community…. My Word is that this is just another reason why I do not like seeing either Christian or Messianic Jewish humanitarian contributions in Israel routed through individuals or organizations outside of the indigenous believing community.

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09 Oct 6 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel



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At the end of the Feast of Tabernacles is Simchat Torah, where the cycle of Torah readings has been completed and it is time to roll back the scroll to Genesis 1. This roll back is a picture of how God’s dealings with mankind have been revealed in history – first rolling out, then being rolled back in again to the fulfillment of His original purpose: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.”

He has never veered off this purpose, and in fact the goal is repeated in Eph 2:15-16,” …to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross…” May we be so aligned with God’s purposes and flowing in agreement with all His plans for us.

Arrows from Zion Key Prayer Points
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The Fall Feasts of the Lord – Rosh HaShana (Feast of Trumpets), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and Succot (Feast of Tabernacles) – think their prophetic value has passed? Then you will be surprised when the full-fillment unfolds. Time to learn what these mean in the gospel of the kingdom – have you not heard the sound of the shofar blasts?

The dangers that surround Israel are not abstract – altho God Himself will allow no one to wipe Israel off the map – many Israelis could die as the demonized attempt it. Biblical precedents show us this is true. Therefore, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the seat of the government of Israel, for the LORD to show Himself strong for Israel.

God’s plan, as the apostle Paul encapsulated it in Ro 9-11, is for “all Israel” to be saved. If it looks impossible, is this not exactly the circumstances God likes to reveal Himself in. Let the midwives agree with the plan of the LORD as His faithful servant communicated it and as it is manifesting in the raising up of His Body within Israel.

Pray for those believers who are going about daily lives planting the seeds of harvest in the communities of Israel with neighbors and strangers met along the way. Pray for boldness to be themselves – the selves that Yeshua living within their hearts has made them….and for water on the seeds to make them grow and produce fruit.

It is no cake walk to go live as a citizen of Israel – life is extremely difficult even more difficult than everyone is warned it will be. Yet these are lives laid down to the LORD’s harvest in Israel. Pray for grace, covering and provision for the visions given to these faithful servants. Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Many in Israel are traumatized by living as targets of extremist hatred. Pray for the believers doing humanitarian aid among these groups – from citizens of Sderot to Holocaust survivors. When ‘air raid sirens’ sound – Israelis are gripped from Kiryat Shmona to Jerusalem to Eilat. No weapon formed against them shall prosper.

As one Israeli pastor’s wife so poignantly wrote: “our daily lives, living as everything is okay and as usual, and at the same time living on a barrel of explosives.” Jews and Arabs alike in Israel are responding to the HOPE of ISRAEL – the only Prince of Peace. Pray for the Holy Spirit to pour out dreams, visions, signs and wonders to accompany the testimony of faith.

Pray for the unsaved government and military leaders of Israel. We see biblical precedent after precedent that leaders do not have to be saved for God to use them to fulfill His purposes. Pray for wisdom, moral courage and Divine guidance to rest upon the leaders and protectors of Israel. Anointing upon believers serving.

Continue to pray for all those involved in the critical lawsuit in the Beer Sheva courts as it comes to the final court proceedings Nov 23, with a judgment on Dec 23. How Israel protects her believers within her will greatly impact how the Lord deals with her as a nation. “With the merciful You wilt show Yourself merciful” Learn more here.

Many people believe to sow on “good ground” they must sow UP – to prosperous ministries, not DOWN to ministries suffering lack. When God sowed His best, His Son, HE SOWED DOWN to those in need. Good ground is not determined by worldly standards of prosperity, but by whether the kingdom of God is being advanced.

There is opposition to the FACT of the BODY of the LORD in ISRAEL – within the Church, within the Jewish people, within the unsaved of the nations. Our FAMILY TIES are through YESHUA/JESUS – it is the BLOOD LINE we must hold dear to our hearts. The gates of hell shall not prevail against the coming together of ONE NEW MAN.

Pray for an exceptional amount of rainfall upon Israel as the rainy season finally arrives – one that will break the drought and fill the Land with refreshing natural water. Let it be a representation of the spiritual rains being released in Israel.

Pray for the ministries who are traveling to spread the good news of the Messiah through the nations; to tell of the great things God is doing among the Jews of Israel; and the reconciliation works that He is doing between people groups who have been ripped asunder by historical traumas. God is on the move and so are Israeli ministries. Speak blessing upon them.


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09 SEP 29 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel


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Events over the past few weeks should have underscored that to “be in power” is not the same thing as “showing leadership”. We are seeing major shifts in international leadership with Israel, France and Germany showing leadership and those in power in the U.S. and U.K. go all wobbly in providing leadership.

Pray that God will raise up His leaders to do His will in this time of shifting powers – both in the realm of governments (natural) and in the Body (spiritual). Daniel 2:21 And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding.


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Pray that we would keep our eyes on Yeshua, not being overwhelmed by fast moving developments in our world, but close to the heart of God, with His vision and priorities for all things before us. Even as He gives us eyes to see the big picture, that we also would have His spiritual eyes for those who are the closest to us – our own families.

Pray for government leaders and those in power to be conformed to the will of God; and for spiritual awakenings in all the nations as God raises up His leaders to accommodate the season of harvest.

Islamic terrorism – whether in lone wolf acts or in the threatening acts of nations like Iran – continues to wield a mesmerizing deception over many in our world. Pray for a breaking of blindness off the faces in all the nations and for the truth to prevail rather than being lulled into being passively overtaken.

Pray for Yeshua/Jesus to be revealed to Muslims increasingly – for mercy and grace to be poured out that many can escape the grip of the cult of death.

Pray that we can perceive the spiritual and prophetic Word of the Lord in the biblical Feasts. Pray that no matter where we are in our understanding of God’s plan for Israel, that we begin to perceive beyond the limitations of our past perceptions – that we hear what the Spirit is saying to us today.

The promises of God to return salvation to Israel are so abundant in the scriptures. Speak them out to God, in agreement with His will that “all Israel” be saved and that day by day Jewish souls be added to the kingdom of His Son.

Pray for the believers of Arad. There is a prevailing spirit of religious persecution and corruption of justice that hovers over the city. Pray those spirits are pulled down and release of Holy Spirit to displace and prevail. The number of believers under house arrest is increasing – this is placing the victims under arrest. Appeal to a HIGHER COURT for their release.

Like a microcosm of the greater Body, the Body in Israel has issues that cause disunity and fragmentation of ‘family members.’ Pray for the bonds of peace and brotherly love to prevail – for the Holy Spirit to intervene in issues of conflict; for the true peace of His will to prevail in all the relationships in conflict.

Continue to lift up the attorneys, the judge and all those involved in the Beer Sheva lawsuit. Important rulings have been made, but we must pray for God’s will to bring the outcome in the Nov 23 trial date and judicial decions in Dec.

Speak blessing over the South Korean Christian filmmakers who have been document the restoration of Israel and the status of believers in the Land. Pray that the Korean prayer warriors would be given revelation of God’s will in the Body in Israel. That the filmmakers see clearly and communicate it with power in their documentary.

Speak blessing over all the Israeli ministries and congregations who have heard the word of the Lord to begin to expand their tents in preparation for the coming harvest. In the early days of small beginnings, it is hard to see how big visions will ever be done. Pray for encouragement – and for help to come to establish the visions.

Pray for the new works being established, like Jewels in the Crown. The LORD their God will save them in that day, As the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, Lifted like a banner over His land—

Pray for the indigenous ministries who are reaching the Israeli Jews from the former Soviet Union – which are many. Also for the Ethiopian outreaches. Those who feel like outsiders in their ancient homeland, be made to know they are accepted in the beloved of the LORD.

Ami continues to experience healing in the year and half after being the victim of a religious terror bombing. Pray for God to continue to use this young man and his family as a sign and a wonder in Israel. That the Light would so shine from their lives.

May this be the testimony of all Israeli congregations: “As an Israeli congregation have been able to develop our own style of worship and liturgy that demonstrates our love and commitment to Yeshua as Lord, yet in a clearly Jewish expression of faith – one that embraces both Jews and Gentiles as full and equal partners.”

There are several Israeli ministers we know are in the process of writing books and developing other ministry materials. Pray that the anointing of God would be open them and the Holy Spirit would clearly speak the inspiration into their works.

As Germany emerges as a leader in international politics, it is not strange that this is a reflection of the spiritual exchange that has been going on for several years between German churches and Israeli ministries. Pray that God will continue to guide the spiritual path so that the government paths may reflect the will of God.

Pray for the little baby of the Silveira’s who head the Ha-MaKoM (The Place), The Bible House. Last report the baby was improving after being hospitalized, but no word as to the cause of illness. No weapon formed against this little one shall prosper.

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09 Sep 22 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

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This week I am seeing something as a thread in the Israeli ministries that I have found myself doing time and again when there seemed to be strong opposition bearing down on me: Instead of backing down and giving up, the Spirit within me rose up - pressing forward to expand the previous boundaries.

Pray with Israeli ministries as they respond to what the Spirit is saying to them at this time:

Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited. “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.


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Thank God for the unseasonable rain in Israel as Israeli ministries met on 9/20 to worship, repent and pray for “All Israel” to be saved. Like a sign, the heavens opened with soft shower as leaders sang “Pour Out Your Grace like Rain.” Pray for literal and spiritual rains to fall upon the Land.

Pray for the perceived turning point for Israel ministries to shortly come to pass – for Israeli ministries to take their place among the leaders of the international body of Christ; for the Israeli Messianics to become part of the unity of the Body worldwide, for Israel to experience the rain of God in the reign of Messiah in hearts.

Pray for the outpouring of visions God is giving Israeli ministries to “enlarge your tents” – the increase of ministry capacities. Several have spoken of new visions given, others are works already in progress – all are FAITH VISIONS that require response with those who perceive the impact of salvation breaking forth in Israel.

Wanted: Intercessors! Several Israeli ministries have recently requested intercessors to join with them specifically to pray over the details of their visions (Guy Cohen, the Lotan’s and others). Pray for the Body in Israel as a whole, but also follow the leading of the Lord to dig deeper into individual ministry needs.

Ask Abba to bless outreach efforts via internet and web technologies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter; That the connections will increase and multiply for Israeli ministries.

Thank God for Israeli Messianic Jews ministering to Bedouin and Arab Muslims and Druze with the anointing of the Lord to answer their questions! Thank God for salvations – pray for protection of all these new believers.

Financial lack continues to an issue among MANY Israeli ministries. Speak RELEASE of much needed funds. Many stand in need of a miracle to meet their budgets. Ask the Lord to move on hearts to be a blessing.

Thank God for great testimonies coming out of the Elav youth and young adults conference put on by Succat Hallel a couple of weeks ago. Thank God for the spirit of boldness that is being nurtured in this generation of Israeli believers – and for all the spiritual fathers and mothers who are nurturing it.

Pray for those ministries involved in seeking or renovations to new ministry buildings – for the LORD to give favor to cut through red tape and regulations, and the myriad of issues they must grapple with.

Pray for the sick and the bereaved among the Body in Israel – for grace to be poured out; for covering over all the immune systems of the believers against Swine Flu. Pray for God to heal and raise up those on sick beds.

Pray for those who will be welcoming Christians from the nations during the Fall Festival season – for the conference to be full, for breakthroughs in brotherly bonds between Christians and BELIEVERS in Israel, for God to give increase of revelation among Christians about the spiritual Family Tree in Israel.

Featured Article: Have Christians Betrayed Zion?
Barry Segal Charisma Magazine Friday, 18 September 2009

"…. What is disturbing, though, is the trend among many Christians and some Christian Zionists to sever their relationships with or withhold support from the Messianic Jewish community in Israel for the sake of maintaining ties to political figures or religious leaders. This trend is counterproductive for those of us who desire to see the natural and spiritual redemption of Israel. It is imperative that we stand in prayer and support for our Jewish brothers and sisters in Yeshua."

Praying the Headlines
Pray for the Body of Christ in the United States – one of Israel’s longest standing alliances – to prevail in the spiritual warfare that is going on almost every level for the soul of the nation.

Pray for President Obama to be given a supernatural revelation – like that of Balaam forging ahead in a path the LORD opposed or that of Nebuchadnezzar, who was broken from pride to know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men.

09 Sep 15 Arrows from Zion

Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

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A clear conscience before God is an essential part of our “whole armor of God” – the breastplate of righteousness that covers our hearts and the helmet of salvation that covers our heads (minds) in the day of battle. “We have renounced the hidden things of shame …” (2 Corinthians 4:2)

It is protection that the enemies of God are not granted: For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. Mark 4:22


Arrows from Zion Key Prayer Points
“He ordains His arrows against the persecutors”
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As ministries in Israel gather to prepare their hearts before God before the new year (Rosh Hashana) begins, we are invited to prepare our hearts and will to align with the “new thing” the Lord desires to do in the salvation of Israel.

The ministries in Israel continue to serve their own communities – outreach to believers and unbelievers alike. Pray over them all that the signs and wonders will follow their witness of the power of Yeshua throughout the Land. Pray for healing, deliverance, and revival to spread.

Israeli ministries continue to travel through the nations – both to former homelands and to the four corners of the earth. Pray the anointing, blessing and favor of the Lord to rest upon them as they go in and out with the hand of the Lord upon all they do.

Some Israeli ministries continue to suffer persecution daily – for example the Beckford’s who remain under house arrest - seemingly because the legal system is not willing to employ other solutions to protect Eddie and Lura from being assaulted by religious groups trying to run them out of the village of Arad. Pray for grace – and for them to be remembered as shut-ins during this busy holiday season. The Lord does not forget them.

Israeli ministries will gather to cry out to the Lord for His will to prevail in the final trial dates and judgment of the Beer Sheva congregation trial. Pray to see if the Lord is calling you to Israel for on-site intercession, or if you are to stand you watch from the nations. http://israelwatcherasecondopinion.blogspot.com

Israeli ministries stand with Howard Bass of Yeshua’s Inheritance congregation in Beer Sheva in the lawsuit that came out of the Dec 24, 2005 invasion by a mob. Pray for grace on the Bass family and their attorneys, and for every legal expense to be met. This case is understood as representing the whole Body of Messiah in Israel.

Pray for all the Israeli ministries who will be hosting Christians from the nations during the upcoming Fall Feasts. Pray for an awakening among many Christians who travel to Israel on pilgrimage to the discovery of what God is doing among the believers in the Land of Israel. Lasting connections to be made with believers in Israel.

Pray for the stories of victims of violent persecutions – Christian Arabs like the murdered Rami Ayyad or Messianic Jewish bomb victim Ami Ortiz – to be told and heard throughout the Christian world. Ami’s mom asks for prayer for a successful police investigation in Ami’s case, which she believes police are actively working on the case now.

Pray for Israeli ministries reaching out in new ways including technologies Skype conferences, video blogs – the new communications that make our communities more in touch. Also for new generation who are reaching their generation through music and other interests anointed by God.

Thank God for Christians who understand that it is “of God” to use the “Feasts of the Lord” to speak to Israel in these days. Pray that in this holiday season, indeed, the Spirit would lift the veil and reveal His marvelous work of salvation to the Jewish people.

As the Hebrew year of 5770 begins, pray it will be a year salvation is poured out in Israel. As one Israeli ministry writes: “The years in Hebrew are counted in letters, not in digits. So it creates words, which sometimes have a meaning. The letters of the coming year will create the root word "TA-SHA", from which we derive the words salvation and savior.”

Teaching Article: Feast of Trumpets 2009 by Asher Intrater

This teaching on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, reminded us of the scripture: “Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.” Mt 13:52