WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 6/21/2017

WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 6/21/2017
ATTACHED is the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
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Priority Prayer Focus The Summer Solstice / First Day of Summer

Hallelujah for signs and wonders! Today on the first day of Summer, the Summer Solstice which is the longest day of the Summer, we are getting reports of rare, highly unusual rain in Israel. Not only is it raining in Tel Aviv, but it is raining in the Negev Desert!  As Ron Cantor of Messiah's Mandate asked on Facebook this morning, Could this be a prophetic sign of things to come? Let it rain.

Also, after about three weeks here in high summer heat of Texas without air conditioning, this morning I am also waking up to restored air conditioning. It has been a horrible stress test for me as I have gotten really heat intolerant in my 'old age'. If this breakthrough on the Summer Solstice holds spiritual meaning, I know I for one welcome it! I have seen many, many believers struggling under major stresses over the past several weeks pressing people to their limits. We know those days are upon us, but so also are the breakthroughs and outpourings of refreshing. Let us be glad and rejoice in the LORD who never leaves us nor forsakes us.

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A little unusual kick off for Israelprayer this week with a word of encouragement from Guy Cohen of the Harvest of Asher Congregation in Akko. Drawing from Exodus 14, Guy asks,  "How many of us have ever felt trapped on both sides with no hope in front and the enemy at our back?" Take heart, and read this short message inside the Weekly Summary attachment       

Rania Sayegh is a Christian Arab in Nazareth of the House of Prayer & Exploits. She is a prophetic intercessor is and someone who will give you great hope for what God is doing among Christian Arab women. In this lengthy prayer letter giving reports on the Deborah's Arising conferences, including the third on upcoming in September, Rania shares a riveting vision she received recently just prior to a ministry tour in England, Switzerland and France. The vision involves England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland and came in response to a question she asked of the Lord, "How will You establish Your throne of Glory over the UK?” Read it in full inside the subscription only Attached DOCX Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries

From the Sorko-Ram's Maoz Ministries, Katy Smith writes about an important spiritual battle that is going on in Israel regarding the organized religious opposition to the Messianic Jewish believers. Recently there was an incident at the FIRM's (Fellowship of Israel-Related Ministries) Jerusalem Encounter Conference. This is an excellent report about what happened, what the Messianic response was and it truly underscores the great need of intercessory prayer over this ongoing issues. See the prayer points enclosed inside the Weekly Summary attachment              

KehilaNews.com also supplied two other ministries on the same event. The first by Kehila Staff Protest on opening night of Jerusalem Encounter conference and the second which also includes video Article & Video: Orthodox Jews protest, believers respond with worship

Eddie and Jackie Santoro of the Love of Yeshua congregation begin their prayer letter, appropriately, with a word on loving our neighbor as ourself. Eddie also shares about recent healings in the congregation, which have become standing room only as the congregation continues to thrive.  Most of you know that Eddie has a powerful healing testimony from brain cancer in the last couple of years, and it has ignited his faith to pray for healing in others in need. Read the full ministry report inside the Weekly Summary attachment

Also from Revive Israel, Asher Intrater's personal ministry, this article by Asher Scattering the Sheep? on being zealous to oppose demonic attacks on the community of faith as a whole. In a video teaching Shekel and Shemesh Asher ministers on to how we view the people we interact with every day.

Mati Cohen of the Tiferet Yeshua congregation in Tel Aviv writes a short testimony in the Revive Israel prayer letter which you can read inside the Weekly Summary attachment.  There is also a video Ends of the Earth where Youval shares about some special guests Revive Israel recently received. Also a special request for David, the newest member of our Israel team, who was recently hospitalized after being hit by a bus while riding his bicycle home from work. (See also in Healing section below) 

Lura and Eddie Beckford are making all their arrangements as their time in Israel draws to an end. They will be leaving August 22nd and still have a few outstanding things to square away - like vehicles and one beloved dog to re-home. Please read their prayer letter inside the Weekly Summary attachment                and if you can help with their move, I know it will come in handy. Lura also shares how they perceived it was the Lord's timing to return to the U.S. If you have followed their story in Israelprayer for the past 16 years, you will know the persecution was pitched in Arad against them all the way, but they were determined to stand. Now they have been released by the Lord to a new season in their life. 

Leon Mazin of the Return to Zion Center in Haifa sends us notice they have launched a new year of The Eagle Project created for Messianic congregations in Israel to serve young adults who have completed their service in the Israel Defense Forces.  View a video about this Project Read the report inside the Weekly Summary attachment and For more information about this project continue to read here              

Leon also gives a short update on their congregational art and Music School

The House of Victory in Carmel is a rehab ministry, birthed out of the vision of David Davis who recently passed into glory. Many years ago Eric Benson came to head this ministry and it is easy to see the heart of Yeshua reading the summaries of testimonies of men they are working with at the rehab. Please read some of these testimonies of addicted men who are receiving the compassion of the Messiah in Israel - Jews, Arabs and even Christians from the nations who have stumbled and had great falls.  See their prayer requests inside the Weekly Summary attachment 

Jim Schutz is the Executive Direction of the Joseph Project, a humanitarian aid importer providing to the needy through reputable organizations and professionals. Many, many times as we read the ministry letters from across Israel, we read that the humanitarian supplies they are distributing are coming from the Joseph Project. That is a testimony in itself in my view because I believe we are to funnel our aid as much as possible through the Body of Messiah in Israel - the Israeli citizens who are believers. Why? So the as yet unbelieving recipients, agencies and so on are able to see the Messianic community as the force for good in Israel that they truly are.  I encourage you to read all of the Joseph Project report inside the Weekly Summary attachment to discover how many ways they are helping

Rick Riding of Succat Hallel sends out this report on the upcoming Dor Haba Youth Worship Camp: Sowing into the “Next Generation” that will bring  together over 100 Jewish, Arab, and Palestinian youth.   Read all about it - including how you can be involved - inside the Weekly Summary attachment           

There is also an update below on Rick Ridings daughter, Esther Moore in her battle against cancer.

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

Please see inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary to keep in prayer the Israeli ministry leaders and believers with urgent health needs including the fight for their very lives: 

David, newest member of the Revive Israel team, was hit but a bus while riding his bike. He has gone through several surgeries & is expected to make a full recovery. Revive asks prayers for David's long process of recovery ahead | David Ortiz who was hospitalized for Pericarditis in March for 3 days. He is healing slowly - pray for full recovery and healing for this heart disease. Also for Ami Ortiz who must undergo another surgery for one of his ear drums| HaMaayan congregant Danny Meyuseff suffering poor health on several fronts | PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYER FOR for healing  for David B., the wounded soldier/worship leader from Beer Sheva congregation, Olga Bikas, Esther Ridings Moore for cancerous tumor to yield to treatment and prayer with full healing,  Ruth Nessim,  Eddie Beckford | PRAY for RECOVERY of Patti Juster, Eddie Santoro, Gila in Arad, Cookie, Howard Bass, | LONG TERM BATTLES |  David Stern,  David, Leah and Ami,  Moshe M.;  the son of an Arab pastor, Ghazi, who is suffering from Leukemia. Michael E, Claude Ezagouri; Baruch & Karen Maayan, Judy, wife of pastor Yaakov K; PLEASE PRAY ALSO for all the caretakers.

Update from Lura Beckford whose kidney was enflamed and painful. She had to wait many days for a doctor, got busy packing for their exit from Israel soon and forgot all about it until I asked, she answered with surprise that she no longer had any pain whatsoever! Praise the LORD!

Update on Esther Ridings Moore: We would appreciate some urgent prayers for these points:

                1. I (Esther) have been feeling more pain where the lump is and it is now feeling bigger than it was before. I recently had the opportunity through a mutual friend to meet Chris Wark from the website chrisbeatcancer.com, who I mentioned in the last email and whose treatment plan I have been following along with other supplements. He did say that it often can seem to get worse before it gets better, and soon my body should kick into clearing out mode. We have felt God has confirmed multiple times this treatment is the way to go for me and that He has promised that this will not be a long, drawn out process, but that He is watching over his word to hasten to perform it. Please stand in prayer with us that this will be gone QUICKLY and that we will see breakthrough in physical healing.

                2. Will has just had shingles break out on his face. He had it before, years ago, but has been under a lot of stress and pressure recently. Please pray for complete and quick healing from this for him as well.

                3. We feel it is important for me to go back to His Place in Germany as soon as possible to get more intensive treatments and therapies again (many of which are difficult to have done here in the UK). We have booked tickets for me to go this Tuesday (20th June) until the 1st of July. Please pray for provision for us, that the funds will come in for the treatments and accommodation costs. We are currently in need of a large amount to cover this.

                4. Please pray for continued peace and grace for us in this difficult tension period between the promise and the fulfillment of the promise of healing. We have seen incredible breakthroughs spiritually, mentally and emotionally, but have yet to see the breakthrough physically. We are standing on His promises and speaking out His word every day and know that He who has started a good work will be faithful to complete it, and that I will see my complete physical healing. Thank you for standing with us in believing for this. We recently spoke at Bath City Church, sharing what we felt God has shown us about thriving in the hard times. The link to it is here: https://youtu.be/9XwTm0ceeeE. We hope this can be an encouragement!

Praying the Headlines

6/19/17  Martin Sarvis Jerusalem | Facing Giants During a Year of Jubilee | This week US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt are scheduled to arrive in Israel as envoys seeking on behalf of the American administration to facilitate a revival of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Only weeks after the nation celebrated 50 years since the war which brought under its oversight not only Jerusalem, but the covenant heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria, moves are being suggested by both our friends and enemies raising into question the validity of that oversight in most if not any of the land.

On Monday morning Army Radio reported that plans for 6,000 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Gilo, Har Homa and Pisgat Zeev (areas under Jordanian occupation before 1967) have been ordered frozen (This less than two months after it was announced by Israel’s construction minister that 25,000 new homes would be built in the capital, 15,000 beyond the “Green Line”).   Another plan, awakening turbulence in much of the administration, would require Israel to transfer parts of Area C in the West Bank (a region which, under the Oslo agreements, falls under full Israeli military and civilian control) into Area A—under Palestinian control.  This would include allowing the city of Kalkilya (a hotbed of terrorism during the last Intifata), and lying just beyond Highway 6 in central Israel, to extend into Area C, and to double in size.  In fact, last week an Arab member of the Knesset claimed that Israel was planning on extending five Palestinian cities into the present Area C.
                Read the full report, plus prayer points inside the Weekly Summary attachment            

Important Petition

Some of you may remember this article by Orna Grinman in Kfar Saba, Israel of A Sign & An Example about the "Judensau" sculpture on the Wittenberg Church of Martin Luther. If not, please read Orna's account of visiting that place and her response as a Messianic Jew in Luther, the Pope and the Jewish Aspect.  After reading please respond to the request made by Dr. Richard Harvey, a Messianic Jew from London who is leading the campaign to have the "Judensau" removed. Dr Harvey invites you to vote in a major German newspaper that is gauging public opinion. This page is in German but below I have given instructions on how to cast your vote anyway if you don't have an automatic translator on your browser:

Please vote! 58% of Mitteldeutsche Zeitung readers oppose removal of Judensau! It would be great if more than 50% of readers voted to remove the Judensau! Scroll down to the swingometer grapic and select "entfernt werden" which is (quite appropriately) "be removed". Click on the Left side of the graphic needle and it should show you a successful vote entry.

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