WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 8/3/2016

From August 2001 to August 2016
Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests
from Israeli Ministries

As always at the first of the month, I have received more ministry letters than will fit into the 15-pg limit that I have to stick to for the Prayer Summary.
Will catch up with all the overflow next week.
I so greatly appreciate those who responded to my appeal last week for donations.

Next week this prayer summary will enter into its 16th year of publishing a weekly summary
of Israeli ministry prayer requests. .. and Sunday I mark my 65th birthday.
August is always a red-letter month for me. 
My birthday may take place in the midst of the Dire Straits
BUT GOD has always seen me through to the other side. :-D

Priority Prayer Focus Aug 3, 2016

The lion's share of prayer letters this week were primarily focused on world events.  Anyone who has been spiritually drawn toward Israel begins to realize that Israel  is where spiritual reality connects to what is manifesting in the natural world.  As the threat posed by radical Islam continues to rise in the Western nations, the Church will be challenged to shake itself awake as to how the spirit of violence behind radical Islam that has targeted Israel for decades, is now targeting us.

The spiritual warfare going on in the heavenlies is impacted by prayer - prayer for our own nations, but also prayer for the main target of demonic opposition to God's plan and purposes in Jerusalem.  Our desire in this Weekly Summary/Arrows from Zion is to give subscribers insight into the things that are in the news but also to point the way for how to stand in the spiritual battle as prayer warriors - and in the natural battle. We are in a battle for the truth, and the truth is it takes prayer soldiers and natural soldiers to contend in this war. We are called to be both. We are writing the vision on this wall so that those who read it may run with it.

Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel

What a great report from David and Michaella Lazarus of Beit Immanuel in Jaffa this week - and it's all about a release of faith among the children of the congregation to pray for healing. These children are praying in simple, childlike faith and God is answering them with healing to those submitting to a child for prayer. "This is what we have been waiting for!' was the reaction of a young mother this week, watching with tears in her eyes, as her son laid hands on an elderly woman, calling on the name of Yeshua for healing. And He came, and He healed!"

David writes, "The innocent, pure and simple way they trust God is startling, and it hits us -- we do not always minister to others like that. They didn't shout, there was no hype. They closed their eyes, lifted their faces, and extending their hands touched the needy, believing that God is here, with us. As we watched, we saw faith in their hopeful expressions, heard the trust in their straightforward prayers, and as they asked, as only a child can ask, for healing, renewal and strength for needy, sick and broken lives, we saw people moved, deeply."

The congregation is also experiencing a spiritual touch among their teenagers, too. Please read more from the Beit Immanuel congregation inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary - and pray for all the youngsters, teens and young adults in the Israeli Messianic community: for a fresh outpouring of faith and anointing on their lives and a desire to touch people for Yeshua's name and God's glory.

The Knesset bestowed the honor of recognition to the Messianic Pro-Life Organization, Be'ad Chaim at the beginning of July as part of the International Women's Health Day.  Sandy Shoshani the National Director of Be’ad Chaim and founder, Tony Sperandeo accepted the certificate of appreciation. The pro-life organization, Be'ad Chaim  was founded in 1980, has five counseling centers in various regions of Israel and a hotline for women to receive information and help. About one in every five pregnancies in Israel ends in abortion.

KehilaNews writes, "Be’ad Chaim is not the only organization that works in the field of protecting mothers and their unborn babies. The reason that this particular association receives awareness from the Knesset and positive recognition from the Ministry of Social Welfare is thanks to their acceptance and inclusion of others. Be’ad Chaim does not distinguish between religion and nationality, as opposed to other organizations that work solely with Jews." Please read more about this exceptional ministry to the people of Israel that is saving lives online at Kehila.

Katy, who writes the weekly prayer requests from the Sorko-Ram's Maoz ministries asks for prayers regarding the many projects of Maoz - those underway and those still in the creation stage. One of the main thrusts of Maoz is to provide resources for the rest of the ministries in Israel - whether leadership conferences or translating study and inspirational materials into Hebrew. You have heard of someone being a pastor's pastor? Well Maoz very much presses in to be a ministry's ministry to the Messianic leaders in Israel. This takes them into many practical levels of helping other ministries develop their full potential in the things of God.  You can read more of the specific prayer requests inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary including an excellent word on healthy behavior models for relationship with the Lord.

Israel Pochtar of the Beit Hallel congregation in Ashdod extends an invitation to help them by sponsoring a needy Israeli child for the new school semester [$50 USD will do it!] See details inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

Revive Israel Ministry Team Cody Archer and Andrew Ben-Arii write about What Millennials Actually Want.  There is also a video introduction to Aviram Eldar, director of Hebrew language YeshuaChai TV Meet the Team: Aviram.  From Asher Intrater, an audio teaching Restoring The Cutting Edge Of Moral Confrontation and a short teaching: Husband, Son, and King

Ron Cantor reports that the new Coffee House Outreach is clearly making an impact in Tel Aviv - the proof is in a recent invasion by anti-missionaries. Read Ron's account inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary or at Ron's site where you can also get involved with their work.

CONTINUES IN PRAYING THE HEADLINES BELOW WITH FOCUS ON WORLD EVENTS AS ISRAEL MINISTRIES WEIGH IN WITH THEIR UNIQUELY QUALIFIED SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS

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:  Speak death to every cancer cell which has been attacking God's servant's even multiple times in order to cut off the gospel from their mouths! God is greater than even cancer arising twice!
 

Sherry M, Israeli pastor's wife whom doctors has sent home to die as cancer has returned; Eddie Santoro - a new form of cancer unrelated to the brain cancer;  Evan Thomas in still painful occupational therapy phase after serious arm fractures; Richard Hyde, Rick Ridings daughter, Esther Moore is facing a second surgery; David O., Eddie Beckford, David Davis; an unnamed forefather of Messianic Judaism; Ruth Nessim; Evan Levine; Rachel Slater; Judy, wife of pastor Yaakov K; Moshe Morrison;  Shelly wife of pastor Eitan; Claude Ezagouri; Patti, wife of Dan Juster; Baruch and Karen Maayan; Michael E (see update below) and unnamed Israel-related ministers.  Pray also for Ghazi, the son of an Arab pastor, who is suffering from Leukemia. Tal Bass. Miriam Abramov, incisional hernia, Ronen a congregant & faithful volunteer in the Tiferet Yeshua Tel Aviv congregation.

FROM MAOZ PRAY for Sherry M., a wife of an Israeli congregational leader, whose cancer has returned - this time in her spine.  The doctors said there's nothing more they can do and sent her home to die.  Please stand with us in faith and PRAY for her healing.  Also PRAY For her husband and their children.

Praying the Headlines

Eliyahu Ben-Haim of Intercessors for Israel in Jerusalem reviews the highlights of international crisis in his Sound the Shofar prayer letter. Excerpts we picked out are the terror attacks in Western Europe; presidential elections in the USA, Russia making moves to re-capture super power influence (China too); what Brexit means & the rapidly vanishing freedom of speech in the EU & US. Plus, of course Islamic terrorism. "While Israel is far from being a perfect nation (there is no perfect nation) the vicious hatred of Israel is not at its heart, anti-Semitic but anti-God...." Read more inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

From Jerusalem, Martin Sarvis gives a report on the Summer of Aliyah for French Jews.  There is currently a great exodus from France as the country become even more violent and unstable for all French citizens, but acutely so for Jews.  Martin shares prayer points you can use in praying for this exodus inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

Barry & Batya Segal whose Jerusalem News Network highlights news related to Israel or the Jews from various sources, files several key news stories that are in the news: "Isis Priest-Killer Asked Nun, 'Are you afraid to die?' | Attack Inside French Church Shocks West, but Not Christians in Africa  |  'One Isis Attack Every 84 hours' Spurs Dread and Anger in Europe.  Highlights in these news items and scripture to apply inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

Israelprayer adds this news item: The online recruiting publication of ISIS in English aims would-be jihadists to attack Christians and Churches. The focus is clearly spelled out on the cover: "Break the Cross" and calls for the bloodthirsty knights of the Caliphate continue to wage their war of just terror against you. They argue that Jesus himself was “a slave of Allah” who will “wage jihad” upon returning to earth. The main thrust: "hidden soldiers of the Caliphate...ordered to attack without delay."  ...and still many Christians believe this manifestation of Islam is a mere aberration of the real "religion of peace." We must pray that the eyes of the Church understanding be opened to the true nature of this spiritual darkness.

Jane Hanson-Hoyt of AGLOW International is not an Israeli ministry, but this lady has certainly aligned with Israeli believers and galvanized her international prayer warriors on behalf of Israel. To pray for Israel and the Israeli believers, we are necessarily joined into the spiritual warfare regarding Islamic Jihad.  Jane Hanson Hoyt has called for urgent prayer to thwart the Islamic terror plans that are targeting the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Aug 5-21).  This is a serious threat and as the AGLOW leader says: intercession for this threatened event is our calling and equipping to stand in the gates with our delegated authority.  See the full call shared on Facebook inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary

We must fight the spiritual warfare in two ways: prayer and action. We pray for the eyes of the understanding of the Church to be opened, for the schemes of the enemy to be overturned - but also we take our stand in the natural world, sometimes as soldiers fighting physically in the wars to turn back the enemy and sometimes as soldiers in the information wars. The latter is what the Jerusalem Institute of Justice is about. Not only does this organization of Messianic attorneys in Israel fight for the rights of believers in Israel, but it also leads in the information/education warfare on behalf of Israel in international arenas.  Inside the attached DOCX Weekly Summary read the personal message from JIJ CEO Flavia Sevald on their battle against Anti-Semitism and learn how you can join the battle with them.

Teaching Articles

Over the weekend the weekend I sat down to re-listen to a teaching of Asher Intrater's from the 2009 Israel Mandate conference that I have returned to several times a year for several years. Pretty soon I decided to starting typing certain excerpts to save but about halfway through it, I said forget this! I need  a full transcript!

One reason is that no one has ever explained why liberal, secular humanists in the West are so dead set intent on protecting Islam to the point that they actually cover the grievous crimes and attacks of radical Islam.  Asher does in how the deception that comes with the Harlot spirit blinds those it controls from clearly perceiving the spirit of violence that marks the Beast of Islamic Jihad.  The Harlot and the Beast of Revelation connects with the battle of the spirits of Greece and Persia that Daniel was praying over, and as Asher shows, has a direct connection to the spirits we are fighting today - Jezebel and Jihad. 

I want to challenge all of you on this prayer list to do a deep dive study into Asher's audio teaching, "The Harlot and the Beast, or Jezebel and Jihad."  I believe it will clarify what we have already entered into and  we live in critical times! Get understanding and a clear prayer strategy for participating in the battle now being waged in the Heavenlies over the whole earth.  The time is now to enter into that company of Daniel's who are in the fight.

Israeli Ministries on Tours  |  BOOKING meetings now (See open dates)  Inside the attached Weekly Summary are itineraries and open dates for are open Dallas dates for Guy Cohen in Nov; open Texas dates for Kobi and Shani Ferguson family from Sept-Oct; and open October dates for Orna Greenman in the southern US.

The Israeli Messianic Marketplace  Feature of the Week:

When Life Tumbles in...What then? by Daniel Juster | We have just published The Story of Samuel, about my son who died in a house fire 18 years ago. Samuel was 12 years old. Over many decades of pastoral ministry I have come to understand that in this life almost all will have painful and tragic experiences, even those who possess extraordinary faith. Read more online, Purchase  The Story of Samuel book is available at the Tikkun Book Store.

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