WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 3/1/2017

Priority Prayer Focus Mar 1, 2017

Pray for discernment for us all - in Israel and in the international church - as deception becomes an increasing factor in our daily lives from the daily news to the pulpit.  As it says in 1 Timothy 4:1-2, The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. Let us keep the faith, speaking the truth in love.

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In the first prayer excerpt this week, I have to tell you that I have such an absolute respect and affection for this lady, Ruth Nessim, who is a pioneer of the faith in Yeshua in Israel. Her prayer letters always touch and inspire me, but this one also moved me to tears as Ruth took a look back at her life in the walk of faith. Ruth has recently won a battle with cancer of the Lymphatic System, and she continues to run her race with such single-hearted focus.  Please read as Ruth shares her heart and prayer requests for this month inside the subscription-only Attached DOCX Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries

From the Hebrew congregation in Arad, Hasdey Yeshua (Mercy of Yeshua), a report on a former ultra-Orthodox, now follower of Yeshua, who came to encourage the Arad Russian-speaking Messianic congregation who are being harrassment from the local ultra-Orthodox. "... he knew he had to respond, to come and encourage them. You see, he himself had grown up ultra-orthodox. He knew that the excessive anger and fanaticism demonstrated by them are not a cause for despair, but are a reason for hope. Something is stirring in these people, as it had been in him years before."  Read more inside the Weekly Summary attachment              

The congregation also gives an update on the Bedouin believer they had to take in due to danger and even threat to his life from his family and community after they found out he had come to faith in Yeshua.  The threat became so acute, he has had to flee the city in the middle of the night and is now in a secure place with strong believers. He does have other challenges in his life - the illegal activities he was involved with before he came to faith. Pray for this young man and read his story inside the Weekly Summary attachment            

Also in Arad, we heard from Lura Beckford this week who along with her husband Eddie have been in the crosshairs of religious persecution for longer than this prayer list has existed - and that is 16 years! Now Lura writes, "We just got a letter for Eddie today from our health insurance here in Israel. They have canceled his insurance since he is no longer a citizen of Israel (that's NEWS to us). We have 45 days to appeal it.  We can't appeal it until the Interior Ministry gives us formal notice. They are ignoring us and refusing to stamp Eddie's passport for his citizenship.  It's all quite illegal.  We have a lawyer who is working on it, but they are not responding to him either.  We need some specialized prayers! "

Lura will be speaking in Hanover, Pa on March 18th at 3pm. Details as they become available.

You may have heard this from other sources but a key member of the Beer Sheva Yeshua's Inheritance congregation which Howard Bass leads, was injured in his IDF service guarding Joseph's Tomb. A pipe bomb was thrown at him and it was packed with sharp shrapnel. Howard writes, that he is currently in Sheba Hospital never Tel Aviv : "David told us how the Lord protected him, in that only his hand was struck, and even though the second finger was 'dangling', all of the nerves and tendons remained intact. The doctors suggested an amputation, but he said "No", despite the longer process of recovery, from the doctors' viewpoint. He will need a replacement for the knuckle connecting the finger to the palm, and other cosmetic surgery. David is active on the worship team, and is growing in his personal worship of the Lord, and is a very positive influence on his peers.  He believes that God gave him a gift to play the guitar, and wants to get back to playing." Please pray for a miraculous full recovery.

Also Howard reports on a 3-car accident near Beer Sheva where three people were killed and three believers were badly injured.  Please read the details of these three believers, an Israeli from Texas, a Korean sister and an Israeli believer inside the Weekly Summary attachment.  A family in Yeshua's Inheritance has opened their home to the one woman who has been released from the hospital but wants to remain in Beer Sheva until her friends also recover. Please pray for them.

There is also a report about the young woman from the Ukraine that believers in the Negev and Tel Aviv are helping to raise funds for her treatment in Israel for skin cancer.

Among the good news from Howard Bass are two examples of actively seeking unity with the other believer ministries in Israel. Howard talks about things he and the congregation are doing with Dov Bikas, and also with Avner and David Boskey.  It is always encouraging to see ministries who are not affiliated per se reach out to fellowship together or to share ministry and teaching.  That is where God commanded the blessing - where brethren dwell together in unity.

Orna Grinman whose A Sign & An Example ministry is to orphans, widows and single parents shares a new blog entry, A little bit of Nachat | Waking up this morning I thought I knew the rules of the game. Earlier this week, 154 stones in a Jewish cemetery in Missouri were violated. Anti-Semitism worldwide was on the rise, and maybe it was time for me to bring my angle about this. But then I pulled up the Israeli news site and read that Vice President Mike Pence put on gloves, flew into Missouri and helped clean up the place.

Ron Cantor of Messiah's Mandate also has new blog entries this week, Nikki Haley Blasts Hypocritical U.N. Security Council and Angela Merkel: Islamic Faith not the Cause of Terrorism | Merkel makes the mistake of assuming that all non-Radical Islamists are peaceful. Yet most Muslims are not moderate or radical, but still violent.  Read more from Ron inside the Weekly Summary attachment   

From Revive Israel by Asher Intrater, ARTICLE Islam and Racism and VIDEO The New Apostolic Age. You can get many teachings from Revive via AUDIO Audio Messages on SoundCloud.  Also, read about the 8-week discipleship program that is organized and led by Chaim & Ruti Singerman

Joel Jelski reports that having finished all his courses and tests, all that remains is to finish writing two research projects before officially graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Education and Communication.  So now he is able to fulfill a promise to his wife of an extended visit with her family in Mexico and later in April he will spend a few weeks in Dallas - hopefully you have a group he can speak to. Learn more inside the Weekly Summary attachment

From Dugit Ministries, Avi Mizrachi gives a praise report on the repair of their water damaged prayer room and thanks for those who sent financial gifts to help meet their deductible.  They also may have a breakthrough in the purchase of a new property for their congregation. Keep praying!  Also they have received ECFA Accrediation for the Dugit ministry Outreach Center. Praise the Lord!  See also prayer request for the ministry Chaya did last weekend at a women's conference in Jerusalem for victims of sexual abuse. - inside the Weekly Summary attachment              

Israel Pochtar has a truly "Good Report" upon his return from a Jewish-Arab Reconciliation Conference in Turkey. The Lord is doing seriously wonderful  things among the Syrian refugees "who fled to Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon came in contact with local Christians in those countries, and now these refugees who were once in remote regions and completely unreachable with the gospel, were now reached and heard the message of Christ. God is doing some mighty miracles among these people, that doubtfully we will not hear about in the mainstream media. " Because this is sensitive material, I'm going to refer you to read it inside the subscription only Attached DOCX Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries. 

The Joseph Project in Jerusalem, headed by Jim Schutz, does a superb job as it partners primarily with Messianic distribution centers around Israel to distribute humanitarian aid to the needy in Israel. Jim writes, "We also help many individual families per pastoral recommendations and work with other Messianic ministries which are serving new immigrants and single mothers etc. These include Bead Chaim and ELY. Recently had about 50 reps of Messianic distribution centers for lunch and renewing of agreements." 

Read more inside the Weekly Summary attachment about how they were recently able to bless a Girls Shelter in the hills surrounding Jerusalem, and their outreach to Holocaust survivors on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Maalot-Tarshiha, a small city near the Lebanese border.  Also this video of our distribution event in Ofakim

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 B. from Howard Bass' congregation was wounded by a pipe bomb during his military duty. Part of the worship team, he refused to allow amputation of fingers. Please pray for his full restoration & read more in Howard's prayer letter. There are 2 other serious prayer needs from this Beer Sheva congregation, please read in Bass' enclosed prayer letter | Ronit Bender  had been suffering from a severe flu then a few days ago it developed into pneumonia. Please pray for her quick and full recovery of health.  | Olga & Dov Bikas have been suffering from severe backaches. Please pray for their healing | David Davis continues to suffer weakness and a new small growth in the area of the previous cancerous tumor. Please continue to pray for David to be fully healed. | Gila, the first graduate from the Ark of the Negev’s discipleship training, after many delays finally had a successful surgery. She's been living in extreme pain for years.  Please pray for complete healing, restored mobility, and freedom from pain.| Hand operations on both Cookie and also Howard Bass' went well. Please pray for swift recovery.| See the update below from Rick Ridings' daughter Esther Moore with another confirmed cancerous lump. | Continue prayers for David Davis |   Eddie Santoro Reports PET & MRI for brain & tonsil cancers coming back clear. Pray continued good reports |

Ruth Nessim  According to the blood tests, all is well with the cancer of the lymphatic system,  "But I am blind in one eye, with much reduced sight in the other. I would value prayer." | Eddie Beckford has a toxic level of aluminum in his body and it has affected his health.  This is very likely the underlying cause of his thyroid & diabetes problems.  He is undergoing a protocol to remove the aluminum and he has not been well for some time.  |  David Stern Please continue pray for David's health and also for Martha, as his caretaker |  David O., Ami (unhealed wounds);  Long term disease battles:  Leah; an unnamed forefather of Messianic Judaism; Moshe M.;  the son of an Arab pastor, Ghazi, who is suffering from Leukemia. Judy, wife of pastor Yaakov K; Carolyn Hyde, Eddie Beckford, Claude Ezagouri; Patti, wife of Dan Juster; Baruch and Karen Maayan; Michael E and unnamed Israel-related ministers.  Ronen a congregant & faithful volunteer in the Tiferet Yeshua Tel Aviv congregation.  PLEASE PRAY ALSO for all the caretakers. If you have ever been one, you know that it stretches us to our limits in an very emotional time. Pray for God to strengthen and uphold them all.

Praying the Headlines

Inside the subscription only Attached DOCX
Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries

First of all there is an update on the Special mailing I sent out last week about the call to witches to curse President Trump and all who helped him - there are additional upcoming dates they will be doing this through June, and also some excellent additional information from Martin Sarvis in Jerusalem.

Also multiple news headlines under the general topic of Anti-Semitism Increasing Around the World from Barry and Batya Segal's Jerusalem News Network in Jerusalem.

My Word

On his radio program yesterday, Mark Levin slammed biased media assertions that somehow President Trump was to blame for the rise of anti-Semitic activity in America. Levin said that instead, it was the Democrats sidling up to Islamists.

Without getting into the political weeds on this, it did strike a nerve with me because I keep seeing Israeli news people and newspapers making accusations against Trump being responsible for the rise in American anti-Semitism. That is 100% off-base.  

On Twitter, news emails and Facebook, recently there is reporting in Israeli newspapers who are parroting American Jewish groups accusing the rise in anti-Semitism on Donald Trump who they say has drawn out the hidden American White Supremacists.  The truth is that it is the  Islamist Supremacists that are the cause for the rise in anti-Semitism in America as they have in Europe. Islamist Supremacists have overrun our politically correct college campuses and have aligned themselves with every Leftist protest movement out there from Black Lives Matter to Feminist groups. Islamists do NOT align with these groups because they are really for those issues, but because they are infiltrating to infect those groups with Jew hatred and Israel hated (and Christian hatred will follow).

I want to WARN ALL MY ISRAELI FRIENDS reading those horribly slanted stories in your Israeli newspapers: You are not getting the truth from those American Jewish organizations who are deceived so intensely on this count they cannot see the real cause of rising American anti-Semitism. Let me tell you, they are making themselves odious to people who see the truth and cannot understand why Jews would believe such things. It needs to be pointed out repeatedly that the reason for Leftish Jewish accusations like this is because they are UNSAVED - they need salvation to open the eyes of the blind.

Worldwide the rise in anti-Semitism is not coming from White Nationalist Supremacists, but from the advance of Islamic Supremacists. In Europe they called Geert Wilders essentially the same as they are calling Donald Trump - to take the focus of the true culprits. We must open our eyes to this manipulation of the facts.

                                                    

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