WEEKLY Arrows from Zion 5/31/2017

Priority Prayer Focus SHAVUOT

SHAVUOT, the Feast of Pentecost. With the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on this day in Acts 2 came an outpouring of revelatory power, the power to understand the words of God beyond previous ability. We need this power to  understand God's Word more than ever before in this hour, so let's pray that the Body of the LORD worldwide would have eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to us.

In that vein, I want to offer this short teaching article by Avner Bosky of David's Tent in the Negev. Holy Spirit, ‘fake news’ and the heart of Ruth. "Religious Jews are taught that Shavuot is the date of Matan Torah (the giving of the Sinai Covenant), and they remember Ruth the famous Moabite woman who ‘converted to Judaism.’ It may come as a surprise for some of us to find out that the Bible’s take on these events is somewhat different. Let’s dig in and take a look."

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Starting off this week with the monthly ministry report and prayer letter from the Tikkun aligned ministries in Israel whose operations director is Benjamin Juster. Ben leads with the just completed 2017 Baruch HaBa tour of Israel hosted by the affiliated ministries within Tikkun, Revive Israel and Tents of Mercy. If you are going to tour Israel, you really should make a point of doing it with one of the many tours that are offered by the Messianic ministries of Israel. It is a leap beyond the regular tours and you will make an important connection with Yeshua's body in Israel.

Ben also shares that the many of their leaders have traveled to the US for the Tikkun America leadership and RESTORE conferences. Please pray for them as the minister (and also for Asher during the month of June as he is finishing a new book).

Also: Revive Israel / Tikkun - exciting changes are on the horizon and resulting from the intense prayer and leadership meetings over the past year. Thank you for continuing to stand with us in prayer as we craft the communications for these changes to go out to all of our various partners and friends. Many items of transition are still in discussion. Would you pray with us for continued wisdom, clarity, and practical strategy?

AND: The Tents of Mercy leadership team is also praying for practical wisdom for the coming season. Please pray for Eitan, Avishalom, Leon, Guy, Eric, and the elders within the affiliated congregations. Pray for a new surplus of abundant provision for the humanitarian projects, congregational development, and outreach. More inside the subscription only Attached DOCX Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
 

Katy Smith for the Maoz Ministries of Ari & Shira Sorko-Ram, gives a follow up on President Trump's visit to Israel, writing, " As far as our government is concerned (and the majority of Israelis), this is a fantastic achievement, as each of Donald J. Trump's predecessors in the last few decades have tried to push Israel into this bad deal." Read more inside the Weekly Summary attachment   where Katy touches on the persecution of believers by the ultra-Orthodox Yad L'Achim; the Manchester terror attack, and transitions within the Maoz organization.

One article we noted on Twitter from the Times of Israel gives a glimmer of hope that one of the figures that spearheads much persecution of the believers of Yeshua in Israel - keeping out believers and also trying to kick out the believers who are citizens, Aryeh Deri, may be banned from heading the Interior Ministry. Amid graft probe, police may request house arrest for minister Deri.  He has already served time in prison for the same kind of corruption and police are seeking a revokation of his parliamentary immunity.

Read more inside the Weekly Summary attachment for how this article impacts the believers in Israel, and how we might pray into Aryeh Deri's Interior Ministry control being removed - granting a relief for believers. This happened once before and the Interior Ministry went into secular oversight. There is still bureaucratic (systemic) persecution baked into the cake at the Interior Ministry, but without a head like Deri, it is somewhat more suppressed. Let's pray on this.

Ron Cantor of Messiah's Mandate and the GOD TV program Out of Zion also gives his thoughts on the Trump Israel visit.  Ron also shares this exciting testimony from a Former Muslim woman shares at Tiferet Yeshua how she found salvation

Peter Tsukahira, one of the leaders at the Carmel Congregation in Haifa share about their celebration of Israel Independence day, an article written just two days before the passing of their "much loved Founding Pastor, David Davis." Most of us have suffered the loss of a close loved one - a patriarch or matriarch of the family. As it is with individuals, so it is with a congregational family, there is a sustained grieving process as we consider our loss. Please pray for the family of the Carmel Congregation, for David's wife Karen and his natural family, but also his spiritual family now that David has taken up residence in Heaven...there are still tears being shed here on earth.  Read the rest of the Carmel ministry report inside the Weekly Summary attachment   

Asher Intrater's Revive Israel sends us two short posts that you can read inside the Weekly Summary attachment: The testimony of a man who was in the squad that blew up the Zion's Gate in the 1967 recapture of Jerusalem. "Seeing the supernatural protection on his life with bullets flying, fellow-soldiers dying and bombs exploding, was part of what brought him to faith." Also, a summary of a Clarion Project article of four powerful statements made by Donald Trump in his Saudia Arabia speech. (Don't miss this because it will deepen your understanding.) Finally, VIDEO Thailand Outreach Recap from Tal HaRoni

Hearing from Avner and Rachel Boskey after several months as "The pace of our days has accelerated significantly in the past five months" with their ministry school E37 in full swing. Hear more about the school inside the subscription only Attached DOCX Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries. The Boskey's suggest connecting with them on Facebook, Avner and Rachel, a platform that makes it much easier for keeping in touch.

Avner's new book  Jews, Arabs & the Middle East . They write, "This book will help you to make sense of these convulsions and birth pangs – to recover an ancient key guaranteed to open the Fertile Crescent’s rusted padlock.” There is also a Boskey family update with where & what their children are up to these days - much ministry-oriented. inside the Weekly Summary attachment  

Israel Pochtar of Beit Hallel shares a word on the meaning of Shavuot and so the exciting special baptism event at First Fruits. He writes, "We have always been very passionate and focused on gospel outreach and evangelism. It has been the driving force behind most of the work we do, to bring the Good News of Yeshua to the people of Israel. Which is why it is so exciting when we see the harvest of everything that has been sown, and in this case we have 70 newly saved believers whom we will take on this Feast of Pentecost up to Jordan river to receive water baptism."

They are also celebrating the 1 year anniversary of their congregation in Rishon Le-Zion, led by Igor and Natalie. Israel writes, "Continue praying with us for this congregation, as well as all the others we have planted. For God to give us wisdom, anointing and guidance in continuing to grow and establish the Kingdom of God in the land of Israel."  (You can learn about the progress on their building renovations in Ashdod too inside the Weekly Summary attachment)

Evan and Maala Thomas in Netanya - long time no see, from this ministry too! - are catching up after a busy season the last few months. "As written in the March report, Maala and Evan rendezvoused in Hong Kong on Maala’s way back to Israel from NZ. We spent 6 days together with Swiss colleagues from "BeYachad" (A Swiss/ Israeli Christian organization, which helps raise support for salaries of both Messianic and Palestinian/Arab Christian ministers)." Read more about this significant paradigm shift for BeYachad inside the Weekly Summary attachment               

Also, "Marcel Rebiai and Evan were asked by a broad group of Messianic and Palestinian pastors to provide 'eldership' for a combined team of worship leaders from our respective communities. Our mandate was to produce a worship event in central Jerusalem in Hebrew and Arabic, as a testimony of unity from within our communities. Approximately 500 local Believers attended from Jerusalem and beyond, with a number of leaders cancelling their Shabbat services to encourage their flocks to attend." Read more about this exciting event which we have been hearing great praise from many in Israeli ministry, inside the Weekly Summary attachment            

Hopefully all Arrows from Zion subscribers realize that each week the attached Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries, contains lengthier excerpts from the prayer letters we have received over the past week, as well as contact information for those ministries. We encourage you to use that information to make direct connection with any and all ministries that speak to your heart.

For much more from the Beit Ashap congregation led by Evan Thomas, plus prayer points, please open and read inside the Weekly Summary attachment   

Joel and Teresa Jelski make a clarification about their recent ectopic pregnancy that ended a few weeks ago.  "We did not feel at any point the enemy had stolen something from us, but that God had taken over the situation for us. We trust him and his leadership in what has taken place." It is a beautiful expression of trust and I hope you will read their full statement.

Also, since Joel has graduated from his studies, they are making changes, including joining the new leadership team of the Katzir, or Harvest conferences that are national youth retreats for the Messianic families in Israel. Katzir has been overseen by Eitan Shishkoff since its inception and is an important ministry to teens in each of its three annual retreat events. Learn more about the Jelski's future plans inside the Weekly Summary attachment     

Howard Bass of the Yeshua's Inheritance congregation in Beer Sheva writes about Shavuot and brings a clarification about the Jubilee: "this year marks the END of the 50th year/Jubilee of the liberation of Jerusalem -- being the end of the 50th year, rather than marking the Jubilee year, since we are now going into the 51st year. Be that as it may, let us strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the Body of Messiah in hope of the fulfillment of the promise which the giving of the Holy Spirit and YHVH's law anticipates."

Howard shares news of lots of congregational-related gatherings in the last - losing some of their university students who make Nachalat Yeshua their congregational home during studies, for one. There is also an update on their wounded soldier/worship leader on Kehila News Israel (KNI) with David Bronshtein; and their soldier among the recipents of the Presidential Award for excellence, KNI with an interview with Mark Lampert.

Randi and Howard are off to the UK to speak at a conference on "Waiting For The Blessed Hope" 

Lastly we report the sad news just heard a couple of hours ago from friends in Johannesburg, South Africa of the death of Antony Simon, Voice in the Wilderness Jerusalem. They messaged me on Facebook that Antony Simon was accidentally struck by a car in Erbil, Iraq and has died from his injuries. The British man was an evangelist and had just apparently shared the gospel with a group of nominal Christians in Erbil before the accident. We await more news on this sad event. My friends were supporters of Antony's ministry.

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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: 

New report on Lura Beckford whose kidney is enflamed and painful. She is getting an ultrasound and asks prayer.  | 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.

Praying the Headlines |Update on President Trump's Visit

Inside the Weekly Summary attachment               Martin Sarvis in Jerusalem recaps the positives that came out of prayers for Pres Trump's Israel visit - also providing list of continued prayer points.

The Israeli Messianic Marketplace  Feature of the Week:

Jewish Giftedness & World Redemption: The Calling of Israel
by Jim Melnick

This book looks at the undisputed fact that Jewish people excel in so many fields, and relates that to the fact that, as the Chosen People, they were called to be a “nation of priests” and “a light to the nations.” 

Published by Messianic Jewish Publishers.

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