A Christian-called 40-day Fast & Prayer for the Salvation of Israel
We are stepping into the
Restoration of the fallen pillars of relationship
between the churches in the nations and
the body of believers in Israel
which the apostle Paul established in the first century.
40 Days to
Shavuot/Pentecost
to Fast & Pray for Israel’s Salvation
by Donna
Diorio
I am
very excited about what Lou Engle is doing, and I think it is going to have a
huge impact on especially younger Christians (which there really is a dearth of
younger Christians supporting Israel). Not to damper what Lou Engle is doing - it is God-inspired – but as
significant as I believe this is, Engle is standing on the shoulders of those
who have gone before him, like Mike Bickle who has been a lone ranger in the
prophetic circles for 20+ years speaking for and supporting the Israeli
ministries, as has been Chuck Pierce, or ‘Papa’ Don Finto (as the Israeli
ministry leaders call him) —
Derek Prince, Francis and Edith Schaffer, David Wilkerson, Jane Hansen
Hoyt—there are so many that have brought us to this point.
That is not even touching the courageous
Israeli believer ministries who have soldiered on in the Israeli harvest
suffering lack and resources but still going from 20-something believers in
1948 in Israel to 15-20,000 today…or the foundation that has been laid in
Israel over many years by prayer and fasting for this very thing to break
open. I remember for many years of
joining in with the Revive Israel online broadcasts of prayer and fasting
vigils on Shavuot/Pentecost. The Revive vision was always to establish a place
of prayer in Jerusalem where the nations could join in with Israelis in
Jerusalem to pray for another Acts 2 outpouring of the Holy Spirit — an
outpouring that would spill out from Jerusalem into all the nations.
The beginning years online
participation was relatively small, there were Pentecost events taking place in
Jerusalem at the same time that were much bigger, but not really connecting
with the body of believers in Israel. Each year the online participation
increased, then Revive Israel was joined by intercessory network of Egyptian
Christian David Demian of Watchmen for the Nations. This brought a significant
number of new international Christians praying together on Pentecost.
These are foundations that were
laid, the groundwork for what we see now, as we see Lou Engle also joining in
rallying American spiritual leadership to awaken to God's plan for restoration
of Israel spiritually. That will lead to a new depth of comprehending the one
new man relationship between the Church and the Body of Messiah in Israel. When
this thing breaks open - and I'm sure Lou Engle is playing an integral part in
that happening - it is going to rock the harvest in Israel and in the nations.
Here are some of Lou Engle's remarks from his
Day 6 Yeshua Fast video, picking up at the 2:10 mark: “Could we be moving into an Upper Room reality? So
amazing to me! Asher Intrater, my friend in Israel, an apostolic Messianic
leader, called me about this fast, and with kindness and humility entreated me.
'Lou, what if we hold this fast not just March 1st through April 9th like we've
done historically, but let's do it from the 14th of April to May 23rd which is
actually Pentecost Sunday.' He said, 'I just have this sense this year if we do it on the Jewish holidays, the
times that Yeshua has actually set, where He says, "I will visit you,'
I think something may happen beyond what we can think or imagine.'
I just felt like, ‘Yes, I am going
to listen to my brother Asher.’ So we've said this, What if these 40 days is to
this Upper Room that Nava and I were together with the wind blowing? In the
dream we were sitting across from one another at a table talking about what God
is saying and in the dream she realizes she is about ready to wake up out of
the dream but she has a word to deliver me. Urgently she thinks, I've got to
get it to him before I wake up.
Three times she says this: 'You
cannot see revival in America unless you first of all pray for the salvation of
the Jews.' Again she said, 'You cannot see revival in America unless you first
of all pray for the salvation of Israel.' The third time she says the same
thing and then she wakes up out of the dream.
What's stunning to me about Nava's
dream is she represents the Jewish people. She knows she is about ready to
awaken but before she can awaken she needs to deliver this message for the Ruth
gentile church to pray for the salvation of Israel. I am convinced in my heart
when the church begins to pray for the salvation of Israel, the awakening of
the Jewish people to Yeshua, their bridegroom God, it will take place.
This dream has shocked me. It just
keeps pursuing me and I began to ponder, Is God shifting our heartbeats so that
when we turn our prayers to Israel, those who bless Israel are blessed, those
that pray for the peace of Jerusalem find their own peace, those who pray for
the harvest of the Jewish peoples will receive their own harvest?
Recently while I was flying to speak
with The Send leaders in that same meeting of Christie Brent's prophetic word,
the Lord spoke to me out of the book of Ruth . . . . ‘If you will glean in
Boaz's field, you'll reap the full blessing of the harvest in the nations of
the earth. I'm just saying brothers and sister, just test this. It's not like I
believe that there's not going to be revival in other places of the earth but
I'm wondering, is God giving us a mega shift for the fullness of that blessing?
Like in Romans chapter 11:12-15 when the Jewish people come in it will be like
life from the dead to the gentile — global outpourings, global harvests. This …
dream gave me a paradigm shift in my own heart. Literally for these 40 days I
am praying for the salvation of the Jews. I am believing it will a tipping
point. You see one thought from God — if obeyed — could literally shift
everything.
Maybe you are thinking, Oh, I don't
know about all this. What if we simply opened our heart, 'God, I want to feel
your heart for the Jewish people. I want to feel your heart like Jesus felt
when He was first with His disciples, those apostles, and going to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel. His heart was moved with compassion when he saw
the Jewish people broken to pieces, harassed and helpless like sheep without a
shepherd.
On Day 7 Engle tells how he didn't 'get it'
in 2009 when he had a lot of exposure to the message of the restoration of
Israel spiritually before the mass international revivals. He said, "It is a journey....I go back to another key point
in my awakening concerning Israel and I didn't get it back there in 2009. In
2009 I was living in Kansas City with my family, with Mike Bickel and the House
of Prayer. Mike was teaching eschatology; Mike was teaching about Israel — I'm
sorry, Mike, but it seems like a lot of this I just didn't get because my eyes
and all my focus was revival in America awakening, the end of abortion and
those things are still very, very real to me. But I feel that I am now in a
season of awakening, and I think actually the Lord waited for this moment to
awaken me. Because it is time, I believe for a worldwide prayer movement to
take place for Israel. “
Donna:
Below are links to theYeshua Fast Engle’s daily encouraging talk on YouTube so
far. Probably most of my subscribers are farther along in the learning curve of
understanding our relationship of supporters of the Israeli ministries in their
mandate to bring the Good News to their fellow countrymen, but I think these
videos are valuable for us to hear anyway. One for the sake of hearing what Lou
Engle’s journey has been coming to this place, and also to see where he is in
the learning curve of what God is doing here. These videos have been a great
encouragement to me to listen to, and I think they will be for you. You might
also want to share them with your friends who hold Lou Engle in high esteem. I am also listening to these daily now and
have officially joined their fast and prayer because I do believe it is an
important tipping point to bring so many more Christians into right
alignment with the Body of Messiah in Israel.
I believe this is going to have a
truly significant spiritual impact and is truly a restoration of the fallen
pillars of relationship between the churches in the nations and the body of
believers in Israel from that which the apostle Paul established in the first century.
The Yeshua Fast - Day 1 - 40-day Israel fast launch | April 14, 2021
The Yeshua Fast - Day 2 - Four Ruths | April 15, 2021
The Yeshua Fast - Day 3 - Global Spiritual Aliyah | April 15, 2021
The Yeshua Fast - Day 4 - Global paradigm shift | April 16, 2021
The Yeshua Fast - Day 5 - The Pandemic Prophecy | April 17, 2021
The Yeshua Fast - Day 6 - Pray for the salvation of Israel | April 18, 2021
The Yeshua Fast - Day 7 - Daniel sealed into my belly | April 19, 2021
Lou Engle YESHUA FAST
The Yeshua Fast was birthed out of a threefold cord revelation:
1 - A global spiritual Aliyah where the gentile Ruth church turns her heart affections and covenant love to Yeshua, Israel, and the Jewish people. Ruth 1:16,17
2 - A global call for prayer for the salvation of Israel as a tipping point for worldwide harvest. Romans 11:12-15
3 - A growing expectation for an unveiling of the Messiah to the Jewish peoples and a new Pentecost from Jerusalem to the nations. Isaiah 44:1-5, Ez 36:26
Arrows from
Zion
Summarized
from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests
Israeli Ministries
I begin this week with Asher Intrater’s article on Second
Pentecost because it is foundational to the article above in the
prayer and fasting before Pentecost that Lou Engle is leading. As I wrote
above, I have been participating in the Shavuot prayer online events that Asher
has been holding for many years.
I also believe that prophetic things that happen once in the Bible, are likely
to happen again – like a second outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem,
that will come as the believers from nations join in “Upper Room” prayer
seeking God for what Yeshua promised His disciples in the first century. See
Asher’s point of the 2-part prophecy from Joel 2:32-3:2: the first part was
cited by Peter in Acts, “This is that….” But the second part was not citied and
describes the conditions for the fulfillment of the second half of the prophecy—a
“second Pentecost” that will affect Jerusalem and the whole world. Joel 2:32 – 3:2 …because in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be a remnant.
Chaim Malespin of the Aliyah Return Center sent a Holocaust memorial link to the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. He writes truly that the Holocaust was “One of the greatest atrocities scarring the face of human history.” Chaim wrote, “Join us as we hear some heart wrenching stories of heroes that fought to defend the defenseless, and against all odds, survive to see prophecies in the Bible fulfilled.” Please consider a gift to help the work of the Aliyah Return Center, please click here. Funds are incredibly tight within the ministries of Israel. They need our help.
The personal Restoration from Zion ministry newsletter of Daniel & Patty Juster and Ben & Lorena Juster features an article by Patty, “What is Wisdom.” She writes about how each “seed” we plant had a DNA that will cause us to reap what we sow. “Wisdom is knowing what kind of plant or fruit our seed will produce.” She also notes that “We were never intended to bear the weight of making our decisions independently” from God. They also write about the upcoming US tour for Dan & Patty that begins in May, asking prayers over all the travels and details; and for Ben’s work in Tikkun America as he has been seeing major churches awakening to the connection between international Christians and the body of Messiah in Israel. There are signs of an awakening Church popping up all over – and these are surely seeds that the Tikkun ministries have been planting for decades.
Guy Cohen of the Harvest of Asher congregation in Acco writes about “Our
Mothers” and relates the testimony of a young mother with 2 daughters in Israel
“divorced after
a decade of marriage in the shadow of severe economic, mental and physical
violence.” She relates her journey recovery of “trust in human beings” of her
and her daughters, and how she started to dream of a better future for them
pursuing academic studies—and all the help she received along the way to
achieving her degree and her subsequent career in “an important urban project
that helps families in the cycle of poverty.”
Inspired by this woman’s testimony and an ask for help by the Acco
Social Services for their congregation to get involved with a new program to
help 10 women to afford 3-year bachelor’s programs, Guy is asking for
prayers and financial commitments to help them, help out in this program. When
Israeli municipalities know they can turn to Messianic congregations for help
in all manner of humanitarian projects, this is trust that is being built for
those Israeli Jews who call upon the Name of Yeshua. That is 10 times better
than Christian funds coming from people who they will never lay eyes on, never
see walking out the faith in Yeshua that the Messianic Jews of Israel are
walking out daily. Do you want to plant seed in Israel toward humanitarian
funds? Contact Harvest of Asher
Israel has evangelists, what they
need is the support funding for the evangelists that they have. That is what
Israel Pochtar of the Beit Hallel congregation in Ashdod is pointing out in
this article about Chaim and Miriam's Story—Fishers of Men as he says also, The
Revival has Begun! "Both Miriam and Chaim are so incredibly
passionate about people and reaching the lost, that it’s just amazing to see
people get healed and saved through them everywhere they go,” Israel writes.”
These are the type of workers we need in the fields of Israel." Also watch
Israel’s devotional—
The desert and the parched land will be
glad. PLUS Youth Discipleship
Camp during Shavuot | Equipping the Pastors, Evangelists and Leaders of tomorrow. God sees
potential where man sees inexperience. Youth are an investment worth making.
More on the purposeful equipping youth towards spiritual leadership in Israel’s
present and future, this Fields of
Wheat post on Facebook
wrote about how great it was to have a post-covid Katzir youth gathering after
so long, and how they are rejoicing that the govt has now expanded the number
of people who can meet in one place from 50 to 100. “We are hoping to get back to
full activity - hopefully in the form of camps - in the coming months.” This is
a decades old youth camps ministry headed by Eitan Shishkoff, and where kids
from the camp have returned as young adults to be ministers and counselors in
the camps – including Joel Jelski, who along with Eitan, Cody and Liat Archer
are the leaders in the Fields of Wheat ministry. The motto of the ministry is “Equipping
for the Harvest.” Ever on the minds of Israeli ministries.
From two editions of the Tikkun Global prayer and newsletter, Asher Intrater writes about the latest round of govt elections, Corona closures ending and: “At the same time, we are seeing an openness in local evangelism and discipleship, as well as global alignment. It's like a rocket ship beginning to take off. It seems we are moving quickly into an end times' scenario, affecting both Israel and the nations.” Also advising to be discerning and not be deceived because the spirit of deception is so great in these days: “This is a time to stay close to the Lord and to one another. Those are His two great commandments to us: to love God and to love one another. Let's do it. “ In the second edition, Ron Cantor writes Because You Asked...My Opinion on the Vaccine–It's Romans 14, Not 13. They share the Israel’s Restoration April Edition and Dan Juster’s article Near Death Experiences: Resurrections
From Out of Zion, David & Josie Silver: 4/13 Midweek Update Video, 4/16 David's Latest Video Update. Invite to The View from Carmel — Q & A Forum on Zoom | Every Tuesday 9.00 pm Israel time | email for meeting ID & Password ||| Partner with Out of Zion Ministries | For a full list of resource and products available please see the RESOURCE page on the Out of Zion Website for our VIDEO and ARTICLE teachings
Messiah’s Mandate and Shelanu TV, Ron Cantor sends two exciting medical
breakthroughs from Israel in his news email, one breakthrough in Brain Cancer
that also might have application to alleviate pain of Sickle Cell Anemia, the
other a readily available Kefir Yougurt Smoothie that could calm the “cytokine
storm” that has killed many Covid patients through its impressive antibacterial
and anti-inflammatory attributes. (It will be a long time in the process of
being verified, but if Covid comes around our house, I’m going to Walmart to
stock up on Kefir smoothies!)
Also from Cantor, on Shelanu TV, they are back in the studio working on new
program content for Shelanu TV in Hebrew, a program similar to TED talks on
controversial topics, another with a couple who will host experts as they
present Yeshua as a positive figure in the past, present, and future: a
Bible-based program by an Ethiopian, native born Israeli evangelist; a program
to "clean" the name of Yeshua in Israel-showing His true name Yeshua
means Salvation!, and a re-presentation in Hebrew of Dr. Michael Brown’s
answering Jewish objections to Jesus. And more. Consider a gift to Shelanu TV. It cannot be understated that online
resources are MUCH more effective at reaching people with the Gospel than you
are used to in America and other nations. Probably a lot has to do with the
privacy that online resources afford the seeker in initial stages.
Michael and Dina Beener are also working with the Ethiopian Jewish immigrant community in Sderot on the border with Gaza. There is a new arrival of Ethiopian Jews to Sderot and the City of Life ministry team has begun working with them “alleviating the suffering of these new immigrants as they take their first steps in the dreamed land of their ancestors, Israel.” You are invited to take a role in this, as they write, “Our work would not be possible without the help of partners like you.” They also write about the “first deaf-mute meeting took place in our congregation, where a group of happy deaf mute people, some of them non-believers, enjoyed a special meeting full of teaching, encouragement, understanding and above all the Holy Spirit, all in sign language and a integrated environment.” See more about their ministry at the City of Life website.
Chuck Cohen, Intercessors for Israel in Jerusalem Friday Prayer Points April 16, 2021 Read in full online with prayer points and scriptures to pray over each point.
Avner Boskey of Final Frontier Ministries and David’s Tent in Beer Sheva has a new article Biblical foundations and Iran. “A deadly serious cat-and-mouse game has been going on in the Middle East for some time now between Iran and its proxies on the one hand, and Israel and the U.S.A. on the other”
From Kobi & Shani Ferguson of Maoz Ministries, the weekly prayer points include the topics of the mandate that was given to Netanyahu to form a government, and a terrible story about an IDF soldier suffering PTSD, who set himself on fire recently unable to get over survivor guilt after his commander had been brutally killed in front of him in the 2014 Gaza War. We must pray for these young people who protect Israel – many only 19 and 20 years old up against murderous terrorist mindsets. The young man, Itzik is in a critical condition burn unit —pray for his restoration. ALSO the Feruguson family will be traveling and ministering in the US from June 16 to Aug 16. Pray for all aspects of the travel, ministry, Divine connections as they bring the word of Lord forth from Zion.
Urgent HEALING Needs: Life
and Death is in the power of the tongue
Please keep in prayer
the Israeli believers who are fighting for their lives or other urgent health
needs:
Pray for the Silvers: David's knees and Josie's back pain | Rachel Netanel who is recovering from a
broken ankle. She asks prayers for healing and for the pain to subside. Living in a home with lots of stairs makes it
all the more difficult| A prayer request for Naomi, for a dear family that is a part of Israel
Pochtar's pastoral team, who was diagnosed recently with colon cancer.
"Despite what this battle entails, we are confident in God’s unfailing
Word and promises." Read in her own words| Ronit Bender
wrote, I am feeling pretty good, but do have trouble climbing stairs and walking is getting tougher for me because of my heart
situation. My cardiologist was changed by my health provider.
He is very unpleasant and I want a new one. | Rachel Netanel wrote, Please pray for me as well. I have very high blood
pressure and the doctors have sent me to have a number of tests. The results
won’t come for a while but please pray that all will be well. I do have peace
in Yeshua. | Please continue to pray for Jacob Damkani for the LORD's mercies over Jacob and his dear
wife, Elisheva | Olga Bikas is slowly recovering
from a broken ankle (after her back surgery!) The recovery process is slow,
but, praise the Lord, she is getting better and stronger, can already walk for
20 minutes and do some physical The recovery process is slow, but, praise the
Lord, she is getting better and stronger, can already walk for 20 minutes and
do some physical exercises. Please keep praying for Olga
Donna Diorio
April 19, 2021
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