Shalom intercessors and
friends of Israel!
PRAYER REQUEST
"But
he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon
him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are
healed."
Isaiah 53:5
Please pray for a secular Israeli Jewish friend who
found out he has cancer in his lungs, bones and liver. Let’s declare repentance
for salvation and healing. May he know his loving God and his Messiah Yeshua. During the Pessach seder may he remember when the Lord
of Hosts by His strong hand brought us out from Egypt, that the BLOOD OF THE
LAMB delivered our people from the death. That as a Jewish child, our
beloved brother and friend, may be excited to find the true Afikoman (the
hidden matza, the unleavened bread) that is Yeshua the Messiah of Israel.
He has overcome death, He is the only way, He is the truth and He is life, for
He lives before the foundation of the world.
"In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without
form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God was hovering over the face of the waters."Genesis
1:1-2 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. All things were made through him, and without him was not
any thing made that was made. He was in the beginning with God. In him was
life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness has not overcome it."John 1:1-5
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that
whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did
not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the
world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in
the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come
into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because
their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and
does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does
what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works
have been carried out in God." John
3:16-21
Chag Pessach Sameach
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The month of March was full
of battles and victories.
Read about what the Lord
has ministered us this month and agree in prayer. The prayer of a righteous man
is worth much, if it is done based on the Scriptures. The agreement between
Israel and Nations in the same spirit will make great achievements on Earth!
PURIM
We celebrated Purim in the
presence of God, praying with other intercessors at Succat Hallel.
Among other points, we prayed
for the women of this nation to be healed and assume their
role as “Esthers”. Women
who know their identity in God, who know the true submission that is
weightless, which brings life and honor.
-Pray for the Arab and
Bedouin women, repressed in their rights, inserted in a polygamous system (even
though this is illegal in Israel today, it is present in Bedouin villages).
-Pray for the Orthodox Jewish
women who live in a context of mourning for the Temple that no longer exists.
Pray that like Mary, who went to the tomb and was visited by angels, they will
also be visited and discover that their Messiah has already come. May they know
that they are now the Temple of the Spirit and that Yeshua LIVES! HalleluYAH!
-Pray for the young israeli
women that will serve the Army and have sexual relationship before marriage, wounding
and tearing their souls. In addition, they get pregnant and the Army sponsors
two abortions by young, without parental consent.
-Pray for the secular Jewish
women that served the Army and because of other struggles in life became rough women
.
Likewise, we prayed that
the men will be true "Mordechais", God fearing men who don't bow
before "Hamans". They will know in God to place Esther in her
position of Queen.
God is perfect in all of
His ways. May there be restoration!
PURIM AND ALIYAH
Another very important
aspect presented by the Book of Esther is the urgence of Aliyah.
At the time of Esther, the
Jewish people had already been released to return to Zion. The Persian King,
Cyrus, was the leader used by God, for through a decree in 538 BC, call our
people back to our land after 70 years of exile. We can read more about it in
the books of Nehemiah and Ezra.
Despite the decree, only
42.000 Jews returned. Many preferred to remain in the Diaspora, perhaps for the
convenience and financial situation.
It is then that in Persia
this man called Haman, a descendant of Amalek, an anti-Semite who wants to
annihilate the Jewish people appears. Thanks to God for the deliverance!
In another time, in the
year of 1938, a year before the Nazi invasion in Poland, God used Zeev Jabotinsky,
a Jewish writer from Ukraine, to warn our people about an oncoming great danger
and the urgent need to return to our land. Some heard the word of the Prophet,
but most did not, and for these there was the sad end as we know it.
Read on this link, excerpts
from the letter of Jabotinsky:
Similarly today, many are
"comfortable" in Diaspora, others already have experienced
anti-Semitism, or bankruptcy and returned.
Let us pray for a large
wave of Aliyah in our days. That our people may be instructed and awakened
before being "captured by hunters":
Jeremiah 16:14-16 "Therefore,
behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be
said, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of
Egypt,' but 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the
north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I
will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.
"Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall
catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt
them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the
rocks."
NAOMI, RUTH AND BOAZ
Still speaking of Aliyah,
we understand that in addition to the book of Esther, the book of Ruth is also
very prophetic in this regard.
Naomi is a Jew who left the
land of Israel due to the famine in the land. She became a widow and lost her
two sons in the land of Moab.
Ruth is an example of a
Gentile who clings to the Jewish people to the point of saying:
"But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave
you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you
lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God." Ruth
1:16
Today we pray that the
"Ruths" may rise in the Nations and bring the "Naomis" back
to Israel, through prayer, minister, acts of love and offerings.
"Thus
says the Lord GOD:"Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and
raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and
your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders." Isaiah 49:22
We know however that the
battle does not end there. The Jew returns, the "oleh chadash", and needs
a lot of support in the land of Israel so that he can be settle down again.
Ruth and Naomi when returned,
remained as poor foreigners for a time. They ate the spikes that were falling
on the floor at the time of the harvest, as the word says: "And
when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up
to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall
leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God." Leviticus 23:22
The story of the family shifted
when a man named Boaz agreed to be the redeemer. He married Ruth so Naomi
rescued the inheritance of land that belonged to her husband. Boaz could refuse
to do that, as well as the nearer redeemer refused, but Boaz chose to embrace,
donate, walk another mile, and thus had the honor to be the great grandfather
of King David.
Pray that today, in
addition to the "Ruths", may the "Boazes" be risen in the
land of Israel, to take up the cause of the new immigrants, giving opportunities,
teaching, loving, devoting their selves, so Naomi can be settled and not be uprooted from her land:
"I
will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of
the land that I have given them,"says the LORD your God." Amos 9:15
BEN HINNOM VALLEY
"The
earth is the LORD 's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell
therein," Psalms 24:1
Some Kings of Israel,
influenced by pagan Nations, descended to the Valley and burned their children
in the fire, offering them to Moloch:
"They
built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up
their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it
enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to
sin." Jeremiah 32:35
This was so abominable to
God’s eyes, that he cursed that Valley and this was one of the reasons for the
exile.
"and
the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited
out its inhabitants." Leviticus
18:25
For many years, this valley
was a place of garbage and corpses, however, in Jeremiah 31.40 there is a
promise: "The whole valley of the dead bodies and the
ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the
Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be
plucked up or overthrown anymore forever."
After
this biblical understanding, many worshipers and intercessors have been in that
Valley, blowing the shofar, worshiping and making decrees to redeem the land.
God has broken the curse and we have seen a nice and green place, where the
birds like to inhabit.
We
have taken our children to play and declare life where one day death triumphed.
JIJ-JERUSALEM INSTITUTE OF
JUSTICE
On March 6th,
JIJ’s founding attorney, Calev Myers, met with Chief International Criminal
Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in The Hague and presented JIJ’s communication
for investigation of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh for war crimes he committed
during the 2014 Gaza War. Haniyeh is accused of using Palestinian
civilians as human shields, firing rockets from crowded population
centers, frequently encouraging civilians to remain in areas that constitute
potential attack targets for the IDF and storing rockets in schools and
hospitals.
Pray for JIJ’s work and
staff.
BRAZIL’S DONATION TO HAMAS
We find on JIJ website an
article about the law 12.292 sanctioned by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil
in 2010. This law authorizes the Government to make million-dollar donations
for the reconstruction of Gaza. The problem is that we know
that through UNRWA organization these donations go directly to the hands of the
terrorist group Hamas.
Let’s pray asking
forgiveness for this Brazilian law and that it may be revoked as soon as
possible.
In the sublime and wonderful love of Yeshua haMashiach
