Please Pray

Shalom Friends and Family,

 

I just wanted to ask for prayer on behalf of our Israeli brethren.  I do not know how many of you keep up with the news and what is happening in Israel ... but they need our prayers.

 

For those of you who did not know, last month 3 Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered.  For years now, Gaza has been firing rockets into Israel ... but recently it has gotten worse.  Hamas (Islamic terrorist group) has claimed responsibility for the death of the teens as well as the hundreds of rockets fired on Israel.  I just saw a report that from about 12am on Friday (in Israel) to about 1:30pm the same day, 44 rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza.  Israel's Prime-minister Benyamin Netanyahu has said that Hamas will pay for this and has started an operation called "Operation Protective Edge" to protect his people and to put an end to these terror attacks.  On the other hand, in Gaza, Hamas is using civilians as human shields from Israel's defense fire.

 

We heard from one of our friends in Tel Aviv, and she said how they spend most of the day in the basement of a building which is like a bomb shelter.  She also said how there was a parade that day on the street we lived on while in Israel this last time.  She said that 400 Muslims where marching yelling, "Death to the Jews".  This sounds peace-loving doesn't it?  We have friends who are in the army and also one (that we know of so far) who has been called up ... Israel has called up 40,000 reserves.

 

Psalm 55:16-17 says, "As for me, I will call upon Elohim; and YHWH shall save me.  Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice."

 

Please, take time to pray for our Israeli brethren and the Arab civilians that are innocently caught in the middle.  It is very dangerous.  Please pray for protection, for strength, for wisdom (especially for the government leaders and soldiers).  Please also pray that this situation will bring people closer to the Father and that their eyes will be opened to their Messiah Yeshua ... and that they will find peace and comfort in Him.

 

For those of you who have iPhones ... there is a app at you can download that will give an alarm each time a rocket is fired from Gaza ... I think this is a great way to keep up with covering Israel with our prayers.  If you don't have an iPhone ... you can keep up (to some extent) with watching the Israeli news from Arutz Sheva, Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, etc.  Lately, I have been watching J-Post's live blog which give updates regularly.

 

Thank you all so much and Shabbat Shalom!

 

This song is from Psalm 121, sung by Sons Of Korah.