<!-- /// CSS goes here in case the /HEAD tags get stripped \\\ --><!-- \\\ CSS goes here in case the /HEAD tags get stripped /// --><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#f1f1f1"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="530" bgcolor="#f1f1f1"><tbody><tr><td class="hbnr" colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"><img src="http://www.netivyah.org/components/com_acajoom/templates/default/tpl0_top_header.jpg" border="0" alt="e Newsletter" width="530" height="137" /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"><img src="http://www.netivyah.org/components/com_acajoom/templates/default/tpl0_underban.jpg" border="0" alt="." width="530" height="22" /></td></tr><tr><!-- /// gutter \\\ --><td width="15" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"><img src="http://www.netivyah.org/components/com_acajoom/templates/default/tpl0_spacer.gif" border="0" alt="1" width="15" height="1" /></td><!-- \\\ gutter /// --><!-- /// content cell \\\ --><td width="500" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"><br /><p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px">The Jerusalem Prayer List - Thursday, June 28, 2007</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px">by Joseph Shulam</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px"> </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px">The Summer has come to Israel if full force. The temperature has been very high all over the country. Jerusalem was even much warmer than Tel-Aviv by several degrees, but the humidity in Tel-Aviv is very high. I have been teaching in Finland from the book of Ecclesiastes and I suppose that we should all remember that the time is also in the hands of the Lord and there is a time for every season. In our lives too there is a time for every season and not all the seasons are Spring there are times that rain must fall, and other times that we will be parch
ed by the Sun. In our Jerusalem congregation we had a wonderful wedding of a brother that is 50 years old and finally found love. He married a fine lady who is also of the same age and they are both so happy. They can both say “hallo to happiness and good bye to loneliness” at 50+, and for all of us it ought to remind us that for each there is a time set by God and we ought to grab God's time. Even Yeshua knew that there is a time set for him to go up to Jerusalem. Going up to Jerusalem at any other time would not “get the job done” and nothing would happen, but going up to Jerusalem “when His hour had come,” was His most fateful appointment in Human History. For me this lesson is a very hard one to learn. I confess that my “Savlanut” is very short – and the Hebrew word “Savlanut” comes from the root “Sevel” = “to suffer” - like the word “Patience,” that comes from the word that means to “suffer” in Latin and it is the same root word as “passion.” So, we need to wait for the times and the seasons of the Lord and for this waiting we need “Savlanut” - “Patience” and the strength to be able to “suffer” it through. </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px"> </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px">Here are some of the prayer needs that we have:</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman">1.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>We have several Orthodox Jews with whom we are having some very serious and interesting conversations about the Messiahship of Yeshua. This is some very important challenge because there are several souls in the balance in this case. So many Christians and
so called Messianic Jews never learn to give an answer for the faith that is in them and at least not a rational answer. The Bible Schools and Christian Universities and Seminaries teach very little if any polemics. If they teach polemics and apologetics at all it is usually dealing with Atheism and not with either Jewish or Muslim issues. Our Jewish brothers and sisters from the Orthodox camp learn anti-Jesus polemics and Jewish apologetics from an early age and they are good at it. Please pray that the Lord will sharpen the Word of God in us that it shall be a sword of gentle and at the same time sharp to penetrate the logic and the heart of our sparing partners.</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman">2.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>We have started a very interesting Wednesday evening study of the Talmud with Dr. Tsvika from our congregation. We first believed that we would have only a handful of students and in fact we would have been satisfied with four or five students, but the interest that this class generated is amazing and we have had students that drove from the Jordan Valley to come and attend this class. Christians might ask why do Jewish Disciples of Yeshua want to study Talmud (Rabbinical collection of writings and discussions dating from the first century B.C. - all the way to the forth century A.D.). The answer is simple – if we want to understand our heritage and the heritage of the New Testament Writers we must understand their world, their way of thinking, their concerns. The Talmud is a collection of discussions that captures the ideas, the way of thinking and the Jewish world of the First Century and beyond. Please lift up this class and Dr. Tsivka in your prayers so that our men and men from other congregations in Israel might be enriched and be blessed by learning to think more like First Century Jewish thinking. </p><
p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman">3.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I received news that a dear friend of Israel in Chile had a bad car accident and is in the hospital. Please pray for Juan Calderon. Mention this name before the Lord and ask for healing. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">4.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>I also received word that F.H. Gates father went to be with the Lord. F.H. Is a dear brother from Belo-Horizonte, Brazil. Please pray that the good Lord will comfort and strengthen the faith of the whole family. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">5.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Our brother Marcelo is now in Chile by invitation of several churches to teach about the Restoration of the First Century Church. Please keep Marcelo in your prayers and ask God to bless his teaching and his health and to prosper his calling into this ministry.</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">6.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Please begin to pray for four of us who are planning to go to Portugal in August and speak to many “Anussim” are those Jews who have been forced by the Catholic Church to convert to Christianity between the 13 - 18<span style="vertical-align: 5px">t
h</span> centuries. They were the victims of the Spanish and Portuguese inquisition. On the outside these “new Christians” were Catholic and hidden in their basements they were and in fact still are practicing Jews. Over the years they have lost the connection to the Jewish Community and have in fact lost much of both faiths to just keep the shell of tradition. We want to go to Portugal and speak to these people the Good News – that a person can be 100% faithful to his national heritage and also 100% faithful to the Messiah of Israel and the World, Yeshua of Nazareth. We want to tell these dear people that they don't have to accept the history and teaching of Christiandom but they have to accept what that Galilean Jew did and taught – the Gospel of their salvation. Four of us will be going on this trip and we hope to bring a blessing to these communities in Portugal. Please keep us in your prayers and bless us to be ble to make this trip successfully. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">7.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Please pray for Jimmy and Hava our dear friends who are on their way to Israel next week. They are coming in order to help us organize and make our life and work more efficient. Jimmy and Hava have been our close friends for many years and Jimmy is a kind of expert on organization and administration. We need his expertise and knowledge to make us more effective and efficient in the Lord's Work. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">8.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>We have a praise report – our dear brot
her and sister Rosenblit have a seven pound new baby girl. The Rosenblit family is planning to come and work with us in Netivyah by the end of September when this baby is old enough to travel. We lift them up in prayer and bless the Lord for the birth of their new daughter. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">9.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>We ask you to please continue to pray for those of our brothers and sisters who are sick:</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">10.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Please lift up in your prayers the Marianenko family – both parents are coping with cancer and with chemo and radiation at this time. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">11.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Sarit has a very hard time walking. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">12.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Marcia is still off all her medication for Rheumatoid Arthritis and that means that the only thing she can take for the pain is Tylenol. Well in comparison to the big guns that she took for pain – Tylenol is like a fly in front of an elephant. She needs your prayers during this season and your p
rayers ought to be for a total healing by the Lord.</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">13.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Ruby is not finding any relief for her pain. She has been suffering in Oklahoma City for a long time and we will keep praying for the Lord to hear her prayers and our prayers for her and heal her.</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">14.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>We pray for Yitzhak – who has had a retina detachment and can't really see enough to work or read. We ask the Lord for the healing of this brother!</p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">15.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>We want you to pray for all the “kids” of Netivyah who are in the military right now. We have several “kids” in active duty in all the branches of the military and they need the Good Lord's protection. We pray that the God of Israel does not slumber or sleep, but we want Him to protect and guard our children and all the children of Israel who are protecting our boarders and guarding our lives. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">16.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Please keep D
anah and Noaam in your prayers. Nothing is new there it is still the same-old-same-old stuff that is unpleasant and just totally annoying. </p><p style="text-indent: -18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica">17.<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>Please keep our case before the city of Jerusalem in your prayers too. We have to face the lies and the manipulative action of the Orthodox Organization Yad LeAchim, and we understand the anger of the Jewish Community against Christiandom, but they don't understand that we are not interested in bringing Christiano-Paganism to the Jewish people. We are interested to bring Yeshua back home to His rightful place in our History and heart. </p><p style="text-indent: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px"> </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px">We bless you and yours and ask the Good Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to be with you and comfort you and prosper all your ways. </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px"> </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px">Joseph Shulam</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; margin: 0px"> </p></p><p>Your Subscription:<br /><p></p><p><a href="http://www.netivyah.org//index.php?option=com_acajoom&act=change&subscriber=1235&cle=e08583d7f0bf3fccb6c0d1880fee4f64&listid=1" target="_blank">Change your subscription</a><br /><a href="http://www.netivyah.org//index.php?option=com_acajoom&act=unsubscribe&subscriber=1235&cle=e08583d7f0bf3fccb6c0d1880fee4f64&listid=1" target="_blank">Unsubscribe</a></p>
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