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November 17, 2014 · 5:28 pm

Learning How to Pray Effectively in 59 Seconds or Less (Part 18)

As a new Christian in mid-1985, I felt the Lord had called me to write and start a large publishing company. This made sense to me at the time because I was the president of a farm publishing company. I was thirty-nine years old, full of energy, zeal, and strength. Whatever obstacles might have faced me, I was ready and willing to plow over them. In the name of Jesus…of course.

Now, it’s twenty-nine years later.

Most men my age are enjoying their twilight years by traveling or fishing or playing golf, but I still get up each morning a couple of hours before sunrise to seek Him. I still pray some of the same prayers that I have prayed for twenty-nine years: “Lord, I thank You and praise You for the publishing company that touches the nations of the earth in Your name and for Your glory.”

How many books have I successfully published so far? None.

And to be honest, being a successful author and publisher is no longer the driving force within me that it was fifteen or twenty years ago. I have long since laid every book and every writing idea on His altar. If He wants me to give all of them away or to delete them, I will instantly obey without argument or complaint.

My desire is to know Him. Everything else seems insignificant compared to that.

Would I consider myself a failure if the words about being an author or a publisher did not come to pass in my life? No, not in the least. You see, it’s not up to me to make His words come to pass. It’s up to Him and His strength to make it happen.

So, if you think this sounds weak on my part, you are absolutely correct because I am weak.

And my weakness of ambition before Him allows His grace to work in me so that the power of Christ may rest upon me when I pray.

(Continued in Part 18)

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November 16, 2014 · 8:33 am

Inside Israel

Once again, it’s time to hear from our sister in Jerusalem about what she is witnessing there as a believer in Yeshua. Put your prayer shawls on and pray for Israel and Sister J. Now here she is …

May THE LORD be glorified, magnified and blessed …and may you be blessed and encouraged.

We live here in the midst of the struggle between Isaac and Ishmael, between Jacob and Esau, and between The God of Israel and His enemies. This struggle has re-surfaced with five being rammed by cars and two more stabbed to death. Riots are increasing in number and intensity. Our level of alert has been raised once again. The presence of soldiers and police is both comforting and alarming. Alarming because we know that the need is great, comforting because they are there to protect us.

I pray for all of them. For their salvation first, but also for their safety and for them to have wisdom and gentleness WITH discernment. It IS a tense time!

But this was what I expected.

If you have read my letters for any length of time, you will remember me saying often: “It is all about Jerusalem.” It is NOT about the settlements (a very poor translation of a word that would better be interpreted village then the word settlement). It is NOT about occupation. It is NOT about rights or jobs or finances, although all of these issues have been exploited as steppingstones to get to this point. It has ALWAYS been about JERUSALEM. The burdensome stone. The place where God chose to put HIS Name. The city which HE chose in ISRAEL to plant Himself and establish His seat for His purposes. And it is precisely because HE chose it that the battle has always been over it.

Years ago when the peace negotiations were far younger, the west laid out their strategy of dealing with the easy issues first and ease into the thorny ones: Judea and Samaria (called the west bank by the west), the so called “right of return” and JERUSALEM.

I said at the time, “Uh oh. This means giving up land, arming the Palestinians, tying our hands, and THEN plundering the rest of the land.”

But you see, it isn’t our land to give.

GOD SAID that this is HIS land and we do not have the RIGHT to touch it and to divide it. On Yom Yerushalaym (Jerusalem Day) each year, I speak of the promise made before God by this nation – when Jerusalem was restored to Israel for the first time in 2,000 years – that we would guard her and that she would never again be divided.

But there is a different kind of tension right now because there is also rioting among the Israeli Arabs and not just the Palestinians. Palestinians, you might remember, are NOT Israelis by their own choice. They did not accept Israeli citizenship. They are the ones who want half of Israel (actually, all of it). But there are a good number of Arabs who DID take Israeli citizenship at the formation of the state, who stayed on the land, who became full citizens, who live and work and play here and some of whom serve in the armed forces or other branches of service. They vote and have full medical and educational rights etc. They have every right that all Jewish citizens have, but in an incident last week with a riot, an Arab Israeli boy was killed.

I was in the shuk (market) on the following day. During the Gaza War, good relations existed between Arabs and the Jews. It was always business as usual.

There are two Arab vendors in the shuk that I trade with on a weekly basis. They are always kind, but not that day. There was tension, which took me by surprise. “Guard your heart and keep it soft,” I said to one young man in particular. He didn’t answer, which was unusual for him.

The Moslem mufti’s are calling for a Jerusalem intifada, and indeed, the Hamas leader said in his first statement after the Gaza war: “We have won in Gaza. ON TO JERUSALEM!”

That call was echoed across the Moslem populations world wide. THEY KNOW THAT IF THEY WERE TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM, or worse, to take her, THEY WOULD BE STABBING THE JEWS IN THE HEART.

BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY AND KNOWS HOW TO GLORIFY HIS NAME, IS NOT TAKEN BY SURPRISE. He is not sleeping and His purposes will not be thwarted. His great Name WILL BE GLORIFIED!

I read both 2 Chronicles 20 and Ezekiel 16 in the same day and was touched by the fact that it is all so simple – the way to Him and the way away from Him. This message is foundationally the same from Genesis through Revelation: turn FROM Me and I will turn from you. Turn TO Me and I will turn to you. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He has made the way straight, and narrow and also simple. How great is our God.

While riding the lite rail, my attention turned from my thoughts as the doors opened and a family boarded. A carriage with a tiny baby, pushed by an older brother, a small Mother carrying another little one with 4 small boys of graduated height following closely at her skirt as she said clearly and persistently, ”Shhhh! Shhhh!”

That admonition, heard by the whole train, was repeated gently but firmly, as if she were breathing it, through the entire trip. An older sister authoritatively held the hand of a smaller one as the thin father brought up the rear. All heads turned with the regular rise and fall of the “shhhh! Shhhh,” which, by the way, was obeyed. I began to count and learned there were nine small noses in all and two parents.

Eleven train tickets is a price not easy to come up with, explaining the children’s delight about being on the train. They were all neatly dressed in homemade clothes, a bit worn, but still clean. The girls had their hair modestly braided. The parents were also neat, and although very thin and tired looking and obviously poor, they looked strong and functioned as a peaceful unit. I watched as the excited children remained well behaved and heeded the constant reminder of “shhhhh! Shhhhh.”

It was interesting to notice the responses of the other passengers. Although Haradi families, and even full and large ones are a common sight, you don’t often see a family much larger then 7 on the train, if for no other reason then the cost. There was obvious disdain and disgust on some faces. This is the liberal, left wing reaction to religious families. Period. They simply do not believe in large families. It is an ideological issue.

Other parents on the train looked on with awe and admiration. Some of the rambunctious young people watched and became less rowdy and a bit more aware of their own behavior. Religious families ARE in fact usually larger then secular ones because they take seriously the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply and believe that children ARE the blessing of The Lord. In fact, they have turned it into a command. At any rate, it is fun to see this type of Biblical battle lived out on the streets daily.

Thank you for your prayers both personally and for this nation. May His kingdom come and His will be done both in our small private lives as well as in our nations,…His purposes for His glory.

Your sis,

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November 12, 2014 · 8:40 am

Islamic Terrorists Versus Radical Christians: New Game. New Rules. (Part 6)

How to be a Radical Christian (i.)

Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. (1 Corinthians 14:1)

Maybe your first thought is: “Yuck! Who wants this Pentecostal/Charismatic, phony baloney, spiritual gifts-type of stuff. Not me!”

Relax. Take a deep breath. Now, continue reading.

Let’s say that you and your wife take your daughter to the mall. Your little girl is three years old and dressed up in a Bambi t-shirt and matching jeans outfit. Everyone looks at her and smiles. She’s an absolute doll. You adore her and would do anything to protect her.

But before leaving home, you were in a hurry and forgot to use the restroom. Now, you need to go. You tell your wife and, of course, she rolls her eyes and shakes her head. Then she says, “Oh honey, use the one in Macy’s Department Store. We’ll wait here by the kids play area.”

You rush to the restroom, do your duty, wash your hands, and leave. When you walk out of the store, you see a flash and hear an explosion from an Islamic terrorist’s bomb. It knocks you down. Glass particles and debris cover you.

Brushing yourself off, you run to where you wife and daughter were waiting. When you get there, you see bodies all over the floor. You somehow find your wife and daughter, but they’re covered with blood and dead.

Now, what are you going to do?

Are you going to call the police? Or the doctor? Or your pastor? Or the funeral home? Or are you just going to fall down and cry?

You see, at this disastrous moment, you need the gift of faith, the gift of healing, and the gift of miracles to try and raise your loved ones from the dead. And I guarantee that you would do anything to have these gifts at that time, wouldn’t you?

So, what’s stopping you from seeking the spiritual gifts right now? Pride. Bad teaching. Laziness. What?

Remember: Radical Christians do not care what others think. They swim upstream against whatever religious current they face.

(Continued in Part 7)

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November 11, 2014 · 12:04 pm

Tuesday’s Prayers for America (11/11/2014)

A pastor friend of mine was so upset with some members of his congregation that he paced back and forth in the empty church. He voiced his disagreements aloud as he walked, quoting scriptures to back up his opinions. As he sounded off, the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart, “Be careful about what you say because I live in them, too.”

My pastor friend fell on his knees, realizing he had wandered onto shaky ground. He repented and changed his attitudes from that moment forward.

“Do not touch My chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets.” (Psalm 105:15 NLT)

Scripture states that the archangel Michael did not dare to speak a reproachful judgment against Satan because of Michael’s reverence of God who had delegated power to Satan. If that scripture is true, then why are we so willing to slam other believers who disagree with our doctrines?

Today I prayed:

Lord, I pray that we American believers become united as one so that the world will know the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom He sent to give life to those that believe in Him. (Based on John 17: 2, 3, 23)

What do you think and did the Lord speak to you today?

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November 9, 2014 · 9:40 am

Inside Israel

Greetings, dear body of Messiah, friends, sisters and brothers, greetings with love and prayer for blessing. May you be encouraged and blessed and may THE LORD be glorified and find pleasure in His body.

The intense and long holiday season has come to an abrupt end and we have been plunged into the pressure cooker again. It is an odd feeling to be standing with a tiny country alone against all of the other governments in the world. The lines seem to be drawn more deeply as the days draw short. There are those who do NOT believe in God but in (the god of) humanism. There are those who fight for other gods, (alla being the most obvious right now). And there are those who believe The One True God, who know and walk with His Son, The Lamb. It seems to me that the fact that it is a religious battle has become obvious even to skeptics. Where do we stand in this and HOW do we stand and walk?

My cell phone rang today while I was in prayer. It was a number that might have been important so I answered it. It turned out to be a most strange call.

“Shalom, Shula?’” the voice said.

“No. You must have a wrong number,” I answered.

“Who is this?” she asked.

I don’t know why I answered but I did.

“Can I talk to you for a minute?” she asked.

“I’m really busy now, I’m sorry,” I answered, but when she wanted to call back the following day I asked where she was calling from.

“I am from a yeshiva (learning school) that studies kabala,” she said.

Kabala is Jewish mystical studies. Jewish witchcraft in my understanding of witchcraft. (Feel free to look it up on google. I don’t want to go into it here)

“I fear God and study Torah (The Old Testament) and Neve’em (Prophets). I am not interested in kabala,” I said.

“Oh! We ALSO study Torah,” she continued.

‘Thank you but no, I am not interested.”

I thought the conversation was over, but she asked, “Can I put your name in the cave of the grave of Rabbi Shlomo?”

“No! Do NOT put my name in any grave! I stand before The Living God and I do not want my name in any grave or before any Rabbi.”

I had wished that I could tell her more, but I couldn’t for security reasons as she had my name and phone number. I wanted to tell her that I know The One who WAS dead and in the grave but Who is now ALIVE and owns the keys to death and hell. As usual I could kick myself when these times pass. Why didn’t I say more? But then I realized I was still on my knees and could pray for her. God could also prepare me for such opportunities and teach me HOW to MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN LIVES FOR HIM IN THIS TIME AND AGE.

People are discouraged and many have no hope. The pressure that comes from hearing constant criticism takes a toll. The pressure that comes from trying to explain again and again what should be evident settles like a yoke around the neck. When a 3-month old baby and a 21-year old woman were killed last week by a young Palestinian man who purposefully turned into a crowd standing at a train station, a collective pain went through the nation. The USA termed it “a tragic accident.”

But none of this takes God by surprise and that is so comforting!

The tree in front of our merapeset, with which He comforted me, covering me in His sukka just a short time ago, drops more leaves with every shake of the wind. The deep green is rapidly turning to yellow and brown and I can again see my husband’s shop across the road, no longer obscured by the rich foliage. My flowers are looking old and shivery. Today, as I walked from work to the bus today I took a deep look at the grapevines, fruit trees and abundance of flowering shrubs and they all seemed to be shaking off their summer splendor at once. It happens subtly and yet it seems to happen suddenly.

How the changing seasons reflect His faithfulness AND His character.

Rolling clouds block the sun and chill the air as helicopters circle above, adding sounds and tension to the heightened police presence through out the “city of peace.” The heart of the conflict.

Humorous articles appeared in the press today depicting the difficulty that Hebrew reporters have had finding the translation of the curse words that were spoken by a US administrative official concerning our Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, which was quoted in a respected American magazine. Curse words are NOT replete in Hebrew so how DO you translate that?

But we need the humor break now and then, as the events of the day/week/month/year have not been funny at all. Following the Gaza war this summer the Hamas leader called upon all Palestinians to take Jerusalem. Since then there have been daily riots, throwing of rocks and Molotov cocktails, as well as several murders and attacks.

Last night after speaking at a conference concerning Jews praying on the Temple Mount, which is forbidden for Jews to pray there, the speaker was shot and critically wounded by an Arab gunman who was later killed by police. Simmering tensions boiled over. Today Temple Mount is closed to all.

Temple Mount: (har h’bayit in Hebrew) Mount Moriah − the place where Abraham took Isaac in wonderful obedience to God and then God provided the lamb. The place where the first and second temples were built, where God chose to put His Name, where Jesus, Yeshua, walked, stood, taught, prayed, healed, delivered. So much more can be said about this tiny spot.

Two older men sat near me on the bus, one sat across from me and the other beside me; “Ah! What a mess!” the first one said. “He’s a nudnik! I voted for him and he’s a nudnik!”

He was speaking about our Prime Minister. The heated world rhetoric has grieved, embarrassed and discouraged many Israelis.

“Ah, but look…just a few weeks ago during the war the US was behind us,” the other man replied.

“I don’t know. It’s bad…bad.”

The first one began referring to the prescribed scriptures. “Remember our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham had Isaac AND Ishmael…they were brothers and then Isaac had Jacob and Esau.”

“Yes, they were twins and they struggled and fought in the womb and that is still happening today. We are still fighting with Esau through the Palestinians.”

The other one almost brought me into the conversation when he said “No. Esau is the father of the Christians.”

My eyes flew wide open and I turned to stare at him. Wow! I thought. He sure missed THAT one.

It was time for me to get up and run from the train.

The seasons change. It is in the air, in the colors, in the way people are dressing and walking. As I stood at the train station, an elderly street musician who made aliyah from Siberia began playing our national anthem, ha’tikvah, The Hope. It is a haunting melody and commands my heart and attention and speaks the words of a prayer.

I looked around and wondered if would any stop? Are they thinking as they hear this? Are they praying? It is not often heard in the streets. Some paces slowed a bit, some faces deepened. I have never heard him play it before. It arrested me as I tried to embrace the bigger picture swirling around me. May the hope and the VISION, not die, at least not the part that has been planted by God. May HE water it and dung it and give it the increase 100 fold. Here are the words translated:

English translation of Hatikvah

As long as deep within the heart

A Jewish soul yearns

And toward the edges of the east

An eye to Zion looks

Our hope is not yet lost

The hope of two thousand years

To be a free people in our Land

The Land of Zion and Jerusalem.

It is time to close this letter and get off to bed. I am so thankful for His body and thank you for praying His Heart for this season. God bless and keep you.

Lovingly,

your sister in Jerusalem

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November 6, 2014 · 12:03 pm

Praise the Lord…Pass the Ammo (Part 7)

The morning after my salvation, I jumped out of bed and eventually made my way to the family room. I felt an inner desire to pray. The only problem was that I had been an agnostic for twenty years and no matter how we slice the bologna, agnosticism does not prepare us very well for praying.

The best I could come up with while sitting on the sofa was something like this: “Lord, bless my wife. Bless my son. Bless my daughter. Bless my mom. Bless my dad…” And so forth.

These simple prayers probably seem juvenile to most believers, but to be honest, I still follow the same prayer format today.

For example, when I sold cars, I walked around and introduced myself to everyone at the various dealerships where I worked. During the introductions, I asked the names of their spouses and their children. Then, I prayed and asked God to bless each worker and his family by their individual names each morning.

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers (Ephesians 1:16)

From time to time, the Holy Spirit gives me insight or I have personal knowledge so I can pray special prayers for people. But for the most part, this is the exception rather than the norm for me.

Okay, how does this put my angels to work?

Who carries out our prayers?

Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word! (Psalm 103:20)

Angels wait for us believers to pray in line with scriptures and true prophetic words so they can carry out our words. In Hebrews, the author refers to these angels as ministering spirits, whose main service is to care for people who will inherit salvation. And guess what? God desires for all to be saved.

In addition, the Greek word sōtēria, which is translated into the English word salvation, not only implies eternal salvation but every blessing from God.

So, when we bless someone, it’s a full mouthful of good stuff for that person.

How would you like to add a little more juice to your prayers?

(Continued in Part 8)

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November 5, 2014 · 8:51 am

Islamic Terrorists Versus Radical Christians: New Game. New Rules. (Part 5)

Why are radical Christians needed in the war with Islamic terrorists?

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. (Ephesians 6:12 Amplified)

Let’s start with a question that is not asked often enough: what do Islamic terrorists believe?

They believe that Allah is backing their ventures and that they are doing Allah’s will when they murder infidels (also known as you and me). They believe America is the Great Satan. They believe that their version of Islam is the only true religion and will eventually conquer the world. They also believe that they will be rewarded in Paradise if they are killed in their attempts to kill infidels and fight the Great Satan.

Now, don’t make the mistake of thinking that they are just powerless, clueless fanatics because nothing could be farther from the truth. A spiritual power guides them and empowers them. Call it the spirit of Babylon. Or the Ishmael spirit. Or the spirit of Islam. But whatever you call it, it is a religious spirit.

And guess what? It is my belief that the ruling spirit over America is a religious spirit.

So, if there is such a thing as a perfect storm, this is it: America’s foes are backed by a religious spirit and at the same time, America is under the power of a religious spirit. As of now, this is a no-can-lose war for Satan.

America absolutely needs radical Christians that know how to fight demonic principalities and powers – AND – are free enough of America’s ruling religious spirit to fight the good fight of faith. This is our only hope for victory.

(CONTINUED Part 6)

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November 3, 2014 · 3:22 pm

Learning How to Pray Effectively in 59 Seconds or Less (Part 17)

I recently had coffee with a friend at Starbucks. “You will never guess what the leader of our Bible study asked me last night?” he said.

I shook my head.

“The leader asked, ‘On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your faith level?’ I answered her by saying that mine was probably a zero or a one.”

“What did she say to that?” I asked.

“She wasn’t impressed and said that her faith level was at least an eight or a nine. Another person stated that his faith level was a perfect ten. Larry, what would you have replied to them?”

I laughed and said, “I probably would have jumped up and said, ‘Let’s go to a hospital or a funeral home right now. Such great faith needs to be used for healing the sick and raising the dead. Let’s not waste any time!'”

We both laughed.

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30)

At our salvation, we each received our own lumps of faith. What we do with our lumps is up to each of us. We can increase our faith through studying God’s word, prayer, hearing the voice of God, our experiences, fasting, and so forth. Yet, there will eventually be certain situations where we realize that our faith is not enough.

looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith… (Hebrews 12:2)

Then, our faith must be in the Lord, His power, and His wisdom to do what’s best for that situation. If the Lord heals, if He provides, or if He shows up with a miracle, praise the Lord. If He doesn’t, praise Him anyway.

“Sometimes God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.” (Graham Cooke)

How can we boast in our weakness like the Apostle Paul did?

(Continued in Part 18…earlier parts can be read by clicking here.)

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October 30, 2014 · 11:08 am

Praise the Lord…Pass the Ammo (Part 6)

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
thy angels watch me through the night,
And keep me safe till morning’s light.

(Childhood prayer)

For four hundred and fifty years, angels were seldom mentioned by Evangelical Christians, except as guardian angels for children. The reason? It was considered too Catholic by Protestants because there were so many Catholic prayers, referring to angels in one way or another.

Then the Charismatic Movement arrived on the scene in the late 1960s with its spirituals gifts, lively praise music, and visions/dreams, some of which were about angels. Charles Capps wrote Angels: Knowing Their Purpose, Releasing Their Power. His book sold 250,000 copies and helped to open our eyes to the importance of angels once again.

Frank Peretti followed up by writing This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness, which have sold over 3.5 million copies to date. These two books opened up a new realm of thought for us: spiritual warfare, involving God’s angels versus Satan’s demons.

So, we know a little more about angels than we did fifty years ago, but still, what were God’s angels doing for four hundred and fifty years? Watching I Love Lucy reruns?

One preacher stated that he had a vision of God’s angels standing around and eating chocolate bonbons and pizza. They were fat and getting fatter while they waited for us Christians to put them to work.

We Christians can put angels to work? How do we do that?

(Continued in Part 7)

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October 29, 2014 · 8:39 am

Islamic Terrorists versus Radical Christians: New Game. New Rules. (Part 4)

I happened to listen to Bryan Suits on the radio while I drove the car yesterday. His show, Dark Secret Place, deals with terrorism, fighting in Iraq, and other related stories.

He talked about when he was an officer in Iraq and how the loss of one of his soldiers via an IED (improvised explosive device) led him to a discussion with an Iraqi cleric.

“Do you want to know how to stop IED’s and roadside bombs?” said the cleric.

“Sure,” said Lt. Suits.

“When you enter a town, grab a ten-year old boy and tie him to the front of your Humvee. Then , when you’re leaving the town, untie the boy, and let him go. The IED’s will stop.”

Suits said that he was shocked by the cleric’s statement, and told him that American soldiers would rather die than use an innocent boy as a shield. It was a barbarous, cowardly act.

The cleric shrugged his shoulders as if to say, “Okay, that’s up to you.”

No matter how the news media and the anti-war movement have portrayed our American soldiers, our military will not resort to any means possible to win the war against radical terrorists. And sadly, the terrorists use this noble characteristic as a weapon against us.