“Update, Monday, August 22, 2005.”
Please read this update, below.
Thanks for your interest in praying for these concerns.
Shalom,
David
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From: The Elijah Prayer Army
To: Weinberger, David
Subject: Prayer Alert 05-29
The Elijah Prayer Army
Prayer Alert 05-29
Aug 19, 2005
Prayer Topic this Week:
• Thanks for Praying! Please Continue!
Current:
- Message of the Month for August is called "The Authority to Bind and
to Loose." What does binding and loosing really mean? Learn the
principles behind powerful intercession. This important message was
recorded during the "Urgent Esther Call."
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2.
• Thanks for Praying! Please Continue!
"Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow
in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying
seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him."
(Ps 126:4-6)
The removal of the Jewish people from Gaza and northern Samaria has been
the largest Israeli military operation since the Lebanon war in 1982.
Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens said in an interview this week that
the disengagement is "the biggest internal crisis that Israel has ever
faced." Arens called it a "self-inflicted wound" that "will leave
serious scars behind.
Thank you for fasting and praying in this hour of crisis for Israel! We
believe that the Lord is very pleased with your sacrifice. Please know
that it has not been in vain despite the fact that the dreaded
disengagement is now underway! God is recording every prayer and answers
will come in His time and in the way He chooses. Out of much pain much
good can come as we continue to pray!
We must remember that the disengagement itself is not over yet. Many
crucial aspects that need our faithful prayers are still ahead. Much can
happen. So far the disengagement has been far less violent than
expected. We must pray that it will continue this way and that God will
use it for good.
Here is a quite revealing report from what took place in the settlement
of Morag this week.
"Teams of soldiers entered the settlement of Morag Monday afternoon and
began distributing eviction orders while trying to convince the settlers
to leave voluntarily. Some residents are packing up their belongings,
others are folding their laundry, refusing to leave, waiting for a
miracle.
"At one point, in an emotional standoff, Colonel Erez Tzukerman, head of
the Golani Brigade, hugged and cried together with the Morag settlers in
an effort to persuade them to evacuate voluntarily before Wednesday,
when the forced evacuation was slated to begin. 'We didn't come here to
clash with you, but to offer assistance and to help you, the people we
once protected and worked hand in hand with,' a teary-eyed Tzukerman
called out to a crowd of several hundred anti-disengagement activists
gathered at the entrance to the southern settlement.
"A young man suddenly emerged from the crowd with tears streaming down
his face and called out to the senior officer, 'I was an officer under
your command, you taught me what it was to be an officer and protect the
Israeli people. We are not your enemy but you have turned us into your
enemy. Just six months ago, I was wearing an army uniform and serving
side by side with you.' Tzukerman then wrapped his arms, in a tight bear
hug, around the former subordinate, evoking cries of anguish and sadness
from the crowd.
"Tzukerman told the crowd that he loved them and that he felt that the
settlers of Morag were a part of this nation and always would be.'All of
the officers are here and we are together on this day in a display of
our love and affection to offer you help and assist you during this
difficult time.'
"The crowd then broke out singing Hatikva and together with the soldiers
sang the national anthem." (End quote Lekarev Report)
We must know that the battle has only begun. Hamas has promised that
they will never lay down their weapons. Hamas chief Khaled Mashal
explained this week to the London-based al-Hayat newspaper, that the
withdrawal from Gaza is "the beginning of the end for Israel." Their
strategy is very clear: today Gaza, tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem
and after that all of Israel. We must neither lay down our spiritual
weapons. In the end faith in the promises of God will win.
Our eyes, however, must be opened to the truth even when the truth
hurts. The fact is that the horrible disengagement and surrender to
terror that has caused so much pain for Israel was ordered by the United
States of America on behalf of Saudi Arabia. Last week the Chief Rabbi
of Haifa, Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, came to Jerusalem and pleaded with
Sharon to reconsider his plan to retreat from Gaza and Samaria. Sharon
answered Rabbi Cohen: "This is what the U.S. State Department is
demanding that I do, and I must do it".
US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice had the nerve this week in the
midst of the pain to declare that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza is only
a beginning. In order to make room for a Palestinian state, more
withdrawals must follow!! Can this end well for America? We have heard
for decades that God has blessed America because it has stood with
Israel. What will happen now? Where are the prophets right now in the
United States sounding an alarm?? The so-called prophetic movement has
degenerated into a business and the watchmen have become mute dogs that
cannot bark.
A crucial question right now is this: will the disengagement become a
Dunkirk for Israel - a shameful retreat that will bring about a new
resolve to begin to fight back? Sooner or later we believe that this
will be the case. These are decisive moments of history!
Debka File reports this week,
"The copious tears of sympathy most Israelis shed this week over the
plight of Israeli families thrown out of their homes in Gaza made way
Thursday, Aug 18, for shocked outrage. The sight of forcible evacuations
and the desecration of synagogues, elderly men in prayer shawls, rabbis,
youths and women holding babies dragged out of not one but three houses
of worship, reached deep into tragic ancestral memories. The fact that
the storm troops were Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police officers
made the outrage witnessed live on television screens around the world
even more insupportable. While the so-called left fringe applauded "the
settlers'" comeuppance, the majority of Israelis condemned the Sharon
government for the senseless brutality of the orders it handed the
troops.
"Many of the Jewish inhabitants clinging to their homes today would have
accepted eviction for the sake of genuine peace. But while that goal is
not visible, their uprooting from Gaza could have been managed humanely.
After Ariel Sharon bulldozed his disengagement plan through the Knesset,
he should have got down to the reconstruction of Gush Katif B, Neve
Dekalim B, Kfar Darom B in the southern Negev. Once the new villages
were standing, entire Gaza communities could have been persuaded to
relocate their schools, institutions, neighbors and synagogues to the
new places with a minimum of pain.
"So what was the hurry to uproot them now and dump them into an
uncertain future? Why was the August 17 deadline more sacred than Jewish
synagogues? Would it have been a crime to let Mahmoud Abbas, the Hamas
and the other Palestinian terrorists wait another year to lay hands on
the enclave that was vacant and unwanted before the Israelis communities
set down roots there?
"The amazing thing is that not a single Israeli voice was raised to
demand of the government a sane and civilized approach to the man-made
human tragedy that might have saved whole communities from being driven
to despairing illusory sanctuary in their synagogues. Not even the
Supreme Court of Justice, normally so diligent in addressing the
slightest human and civil rights violations, never addressed the
evacuees' human or civil rights. It is as though 10,000 Israeli citizens
by being condemned to expulsion from their homes suddenly lost their
most basic rights, each individual becoming a sort of sub-citizen
deserving of nothing. Not a single protest came from any of the human
rights watch groups; no murmur against the infringement of a community's
religious rights and the destruction of its houses of worship.
"Israeli troops forced to carry out their impossible orders did not for
the most part break ranks. But the shame drawn on their faces was clear
to see and will not fade in a hurry. "(End quote)
In our first Prayer Alert regarding the disengagement we wrote that it
will cause much suffering for Israel, but in the end it will bring about
a new resolve among Jewish people to fight for their land and rather
than decrease Israel will in the end instead increase. Let's continue to
pray and believe God for a complete turnaround and defeat of the enemy's
plans!
Here is an encouraging prayer report from Wales in response to our
recent extra Prayer Alert,
"Your message so tied in with what Father is showing me that I thought
I'd share some with you to encourage you that we're hearing what the
spirit is saying right now.
'Push through the enemy ranks. Don't be overwhelmed by what you see, and
don't think defensive. Think VICTORY. Join hands across the nations now
and SHOUT for VICTORY. Make a loud noise in the spiritual realm like the
noise of many shofar's sounding in war. We must make a louder noise than
the enemy's making right now. You have gained huge steps forward in the
spiritual realm. Don't give up thinking it's no use. Something HUGE HAS
happened and is STILL happening. Important to keep pushing through and
regather the troops to take more ground. Don't look at the situation on
the ground level. Look to God who is the author and finisher of our
FAITH. Don't be phased by the enemy tactics. Keep you're faith up and
press on like Esther'.
"I had a dream the other night after finishing the Esther fast. Someone
was being hung on the gallows down in a valley. Up high on the mountain
top I could see a small group of people shouting Victory and waving
banners and blowing shofars. On waking as I was reflecting I believe it
was Haman (book of Esther) that I was seeing hanging on the gallows."
(End quote)
If you are tired of the battle and need to renew your prayer life, the
best advice we can give you is this: read the word of God! Read and read
and read until faith and anointing returns to storm heaven in powerful
intercession. And don't be afraid of tears. We need to weep right now
with those who are hurting.
Here are some prayer points to agree on:
- Pray that the evil behind the disengagement will be revealed to more
and more people in Israel and around the world!
- Pray that it will cause more people in Israel will turn to God for
help instead of trusting in man!
- Pray that God will use the disengagement to break hard hearts and
bring a national turn around for good!
- Pray that God's grace and favor will be poured out upon Israel in the
midst of pain and suffering!
- Pray for protection from violent extremists among the Jewish people
and from Arab terror attacks!
- Pray for continued healing and reconciliation through non-violent
opposition! Pray for tears of healing!
- Pray for comfort to all the families who have lost their homes!
God bless you as watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem!
Shabbat Shalom!
Lars and Harriet Enarson
The Watchman
E-mail: epa@thewatchman.org
Phone: 414-431-5444
Fax: 414-431-3293
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