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Sunday, March 23, 2014
ISRAEL365 - "The land will give its fruit..." Leviticus 25:19
Hamas is Poisoning Palestinian Children - ISRAEL TODAY
Hamas is Poisoning Palestinian Children
Friday, March 14, 2014 | David Lazarus
The Islamic terrorist group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip has introduced a dangerous textbook into the territory's new high school curriculum to ensure that hatred and hostility towards Israel will continue for generations to come. The new "National Education" curriculum is a required textbook for all 8th, 9th and 10th graders as part of Hamas' extensive indoctrination of Gaza’s children into its militant ideology.
The full article appears in the March 2014 issue of Israel Today Magazine.
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History of the Watch of the Lord: Lessons From the Moravians - James W. Goll and Leslie K. Tarr
James W. Goll and Leslie K. Tarr:
The Call to the Watch
May the Holy Spirit restore in our day the ancient tools of the "Watch of the Lord." May He awaken us to be vigilant and on the alert, in order to cut off the enemy's plans and usher in God's ambassadors. We welcome the Holy Spirit to speak to us about the part we are to play in being watchmen on the wall.
Amen.
Dr. James W. Goll
Founder of Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • God Encounters Training e-School
Founder of Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • God Encounters Training e-School
A Prayer Meeting That Lasted 100 Years
by Leslie K. Tarr
FACT: The Moravian community of Herrnhut, Saxony, in 1727, commenced an around-the-clock "prayer watch" that continued non-stop for over a hundred years.
FACT: By 1792, 65 years after commencement of that prayer vigil, the small Moravian community had sent 300 missionaries to the ends of the earth!
Could it be that there is some relationship between those two facts? Is fervent intercession a basic component in world evangelization? The answer to both questions is surely an unqualified "yes."
The heroic eighteenth century evangelization thrust of the Moravians has not received the attention it deserves. But even less heralded than their missionary exploits is that one-hundred year prayer meeting that sustained the fires of evangelism!
During its first five years of existence, the Herrnhut settlement showed few signs of spiritual power. By the beginning of 1727, the community of about three hundred people was wracked by dissension and bickering, an unlikely site for revival!
Zinzendorf and others, however, covenanted to pray and labor for revival. On May 12, revival came. Christians were aglow with new life and power, dissension vanished and unbelievers were converted.
Looking back to that day and the four glorious months that followed, Count Zinzendorf later recalled: "The whole place represented truly a visible habitation of God among men." A spirit of prayer was immediately evident in the fellowship and continued throughout that "golden summer of 1727," as the Moravians came to designate that period.
On August 27 of that year, twenty-four men and twenty-four women covenanted to spend one hour each day in scheduled prayer. Some others also enlisted in the "hourly intercession."
"For over 100 years, the members of the Moravian Church all shared in the 'hourly intercession.' At home and abroad, on land and sea, this prayer watch ascended unceasingly to the Lord," stated historian A. J. Lewis.
The Memorial Days of the Renewed Church of the Brethren, published in 1822, ninety-five years after the decision to initiate the prayer watch, quaintly describes the move in one sentence: "The thought struck some brethren and sisters that it might be well to set apart certain hours for the purpose of prayer, at which seasons all might be reminded of its excellency and be induced by the promises annexed to fervent, persevering prayer to pour out their hearts before the Lord."
The journal further cites Old Testament typology as warrant for the prayer watch: "The sacred fire was never permitted to go out on the altar (Leviticus 6:13); so in a congregation is a temple of the loving God, wherein He has His altar and fire, the intercession of His saints should incessantly rise up to Him."
That prayer watch was instituted by a community of Believers whose average age was probably thirty. Zinzendorf himself was twenty-seven.
The prayer vigil by Zinzendorf and the Moravian Community sensitized them to attempt the unheard-of-mission to reach others for Christ.
Six months after the beginning of the prayer watch, the count suggested to his fellow Moravians the challenge of a bold evangelism aimed at the West Indies, Greenland, Turkey, and Lapland. Some were skeptical, but Zinzendorf persisted. Twenty-six Moravians stepped forward for world missions wherever the Lord led.
The exploits that followed are surely to be numbered among the high moments of Christian history. Nothing daunted Zinzendorf or his fellow heralds of Jesus Christ – prison, shipwreck, persecution, ridicule, plague, abject poverty, and threats of death. His hymn reflected his conviction:
Ambassador of Christ,
Know ye the way we go?
It leads into the jaws of death,
Is strewn with thorns and woe.
Church historians look to the eighteenth century and marvel at the Great Awakening in England and America, which swept hundreds of thousands into God's Kingdom. John Wesley figured largely in that mighty movement and much attention has centered on him.
Is it not possible that we have overlooked the place, which that round-the-clock prayer watch had in reaching Wesley and, through him and his associates, in altering the course of history?
One wonders what would flow from a commitment on the part of twentieth century Christians to institute a "prayer watch" for world evangelization, specifically to reach those, in Zinzendorf's words, "For whom no one cared."
Blessings to you in Christ Jesus!
Dr. James W. Goll
Founder of Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • God Encounters Training e-School
Founder of Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • God Encounters Training e-School
Dr. James W. Goll is the president of Encounters Network, director of Prayer Storm, and coordinates Encounters Alliance, a coalition of leaders. He is director of God Encounters Training – an e-school of the heart, and is a member of the Harvest International Ministries apostolic team.
He has shared Jesus in more than 50 nations worldwide, teaching and imparting the power of intercession, prophetic ministry, and life in the Spirit. James is the prolific author of numerous books and has also produced multiple study guides and hundreds of audio and video messages. James was married to Michal Ann for 32 years before her graduation to Heaven in the fall of 2008. James has four adult children who all love Jesus, and continues to make his home in Franklin, Tennessee.
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March 22, 2014
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James W. Goll and Leslie K. Tarr:
From the desk of Steve Shultz:There are great lessons we can learn from history and those who've gone before us. This is an excellent article that my friend James Goll posted about the history of the Moravians and the "Watch of the Lord" which is an excerpt from his book, The Lost Art of Intercession that you can order just below.
As James shares: May the Holy Spirit restore in our day the ancient tools of the "Watch of the Lord." May He awaken us to be vigilant and on the alert, in order to cut off the enemy's plans and usher in God's ambassadors.
Enjoy!
Steve
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
"Purim Wars" - Purim original play by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua (#3 of 4)
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"Purim Wars" - Purim original play by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua
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"Purim Wars" - original play by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua (#3 of 4)
March 21, 2014 in Lincolnton, NC
Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.
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Curtis Loftin - playwright
"Purim Wars"
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Photos and video by Steve Martin, Love For His People
Here in North Carolina. There in Jerusalem. What's that all about you ask?
As believers, we participate in the Feasts of the Lord. Here are some photos from North Carolina and Jerusalem that I took, and then an excerpt from my book, Why Israel?, on why we do delight in the Lord's celebrations.
Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People
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David's Harp in North Carolina
David's Harp in the City of David
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Mezzuzah on door in NC
Mezzuzah at Western Wall entrance
- in Jerusalem, Israel - Nov. 2013
(My right hand with the Star of David ring.)
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Shabbat candles in North Carolina 2014
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Shabbat candles in Jerusalem home 2013
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Aaronic blessing in North Carolina
The Lion of Judah
- the fulfillment of Aaron's blessings.
Photos by Steve Martin - in Jerusalem (2013) and North Carolina (2014).
The following chapter, taken from my book Why Israel? (Martin Lighthouse Publishing, 2014) shares why I, as a Gentile believer in Jesus (Yeshua), celebrate the feasts of the Lord with my Messianic and Jewish friends.
Why Is a Gentile Like You
Celebrating the Feasts of the Jews?
“These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy
convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
(Leviticus 23:4 English Standard Version)
“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which
no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and
palm branches were in their hands…” (Rev. 7:9 NAS)
Growing up as a Roman
Catholic, I don’t recall reading much of the Old Testament, or even the New
Testament for that matter. I can’t even remember if I had a Bible myself. There
was that big, fat white one that sat on our living room table. We must have
bought it from the door-to-door salesman one summer. It was filled with family
genealogy and had a few photos in it. Mostly it was for looks I think.
We left it up to the
parish priests to read a few passages during the Sunday Mass, or the daily Mass
for those rare people who attended. We saw it as his job – to read the Bible.
Our priest at St.
Patrick’s in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Father Thomas Purtell, did speak to us in the
eighth grade of Catholic traditions and rituals every week, but that really
didn’t interest me much. Though I was even then considered a “religious” boy,
by some standards, it was history, football and baseball, and that cute, petite
Lisa which were my main interests. (You should read the story I share about
Father Purtell in my book, The Promise. We had some moments
with him! Lisa was another story.)
For the most part, what
the Catholics did in and out of church, or the Orthodox Greeks in the domed
building across the street, the Protestants which seemed to be on every other
corner, and the Jews, who I didn’t really know at all - well, it was pretty
much known in town as each group “doing their thing” - whatever that thing was.
Probably because of their culture, upbringing, and country’s history, as I
thought.
It wasn’t until my only
year in college did I begin to seek more, by getting out of my box. The box I
had been in for those years in grade school and high school. A nice box, but a
box. I discovered that there was more truth to be known, and now I was given
the opportunity to seek it further.
Over the years, as I
became involved with first a college campus Christian group, then the
charismatic church meetings, moving on further to the Messianic Jewish
gatherings many years later, I understood that all of the Bible is for all of
us who know Jesus (Yeshua) as our Lord and Savior. It is not just the Old
Testament for Jews and the New Testament for Christians. Knowing this helped me
see that the Jewish feasts/holidays are NOT only historic and prophetic, but
they are the Lord’s Feasts, which definitely point to Israel’s and our Messiah.
Learning from Bible
teachers and ministers like Derek Prince, Zola Levitt, James Goll, Mahesh and
Bonnie Chavda, Barry Segal and others from the 1970’s onward, I grew
tremendously in my appreciation of how the Lord revealed Himself throughout
history, primarily through the Jewish people. I learned that even Gentiles, as
I am, now get to be included in the Lord’s love for family, fellowship and
feasts. I learned how He has taught through living examples in the Scriptures,
the Torah and the Tanakh, the Old and New Testaments, all primarily to reveal
Yeshua, Jesus, as the Christ (or in Hebrew, HaMashiach, the Messiah) for all
nations and people groups. Being grafted in, as believers, and knowing of our
Jewish roots, is thus life changing.
My good wife Laurie and
I enjoy getting with others who celebrate the Lord’s feasts – Passover
(Pesach), Shavuot (Pentecost), Purim (remember Esther and Haman?), and
especially the fall feasts of Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets/New Year), Yom
Kippur (Day of Atonement), and the biggest of all, Succot, or Sukkot, the Feast
of Tabernacles/Booths, which is a seven day celebration time!
I encourage you to
“discover” your Jewish roots as a Christian. The entire Bible was primarily
written by Jews, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh),
for all of us who believe. Jesus, who was, and is, and is to come again, is a
Jew. He celebrates His Feasts. I guess that is good enough for me, and so I
will too!
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"Purim Wars" - Purim original play by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua (#2 of 4)
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"Purim Wars" - original play
by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua
(#2 of 5)
"Purim Wars" - Purim, original play by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua (#2 of 4)
March 21, 2014 in Lincolnton, NC
Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.
"Purim Wars" - Purim original play by Curtis Loftin of Beit Yeshua (1 of 4)
Great play Curtis Loftin!
Watch the 1st episode below...
then the next 3 on
our YouTube Channel
Love For His People.
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"Purim Wars" - original play by Curtis Loftin
- using the Star Wars theme
What a great play Curtis!!!
Steve Martin
Love For His People
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The cast and crew of Beit Yeshua
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Hanging of Darth-Haman!
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No Weapon Formed Against You - Joel Chernoff (Beit Yeshua dance team)
Beit Yeshua dance team - Lincolnton, NC
No Weapon Formed Against You - Joel Chernoff (Beit Yeshua dance team)
March 21, 2014 at Shabbat meeting in Lincolnton, NC
Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.
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