JPL January 4, 2024

The Jerusalem Prayer List – January 4, 2024

By Joseph Shulam

Welcome to the year of our Lord 2024, Israel is in the middle of a harsh and difficult war with a bitter enemy who has no limit to his hate and cruelty. An enemy that is driven by no objective but  hate, a deep hate based on totally mythological reasons.  The objective facts on the growth of this enemy don’t have rhyme or reason.  For this enemy it is  just unreasonable and unrestrained hate for Jews.  There is not an issue of land, nor an issue of gain.  Only an issue of hate for Jews.  I say this with deep concern and deep consideration because if I look at the facts on the ground the Arabs ( Palestinians) should kiss the feet of every Jew in the land of Israel. 

 I remember well the period after the 1967 Six Days War.  I remember going the first time to Gibeon, the Canaanite town the Gibeonites came from and deceived Joshua and the children of Israel by pretending to have come from a far country.  Gibeon in 1967 was an Arab village without electricity, without a sanitary system, without running water in the houses.  It was a village of Arab farmers living in old crusader homes, drinking water from a well, working the fields with an ox and a donkey hitched together on a wooden plow with an iron tip.  I remember the threshing floor of the village being dragged around with a blind folded donkey threshing wheat and winnowing the chaff and the wheat grains against the wind to separate.  

The hill where we live now, overlooking Jerusalem from the West toward the east  was not even a village, it was just a beautiful hill with archaeological remains from the Roman period.  Come and visit Gibeon today and see the wonderful big private homes where the families of those Arab / Palestinian farmers plowed with an ox and a donkey hitched on the same plow.  The children of those farmers are medical doctors, businessmen and women, professors in the University.   The prosperity of the local Arabs / Palestinians is unmatched in any Arab country.  

This war started on the 7th of October 2023.  Before this date there were 20,000 so-called Palestinian workers crossing the border from Gaza to Israel to work in different jobs, mainly construction work.  Gaza would starve without Israel providing work for these men.  One Arab/Palestinian  working in Israel can bring home enough money every month to feed 3 families in comparison to what the equivalent work would earn in Gaza.   Every time that I went to any of the hospitals in Israel there were Arabs from Gaza with their old folk and with their children getting free medical treatment by Israeli hospitals. 

 We have an American family named Miles that has been associated with our Congregation for 35 years.  The ministry of this family is to bring babies and children from Gaza for treatment and life saving surgery of little Arab / Palestinian babies with severe medical problems like heart problems to Israel.  The Miles family brings these babies and children to the Israeli doctors and hospitals, which treat the Gaza families for free.  Johnatan Miles raised only a few thousand dollars to pay for the use of the surgery theater.  Johnatan Miles and his family even lived for a few years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza.  Netivyah is partnering with Johnathan and his ministry in renting a house with four apartments near the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem.   The house is used by mainly these Arab families and their children that Johnathan brings from all around the Arab world to Israel. Here they receive excellent, modern and free medical treatment for children that would be dead without it!  Received for free by Jewish and local Arab Israeli doctors for free. 

 Dear brothers and sisters, the cruelty and horrors that the Hamas used on the 7th of October 2023 in the villages and Kibbutz communities around Gaza  is unimaginable.  Mutilation and sexual abuse, killing fathers and mothers. Sisters being raped and then mutilated while alive with knives before shooting them.  These are things that even the Nazi Germans in the worst German Concentration camps didn’t dare to do!!   1300 men, women, children were killed in one day in the villages and towns around the Gaza border.  In one day!!  

Yes!  It was a horrible massacre engineered by the Hamas terrorist organization.  Near 300 hostages were dragged to Gaza, among them, babies whose parents were killed. Old men and women with chronic illnesses.  Young women who were taken to Gaza and gang raped repeatedly.  As I write this Jerusalem prayer list, there are still more than 140 hostages that have not been released from the hands of Hamas in Gaza.  Yes, Israel has decided to flatten Gaza and make sure that there is not going to be one Hamas terrorist left there!  This decision is based on the command of God in the Law of Moses to remember what Amalek did to Israel during the 40 years of wilderness wandering with Moses on their way to inherit the Land promised.  The land given by God to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as an eternal inheritance from the promises that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their dependents.  

Now to the texts of our Torah portion for this Shabbat, Exodus.  We are starting a new book, the book of Exodus.  

The Torah reading : Exodus 1:1 – 6:1.

From the prophets :Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13, and  29:22 -23. 

From the New Testament: Matthew 2: 1-12.  

As the reading of Exodus starts, the children of Jacob, after his, go down to Egypt.  Joseph is ruler( second only to the great Pharaoh )in all of Egypt.  His brothers,( yes, the same ones who wanted to kill him and sell him as a slave in Egypt) are now bringing their families and tribes to Egypt.  Joseph gives them the privilege to live on the Nile River delta in northern Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean. They are given the best and fertile lands in Egypt for their living. Everything is wonderful for Joseph’s family in Egypt; they increase and multiply in the land of the Pharaohs.   Joseph dies in Egypt and his body,  in accordance with the best Egyptian tradition, is embalmed like every nobleman in Egypt.  

Years pass and the children of Israel are prospering  and have a good life in the land of Goshen by themselves.  Now a New Pharaoh raises that doesn’t know Joseph.  The text of Exodus 1 tells us the reasons that the new Pharaoh and Egyptians were concerned:

 1) The children of Israel in Egypt increased in numbers.

 2) They  lived in the land of Goshen separated from the Egyptians.  That separation, engineered by Joseph, was wise because they preserved their language and faith in one God and didn’t mingle with the idol worshiping Egyptians.  

After Joseph’s death the political system in Egypt changed, and the Egyptian empire expanded throughout almost half of the African continent from Tunisia on the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba in the east and all the way to Lake Victoria in the South and the Indian Ocean in the east.  It included the whole land of Canaan all the way up to Assyria and the Arabian Desert in the North East.  When Empires expand and grow so large, fear and distrust quickly enters in the mind of the leadership of even the closest friends and allies. 

I like the words from Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin.

“Yes, I got plenty of nothing — And nothing's plenty for me — I got no car, got no mule. I got no misery! Folks with plenty of nothing —They've got no lock on the door — Afraid somebody's going to rob 'em — While they are out making more — What for?”

I got no lock on the door, that's no way to be — They can steal the rug from the floor, that's OK with me 'Cause the things that I prize like the stars in the skies are all free!”

I got plenty of nothing — And nothing's plenty for me, I got my girl, got my song — Got heaven the whole day long — Got my girl, got my love, yes got my song!

Oh, I got plenty of nothing — And nothing's plenty for me — I got the sun, got the moonGot the deep blue sea — 

The folks with plenty of plenty — Got to pray all the day — Seems with plenty you sure gotta worry — How to keep the devil away, away!” 

Of course, the song exaggerates, but the principles are true.  Egypt expanded and became a mega empire.  Managing this empire was difficult and the leadership became paranoid.  In smaller countries with much less to manage, the leaders got that proverbial liquid to go up to their heads. 

Here is the beginning of Pharaoh’s Paranoia:

 “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” Therefore, they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.”  (Exodus 1:8-11 NKJV).

The pharaoh didn’t know Joseph, but much more important that Pharaoh didn’t know the God of Joseph. The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.  He didn’t know the God who created the world, the universe, the Sun and Moon that the Egyptians worshiped!  

When has Israel in its near 4000 years of history sought to become an empire?  We as Jews (and Christians) don’t have to fret and desire to dominate other nations or expand and become a world power to abuse and enslave other people.  We have the Word of God that promises that one day in history all the nations will come to worship the God of Israel who is the father and ABBA of all of humanity.  We don’t need weapons to conquer and dominate other nations, and we have never looked for opportunities to become a world empire.  We have our God and our Savior Yeshua and a fantastic insurance policy for a blissful and wonderful eternity with all the faithful people who ever lived on the face of this world.  What else do we need?  (Yes, we like to use nice things, and have a good car, and go to a show sometimes, and eat good kosher food) But, to dominate and abuse other nations  is not the Jewish dream for the future.  God’s Kingdom is our dominion and our citizenship.  This kingdom does not need a passport issued by some semi-corrupt government.  

Big boy Pharaoh, with his dozens of funny gods that were always fighting and competing with each other, saw the success and the peaceful lives of the sons of Jacob and their dependents and was filled with fear.  (I don’t know if his wives calmed him down and told him PharaonChik, “Calm down.  These Israelites.  The worst that they can do to you is sell you a zirconium in place of a diamond.”  Pharaoh would answer his wives, “but look darling Nefertiti and Hamama, these Israelites came here with nothing but a few sheep and camels, and now they are driving Mercedes and Ferraris.”)  

So, Pharaoh devises a system to put the yoke of slavery on the people of Israel, the dependents of Abraham.  Pharaoh didn’t know about the following principle that has been the DNA of Israel from day one!  Here is the verse that summarizes all of Israel and the People of God’s History:

 “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.” (Exodus 1:12 )

Israel, and the Jewish people, like the mythological Greek Phoenix have fallen and resurrected many dozens of times in our history.  There is no other ancient nation that exists in human history like the nation of Israel!  There is no other nation that was exiled and driven out of their national God given homeland like Israel!  After two thousand years of exile, the people of Israel, (now called Jews because we came from the land of Judea) are living to see the very fulfillment of the promises God, Creator of this whole solar system, the moon and the stars and the sun and this blue ball hanging in deep space has made to this nation!  In fact the whole world can see how the Jewish nation rose out of the ashes of the crematoriums of the German death camps, like King David who had victory over the Philistine giant Goliath as the text says “And David had no sword in his hand!”  Standing almost totally alone were men and women that came out of the death camps of Bergen – Belsen, Treblinka, and Sobibor , bloody birthplaces of hate and racism and anti-Jewish satanic spirit.  A scripture that comes to my mind is this: 

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”. (1 Peter 2:9 NKJV).

  Many don’t know that the Apostle Peter was actually paraphrasing a verse from Isaiah the prophet chapter 9:2,  “The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.”  (Isaiah 9:2 NKJV)

These words of Isaiah and Peter are a summary of all of Israel’s history.  There is no other nation in the history of mankind that has been persecuted and killed by the sword, cross,fire, poisoned gas.  By sheer hate and beastly sub-human cruelty like the people of Israel.  

There is no other nation that has given and blessed humanity like the nation of Israel!  Yes, dear brothers and sisters around the world, 100 hundred pages couldn’t summarize the contribution of the Jewish people to humanity.  From the Torah (The Law of Moses) to Jesus Christ (even the Muslim Koran is contingent on the Torah and the Gospel!)  

It is for me an enigma to understand why the Egyptian Pharaoh feared this small group of shepherds living far from the big Egyptian cities and temples of their gods.  This same question is reverberating through the pages of history even to this very day?

From our Torah portion of this Shabbat, I would describe how I believe non-Jewish Disciples of Yeshua (Jesus) and every disciple of Yeshua ought to behave towards Israel: 

“Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the male children alive. So, the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?” And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”  Therefore, God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.”  (Exodus 1:15-20 NKJV)

We have a great example of two Egyptian women( midwives) whose actions were dangerous for their own lives: 

1) they disobeyed the Pharaoh’s order to kill the male babies of the Jews. 

 2) These midwives feared God, the God of Israel, not the idols of Egypt. 

 3) They saved the male children born to the Hebrew women enslaved in Egypt.  

There were also many thousands of Christians, Catholic and Protestant, who gave protection and supplied food and medicine to the Jews confined in the Ghettos of the cities and towns in Europe.  On the grounds of Yad VaShem Museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem there are planted several thousands of trees.   Next to each tree there is a plaque with the name of a Christian.  Many catholic priests and nuns, and Protestant farmers and pastors and evangelicals  who all endangered their lives like the Egyptian midwives did in the days of Moses in Egypt.  They sacrificed to save Jews from sure death in the Nazi death camps and in the streets of European cities and towns.  I think that these are true disciples of Yeshua, believers in the Messiah the Son of David and the Son of Abraham, who died for our sins so that we can have eternal life and a better and just and righteous lives here on this earth.  

I want to give you a serious challenge, a test like the Pharaoh gave to the two Egyptian midwives.  

Last evening, we had a Netivyah Bible Instruction Ministry in Israel board meeting.  There were given the normal financial reports, and also reports and discussion of the miracles that God has done through Netivyah to supply important tactical gear ( like bulletproof vests and helmets and warm clothing and shipping containers ) for the IDF soldiers to use for shelter and storage and protection from the rain, and tactical drones and other expensive tactical military gear. God has truly used Netivyah with miracle after miracle and we have provided many thousands of dollars of equipment for the IDF soldiers in the battlefields of Gaza and the north of Israel on the Lebanese border.  We have deep gratitude for everyone from The USA and from Asia, and Australia and South America who have contributed for this war effort to provide tools and protection for our soldiers in the front lines.  

The amount of money that some of this equipment cost is staggering.  Each soldier is precious and we can provide equipment that saves lives.  Like the bullet proof vests that cost $6,000US each and the tactical drones that fly with infrared and heat seeking ability to reveal the location of the enemy, before men and women expose themselves to gun-fire.  Yes, we have provided hundreds of pieces of this equipment. 

Last night hearing Daniel Stern’s report, I was shocked that so many elite military units don’t have that lifesaving equipment. The Israeli government should have, must have, ought to have supplied these things! But the fact is that our government ought to be taken to court and accused of criminal negligence!  The truth is that for the last two and a half years or more the Israeli government has been preoccupied with a vain and unnecessary reform of our Supreme Court that could destroy the only democratic country in the whole Middle East.  The streets and the highways of Israel were preoccupied with demonstrations and false accusations against the best and elite citizens of Israel, like the military and the air force pilots. But, our men in uniform have been neglected.  

Yes, Netivyah has supplied as much as possible with the money that you have contributed . Brothers and sisters from Taiwan to Brazil and Australia and Europe and the USA, have sacrificially given generously for supplying the much needed tactical equipment, like the vests and drones and go-pro cameras for their helmets.   Yes, we have given much thanks to you dear brothers and sisters from around the world. 

 But, there is a need for more of these bullet proof vests and drones that fly and provide instant and life saving information to our men in the most elite forces of the Israeli military.  Many of our brothers and sisters in the faith are very active, specifically in these elite units and every year for many years we have given them important and useful gifts.  Now I am asking you simple folk ( not only our wealthier brothers) to make an effort and provide Netivyah the means to furnish supplies so not one of our soldiers is left without the most basic safety protective equipment.   You can contribute any amount from 1 dollar to thousands. Your contribution will go to life saving equipment for our men and for praising the name of Yeshua with every helmet or bullet proof vest or drone. 

You can contribute through the PayPal buttons provided in this prayer list, through a bank account or just by sending a check. Those who live in the United States of America and need the IRS tax credit must contribute through Netivyah International and that will insure that you will get credit. Brothers and sisters from around the world can contribute either in the button that is related to Netivyah in Israel or the one to the USA.  

God bless you one and all who bless the seed of Abraham, the Jewish Nation. This is the text that I have in mind when I say that giving to Israel is promised by God himself to bring you a blessing!   

  “I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.””  (Genesis 12:3 NKJV)

As to my health and that of Marcia, my wife, here is a short report.  After feeling bad with severe pain in my back and difficulty breathing I was taken to the emergency room in a hospital in Tennessee.  The doctors found ,after a CT scan, two enlarged lymph nodes.  In Israel, the hospital in Jerusalem found the same enlarged lymph nodes and there is a suspicion that these lymph nodes are cancer in my lungs.  I need your prayers and I need the Lord’s grace and healing hands to touch me and Marcia, my wife.  Marcia is essentially not able to function both because of her physical illnesses and also dementia.  We need your prayers and your help.  We need a full time live-in caretaker.  We do need your help. I don’t remember when was the last time that I asked for help for me and my family.  Please use the USA button to contribute or send checks to Netivyah Internationaln to give to the Shulam family. 

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Your prayers for brothers and sisters whom you don’t know personally is a pure love and pure building of the Body of the Messiah.  It is really Agape Love since you are doing this without any selfish interests and casting a vote in heaven for someone who is your brother but you don’t know him or her, and God looks at these prayers that are unselfish and true expression of love and care for another link in the long chain of love and faith that binds us together even though we might not know each other in this world.  When we all get to heaven what a joy it will be to meet people that we prayed for and sometime even cried for brothers and sisters who are physically strangers, but spiritually a part of the same body of Christ that one day we will have the privilege to seat together and share: “I remember praying for you to be healed!”  “I remember praying for you to be safe when you were fighting in Gaza to free the hostages from the cruel hands of the terrorists of the Hamas in Gaza

Serious prayers for our war with Hamas to end soon and all the hostages to be returned safe and in one piece home to their loved ones!

Pray for our soldiers and especially for the soldiers that we know and appreciate: Yuda, Emanuel the son of Victor and Ayala, Amiel and Solomon and Ezekiel Intrater, Reuven and Clil Kovner, and any other children of Believers and of course for all of the men and women serving this country.  

I hate that our boys, the men of our congregation, still serve in the Army and most of them in reserves have to fight and use weapons and do war to protect the civilian population of Israel from terrorism driven by hate and blindness.  

Please pray for the Middle East and for the world to see and understand what the reality is here in this part of the world.  The lands that provided King David, the prophets, and Yeshua the Messiah – want peace with our neighbors.But they don’t want the hand that is stretched out in peace. They want to kill all the Jews and take their land, which is flourishing and a blessing for all the world, and make it a dump like their own place in Gaza and in the Arab countries. 

In Jerusalem pray for the following brothers and sisters who need divine grace and the gentle touch of the hand of God for healing and strength.

Ilana Ahijervie, is a dear sister who is 98 years old and suffering from memory problems.

Please pray for our dear sister Lea Kurkey.

Sarit, a sister born in Jerusalem, over 88 years old, lives alone. Has no close family, and suffers from several old-age illnesses.

Please keep praying for Marcia Shulam my wife. Pray that Marcia’s memory will stop weakening, that her arthritis will be healed and stop being active, and her strength to return to where she can take more care of herself. 

Also, ask prayer for me and my family and for all the sick and needing healing and grace from our Heavenly Father! 

Your prayers for Alexander, Sarah, and Andrew, who were raised as believers and have left their faith behind, have been answered, the Divine Shepherd guided these members of the same family gently back to the fold, please keep praying for their general and spiritual welfare!

Pray for Adam’s father and mother, Barry and Dalia. They too have some health problems and challenges.

Pray for Miriam and for Hannah her daughter. Miriam is a dear sister and has lost her husband recently.

Pray for Daniel S. and his children.

Our dear leader in the Ro’eh Israel congregation, Gary, and his health, and for his wife Melanie and their family.

Pray for Um Mahmud Abu-Eid and Jimmy Abu-Eid and all of the family. This is a dear family of old friends that needs healing and wisdom for the children and for their work.

Please pray for the Romero family who live deep in the Negev desert. It is hot there and they are far from our congregation and we miss them.

Please pray for Shannon’s father, Michael McGoff, Michael had heart surgery and we need to pray for his full recovery.

Pray for brothers and sisters in the U.K.

We bless our dear sister Celestine with health and blessings from Heaven for her life and her family. We pray for the Lord to be her comfort and provide sister Celestine with all her physical spiritual and social needs with His grace.

Pray for Deborah Isaiah. I pray for the Lord to find Deborah Isaiah and lead her to a blessed life and family and a solution to her problems.

Pray for our dear brother Dennis D’Costa and his family, as they find their way and have a clear vision of what and where God wants them to live and serve and grow their family. Lord open the right doors for Dennis D’Costa and his family.

Pray for brothers and sisters in Australia

A dear friend from Hong Kong, Bonnie, asked that we pray for her brother who lives in Australia. Bonnie’s brother’s name is Ray Chen. Please mention the name Ray Chen and ask God to show this man the grace of God and God’s powerful healing of body and soul and restoration of faith and life of holiness and sanctity.

In Finland, we have some precious and dear brothers and sisters who need our prayers:

Pray Mauno Lemponen, he has been diagnosed with cancer in advanced stages.  We are asking for Gods Will to be done giving him healthy days with family. Prayers for Hilka, Miika and Ester who are supporting each other. 

Pray for Keijo and Salme, our dear partners and fellow workers in God’s flock. Both Keijo and Salme have some challenging heart issues.

Sipra, our dear sister in Nokia is a widow with some health issues.

Satu-Maria, Sinni Tuuli, Anne Mirjami, our dear sisters, and all our other brothers and sisters in Finland who need our prayers: Eva H., Patty, Andrea, Julia and Victor, Aaron Tani, and Hillel.

Please don’t forget to pray for the health of Kari Antilles in Finland. He is a dear brother and supporter in prayer for Netivyah for many years.

In Brazil

Pray for the congregations related to Netivyah in Brazil, to have the strength and stamina to face the challenges in front of them with courage and strength of faithfulness to the Lord, and to the vision of the restoration of the church and Israel.

Pray for the millions of victims of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition who have been forced to convert to the Catholic church, and now want to return home to the land of Israel and to the faith of our fathers.

Pray for the state of Israel to open the doors for these lost Jews to be able to return and fulfill God’s promises to the prophet Ovadyah:

“But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, And there shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. The house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau shall be stubble; They shall kindle them and devour them, And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau, For the Lord has spoken. The South shall possess the mountains of Esau, And the Lowland shall possess Philistia. They shall possess the fields of Ephraim And the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess Gilead. And the captives of this host of the children of Israel Shall possess the land of the Canaanites As far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Shall possess the cities of the South. Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion To judge the mountains of Esau, And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.” — Obadiah 1:17-21 [NKJV]

Pray for a dear young man, Paulo, from Curitiba, Brazil, who seriously needs our prayers for sanity and mental health.

Pray for Rita Sassai, from Vitória, ES.

Please pray for a dear sister with the name: Claudia Rita Souze Arau.  She has cancer and needs God’s healing hands to touch her with healing. 

Fatima Maria Docarmo Guimararaes - pray for her health and her granddaughters' twin babies.

Pray for Livia Schnell Nothen, she has some issues with her physical health and a growth in her adrenal gland. And other health issues.

Guilherme Antonio Nothen Becker is suffering from back problems.

Aratuza de Oliveira his wife. Pray for this 3-year-old child that has serious problems with his eyes and ask the Lord to give healing to his eyes. This child’s name is Caique de Oliveira Becker. 

Please pray for Bruno Henrique Cardoso Jr. for his studies and his health. 

A 70-year-old Pastor Paulo C. Pereira Braga Dias, is the father of a dear sister in Brazil and suffers from diabetes.

Pray for Roberto Morias, a dear brother who is going through heart surgery and an angiogram.

In Asia, we have several brothers and sisters who need our prayers.

Please pray for a dear 71-year-old sister called Bee Kim.  She lost consciousness on February 26, 2023. She has not regained her consciousness after a massive stroke.

Pray for pastor T.J. in Taiwan.

Brothers and sisters in China

Pray for Deborah Ruth a dear sister from China

Pray for sister Reiko Ishiida and Elder Takeo and his wife Tomoko from Tokyo, Dr. Yuizawa, Pastor Yushida, and his family.

Pray for Sister Yoko Nagumo in Japan.

In India, Pastor Isaac, from Chennai, needs our prayers. Pastor Isaac is suffering from kidney problems and has to have dialysis several times per week.

Tony Tam and his wife Luisa and son Marco need special prayer for their situation.

We continue to pray for Zhou Wenrian, the Abe family, Toru San, Yumi Ohara, and her family. Deborah Ruth, Ayla, and Daniel and their daughter. Dr. Song, and his wife Sister Harriet Kim.

Please pray for Ruby K. from Hong Kong. Ruby has gone through a very complicated surgery for multiple cancers in her body. The surgery was very long, and Ruby is back home now recovering. Please lift Ruby K. and ask the Lord to heal and deliver Ruby from Hong Kong.

Pray for family and friends and dear brothers and sisters in the United States of America.

new Rabbi Levy had a Stroke is in Dallas, please pray for doctors and his recovery.

Please continue to pray for the daughter of Bill Culwell, who is very sick with cancer she is receiving a second round of treatment.  Please pray for success and healing.

Jonathan Bernis is in a long six month recovery from a liver transplant.  We thank God for this match.  Please pray for this new liver to function and provide much needed function.  Please pray for Elisangela and the girls and also for the doctors and nurses that are attending our dear brother Jonathan Bernis. 

Andrew Huffines, he has complications from long term covid. 

Please pray for my family in the United States: Barry my son and his wife Beth, and for Joey my grandson. Pray for their divine protection and health.

Pray for Danah my daughter's health issues. I pray for the Lord to give Danah wisdom peace and calm in life and in her work.

Pray for Noaam my granddaughter. She is working two jobs now and needs good health and wisdom to make the right choices and plans for life, education, immigration to Israel, and just general protection from all harm.

Pray for David Young the preacher in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who is back to preaching after recovering from medical issues. Please keep David in your prayers.

Aaron Hook, Nancy Hook’s oldest son, needs our prayers for wisdom and healing from past issues of life.

Lift for blessing and healing Jonathan B. and his wife Aviva and their new baby, his mother, and his brother Daniel. Pray for these very important men of God: Rabbi Salt, his family, and Rabbi Hasselblad. They are both older and need protection and blessings.

Also, pray for Ilana Avramov who is married to my cousin Nissim and lives in New York City. Ilana has fallen and in now in rehab learning how to walk again. We pray for her full recovery. She and Nissim both need our prayers. 

Steve Mock - His cognitive condition has declined, and we ask for the grace of God and His Healing and strength.   Steve and Josie’s son Joseph- named after Joseph Shulam – has received a wonderful and glorious report.  After the last bone marrow transplant the report is that the doctors didn’t find any leukemia in his body!  Praise the Lord!

Pray for three women of God in Canada who need healing, Lynda, Sandy, and Joanne.

I am asking a special prayer for a dear brother and friend who is now doing greatly important work in a very dangerous and precarious part of the world. Just mention DadyLion in your prayers, and ask for divine protection and angelic accompaniment for this man of God. 

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