I want to mention again that this newsletter cannot cover the up-to-date current events surrounding Israel. For that type of input please see the Intercessors for Israel - Friday Payer Alerts that I write weekly. You can sign up to receive them or read them online on the IFI website. Thank you all who have supported this ministry over the decades with your prayers, encouraging notes and donations. It is greatly appreciated!
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Please forgive me for this overdue newsletter. Recent events have been extra taxing on me in both time and energy. I do hope that you are following what is happening here in Israel by reading the news and praying along with us via Intercessors for Israel's Friday Prayer Alerts. Writing those alerts and the intensity of constantly leading prayer meetings about Israel's situation and then summarizing in the alerts how we prayed, so that others like you can intercede with understanding, is both exhausting and challenging. While that is true at any time – it is even more so as we continue to watch and pray about the war against Hamas in Gaza that Israel is fighting.
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To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven... A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace…I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.
That which is has already been, And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past.
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 8, 14-15
