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Fellowship and Ami trivia
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This past week has been
eventful in the number of people who have come to our home and congregation
with the intention of encouraging us. And we've been
encouraged! We are especially encouraged by the prayers prayed over
us and although Ami is feeling a bit like a spectacle, he is always happy
in the end that he's met new friends.
This week he's been suffering from a bad sore throat which is not a throat
infection, but a bad virus. He's been sleeping for most of two days
and not eating, but is drinking a lot of green tea. When we were at the
doctor's office today, he measured his height and weight - he is 1meter and
93 cm. tall and weighs in at 71 ½ kilos. (6'3" and 151
lbs.) Needless to say he is all muscles and bones!!
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Interesting Development and answer
to prayer
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We were also encouraged by
a call from our criminal lawyer, Yossi. The
time has come in Israel
for new elections to take place for Prime Minister, and campaign ads are
broadcast on TV every day at certain hours. In Israel, our
government is based on the Parliamentary system. We have many parties
representing different political viewpoints, and sectors of society, like
the elderly, etc. We vote for these parties, not individuals,
and the head of the winning party then becomes Prime minister, with the
other parties vying for Knesset seats. As he was watching these ads, Yossi
was struck by the hatred he's seeing rising up in Israeli society against
anything that is not "mainstream". He was all of a sudden
struck by the fact that not only was the Ortiz family attacked and still in
danger of further violence, but all of the community of Messianic believers
in Israel
are under threat and not protected. He has a proposal to help
us as a community which we will be looking into. This is just very
interesting to me, because it was always in my heart to not just have our
incident be represented in court, but that the cases of other Messianic
believers in Israel
who have suffered very severe persecution would be included. However,
I never thought that our non-believing lawyer would be able to wrap his
mind around this reality, and we never brought this up to him. But
the Lord Himself broke through to our very talented and unusual lawyer, and
we will see where this will lead us.
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Prayer request and encouragement
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Purim is coming up in
March, and it will be one year since the incident happened that changed our
lives forever. It is amazing how far we've come, and yet we still
have a way to go before we can put this all behind us. Please
continue to pray for Ami and our family to continue to heal and fully
recover. I have called the hospital in an attempt to push the ear
drum transplant forward a bit as per Ami's request. We should be
getting a letter from them soon as to their decision. Can we pray for
the ear drums to be healed without these operations? Ami, up to this
point, has been patiently waiting, either for healing or the operation -
but he's a little stretched, and the inability to hear well is wearing on
his nerves.
Sometimes during my quiet time with the Lord I've been reading
"Streams in the Desert" which is a beautiful devotional that was
recommended to me by a dear sister in the Lord. I was blessed by the
January 24th devotion, and especially this paragraph -
Brother, are you fainting in prayer? Look up. Your blessed Advocate
has already claimed your answer, and you would grieve and disappoint Him if
you were to give up the conflict in the very moment when victory is on its
way to meet you. He has gone in for you into the inner chamber, and already
holds up your name upon the palms of His hands; and the messenger, which is
to bring you your blessing, is now on his way, and the Spirit is only
waiting your trust to whisper in your heart the echo of the answer from the
throne, "It is done." --A. B. Simpson
With much appreciation in the Messiah,
Leah
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