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| They keep changing things!It's just taken me an age just to find the link to put a new weblog up - or maybe I am just a bit dense LOL!
I have a hideous cold/sinus infection/sore throat thing happening at the moment but will attempt to post more when I'm feeling more healthy.
And YAY for the wedding bells in our midst (well, virtually in our midst!)
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| I am alive...Sorry I am so bad at keeping in touch.
www.lost.eu/723d9
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| Sad..............That praying for Palestinians prompts people to tell me that "God will curse those who curse Israel".
Um. Did I curse Israel? I LOVE Israel... I pray for the land and the people almost every day.
...That loving and praying for all, and not just the Jews, is somehow conceived as failing in my duty to love and comfort the Jewish nation: as if loving Jews precludes loving Arabs, or vice versa.
Since when did Christian love have to be exclusive?
...That a desire to keep political propaganda out of a group designed for intercessory prayer is suddenly actively anti-Israel.
Since when do I base my prayers for people on which side of a political divide they fall on?
Pray not for Arab or Jew,
For Palestinian or Israeli,
But pray rather for yourselves,
That you may not divide them in your prayers
But keep them both together in your hearts.
-- a Palestinian Christian's prayer
I will try to keep them together in my heart. I wish I could inspire others to do the same.
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| GahI'm reading Den Of Lions by Terry Anderson, having just finished Taken On Trust by Terry Waite. Just been reading about the Iran-Contra affair which TW alluded to.
Gah. What's wrong with us in the West that we would swap weapons for people? Is a Western life really worth more than all those killed by the weapons?
I can't help wondering what Father Jenco and Pastor Weir, both Christian leaders, felt when they found out they'd effectively been swapped for arms :(
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| Gaza - prayer requestI just got this urgent prayer request email from Open
Doors about the Gaza Baptist Church, and I am passing it on in hopes that you
will keep them in your prayers.
I'll try to update properly soon.
"...we
also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces
perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not
disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy
Spirit, whom he has given us."
Romans
5:3-5
Dear Christian
Friends,
We just
received an urgent prayer update on the situation in Gaza, from our
colleagues in the Middle East
Palestinian Authority (PA)
police of the Fatah party have seized the six-story Church building as a
watch point against armed groups supporting the governing Hamas Islamist
movement.
The building houses the church’s sanctuary, Gaza’s only
Christian library, a guest hostel, and a mammogram clinic.
The Gaza
Strip's borders are closed, locking 1.4 million Palestinians into a coastal
territory just 27 miles long and 5 miles deep. Frightened Gazans are remaining
in their homes, and food and other basics are running short.
Hanna Massad, pastor of
Gaza Baptist Church, described the
crisis as "the worst situation we've ever gone through in
Pastor Massad also told
us that early worship services had to be cancelled on Sunday morning.
For
more details visit this page of our website: http://www.opendoorsuk.org.uk/news/news_archives/001831.php
Pastor
Massad asks Christians around the world to pray that:
* God will protect
Gaza & its
believers
* Believers will experience the power of God's peace
*
God will give Pastor Massad strength and wisdom to minister
* There will
be no gunfire around the church building and that God will protect the building
for his use and glory
* Gaza's leaders will
receive wisdom to stop the fighting.
Thank you for your support
and for continuing to pray for Gaza's tiny but
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