This past month, me and my team have been partnering with brothers and sisters who run a House of Pr@yer. Every day during the week, they focus on different topics and spend hours lifting up alms to God over them. One of these days a couple of weeks ago, the focus was on Israel. I remember God bringing me to Romans 11:21-24 and personally/corporately declaring those verses over the original descendants of Abraham during that time. It reads:
“For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.” (Romans 11:21-24)
Here, Paul is talking to the Roman church about the sin and lack of true faith that many of the Jewish people were guilty of at the time because they did not trust in Jesus as the true Messiah. They also were responsible for putting Christ to death which was all a free will choice while also being and orchestrated and ordained plan of God. While their unbelief at the time cut them off from the tree (Christ) that they were by nature a part of, God was and still is good to take Jewish people back and quickly graft them into the body of Christ at the onset of true faith in him.
After declaring this over the Jewish people during our session, me and some of the guys on my team took a walk around a park to find people to talk to. One of the first groups of people that we encountered was a group of musicians who looked like they had been travelling for a while. One of them, a young man about my age, was playing a guitar while the other three of them, two girls and one guy, were eating food and listening to him. we asked if we could join them and began having a good conversation about life and music with them. It turns out that three of them were from Israel! What a great way for the Lort to show up in Turkey. Our conversation wasn’t too deep, nor did we get enough time with them to share all that we wanted to share, but the faithfulness of the one we serve was so present in that time.
Below are some photos from that day with these awesome people. Be sure to pr@y for them and to continue pr@ying/looking for opportunities to share and be truth where you are!
