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Report from Arab Deborahs Arising Conference 13-14 September 2024

Right from the beginning we knew that this year’s Arab Deborahs Arising Conference would become very special, not only because it had 178 participants, the highest number ever, but also because it was held in the middle of a war, with the security situation in the north continuing to be very serious. The ministry team consisted of 15 locals (Arabs and Messianic Jews) and international Christians, who had chosen to come to Israel for such a time as this to be a blessing and encouragement to the Arab women. Before the beginning of the conference, we had met as a ministry team to pray for a breakthrough in some areas. One of those areas was the problem with navigation in northern Israel, where the GPS apps were often out of function due to the security situation, and we were sensing that the enemy wanted to use this to bring confusion. Amazingly, after we prayed, the navigation apps on our phones started working again, and during the two days of the conference they kept working, meaning that every participant in the conference arrived safely and without any trouble finding their way back and forth. Hallelujah!

On Friday morning, after a time of wonderful Arabic worship led by the HOPE worship team, Rania opened the conference, which this year had the theme, “Come up here” (Rev. 4:1.) When God called the Apostle John to come up, he was calling him to enter the throne room of Heaven. John’s incredible encounter with the Lord is a model of what God wants each of us to experience, when we enter into our personal destiny. In these difficult times, He is calling all of us to come up higher with Him, as we keep our eyes on what is in the heavenly places. Genesis 5:21 mentions Enoch, who was taken up by God. Even though he had a household to take care of, he still had a very close relationship with God. It is important to focus on that intimate place with Jesus. If we want to see greater miracles in our lives, we need to make it a priority ascending higher with the Lord. The path that takes us to His throne is holy. We can use the elevator called “the Blood of the Lamb” to go up. Before the conference, Rania had seen a vision of a ladder with women standing on different steps, all holding hands, and as some were struggling to get up to the next step, they were helping one other to come up higher. As illustration, the stage was decorated with two beautiful, symbolic ladders.

During the first session, we also had the breaking of bread together, after Ps. Andrew had asked for forgiveness from the women for the offense that the leadership or pastors had caused them over the years. This was a deep moment, where many women received healing by releasing forgiveness and blessing.

Pastor Linda Bergling from Arken Church, Sweden, then spoke about making sure to have the oil of the Holy Spirit. God says, “I will come and make my Spirit dwell with you.” Therefore, we should keep the oil fresh every day. If we want to go higher, we need to go deeper in the Holy Spirit. God wants to give us more authority. We need to pour out His love on the nations and be more dependent on Him. He needs to be our first love. When God is calling you to do something that seems impossible, if Jesus is your first love everything is possible. God called Linda to get away with Him for one week and just wait for Him. After five days, she heard His footsteps, and He gave her an open vision. She saw a flood of blood – the blood of war, of rage, of suffering and tears, and the Lord said, “I have opened a bridge of healing to quench the worst hate, a bridge for healing between hearts and nations.” An anointing that will quench the worst hate is an anointing of the Holy Spirit, of the Father’s love. Jesus told the congregation in Ephesus that they had lost their first love (Rev. 2:4.) The first love is a manifestation of God’s heart, a fragrance of Heaven, and the Devil hates that. Pastor Linda once saw Jesus with mud on his face and clothes, and He revealed to her that the mud is the sin of division in His body. The only way to get this mud away is to love Him and each other. When we say yes to God and the thing He wants to do through us, it will melt away the mud from the inside, and we will see His face.

Margaret Abu-Ghazaleh shared how her hunger for the Lord brought her to study the life of Moses. He was intimate with God instead of being too busy with the multitude. When God called Moses by the burning bush, he was struggling with the fear of man, like we do, too. Going up the ladder, you will not stay in one place and not be satisfied anymore. Once Moses was ready to accept His calling from the Lord and do what he was called to do, God took off Moses’ wrong identity and brought him into his right identity. God had already been preparing Moses in the desert and He knew what he needed in order to fulfil his task. In Exodus 28, God is calling Moses to come up to Him on the mountain. There are different levels. Aaron is on one level, while Moses is on a different level. All the elders were anointed, and they saw the God of Israel, but they stayed on a lower level. We should be jealous and want more of God. Our relationship needs to come before our ministry. God gave Moses the 10 commandments on the mountain. Moses used to be angry with the people, but when he descended the mountain, he started interceding for them. He was in a continuous relationship with the Lord, and when God spoke to Moses face to face in the tent of meeting, the glory of the Lord was so strong.

Lilo Keller from Schleife Ministry in Switzerland spoke about the love of Christ, and how He came knocking on her door three times at night with nobody being there when she opened. She described it as a knock of love like in the Song of Solomon. Another time when Lilo was just waiting on the Lord, he came close and gave her a pomegranate, as he asked her, “May I love you?” He wants to have a close relationship with us, to lead us into His perfect love, and put us on like a glove, meaning that we will become like Him in words and deeds. The Lord is our strength and identity. On another occasion Lilo was in a mountain house in the USA, and suddenly she heard church bells ringing. However, when she got outside, there were no bells. She could only hear them while she was inside the house. Her spiritual father afterwards explained to her, “You heard the high priest walking the land proclaiming His Kingdom in the land. You heard in the spiritual realm, but it impacted the natural.” In Exodus 39:24-26, there is a description of the pomegranates and bells that were on the garments of the priests in the temple, and as illustration Lilo had brought a pomegranate and a bell.

On Saturday, Lilo Keller also shared about another encounter she had had with the Lord, where He came to her as a lion. He came very gently and began licking her face. Then He lifted her up by His paw and began running into heavenly places. There, He placed her on a rock, so that she could see the sea (the nations). When he stood above her, He began to roar proclaiming His victory, and she was roaring with Him. It is His strength that comforts us. Lilo went on talking about overcoming fear. If we are captured by thoughts about what will happen in the future, then we are not living in the today. We need to use our faith to see ourselves in Jesus. We are surrounded, but He is in us. If we do everything we do for the Lord, fear can have no hold on us. If we choose to find Him in the midst of the circumstances, we will always find comfort.

The HOPE worship team led most of the Arabic worship during the conference, and the first song, “Alen Howa” (“He is High and Lifted Up”) from their new album was launched through powerful prophetic dance by one of the HOPE team members, Christine Souti. A worship leader from Ramallah named Jackie also led some of the Arabic worship, and Karen Davis led us in Hebrew and English worship on Friday. One of the most powerful moments was when Karen started singing, “Hineh Ma Tov U’ma Na’im” (Psalm 133) in Hebrew, and Arab and Jew joined hands and began dancing around the room in a big circle, united as one in Messiah.

On Saturday morning, we had another very powerful moment when the Messianic Jews who were present were called forth to share their hearts in the middle of the war situation. Many tears were shared, and we broke bread together after releasing forgiveness in the middle of the crisis of the war. The session ended with a release of powerful worship and dance together in Hebrew and Arabic, as the Arab and Jewish women were hugging and sharing their love for each other. We felt a fresh outpouring of the love of God by the Holy Spirit melting away and removing much pain over the land.

After the final evening session with Lilo Keller on Saturday evening, there was a powerful time of ministry, as all the Arab women were lining up to go through the “fire tunnel” receiving prayer and blessings by the ministry team members. All glory to God!

November 13, 2024
| Arab Deborahs, Articles, Blog, News

Arab Women’s Gathering at HOPE 06/07/2024

On 06/07/2024, we had around 35 Arab women leaders coming for a special meeting here at HOPE. The women joining us came from different churches around the Galilee. Our time of fellowship was very deep, and it was very important for us to come together. We had not seen each other for a long time, so it was a good reunion bringing unity among the mothers of the land. We could sense the heart of the Father and His love, as we stood together supporting one another in these troubling and challenging times in the midst of a war. Our time of worship was really powerful, and our prayers were focussed on the situation in the land, for our government and leaders, and for the Arabs in Gaza, but we were also praying against the violence within the Arab community in Israel.

Furthermore, I shared a word of encouragement from the Book of Nehemiah and the call to build a wall together and cast a vision that we should continue to stand and build together in unity, because the Lord will fight for us. The main verse I was sharing on was Nehemiah 4:20, where it says, “Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!” (NIV). It was all about sounding the trumpet. I then announced the 40 days of fasting and called the women to join us in this fast, encouraging them to take the initiative “to build a wall” and “straighten the bars of the gates” in their cities and the places they are positioned in, as they walk around the city praying. Finally, we broke bread together, prayed for one another, and encouraged each other in the Lord. We had a wonderful time of fellowship around a very rich and good meal, which one of our staff, one of the mothers, had prepared for us.

August 28, 2024
| Articles, Blog, News, Prayer, Prophetic Intercession

Report from Rania’s Ministry Trip to Norway, 22-28/05/2024 and Sweden, 28/05-05/06/2024

Rania’s trip to Sweden and Norway was a wonderful blessing, and the Lord really surprised her in many ways.

The first leg of the journey was in Sweden, where Rania spent the first few days meeting with leaders of a prayer movement there, who shared about what God is doing in Sweden, and how He has been using initiative prayer and prophetic journeys, repentance on behalf of the nation, and special prayer gatherings to bring a real breakthrough in different areas. Rania’s time in Sweden was wonderful and effective. After meeting with the leaders, Rania went on to visit her family, and seeing her nephews, her brother and his wife again was also refreshing. It was a beautiful family reunion.

Afterwards, Rania travelled on to Norway, where she was invited to be part of the Stord Conference, a strategic and timely gathering, which took place on the Island of Stord in the western part of the country. This gathering was part of a series of different prayer initiatives, ship cruises and prophetic acts organized all over the country because of the thousand years of Norway’s independence as a nation. The Body of Christ and the prayer movement had started all these different initiatives to cover the nation in prayer and restore the heritage and stand on the values of the constitution and the heritage of Norway being founded as a Christian nation.

The Stord Conference, which Rania was part of, was a wonderful gathering, and the Holy Spirit and God’s presence was tangible there. There were around 170-200 participants in the meetings. During the three days of the conference, God was moving and releasing prophecy, declaring the restoration of Norway back to its Christian roots. For Rania it was a blessing to be able to speak there twice. During a long one-hour session, Rania spoke about heritage, and she also shared a vision she had seen during the conference and released it over the nation, and the Lord was really touching people. (To look at the vision, click here.)

It was a powerful time of sharing this vision. While Rania was emphasizing the difference between heritage and inheritance, how God works with the inheritance, and how we can secure it, she was speaking about God’s destiny for Norway. Beside this, Rania also shared about the situation in Israel and the prophetic assignment during Purim, where they were standing together, Jew and Arab, repenting and decreeing a decree, breaking the covenant of death and replacing it with a covenant of life together as one family in the Land of Israel. Rania spoke about the importance and the power of reestablishing the covenant, and the upcoming trip to Poland, where the Jewish and Arab family would be endeavouring together on a journey of prayer reestablishing the covenant during Shavuot, the time when the Book of Ruth is traditionally opened. After Rania spoke about these things, everyone united in prayer for Israel and for Gaza, praying for both the Arab and the Jew and the salvation of God’s people both in Israel and in Gaza.

During the Stord Conference, Rania also shared a prophetic word for Norway, which God gave her for the thousand years of independence. God first gave this word to Rania in February during the national prayer conference in Grimerud, where He told her that His timing for Norway is now in the thousand years.

God spoke to Rania, as she was sitting in the room praying, while snow was coming down outside. The Lord spoke to her about how the snow comes down to clean and purify the land. He also spoke from Isaiah 55:10-11, where it says that like the snow coming down, the Word of the Lord is going forth from His mouth, and it will not return to Him void, but succeed and prosper and fulfil all God’s purposes. God spoke to Rania about the snow and then whispered in her ear about the thousand years. He then took her to Zechariah 3, where it speaks about Joshua the priest, and says, “‘If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command…” (verse 7), “And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day” (verse 9). As Rania was pondering on that during the conference in February, the Lord then spoke to her and said that He would remove the iniquities of the nation in a day. Then she went back to 2 Peter 3:8, where it says, “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Then it really clicked in Rania’s heart. It says in Zechariah 3 that “I will inscribe on the stone that I will remove the iniquity of a nation in a day.” So, this was a thousand years in a day, the thousand years of anniversary for the nation of Norway. That was a promise that God had given that He would remove the iniquity of a nation in a day, “if you walk in my ways and keep my commands.” This was a very important word that resonated with many of the leaders’ hearts.

Incredibly enough, one of the prophetic leaders in Norway named Howard Sand had initiated a project of a stone, which he had made a replica of. The stone is located in Moster Island, half an hour from Stord, where the conference was, and it was the actual stone, where King Olav, the first king of Norway, said, as he bowed on it, “We will bow toward the east, and we will bow for Christ. The king will be a friend of God. The king will be a friend of the people.” That was his declaration a thousand years ago, when he bowed on that rock. This stone they believed was the foundation of the values of Norway, and it was here the Christian nation of Norway was born. It says in Isaiah 28 that they wanted to establish this, like I will put a chief cornerstone in Zion. It is, indeed, not about the stone, but about the values and the cornerstone, Jesus. The establishment of the values of the heritage of the Christian nation of Norway, how it was founded, and the covenant of this king.

As part of the project, Norwegian believers want to make a replica of this stone in order to take it all over Norway and place it everywhere to decree that the nation is returning to its foundations, to reestablish and stand on the values of the nation again. It was truly a renewal of a covenant. Rania did not know about this project, but God spoke to her about the verse in Zechariah 3, where it says, “I will inscribe on a stone that I will remove the iniquity of the nation in a day.” It was stunning and shocking for Rania to hear this from the Lord, but the people were really encouraged, because it speaks very much about what they were doing. Ultimately, they ended up inscribing and engraving all over the replica of the stone the same words from Zechariah 3:9, “I will inscribe on a stone that I will remove the iniquity of the nation in a day.” It was a very powerful time, with lots of confirmation from different people telling Rania how much this had touched their hearts and confirmed in their spirit that God will, indeed, visit Norway, and in a day, there will be revival and mass salvation within the nation!

After finishing the Stord conference, they all went together to Moster and prayed in a very old church, near where the stone is, and during their time of prayer and breaking of bread, there was a renewal of covenant with all the participants in the conference. They also bowed towards the east on the stone, and renewed the covenant with the nation of Norway together with the remnant of the Norwegian family that was present. Afterwards, they went up to the cross on the mountain, where they also prayed and broke bread, declaring that the nation of Norway belongs to Jesus, “No king but Jesus over Norway!” It was a very powerful time.

Rania then had two days in Bergen, where she had been invited by a friend to speak in Credo Church. Around 100-120 people were gathered, and it was a wonderful evening of prayer and intercession. Rania shared about what is taking place in Israel right now during the war. She also shared her vision from the Lord and released the prophetic word God had given her for Norway, like she did at the Stord Conference.

Finally, Rania went back to Sweden for another six days, where she, together with a group of Messianic-Jewish leaders, had been invited to be part of a retreat with Pastor Linda Bergling in Shohamra. It was a wonderful time of refreshment, prayer and intercession, and deepening relationship with the Swedish family and the Messianic-Jewish leaders who were present. Sunday morning, Rania and all the rest of the leaders who were at the retreat, participated in a church service at Arken Church, where Rania was asked to speak for 15 minutes. She gave a word about God’s heart for unity between the Jewish and Arab family and walking together. She gave a short report about the war, emphasizing how we should keep our hearts and love for one another that we may not break covenant during this hard time with Israel being nine months in war with Hamas, how we should pray for both Arab and Jew as one heart in love and covenant, like Ruth and Naomi did. They made a covenant together to stand together in love for one another, and from that Obed was born, and with him a whole generation of worshippers was born. It was wonderful to have time to reflect on all what God is doing, and to pray and fellowship. It was indeed a very refreshing time for Rania right before her trip to Poland, which was a very strategic trip with six from the team at HOPE and another five from the Messianic-Jewish family, who went together.

 

July 11, 2024
| Articles, Journeys, News

Urgent Call For Prayer And Fasting!

We are sending out this urgent letter, as we want to ask you to please stand with us in prayer and fasting from the 13th till the 19th of May against an event called “The Magic Conference,” which is scheduled to take place from the 16th to the 18th of May, the days around Pentecost, in southern Israel (see below.) Many witches and wizards will be coming to Israel these days in order to participate in this occult conference. This is really dangerous, as it will be opening a doorway of evil again here in the land, so we need to cover the land in prayer. Let us pray that the Lord will stop them, that the event will be prevented from taking place in the south, and that they will be coming to bring healing instead of a curse upon the land.

May 13, 2024
| Blog, Fasting, News, Prayer

Trip to Dubai, 29/1-4/2/2024

At the end of January, Rania and a few other young people from the House of Prayer flew to the UAE to participate in a small Watchmen for the Nations gathering with David Demian and a group of about 30 leaders, most of them coming from across the Isaiah 19 Highway in the Middle East.

The goal of the conference was to seek the Lord together and deepen the unity and heart connection with one another. During those days, very important conversations were taking place, touching on several difficult issues connected with the crisis in the Middle East since October 7th 2023.

One of the main issues was concerning the destinies and callings of Jews and Arabs. We spent many hours in prayer and worship and sharing hearts, as we were asking the Lord to bring healing into these deep issues that were surfacing due to the challenging situation we are facing right now with the current war in Israel and the region.

During the few days we were there, the Lord was working a lot in our hearts and melting us in His presence with deeper unity. He was shedding the light and truth on ancient biblical truth and bringing us in alignment with His heart and word for His Kingdom purposes.

During Rania’s first days in the UAE, before the gathering started, she received a vision for the UAE, which you can read here. This vision was a key for Rania to be part of a prophetic act that was going to take place with one of her friends from the USA. Rania did not know in advance that she was coming to the UAE, until they by accident were texting, and Rania found out that her friend would be landing in the UAE on the same day. When they met together, Rania was surprised to find out that her friend had come to do a prophetic act and pray at the maritime shore in Dubai.

The vision that Rania had received a day before they met was a confirmation for an encounter her friend had had with the Lord in the UAE 22 years ago. The Lord was confirming to both of them that they should perform this prophetic prayer assignment together with a few other locals the next day. This was truly a divinely orchestrated time and a confirmation of the vision Rania had seen on the 30th of January. Rania believes this trip was very strategic and timely, and part of God’s plan, which she suddenly found herself being part of. Jesus is the genius orchestrator of life events. Glory to His name!

March 7, 2024
| Blog, Journeys, News

Trip to Norway, 12-21/2/2024

In the middle of the month of February, Rania and her friend Margaret flew to Norway to be part of a strategic national prayer conference led by YWAM leaders in the Grimerud base. Rania was invited to be one of the main speakers at this conference. The last time she visited Norway and ministered at this national conference was in 2019.

The first two days prior to the conference, Rania & Margaret were part of the leadership meetings, which were strategic gatherings, where each one shared from their hearts what the Lord was speaking at this time, and what He wanted to impart into the land of Norway and her people.

On the second day of the prayer conference, Rania was interviewed by one of the leaders. A couple of the questions Rania was asked in the interview were about the current war situation in Israel, as they wanted her to share a Kingdom perspective and update on this crisis. By the end of the interview, she shared eight prayer points with the participants in the conference in order for them to unite together in prayer for Israel.

Before traveling, Rania had a word from the Lord that she should bring with her a gift to the Norwegian family, a gift representing a token to what God was wanting to release to the nation of Norway in the coming season. The gift was an ancient key from Jerusalem! The key was miraculously provided by the Lord, as most of the stores in the Old City of Jerusalem were closed during the war, and Rania did not even have the time to travel all the way to Jerusalem to bring such a key if it was found. However, the Lord arranged it, as we found a key for sale from a woman in Nazareth, who had once owned an antique store. She had kept one key aside for a few years, and one of Rania’s friends, who came to the House of Prayer, contacted her to ask her if she would sell them this key. The Lord amazingly provided the key for Rania, so that she got it before leaving for Norway! God provided the ancient key from Jerusalem, praise God!

On Saturday evening, Rania had been asked to speak, so she brought the message God had given her for this season, and what He had spoken to her about Norway, the prophetic timing we are living in, and how to align ourselves with God’s purposes for our nation and beyond. Towards the end of the message, 12 leaders representing the audience came up on stage to stand in the gap on behalf of the nation of Norway in repentance of antisemitic hatred and apostasy rising in the land. Then Rania took the key and declared for the gates to open up over the nation and face Jerusalem from the east. One of the musicians on the worship team blew the ancient Norwegian shofar to welcome the King of Glory through the gate. Then Rania presented the gift of the key to a few of the main leaders at the meeting. God’s presence and awe was tangible in the room at this holy moment!

The next day, a very encouraging testimony was shared of a healing miracle that had taken place the night Rania spoke. The Lord had given her a word of knowledge for a person suffering from an inconsistent heart rate, which she brought up in the beginning of the meeting. When Rania shared the word, a man sitting in the audience lifted his hand, and while Rania was praying for him, he was instantly healed at that very moment. Praise the Lord for this wonderful healing miracle! Jesus the great physician of all manifested Himself as Jehovah Rapha!

It was such a privilege for Rania to be part of the conference, to fellowship with the Norwegian family and hear what God has been doing through the 10 years of her journey with them since 2014, as well as the fulfillment of many prophetic words God gave her for them throughout her ministry there. It is such an encouragement to see how God is moving in Norway, and how the Body of Messiah there is taking their stand and being positioned as Esthers for their nation and the Scandinavian nations for such a time as this!

March 7, 2024
| Blog, Journeys, News

Review of the Year 2023

Looking back on the year, 2023, it is with hearts full of gratitude to the Lord for what He did among us during this last year. We have attached a flipbook, reviewing some of the most significant events for the ministry of HOPE Nazareth during 2023.

 

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January 31, 2024
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