PRAY FOR ISRAEL

1-Pray for Israel. 2-Flooding could follow wildfires in California. 3-Federal Reserve U.S headed for Bankruptcy.

PSALMS 122:1-9
1 A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

PSALMS 137:1-9
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

The Sh'ma at Bedtime,(excerpts from the traditional ritual)

Who Closes My Eyes...: A Blessing at Bedtime

Praised are You,Adonai, our God,Ruler of the universe,
who closes my eyes in sleep,my eyelids in slumber.
May it be Your will,Adonai, My God and the God of my ancestors,
to lie me down in peace and then to raise me up in peace.

Let no disturbing thoughts upset me,no evil dreams nor troubling fantasies.
May my bed be complete and whole in Your sight.Grant me light
so that I do not sleep the sleep of death,for it is You who illumines and enlightens.

Praised are You,Adonai, whose majesty gives light to the universe.

The Sh'ma Itself
(Deuteronomy 6: 4-9)

(God is a Faithful Ruler)
Hear, O Israel, Adonai, our God, Adonai, is One.
Blessed be the name of his glorious majesty forever and ever.
You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them when you are sitting at home and when you go on a journey, when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be frontlets between your eyes. You shall inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.


Hashkivenu: Lie Us Down...

Lie us down,Adonai our God,in peace;
and raise us up again,our Ruler,in life.
Spread over us Your Sukkah of peace,
direct us with Your good counsel,
and save us for Your own Name's sake.

Shield us;remove from us every enemy, pestilence, sword, famine, and sorrow.
Remove all adversaries from before us and from behind us,and shelter us in the shadow of Your wings.For You are our guarding and saving God,yes, a gracious and compassionate God and King.Guard our going out and our coming in for life and peace,now and always!

A Prayer for Protection at Night

In the name of Adonai the God of Israel:May the angel Michael be at my right,
and the angel Gabriel be at my left;and in front of me the angel Uriel,
and behind me the angel Raphael...and above my head the Sh'khinah (Divine Presence).

Source: Eisenberg, Ronald L. The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions. PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2004; “Prayer Kriat Sh’ma”.

PRAY FOR ISRAEL

How to pray?

1. Pray for God to deflect Hezbollah missiles away from their targets. This happened in the 1991 Gulf War and it can happen again as we pray.
2. Pray for the safety of all Israelis targeted by Hezbollah rockets and missiles.
3. Pray for a revelation of Yeshua as Messiah and atonement to many in Israel right now.
4. Pray for the protection of the many south Lebanese who are soon to become refugees.
5. Pray for those Hezbollah fighting against Israel to either be saved or to be totally crushed.
6. Protection for Israeli soldiers fighting, and especially for those Messianic Jewish believers presently involved in the war. Â
7. Pray for God to reveal and counter Syrian and Iranian strategies to the IDF generals, as He did in 2 Kings 6 in Elisha's day.
8. Ask the God of Israel to hook you up to His prayer request line – to download to you directly and in real time what needs to be prayed for. This is what Rees Howell experienced during WW II, in a time when there were no TVs, no cell phones and no interner.

PLEASE PRAY URGENTLY FOR THESE MATTERS! Â Â Â THANKS SO MUCH FOR CARRYING THIS PRAYER BURDEN WITH

US !

We bless you in Y eshua,
Avner Boskey,www.davidstent.org

GENESIS 6:13
13 For the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Flooding could follow wildfires in California
Sunday, July 16, 2006; Posted: 10:09 a.m. EDT (14:09 GMT)

YUCCA VALLEY, California (CNN) -- Heavy rains are forecast for California's fire ravaged Yucca Valley on Sunday, a welcome relief for firefighters but the monsoon system could cause massive flooding in the desert area, the National Weather Service and a local police official told CNN Radio.People who have just been allowed to return to their homes ... because of the fires may have to quickly be evacuated again,said Cindy Beavers, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Vanderburg in San Diego said the Yucca Valley region is a flood problem to begin with.

The burned terrain makes it even worse,he added.Although firefighters reported some progress in battling two wildfires Saturday, the flames had consumed more acreage, officials said.The Sawtooth Complex fire was estimated to be 40 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Web site. The Millard Fire remained at 5 percent containment, but its acreage had increased, authorities said.The two fires, which merged Friday, had burned a total of more than 71,000 acres as of Saturday. Firefighters battling the flames have been dealing with steep, inaccessible terrain and a lack of steady water resources.Mandatory evacuations remain in effect for some residents of Burns Canyon.

In another development late Saturday, a search-and-rescue team found the body of Gerry Guthrie, 57, who had been missing since Tuesday when he called his wife and told her he was being evacuated from the historic community of Pioneertown, according to the sheriff's department.The exact cause of death has not been confirmed.Beavers said about 20 people searching an area northwest of Guthrie's home found his body near his home.CNN Radio's Lee Garen contributed to this report.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Federal Reserve: U.S.headed for bankruptcy,Report: Coming $65.9 trillion fiscal gap 5 times GDP, twice size of national wealth,Posted: July 16, 2006,1:00 a.m. Eastern,© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A newly published paper by a researcher for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis warns that a ballooning budget deficit and pension and welfare timebomb is growing into a $65.9 trillion fiscal gap that will force the United States into bankruptcy. Prof. Laurence Kotlikoff.In the view of Prof. Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, the U.S. is already bankrupt – at least the government is. The U.S. government is, indeed, bankrupt, he writes, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds. While the U.S. budget deficit, currently forecast to be 2.3 percent of the gross domestic product this year, is smaller than that of most European states, Kotlikoff argues the much debated number is not a particularly useful measure of U.S. economic health.

The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy. The number that has Kotlikoff's attention is the U.S.'s long-term fiscal gap– the difference between all future government spending and all future receipts.

Not only is the number immense, it will grow wider as the Baby Boom generation leaves the work world – and the burden of paying taxes on earned income – and stakes its claim on government health care and pensions. According to one study, the total fiscal gap could be $65.9 trillion. There are 77 million baby boomers now ranging from age 41 to age 59, Kotlikoff writes. All are hoping to collect tens of thousands of dollars in pension and healthcare benefits from the next generation. These claimants aren't going away.

In three years, the oldest boomers will be eligible for early Social Security benefits. In six years, the boomer vanguard will start collecting Medicare. Our nation has done nothing to prepare for this onslaught of obligation. Instead, it has continued to focus on a completely meaningless fiscal metric – 'the' federal deficit – censored and studiously ignored long-term fiscal analyses that are
scientifically coherent, and dramatically expanded the benefit levels being explicitly or implicitly promised to the baby boomers.

How much is $65.9 trillion dollars?

This figure is more than five times U.S. GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth, writes Kotlikoff. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9 trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143 percent.Leaving our $65.9 trillion bill for today's and tomorrow's children to pay will roughly double their average lifetime net tax rates. Given the fiscal irresponsibility of both political parties,the professor sees the most likely scenario for maintaining solvency as the government simply printing money to pay its bills.

Kotlikoff explains: This could arise in the context of the Federal Reserve 'being forced' to buy Treasury bills and bonds to reduce interest rates. Specifically, once the financial markets begin to understand the depth and extent of the country's financial insolvency, they will start worrying about inflation and about being paid back in watered-down dollars. This concern will lead them to start dumping their holdings of U.S. Treasuries. In so doing, they'll drive up interest rates, which will lead the Fed to print money to buy up those bonds. The consequence will be more money creation – exactly what the bond traders will have come to fear. This could lead to spiraling expectations of higher inflation, with the process eventuating in hyperinflation.