{"id":1897,"date":"2014-07-25T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-07-25T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T09:24:46","slug":"kuma-adonai-arise-oh-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/kuma-adonai-arise-oh-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuma Adonai (Arise Oh God)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elisabeth Hinze
\n\"Judean<\/a>
\nDavid Ben Gurion, Israel\u2019s first Prime Minister, summed up life in his country pretty accurately, \u201cIn Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.\u201d\u00a0 Smart man.\u00a0 Because it is on those miracles, those interventions from God, that the very existence of Israel hinges.\u00a0 Always has. Think the parting of the Red Sea, Joshua, Gideon, David and Goliath, the list goes on.\u00a0 The nation of Israel existed because the Lord of the Armies of Heaven made their fight His.\u00a0 Their existence depended on His intervention, His miracles.<\/p>\n

Ah miracles\u2026\u00a0 How we earnestly long for, pray for God to show up and do for us what we are incapable of doing ourselves.\u00a0 Because that\u2019s the thing about miracles:\u00a0 in order for it to qualify as a miracle, we need to be simply unable to, too weak, too human.\u00a0 Which would then require God\u2019s supernatural intervention.\u00a0 If we had been able to, strong enough, capable in ourselves to fix, accomplish or achieve, the glory would be ours.\u00a0 And our God is not in the habit of sharing His glory or His praise (Isaiah 48:2).\u00a0 From personal experience we know:\u00a0 God\u2019s miracles are usually reserved for the no-hope situations, the back-against-the-wall areas in our lives, when it\u2019s only God standing between us and the end of the line.<\/p>\n

During times of war, the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) learn all about these situations.\u00a0 Fifteen armed conflicts in the last 60 odd years led to thousands of stories of how God showed up, how He arose to turn a battle, confuse the enemy, save a life and literally keep Israel from annihilation.\u00a0 Because in light of the odds, compared to the multitude of those who would wipe her off the map, Israel is simply unable to, too weak, too human.\u00a0 Which is why they need God\u2019s supernatural intervention.<\/p>\n

There are stories of a sudden windstorm, blowing away inches of topsoil to expose the minefield hidden below.\u00a0 Of a single Israeli tank blocking the Syrian army\u2019s advance through the Golan Heights because they saw the lone tank as a battalion.\u00a0 Of battalions surrendering to one Israeli soldier, because they saw thousands where a single man stood\u2026\u00a0 There are stories of God making tanks invisible, of ambushes that simply disintegrated, of men and women who knew they should have died.\u00a0 Of a virtually unarmed army grossly outnumbered, pushing back 6 invading armies.<\/p>\n

Reading through the personal accounts of the men and women who saw these things happen startles you.\u00a0 It\u2019s so far beyond coincidence, so much more than good luck.\u00a0 It was God\u2019s intervention, the Lord of the Armies of Heaven still making Israel\u2019s fight His.\u00a0 It was Him showing Himself mighty on behalf of the unable, the weak and the human in no-hope situations where only God stood between Israel and the end of the line.<\/p>\n

But these miracles were actually more than that.\u00a0 For many of the men and women who lived and saw them, it was God introducing Himself personally.\u00a0 It was His way of showing Himself alive, real, not confined to tradition or the stories of their great-great-greeeeeeeeeat-grandfathers.\u00a0 God showed up in such a real way that it wiped out all traces of doubt, of disappointment and scepticism.\u00a0 For many, the miracle marked the first day of their walk with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.<\/p>\n

It is such miracles that I pray for as another day of Operation Tzuk Eitan (Protective Edge) draws to a close.\u00a0 As Hamas sets up in a hospital compound to launch its attacks from.\u00a0 As they use ambulances as cover to spring ambushes from.\u00a0 As the UN discovers rockets stored in schools in Gaza for the second time in a week.\u00a0 As terrorists grab hold of children to hide behind in the hope of deterring the Israelis.\u00a0 As it dawns on me that our Western mindset can simply not comprehend or expect such utter indoctrinated evil.\u00a0 As I\u2019m growing more reluctant to read the news of more Israeli boys killed \u2013 knowing that Israel chose a ground invasion, thus putting the lives of her sons in danger, as opposed to indiscriminately bombing Gaza and killing innocent civilians.\u00a0 And as I resign myself to the fact that the world believes the worst despite the effort.<\/p>\n

Yes, I pray for protection.\u00a0 Constantly.\u00a0 I pray that God would shine His light on the ambushes and bring the evil into the open.\u00a0 I pray for the innocent and for the scared.\u00a0 I pray for peace in the hearts of mothers and fathers and wives who stopped sleeping at night.<\/p>\n

And then I pray for the type of miracles where God would introduce Himself personally.\u00a0 That in hearts that doubt He would show Himself alive and real and still willing to fight on behalf of His people.\u00a0 I pray that for many here in Israel but also many criticising Israel so vocally and even many calling and fighting for her destruction, God would arise as, well, God.\u00a0 And I pray the words that Israel\u2019s shepherd king used when he stood facing the giant, \u201c\u2026 that the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel\u201d (1 Samuel 17:46).<\/p>\n

Kuma Adonai, hosheini elohai, l\u2019adonai hayeshua, al amcha birchatecha\u2026 (\u201cArise, oh Lord! Save me, oh my God!\u00a0 Salvation belongs to the Lord; Your blessings are upon Your people\u201d (Psalm 3:7-8)<\/p>\n

Listen to a beautiful Psalm 3 song in Hebrew here
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