Resurrection in Joppa

GOD IS DOING SOMETHING AMAZING IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF ISRAEL!

TABITHA IN JAFFA.

A committee of Tel Aviv's municipality responsible for supplying or changing names and commemoration recently approved eight new names for the city neighborhoods. One of these neighborhoods lies in old Jaffa (Biblical: Joppa) and, very unusual for Israel, it has been decided that it be recommended to be named for a figure in the New Testament, Tabitha. The name is Aramaic (the Greek form is Dorcas), and means 'gazelle' or 'doe'. Tabitha's story is related in Acts 9:36-42. She was evidently a gifted seamstress, and is called a "disciple.full of good works and charitable deeds." But she became sick and died. Peter, living in the town of Lod, was sent for. After arriving, he put all the people out, knelt down and prayed, "And turning to the body he said, 'Tabitha, Arise!' And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. Then he gave her his hand and lifted her up; and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive. And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord."

It is interesting that Tabitha is replacing the neighborhood's older name Abu Kabir, related to the name El-Kebir. When Egypt briefly conquered the Land of Israel from the Ottoman Turks in 1831, they uprooted an Egyptian village Tel el-Kebir and literally transplanted it as a settlement in this area in Jaffa. El-Kebir, meaning, "The Great" is the 37th of the 99 names for the Muslim deity mentioned in the Koran.

PLEASE PRAY:

*For life from the dead in this neighborhood of Tel Aviv.

*For signs and wonders to take place in the name of Yeshua (Hebrew)/Ya'suah (Arabic) in this part of Tel Aviv. Pray that, as in ancient times, these wonders will be known throughout all of Jaffa and many will believe in the Lord.

* For a new "changing of names" to that of the Most High God! Muslims call "great" a god who teaches his followers the falsehood that a divine covenant of life passed through Ishmael rather than Isaac. Pray for revelation in this neighborhood amongst Muslim people of a God who is Greater.whose Son was born of the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob on behalf of the whole world!

*For Women to be awakened to their place in the Kingdom of God in Israel as "disciples, full of good works and charitable deeds"-that they be granted "Hinds' feet" (Tabitha means 'gazelle'!) to rise and do exploits for God!

Portions taken from Israel Prayer list