Trusting the Source

IDF left Gaza.  No, it is not the end of the war, nor is it the last day of protecting the nation.  But we lost enough people in the tunnels.

Not everyone agrees with our government decision.  Many express their anger that we did not complete the mission and destroy all the Hamas and their tunnels.  Personally, I don't question this decision.  The Israeli leaders have a unique and difficult nation to govern and a horrid place to do it in.  I don't  envy any of them.

We did our part.  Willie and I gave to the soldiers; we were with the bereaved where we could, and we encouraged and organized and directed others in every way that was open to us. We visited the sick and contacted people in the war zone.

The last thing and only thing left to do is to pray.

Today, we felt the need to pray specific prayers that we prayed during the war but more focused.

We prayed for the tunnels to collapse on themselves; for ships full of weapons to sink; for rockets to fall back on the ones who send them and for the Palestinians to be strong and to rise up against their oppressors.

We prayed that the earth will open up and swallow the Hamas, including all their leaders that are having fun in international hotels while their people are blowing themselves up.

We prayed that God will rise up as He rose in Moses time and let the sand of the Gaza plan, of Judea and Samaria hills and of the Lebanon Mountains to close in and drown the Hamas and its devices and its ammunitions, like the Red Sea did with Pharaoh and let the tunnels erode inside the sand dunes.  

We read Exodus 15  in Hebrew and in English and praised God with the Song of Moses and encourage ourselves that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and what He did then for His people He will do now for us. 

God deserves all the glory and honor and power.  Nine of Av is due in two days.  So we prayed that the mourning of that date will turn into joy as God fights and wins our battles.

215th Day of Praise -

"The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. .. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. .. Thou did blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. .. Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? "(Exodus 15)

Knowing God can,

Orith