SWORDS OF IRON WAR. Day 130.

TUESDAY 13.2.2024

A few things are on my mind.

Sorry, I did not write since Saturday. I needed a miracle and was concentrating on not missing it when it came.

Last week, I lost sight in my right eye. By Sunday a doctor in a town south of us sent me to the emergency. “You should have gone last week or even earlier”. I did get to the ER by early Monday morning and the doctors worked fast and with great care and ability to save the eye. By the evening I returned home after a shot into my eye. Willie held my hand while they administered the shot and helped me to calm down. They gave me the next appointment and within three months we'll have some answers. But today, I received my miracle, today I can see! Thank God.

During the week that I battled the loss of sight, there were 10 more people who needed extra prayers for their physical conditions and family members of the wounded who needed prayer support as well. It seems that too many of us were experiencing some sort of trauma at the same time.

In answer to my prayers, God did open my inner sight to the fact that there are war wounded in every army. The IDF lost another commander in Gaza last night and 14 of his unit are wounded. This particular company of reservists was due to go home today after 4 months in Gaza, and instead, some are going to the funeral, some are with the wounded for support, and others are still fighting wondering if they will be sent elsewhere. Similarly, our prayer army has its wounded. The increase of people that we needed to pray for is our wounded. They need the same support as the IDF soldiers need.

So I pray for healing and recovery, warmth and comfort, love and care for both – soldiers and families. I also am praying for the removal of trauma that seems to be so prevalent at this time, and for the removal of fear and excessive imagination that tend to lean toward negative outcomes. Both armies and their wounded and the family members around them need these prayers. As I expected and waited for a miracle for my eyes, I am praying that others will have that same expectancy and will receive their healing miracles.

Others we prayed for had miracles as well. People healed, left the hospitals, and received good reports after emergency treatments and tests. Wounded soldiers were moved to rehabilitation.

Another great piece of news is that two hostages were freed. A 60-year-old and a 70-year-old hostages were freed by IDF and intelligence units. Their wives were freed earlier in November as part of an agreement. Praise God for that miracle of family reunion.

My Hero.😇

Wille and I went to the medical clinic to do some paperwork, holding hands and taking pictures of the flowers on that walk. After a short nap with the cat, he took the train to Haifa to attend a meeting.

The war continues.

Netanyahu insists that the fighting will continue and Israel will not back down to international pressure. He is correct:

• A two-state solution is never going to be a solution in practice;

• Hamas is already on the run;

• Hizballah is shooting rockets toward the North but one at a time as if to say – “we want everyone to know we are on the enemy side, but we are not really getting involved so don't shoot us, we are afraid”.

• USA changed their minds a few times and UNRA is not being truthful about their involvement with Hamas and the massacre on October 7.

• Hostages are not being freed. While they are not getting food and medications as agreed, the Hamas prisoners in the Israeli prisons get full meals with meat, chicken and fish and full medical care. The hostages' families are very angry and demonstrate on the Rafiach border for the humanitarian supplies to stop coming in daily to Gaza.

• The soldiers on active duty and the reservists in the fields insist that they are winning and that Hamas needs to be stopped forever from their activities and constant shooting of Israel. Israel has to have a victory over Hamas and all the hostages released.

That's it in a nutshell.

(Jeremiah 31:16)  Thus says the LORD: “Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

Amen.