A blessed October to you: The desperately dry hot days are over. Autumn is on its way. The sun is gentler, the evenings cooler and leaves letting go, slowly waft down to the earth. Fleecy white clouds bring not only the promise but the scent of coming rain. Meanwhile, most of September in Israel was spent celebrating, regardless of all the bad news. That is what I love about the Jewish nation. It doesn’t matter what the rest of the world does. We have a guidebook, the Bible, and when we follow it, we are blessed! I love that Psalm 23 says: “You set a table before me in the presence of my enemies …”. And when Abba sets a table for us it is nothing short of a FEAST! Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles in Israel is definitely an experience in ‘time out’. I highly recommend it for everyone regardless of age, race or religion. The Almighty calls us to ‘come away’ and play. First, one has to choose to lay aside all the …

Warm greetings to everyone.  Jay joins me in wishing all of you a very special, happy and sweet New Year. “They will follow the Lord; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.“ Hosea 11:10 I want to begin with this amazing news of Jews returning to Israel from the nations as never before. Look at these statistics, just in from Howard Flower who heads up ‘Aliyah” for the International Christian Embassy – Jerusalem. One of their main thrusts has always been to help Israel bring her sons and daughters home. Just look at the increases of returning Jews from across the world. All are up! Venezuela: 50%, Argentina: 70%, USA: 88%, France: 137%, Britain: 64% I personally believe this to be the greatest prophetic sign to the world today. Jesus said: “The great trumpet [Shofar] will sound, and he will send out his angels to the four corners of the earth, and they will gather his chosen people from one end of the world to …

Fire Refugees  Today, huge forest fires in Canada, California, Turkey, Australia, Morocco,  Greece and even Siberia dominate the news as hotter, drier temperatures turn living trees into kindling. In Israel, the hill country to the West, of Jerusalem went up in flames due to 3 arson attacks mid-August. One of the largest wildfires in Israel’s history ripped through the area of 10 villages, which had to be evacuated. 6,200 acres of woodlands went up in smoke in these hills. Homes were lost along with a harp workshop. An estimated 10,000 laying hens perished when their coop caught fire. It took some 1,500 firefighters from Israel, Greece, Italy and France worked nonstop for 52 hours before finally putting out the various blazes. Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem was threatened.  Pine, cypress, eucalyptus, oak, pistachio, carob and other vegetation grow here, along with grapevines, olive and fig trees planted on agricultural terraces first built 1,000 years ago. Birds and large wild animals, such as deer, escaped their burning habitat to surrounding forests. Smaller creatures, were lost. Photo: …

Hello friends: Oh my, I think the entire world is enjoying these summer days as never before. We do remember Canadians grappling with forest fires, and Germans with the worst flood in a thousand years. Israel in lock-down once again because of the COVID Delta variant. But, warm sunshine and flowers lift our spirits. This morning my family read: “The earth is the LORD’S and everything in it; the world and all who live in it. For he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.”  Psalm 24:1,2 New Covenant Prophecy Edition Where is Albania?  it sits just north of Greece on the seacoast. It is a balmy summer evening in tiny Albania. I write, from Saranda, a key tourist city on an expansive bay just opposite the Greek Island of Corfu. Until this week it had remained a land of mystery to us. The people here have suffered! The Nazi’s take over in WW11 morphed into the grip of Communist control until finally a revolution brought release in 1992. We see …

Meridel Rawlings, Box 84156, Mevasseret Zion, 9079097 Gmail: meridel.rawlings@gmail.com http://www.stillsmallvoice.tv You are a blessing to us! Thank you for your letter. I wish you could have joined Jay and I in Galilee to celebrate 62 good years of friendship with a former classmate of mine. Leaving the pressure of Jerusalem, we just loved the pastoral vistas. We circled the entire sea, which is almost overflowing, still. What a miracle year it has been for water. We believe this is a foretaste of the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The land has been satiated, but Israelis who are so hated, are dry, thirsty, cranky, stressed and impatient. To many “God” is not a friend. All of this is subject to change. Join us in actively working toward the coming revelation of “Abba” in heaven who loves us all, in our poor estate. Keep praying saints! “I hear the sound of the abundance of rain.” Pray also for our new government to pull together in the midst of determined ill-will and lies by the opposition. In …