From: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 1997 1:05 AM To: Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup Subject: URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
From: lionel ezekiel attwell To: "heb_roots_chr@geocities.com" Subject: URGENT PRAYER REQUEST. >From Lionel: ************** Shalom, my beautiful and beloved brothers and sisters in Yeshua, Most my life I have been a highly-independent, self-sufficient and self-confident Gentile newspaper reporter. That is until, unexpectedly and inexplicably, I was one day introduced to a Messianic Jew by the name of Peter Eliastam in Johannesburg. Having interviewed prime ministers and pimps, nuns and nymphomaniacs, arch-bishops and arch- criminals, super saints like Alan Paton and Richard Wurbrand and super-stars like Roger Moore and Liberace, I had never come across a man of true and transparent intergrity, a man who emnated love from his very being, a man who through observation I noticed loved the unattractive and the rejects of society, a man who loved unconditonally, a man who gave all his income to housing, clothing and feeding the despised and, then, by teaching them the Word, witnessed their total transformation into new creation beings, freed of drugs, alcohol and above all sexual lust. As this small little Jew began to enlighten the truth of the scriptures to me, I was suddenly faced with my own horrenduous reality and in shame I began to weep in how I had used and abused my talents and other human-beings to feed my fat, insatiable ego. Without realising what was happening to this hard, cynical and fast-living highly successful journalist, I came face to face with the Messiah dying on the cross, paying the ultimate penalty for me for my sinful G-dless life. I knew that it was me who deserved to be hanging naked on that cross after a lifetime of lies, lust and verbally emotionally destroying literally thousands of other human-beings with my pen and polluting many women with my so-called love. (He who knew no sin, became sin for me so that I could be the righteous.") Hours later I climbed up from the floor and knew that I was a totally different person. It was then explained to me that I had been "born-again.," a new creation. G-d used a Jew to save me and that is why I am so indebted to the Jewish people and am devoting all my time and energy and prayers to experiencing the veil being lifted and the eyes of their hearts enlightened which is shortly about to happen, is happening. Helleluia. The point I am trying to make is that tonight I have to humble myself and realise how I need to surrender my self-sufficiency and self-reliance and appeal to my brothers and sisters to help me. I do desperately need your love and prayers. Allow me to briefly explain; for the past year I have been ministring to two young men, both in their early thirties. One a univeristy graduate named Nicholas, and the other a highly talented musician, singer, composer and lyricist, named David. Although they have both accepted the Yeshua is the Messiah and asked Him into their lives, they both remain in a mess. Both remain on drugs and are alcoholics and no matter how many hours daily I have interceded for them, they remain prisoners. Both were emotionally and pyschologically brutalised my their parents and brought-up in atheist war-torn, lovesless homes. Neither have ever had a girl-friend and the graduate is in fact still a virgin. Although good-looking he has never ever even been kissed by a girl, and this remains is dream Just for one girl to find him attractive, love him and kiss him on the mouth. Having been married and divorced three times, the most beautiful experiences of my life, I inwardly cry for them both for they have never experienced love. Recently both have been seriously contemplating suicide (they don't know each other) and that is why I am humbly crying out for your prayers for their total deliverence. I have failed them but I know that the Lord with hear the collective cry of His children. My mother committed suicide when I was a young man and my best friend blew his brains out in front of my wife and young children and that is why I do not take these threats lightly. I am aware that they are both being indoctrinated and driven my spirits of death and suicide and that their craving for alcohol and drugs are the result of demons residing in them, but I have failed in my prayers of spiritual warfare on my own and I am now needing the reinforcements of as many of you as possible so that these two intelligent,sensitive and caring yopung men can be set free, made whole and Yeshua glorified. Sorry I am not being particulalry articulate but it is 2 a.m. here in Britain and I suddenly had to hammer out this request. My love and prayers embrace each on of you. Lionel. ps. Please pray for me too for I have resumed smoking (my third born-again wife recently having left me) and even with seven day fasts I cannot get my deliverence. I love you all so much that I want to cry with joy, knowing how the Ruach Haqodesh is spiritually enlightening gentile believers in these very last days. Lionel Ezekiel Attwell ************************************************************************ From: RONALD D HUDSON Subject: urgent prayer request To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Organization: RONALD D. HUDSON, CPA, PC Newsgroup: i have a prayer request for a fellow believer who just found out she has a rare form of cancer. It was described as a very aggressive type. Her prognosis does not look good. But God is able. Please pray for her and her family to be unified in this and her healing. ronald **********************************************************************