IN THE THICK OF IT
In my recent update "I Have Set My Face Like A Flint", you see a little of
my personality in regards to how I follow the Master, also in "Forward
March", and "On Assignment". I talk about "bull-dog faith". It was said of
Napoleon that at times, when he wanted to impress other leaders of other nations regarding his troop's loyalty, he would have some of his soldiers jump off a cliff at his command. Yahuweh does that too. He has His servants jumping off cliffs all the time, in total uncompromising obedience to His commands on the battlefield. He is the Captain of the Host! Exodus 15:3 says He is "a man of war". He is the ultimate warrior. The difference, however, between Yahuweh and Napoleon in this regard is that when we jump at His command, He gives us a soft landing.

I had a series of dreams back in the 1970s, and since 1996, regarding being
thrown off a cliff, finally landing softly. But, He's made me live it--because He is in control, not me. Once I get His command, I know He is in total
control, so I do as He says, and He pulls off the miracles!

The life of following the Master is not easy, but the miracles and the joys
are overwhelming.

My knee damaged itself quite on its own, as I related to you, and I have
had to stay inside for the most of the last three weeks. So, I was questioning
my desire to go to Jerusalem for my 60th spiritual birthday over the 13th
and 14th of May. I was thinking it was almost impossible, since I can hardly
walk down the three flights of stairs from the apartment I'm in. But, in
faith, I booked a room in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. I've stayed in
Jerusalem about 45 times, but never in the Jewish Quarter. He orchestrated
that. Then I was invited to a Shabbat eve dinner, where I learned that two
friends had also booked for that weekend in the same place. They were going for intercession. I was going for intercession.

Dear ones, He is bringing a remnant together to do the exploits (Daniel
11:32)! But, He has trained and disciplined and taught this remnant well, so
that they work together as a fine army under His direction! We have to submit to that training and discipline if we want to overcome in the days ahead!

So, I sat in my apartment on Shabbat, asking Abba if I should go. He did
not answer. He never answers until we act on what He puts in our spirit. So, I reached over and picked up a pen and notebook and began listing things to
take in my backpack to Jerusalem. As I did, He intervened with His joy jumps in my spirit. That night, while trying to go to sleep, He said to me several times: "Take the words of David with you". That morning, I read I Samuel 17. David ran to Goliath in indignation that this Philistine should defy the Elohim of Israel. I began listing what I should proclaim over the Kidron
Valley towards the Mt. of Olives. I did not know that He was giving my friends Scriptures to proclaim towards the Old City from the Mt. of Olives. But, then, when He orchestrates things, there is always joyful amazement!
In March, as I wrote about to you, I arrived on the 23rd, the same day as I
had a dream in 2008 of sitting in a gate on the Mt. of Olives as a watchman
and gatekeeper over ancient Zion at the time of King David, before his
house was built. He had told me to be there on March 23rd and I was. I spent two days in intercession on the Mt. of Olives in the area above Silwan, the Arab village overlooking the City of David. I stayed two nights in a hotel
right on top of Silwan, just above where I sat in the gate in the dream and
overlooked the ancient city of Zion in David's time, and just below that, where the kids threw rocks at me in the Kidron last November. [Refer to: "The Rocks That Nearly Hit Me"]. To do my intercession, I went up on the Mt. of Olives above the Garden of Gethsemane to proclaim what He gave me to declare, and then proclaimed His Word among the tombs on the side of the Mt. of Olives the next day.

In April, I knew that the Palestinians were calling for the start of a
third Intifada on May 15th, a day of hate to march on Israel, in defiance of
their right to exist. As I pondered going to Jerusalem, I thought to myself,
"would I be anywhere else in the world on May 15th other than in the Jewish
Quarter of the Old City, just where the heart of the uprising would be? Of
course not! If I am a watchman and gatekeeper over the City of David, and East Jerusalem as a whole, then I had to be there.

You that know me, know I have the spirit of David before Goliath. I can't
let my knee problem stand in my way. That's not me. I don't want to miss
anything that He is allowing, or accelerating, in order to bring Messiah
Yahushua on the scene!!!

So, I went on Thursday, May 12th. Interesting that when I celebrated my
50th spiritual birthday, He sent me to the Isle of Patmos (Revelation 1:9), and I got there on May 12th. On Thursday, a friend went with me to stay the
day, which was wonderful. On Friday I met with my two friends in the Jewish
Quarter of the Old City. It just so happened that they were staying in the same Guest House I was, so we got to see each other a lot, around our individual assignments for Abba. They did intercession from the very same place I did on March 25th and 26th, on the Mt. of Olives, and I did intercession from the Jewish Quarter, looking towards Silwan, and right at the hotel where I stayed March 25th and 26th.

This morning, they told me that as they were doing intercession on the Mt.
of Olives last night that they saw smoke coming up from the Kidron between
Silwan and the City of David. I saw in the Jerusalem Post this morning, that
there was violence last night there and a Palestinian youth had been
killed.

Abba gave us words of King David from the Psalms to proclaim of victory of
Abba's forces, and defeat of the enemy, like Psalm 2, 79, 83, 96 and 97. As
we proclaimed His Word, praying as He led, we opened portals for Abba's
hosts to defend His City and His land, and also for the fulfillment of future
prophecy of the coming of Messiah.

Last night He took me through the book of Nehemia (Nehemia) and showed me how it was exactly like it is now politically in Israel. Amazing comparison.
He showed me passages from Daniel 9 and Ezra 9, regarding repentance on
behalf of His people. He told me to take the words of Psalm 51 to repent for
myself, then Daniel 9 and Ezra 9 to repent for the House of Ya'cob. You must be involved in repentance for yourself, and the people of Ya'cob, so that a
remnant of all of the tribes of Ya'cob (Israel) can return to the land.

Without repentance there is no salvation, no redemption, no restoration, no
return, no nothing. The proud and haughty--the religious, the arrogant, the
intellectual know-it-alls who are spewing out heresy against the Messiah--all will be left out of His Kingdom. Revelation 21:8: the cowards and the fearful
are listed with the whores and murders.

The safest place to be in the world is in the center of Abba's will!

The servants of Yahuweh run to the battle, run to the enemy, take the words
of Yahuweh and thrust them into the face of the enemy, and bring down the
purposes of the enemy to nothingness. Spiritual battle is like the glorious
story in II Chronicles 20 - we go out singing and rejoicing in the face of
the enemy and Abba brings confusion to the enemy, and they destroy each other.

It is easy to confuse people who are riled up by their leaders to violence,
but who have no understanding of the joy and peace in knowing Yahuweh and Yahushua personally. Thus these ancient tribal people are easily stirred up to violence through lies, and when confused, if they have no one else to
kill, they kill each other--that's their nature. That also happened under
Gideon and his 300. Refer to the article "Gideon's 300".

It only takes a small group of people who are united in spirit with no
religion of man-who are Spirit-taught, Spirit led, Spirit filled and
anointed--to do the job. As I prayed from my position in the Jewish Quarter above the Ha Kotel (Western "Wailing Wall" of the Temple Herod helped build), and they prayed from their positions, and we did our proclamations and declarations with authority-backing from Abba, He led us to pray and intercede for other things to do with His people and His nation--our nation, our land, and our people.

There is no greater joy than following the Master wherever He says to go.
But, it takes forsaking all in order to do it. (Luke 14:25-33; Matthew
10:34-39)

It takes personal intimate relationship with the Master--where we trust
Him, but where He knows He can trust us! Not one word is to be said outside of His authority, or else He cannot back us. Without His authority backing us,
all we are is hot air, which often attracts demonic spirit to destroy. It
takes discipline and training, and being on-site as He leads. But, there is no
more wonderful life on the face of the earth than being a servant of
Yahuweh and Yahushua!

A lady sent me the warning from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, regarding US
citizens not going to the areas we were in. I had to laugh. I lived in Aqaba,
Jordan, on the Red Sea, across from Eilat, Israel, for 8 years. We were
constantly getting warnings to leave the country, to stay inside, etc. Some of
them were wise warnings, and I observed their cautions. The night of
9/11/2001, the Palestinians were celebrating in Aqaba with much zeal. It was not wise to go downtown during that, for example. But, during the Afghanistan war and Gulf War II, I, and another family, stayed in the country, while all foreigners left. The reason is not because we were "dare-devils" but because Abba said to stay and nothing would happen to me. Nothing happened… I asked Him if I should store water and food, and He said "no, nothing will happen" and it didn't.

If He says to jump, we jump. If He does not say jump, we better not! We are led by peace, not emotional soul-thinking that often leads to disaster. The soul (mind, emotions) can only relate, through the five senses, to this
natural world. We are called to live out of our eternal re-born spirit that
contacts the realm of Yahuweh. The soul operates through the brain, and is
prone to sin, fear, and manipulation from the outside of us. The spirit has no
fear, but has a mind of its own, and is in the loins area of our body. It is
our portal to His realm, in which He can download His secrets and
instructions, with unlimited capability and retention, IF we do not block that portal by our mind and emotions that are negative against His input.

Faith is an action word that simply means: "obey as said". Faith has no
room for cowards, fearful, the comfort-lovers, the weak, the whiny, the
excuse-makers, the sin-lovers, lovers of self, pleasure seekers, or the lovers of this present world. "The just shall live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2). "Without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Hebrews 11:6).
Faith means that you know someone well enough to trust them, and they trust you, and you do as they ask because you know they are faithful to do as they say. It is borne of personal intimate relationship that has been tested over time. "There is no fear in love" (I John 4:17-18). His love in us gives us boldness.

So, I just wanted to tell you what is going on over here, so that you can
be in prayer for His people and His land, for as you've been reading in my
articles, listed under "Updates" on laydownlife.net, beginning January 2011,
things are moving incredibly fast, and all of prophecy is being fulfilled
before our eyes. Everything that is happening is in the Word, and has
background in the in the natural world as to why it is happening. I try to give you the background as to why, as in "Launching the Chaos". Now, the chaos is increasing, and the violence, and we are in the days of Noah. Judgment is soon to erupt upon the face of the whole earth.

I got "The Jerusalem Post" this morning as we were leaving Jerusalem, and
it told about "Nakba Day" today. "Nakba" means "catastrophe". The Arabs
believe that the establishment of the Jewish state was a catastrophe. Thus since May 15, 1948, when 5 nations attacked Israel all at once, to stop their
nation from existing, they have mourned this day as a catastrophe. Now, because the region is purposely being destabilized by leadership from America-the stable leadership being replaced by the terrorist organizations-we are close to the time of Luke 21:20, and Psalm 83, and other destructions.

In the second section of today's "The Jerusalem Post" was a travel
advertisement for Costa Rica. I had to laugh. It is amazing how many Americans are going there from the states, and to Panama, and to other places in Central and South America--seculars of all types, ex-military people, as well as Spirit-led "believers". There has to be a wilderness purging between leaving the land of slavery (Egypt, or end-time Babylon) and entering the promised land of Israel. If Babylon is not removed from the soul--western mind programming, superiority attitudes, negative emotions, intellectual pride, the spirit of control, love of money, and love of security--then we have no business entering the promised land. Israel does not need Greek and Roman culture in their face. They've had enough of that. They need the humble, who "tremble at His Word" and obey it--who know the Elohim of Abraham Yitzak, and Y'acob!

You can't get rid of your Babylonian attitudes inside America, or any other
place that is ruled by Greek philosophy and Roman barbarism.

So, I, once again, thank you for your prayers, your love, your financial
offerings, and your encouragement.

Shalom, Yedidah
May 15, 2011