HOPE for Israel
As an Arab
child growing up in Israel, Rania was not naturally encouraged to love the
Jewish people. If anything, by the time she
had grown, Rania was struggling with a crisis of identity. She felt like a second class citizen, that
the Jewish people did not like the Arabs and felt they were a burden on society. It was not until God gave her a revelation of
His heart for Israel, that Rania found a love began to grow in her own heart,
for Israel, for the Jewish people, and a passion for God’s purposes in her
country was born!
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| Nazareth today |
Today,
Rania is the director of HOPE – House of Prayer and Exploits, based in her
home town of Nazareth. She shared with
us, “Nazareth is like a womb – it is here that the Holy Spirit conceived the
plan of salvation within Mary, and once again, Nazareth has a part to play in revival
being conceived for this nation.”
To this end,
Rania has developed many opportunities for prayer in HOPE. Each month they have a 24 hour prayer watch,
recording testimonies and what God says to them via journal and video, followed
by 4-7 shorter prayer watches each week.
40 – 50 people attend the 24 hour watches, mostly young people. Seeing this desire in the youth to be
involved, Rania also has weekly events for them, focusing on prayer,
intercession and the working of the Holy Spirit. Each week, teaching is provided on various
aspects of prayer, and those who wish to be trained for worship are given ample
opportunity and access to music lessons.
Special workshops are held providing training in the area of healing and
Rania also mentors 3 ladies that are on the ‘staff’ of HOPE.
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| GDOP in Nazareth |
Rania is
also involved in National events, bringing a large contingency of Arab young
people to the annual Elav youth event in Tel Aviv, and organizing the Global
Day of Prayer each year in Nazareth. The
GDOP now brings together Jewish and Arab pastors and congregations to worship
and pray for their nation, their government, and to intercede for healing and reconciliation
between the ‘sons of Abraham’, Jew and Arab as one new man. “It is my greatest joy when I see the
transformation of an individual through the power of the Holy Spirit”, Rania
shared during our time together.
Rania has a
full time job in the Computer Science industry, holding a degree and masters in
this field, and supports much of the ministry of HOPE herself. In order for Rania to continue to grow and
expand into the vision God has given her, she is hoping to take on some
permanent help and needs assistance to raise the support for this. Your People My People have decided to help
facilitate this growth and would like to start by committing £100 per
month to HOPE. If it is on your heart to
partner with us and Rania in this venture, please click here.
As part of the expansion, Rania is also believing for HOPE
to become a registered charity/non-profit in Israel. Please pray that the paperwork for this goes
through smoothly and quickly so that the ministry is released to move forward
and can continue to impact the local community and the nation with prayer and
exploits! (Check out their video recap below)
