TSUNAMI VISION LEAD ME TO ISRAEL

From: heather butler
To: barb.steely
Subject: tsunami vision led me to Israel to pray for sri lankan friends
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005
 
Dear Barb, thank you, your walk sounds just like mine, and I was so encouraged because sometimes so much happens to us that others don't understand all the time.
 
I was called to go into Israel last November to pray for friends visiting from Sri Lanka, there was such an urgency about it that it was insatiable. I tried all I could to get out of it, I hate flying, It was the wrong time of the year, no money, and Yasser Arafat was very ill, I argued and prayed lord is this just me, why cant I just pray here for my friends why do I need to hold them and pray. He reminded me of a stick he had told me to pick up 18 months before, and told me it would be as the rod of Moses! Three times he told me to pick up various sticks, and I ignored the call twice, each time he told me pick up a stick I thought I was being silly and that it was me, the sticks got smaller until eventually he shouted "PICK IT UP" I did and shoved it in my bag quick, unable to explain to my friends. later that evening Ruthane Canning was speaking she pointed to me and said "today the lord gave you a stick, no its not a stick it will be as the rod of Moses" So I knew that this was a gift of the authority of God to be used at the right time. So I booked a flight and went to Israel alone. I never felt so vulnerable I cried everyday I was there, all I wanted was to go back to the safety of my own land. Yasser Arafat died, and the whole atmosphere of Israel changed, The ever before I came home I met with my friends to pray, as I prayed I saw there nation raised up on the crest of a tsunami wave before the nations, and the words "one last wave to sweep this nation before revival and the return of the lord" I gave psalm 46 and psalm 91.

I gave the rod, a little sheepishly, and said that at the right time the lord would give them the authority to do what needed to be done.
 
I returned home, not able to tell others what had happened, and people began to say make me feel that Israel was not of the lord. I spend 4 weeks in utter turmoil, checking my motives and asking the lord to forgive me. Finally boxing day unfolded and I understood what my trip was all about. Shirani wrote, a fisherman came running to our home, he said the sea looked odd, I ran to the beach with my camera its only 250 yards away, I took photos of the reef which was exposed and the sea drawn back, I realised what was happening and started to call people off the beach. The tsunami hit 10 minutes later. She says, as we stood in the sea to pray it was like never before, the presence of God was numbing, she said they watched as the prophetic word I had given in Israel come to pass in front of there eyes. Psalm 91 had never been more real to them as thousands fell at there side and at there feet. I have photos to show how all 25 workers survived, how all there homes are still standing,
> the water came only to the gate but not onto there land. There is a photo of there church which bears the inscription on the outside of the building, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, all around the church was devastation, but the church wasn't touched! More recently there were reports of another tsunami warning, whilst my friends neighbors fled to the hills, my friends held a prayer meeting in the sea again the presence of God was numbing! that tsunami never came.
 
So I want to encourage you, because the lord has also been showing me the wailing wall this week, and I understand what its about, I had a dream of Toronto earlier in the year, whereby at the pastors conference they all knelt at the alter to pray, they were overcome with weeping and wailing, when I woke the lord showed me a passage of scripture that talks about weeping before the alter and the porch. I believe I am one of the women you are speaking of. I am due to fly to the states Wednesday April 27th to take a conference and meetings and to give an interview on TV, I will bring this word you have to the women in the churches. Gary Williamson of Kentucky sent this to me, he runs world wide intercessors.

Thank you for your faithfulness, its greater than gold to the lord. Every blessing Heather Wales UK.

Heather Butler
Director founder Hidden Treasures Ministries Intl
prayer Coordinator Keys to the Kingdom Ministries to the Uk and Europe.