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AMI
UPDATE Newsletter
Nov.
1, 2008
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Dear lura_eddie@hotmail.com,
Ami has received, I estimate, about 4,000 postcards and letters from all
over the world. We've received cards from as far away as Sri Lanka, and as unlikely as Cuba.
We received letters from praying saints in China, who enclosed delicate
rice paper decorations. We are being prayed for in Japan, Indonesia,
Cambodia, Australia, New
Zealand, Hawaii,
North and South America, all over Europe, and in the Middle
East. David was contacted by an ex-Muslim, who had
been a Hamas member, in the very beginning when
we were told Ami might be blind in his right eye. He said that he
didn't have any money to give us, but he would gladly donate one of his eyes
if it would help.
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A neighbor from our building told us that just recently her sister talked
to a friend who is a nurse in the emergency room where Ami was brought
initially. She said that the medical staff were
horrified by the damage done to his body, and they didn't know where to
start first. They also couldn't believe that someone in his
condition was still alive. We are reminded again and again that the Lord
spared Ami's life by His grace and mercy. What the Lord
showed David in the beginning, which was a prophecy and a vision into the
throne room of God, was that death had tried to enter our door, but was not allowed to take him.
David received these verses a week or so before the incident,
Jer. 9:21
Death has climbed in through our windows
and has entered our fortresses;
it has cut off the children from the
streets
and the young men from the public
squares.
He told me that the Lord was warning him that something was going to
happen.
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The fact that Ami has sprung back to
life after only 7 months to the point that he has,
never ceases to amaze me and causes thanksgiving to well up
several times a day. He just keeps on recovering in one way
or another on a weekly basis. The other day, he called David from
his basket ball practice, and said - "I can sink baskets from the
foul line!" And then this past Thursday, he came back from
practice and announced - "I'll be playing in the next game - just a
little!"
Now, all of this is not according to human logic, because Ami still
doesn't have full use of his left hand, and the pinky of his right
hand. My thought is that the Spirit of the Living God is filling
him with Life, constantly overcoming the
flesh , and these small miracles keep on happening. I've often
pondered and desired to walk in these verses,
Romans 8:10-12
10 And if Messiah is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the
Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who
raised Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, He
who raised Messiah from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
This has been the literal testimony of Ami's recovery. Just the
fact that the Holy Spirit raised up a body of prayer warriors to pray Ami
through every step of this, from not only day one but within hours of the
incident, and that we have witnessed the Spirit raising him up from death
to life through prayer, is miraculous. The fact that we've been
supported by the prayers and love of the Body in Israel
and world-wide is also a testimony of the Lord's faithfulness to all of us
who call upon Him in faith and depend on Him.
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Just a note that the basketball game is
an away game, and Ami told me not to come.
I can understand that, and I'll honor it, but as soon as he has his first
home game, I'll be there cheering him on. Hallelujah!!
In His Love,
Leah
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