We are so grateful for all of you who are standing with us in relationship, love, prayer, and encouragement. For you to share with us, to witness, and hear the testimonies of the Lord’s plans and purposes established in our region is important to us. The HOPE staff, the local Arab women of the land, and I are so grateful to our global family! Without your relationship, without your prayer support, and generosity, we honestly would not be able to witness His plans nor see the desire of His heart manifest among our women in His land! Growth is happening! Thank you for your part!!

The Lord has done mighty and powerful things in our midst, I believe we have entered into an new season of His glory, we feel we have shifted into a fullness of time for His promises, and words over our lives, families and land are now blossoming. He is watching over His word to perform it! (Jeremiah 1:11-12).

Two days before the conference began, 20 wonderful women making up the international & local ministry team (represented from 7 nations) joined us to pray, intercede, and share what the Lord was saying. These meeting were outstanding, as the Lord was revealing His heart to us on what He is longing to do for us and through us in this new season.

We are so grateful for each one of these amazing mothers who came to minister to our women and land! What a privilege it was to host them! This year, we were greatly blessed to have more local mothers involved in the ministry team-both Arab and Jewish sisters together. So beautiful and full of memorable moments. What a joy it was to watch as the Holy Spirit knit our hearts with His heart, and revealed what it was He wanted to release.  We experienced an expression of a deeper unity being formed among us.

One hundred Arab women attended the February conference, from 22 different churches. We were also blessed to experience the meetings with a few of the members of our Jewish family. God’s unity and love between the two mothers, Sarah and Hagar, is expanding. This is so precious to the Lord and to us as we witness its unfolding.

We have seen the Lord move in mighty ways during this gathering of mothers and daughters. We felt the Lord was saying, “The time has come for My Glory to be released again into your lives and land.” The Lord gave us the sign of the blooming almond tree, stating, “This is the time of the fulfillment of My Word”. He was leading us in this conference to focus on “the purification of the tongue and how to become carriers of His glory” in order to, be His mouthpiece releasing His life on earth through worship & prophetic decrees.

The speakers for this conference were, Barbara Yoder, Briskilla Zananiri and myself. We began the conference by casting the vision and my personal journey of preparing for the glory of God. It was a joy to speak of different principles that God shared with me regarding the role of the tongue, intimacy, worship, and being abandoned to God by wholehearted obedience no matter what the cost is. The presence of God was so strong in this first session, where the cloud of His glory was evident in our midst even the weather outside was full of fog and mist (cloud of Glory) as a sign of His coming!

During the second session Briskilla laid the foundation on the power of the tongue and His spoken Word. The Lord released clarity on how to become His mouthpiece, speaking His decrees and wielding the Sword of the Spirit. This session ended with women consecrating their mouth to God. The desire to be used of God; to speak His Words and become agents of blessing in Israel was genuine. This is fun: Each woman was given a fun gift ­of Lipstick made by Japanese company. The uniqueness of this product is that it changes color according to the temperature of the lips.This was an amazing idea as a prophetic token to remember this life changing message of Isaiah 6.

In the evening session, we had powerful time of worship. For the first time, and directed through a dream, we had a local Jewish Messianic worship leader with us. It was a true joy to have Sarah Liberman with us. This was also her first time to lead worship in an Arab women’s conference while singing in Hebrew. Yes, it was a beautiful time filled with the Spirit of God, where we felt a deep sound coming forth from the heart of the land. Dance broke forth in the room where Arab and Jewish women were dancing together. Barbara Yoder then, released a powerful message on the external glory and our preparation.

The next day was full, as we had another 3 sessions during this day. During the morning session, Sarah Liberman lead worship followed by Barbara Yoder continuing her message on “The Glory, the Internal Glory We Are Called To Carry!”

The following session, we had powerful time worshiping in Arabic with our friend Jesura Adranely leading in worship. We felt the weighty presence of God come in the room, where the women where undone by His Glory. We had to stop as the Glory of God was overwhelming. Women began to weep, others fell on the floor not being able to carry themselves. God’s Spirit released laughter and weeping, in response to His coming.

One of the “signs” of this moment was when one of the Arab women (a worship leader and pastor’s wife) released a prophetic song during the time of honoring Him and His presence. She released a song in tongues sounding like the Spanish language. Our translator in the conference, supernaturally could translate the words into Arabic, understanding the Spanish language. His glory lingered in the room.

It was wonderful to have Barbara Yoder follow this precious time of waiting on Jesus. Her message was on what God is saying for this season, with emphasis on the power of praise and the importance of worship as this is the season where Judah (the tribe of praise) goes first!

The last session, Briskilla ministered to the women on the power of prophetic decrees and activated the women on opening their ears and hearts to the Holy Spirit to hear. The conference ended with the ministry team anointing each woman, and commissioning the women to become His voice in the land. The commissioning consisted of each woman having a time of prayer with a piece of coal from Wales available to them, in representation of the Isaiah 6 encounter of prophet Isaiah. This was beautiful symbolism of Isaiah’s commissioning with the coal of fire from the throne of God. Each woman had the opportunity to profess her commitment to, “YES, I want my lips to be cleansed and to become His voice in the land!”

Briskilla Zananiri sharing her experience in Arab Women’s Conference “For Such A Time as This”:

“Being a part of the February Esther Conference was a joy. I’m using the descriptive word “joy” because JOY was such a part of all that took place. One could feel the pleasure of God for what was taking place. His heart expression towards us was a memory worthy to be remembered. We were taught about His Glory by Barbara Yoder, and were captured by His presence when He came. We were given a prophetic understanding, by Rania Sayegh, of some of the personal developments God desired to equip us with in 2017.

We celebrated through worship as Sarah Lieberman, Jesra, and Rachel Boskey (with the band) led the way. For me teaching about the power of words was an ongoing experience, as this conference was a place where Jesus chose to meet me personally each day. My memories will be locked into the beauty of His presence and the delight of His heart regarding these beautiful women who so happened to be of Arab and Jewish descent. Incredible days in His presence.

An Arab woman sharing her testimony with Rania from the “For Such A Time As This” conference:

Peace sister Rania. May the Lord bless your life and bless the labor of your love and blessed ministry for Jesus Lord of Glory.

I want to share with you concerning the women’s conference, how wonderful and a great blessing it was for everyone and especially for me, for my life. The Lord blessed me abundantly and gave me extraordinary favor through His blessed presence and I want to testify about the blessing and the glory that came on me during the conference and especially during the time of prayers. I remember I was waiting for any of the blessed sisters to come and pray for me and encourage me, and during this time I was praying that the Lord would bless me with a new and supernatural touch in my life … so one of the visiting international sisters came to me and she was filled with the glory and presence of the Lord, and the moment she wanted to lay her hand on my head to pray, the powerful glory and presence that was on her reflected on me, and the next thing I know, I am in the floor.

I experienced the Lord mightily and though I wanted to get up but I couldn’t as the presence of the Lord was holding me powerfully, and they told me that I was shaking because of the strength of the presence on me. Sister Andera was encouraging me during this time and I could hear her telling me to not be in haste to get up as the Lord touched my life and He wants to empty it from things and He wants to bless me. She told me to take advantage of the opportunity and to hold onto His presence.

A wonderful experience. At the end of the conference, a sister who was sitting next to me all the time during the conference encouraged me very much as she told me that the Lord has laid on her heart a message for me and she wants to deliver it to me, and she prophesied over me with the words from the Lord. She encouraged me tremendously and I felt that the Lord lifted me up miraculously and I went home filled with this blessing, and I encouraged my family very much and the Lord promised me that He will bless me and bless my family and bring salvation to my household if I hold onto Him and His words and promises that are truth for my life. I give Him all the glory for ever and ever.

May the Lord truly bless you sister Rania, you are a source of support and encouragement to many. May the Lord lift you up more and more and keep you and cover you with His blood in every place you are in.