Arab Deborahs Arising Conference

September 26–27, 2025

A Prophetic Beginning

This year’s Arab Deborahs Arising Conference took place right after Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year and Biblical Feast of Trumpets, which we felt was very significant, and it indeed became the beginning of something new.

The theme of the conference was Ezekiel 37:9:

“Also He said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’”

Although all the conferences of the last few years have been amazing, we believe this year’s conference brought a real breakthrough in the spiritual realm.

The Team and the Sign of Rain

Our ministry team this year consisted of 22 locals (Arabs and Messianic Jews) and international Christians, who gathered a couple of days before the conference to pray and seek the Lord together for what He was going to do.

Then, on Thursday morning, the day before the conference began, we woke up to the sound of rain in Nazareth, which is very unusual at this time of year, as winter rain usually only begins around the Feast of Tabernacles, two weeks later.

It was local rain, which we saw as a sign of God’s blessing upon the upcoming conference and His cleansing of the land.

Friday Morning: The Valley of Dry Bones

Rania opened the conference on Friday morning, speaking about the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37), and how God wanted Ezekiel to be part of resurrecting the dead bones in the valley.

Likewise, our land today is full of dry bones after two years of war. God is the specialist in impossible situations, and obedience to His calling brings forth miracles. Ezekiel prophesied to the bones, and there was a sound of rattling, as they came together. Then he called upon the four winds to come and bring breath into the bones. Ezekiel did not proclaim his own thoughts, but what God told him to say.

A Vision of Awakening

Rania also shared a vision she had had while praying for the conference. She saw an army of Israeli Arab women rising up and trampling all over the land of Israel. Graves sprang up, and out came wells of water.

It is an army speaking life, an army of joy, not of war. God wants to remove the mantle of sorrow and replace it with joy. The women started dancing over the graves, and the vibrations of stamping all over the land went like an earthquake to the neighboring countries.

Women from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria came and entered Israel and joined the Israeli Arab women in the dancing, and as they were all holding hands, they invited the Jewish women to join as well.

The Isaiah 19 Highway will be a blessing to all the earth. Together, we can change the map of the Middle East. When we align with the Holy Spirit, we can do great things. If we want revival to come, we need to stand hand in hand with our Jewish sisters.

Nazareth: A Place of Conception

Pastor Barbara Yoder from Shekinah Church, Michigan, was the main speaker of the conference this time.

Her first message was about the city of Nazareth being a prophetic place, a place of conception. Jesus was conceived in Nazareth, a hidden and insignificant place. After having been born in Bethlehem and fleeing to Egypt, He returned home to Nazareth. Nathanael wondered if anything good could come out of Nazareth.

Jesus was anointed in Nazareth, but they drew Him out of there (Luke 4). There needs to be people who stand on their feet and declare they can do the miraculous in Nazareth. There is a formation anointing in Nazareth, which is connected to the building anointing, bringing things forward that have been hidden.

God promised the people of Israel in captivity that give them a future and a hope. Hope is expectations. You will become changers of the land, as God has called you to.

Friday Afternoon: Healing and Prophecy

After lunch, we had a powerful session with Pastor Linda Berling from Arken Church, Sweden, who was calling many women forward, who received a prophetic word and a healing touch from the Lord.

Friday Evening: The Breaker Anointing

Friday evening, Pastor Barbara Yoder spoke about “The Breaker Anointing”, which is also the title of her first book. Many people make the mistake of waiting for God to do something, while they just pray and hope they don’t have to do anything.

We need to exercise our faith and take a step in the best way we know. Pastor Barbara shared about her personal journey with the Lord, how she, as a child, received a strong prophetic word about her calling to raise a mighty work for the Lord, and while she tried running away from the Lord, becoming an atheist, this word hunted her down until she surrendered and gave her life to God.

She went on to share about the tests we always need to go through when God is preparing us for a task with greater responsibility. There will be difficulties, but when we place our lives on God’s Word, there is always a resurrection on the other side and something better to come.

Even if I lose everything, I will keep praising God under all circumstances, like the prophet Habakkuk. God is not the author of impossible situations, but He will deliver us from them.

It is easy to go straight, but more difficult to walk upwards. If you experience resistance, it means that you are destined to experience a breakthrough you have never experienced before.

Saturday Morning: A Call to Unity

On Saturday morning, when we met to pray together as a ministry team, the Holy Spirit came with new inspiration and revelation of things to be spoken to the Arab women, all connected to them being part of Israel as Arab Israelis and their relationship with the Jewish citizens of the land.

Immediately after the morning worship, our Messianic Jewish sister Karen Davis spoke from her heart directly to the HOPE worship team:

“We receive you as a national treasure of Israel. You have a calling here in Israel. Maybe you have felt like second-class citizens because of the many new immigrants that came. We have entered into a new phase of the birth pangs of the end times. Yeshua is now healing your wounds by the Holy Spirit, so that you can take your place in this nation, your calling, and destiny. We cannot do this without our Arab brothers and sisters. You are called to provoke us to jealousy. We are called to do this together to usher in the Kingdom of God here in this land. We are one people!”

Messianic Jewish pastor Avi Mizrachi then followed up by sharing how Messianic Jewish leaders had gone to Nazareth in 2020 to repent on behalf of the Jewish people for rejecting Yeshua as Messiah. Afterwards, international leaders repented of replacement theology. Finally, Arab pastors came, stood with the Jewish leaders, and hugged them.

“We need the Arab believers to stand with us,” Avi said.

Strategic Breakthroughs and Humble Obedience

In Pastor Barbara Yoder’s next session, she continued sharing about the breaker anointing and how strategic events held by believers can change a region when they are initiated by God.

In one city, repentance between black and white Americans broke the power of murder and stopped riots there. Pastor Barbara also told a personal testimony of how God asked her to prophesy to the mayor of Detroit. In obedience, she gave him a warning prophetic word, and even though the mayor made the wrong choice, God used this word to bring him back on the right track. That mayor is today a born-again believer working with Pastor Barbara to change the city.

God is calling ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

To be a breaker, you must first be broken like a wild horse submitting to its trainer. Then you need profound humility, not doing anything to be seen, but out of obedience to God. Finally, you must surrender to what He has called you to do.

In the days of Deborah, there would have been no victory without Yael. She was a simple woman, but what she did was critical.

Rise Like Gideon

Margaret Abu-Ghazaleh spoke a timely message, calling Arab women to rise and be like Gideon. Gideon was a minority of a minority, just as Arab Israeli Christians often feel.

“As long as I believe I am nothing,” she said, “I cannot do anything for the Lord. The Jewish sisters also say they cannot do it alone.”

Adam and Eve believed Satan and therefore could not walk in alignment with God. We cannot move forward as long as we are believing the enemy. God told Gideon to go in the strength he had.

God cannot use us as long as we carry offenses. If our hearts are not in the right place, we cannot bring change. God can change the world, but He is waiting for us to agree with Him.

God wanted Ezekiel to prophesy to the land before he prophesied to the people. We need to prophesy first over the land, which is barren of the presence of God.

God is asking us not only to be mothers for our own families and villages, but over all Israel. He is asking us to “hold Israel.” We might see the Jewish people as strong, but He is calling us to carry them in their pain.

He is asking us to take on responsibility for the whole country and be His voice to this nation. We want to see the whole land resurrected—not just our own families and churches.

Apostolic Prophecy & Acts of Faith

After lunch, Pastor Linda spoke about apostolic prophecy, which comes directly from God and gives authority to bind and release.

When God speaks, He speaks to the heart, so that we can cooperate with the spiritual realm. God wants us to stay in His presence. When we come into a place of silence where all our thoughts are quiet, we can hear His voice.

Pastor Linda shared how God spoke to her in the darkest place of Calcutta to “take the snake in her hand”, meaning the snake of poverty and sickness, and do something about it. She obeyed, stood on God’s promises, and saw miracles.

In Mozambique, she helped build a center where 900 women gave birth during the pandemic. God called her to give Him 100 houses, and today she has 102.

“Everything you do should be honoring to Me,” God told her. “This keeps you humble.”

Pastor Linda also shared her testimony of transformation, from a left-wing activist uninterested in God to a surrendered believer after encountering His presence at a prayer meeting.

The Breath of Life

Pastor Barbara’s final message was about breath.

We are in a new season, and what worked before will not work now.

Ezekiel 37:5 , “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: ‘Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.’”

The breath represents the Holy Spirit. When He breathes on us, we live. You can be alive but not truly living. When God brings life, you are filled with His Spirit.

“Give, and it shall be given to you” is not only about money, it is also about giving life.

In Genesis 1:1–3, the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. The first thing God created was not light as we know it—it was His glory. Jesus, the Light of the World, came to reverse what the first Adam did.

At the end of the message, all the women came forward to walk through the fire tunnel, receiving prayer and blessings from the ministry team.

A Sound of Unity and Joy

Throughout the whole conference, the messages built upon each other, encouraging the Arab women to take steps of faith toward greater unity with their Messianic Jewish sisters in standing in the gap for Israel.

There was also a beautiful unity in worship. The HOPE worship team, led by Ronza and Rajaa, led most of the sessions, while Egyptian-born Jackie led worship on Saturday, and Karen Davis and Jesura Adranly led a combined Hebrew-Arabic worship session on Friday.

The joy in the worship was significant, and God’s presence was tangible.

We believe that this conference made a difference in the spiritual realm—and that the Arab women did not return home the same as they came.