Mike Huckabee: Stronger Together
Mike Huckabee: Stronger Together
More recently, Mike has been active in writing faith-centered publications to assist the Body of Christ in growing in Christ. Today, he shares a challenge regarding prayer requests.
Mike Huckabee, whose full name is Michael Dale Huckabee, was born on August 24, 1955, in Hope, Arkansas. He is an American Baptist minister, political commentator, and former politician. Huckabee served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination in both 2008 and 2016.
Huckabee’s interest in serving a larger public role was stoked in 1989 when he was elected president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention. He turned to politics in 1992 but lost his bid for the U.S. Senate. The following year, Huckabee won a special election to fill Arkansas’s vacant lieutenant governor’s seat after the previous tenant, Jim Guy Tucker, became governor following Bill Clinton’s ascent to the presidency. Tucker’s resignation in 1996 made Huckabee only the third Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction (1865–77). He was reelected to full terms in 1998 and 2002.
More recently, Mike has been active in writing faith-centered publications to assist the Body of Christ in growing in Christ. Today, he shares a challenge regarding prayer requests, as well as an update on his trip to Israel.
WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER
Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!
The week before Christmas I traveled to war-torn Israel to meet with Israeli officials, soldiers in the battle, survivors of the unprovoked Hamas terrorist massacre of civilians, and families of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7.
I’ve been traveling to Israel for over 50 years with my first trip there in July of 1973, been there close to 100 times and have taken thousands of people there on pilgrimages. I’ve been there during conflicts including an Intifada and the 2014 war with Gaza. But this trip was unlike any other I’ve taken. Joel Rosenberg, best-selling author and host of the Rosenberg report here on TBN co-hosted a small delegation that included former Senator and Governor of Kansas and US Ambassador Sam Brownback, former US Ambassador Ken Blackwell, Samaritans Purse Board Member and pastor of one of the largest churches in the US Skip Heitzig and Lenya Leitzig, a noted author and speaker.
While on the flight there on El Al Airlines, the only airline flying into Israel from the US right now, a flight attendant recognized me and hugged me for traveling there to show support. And a couple whose 22-year-old son and American citizen has been held hostage since Oct 7 came to me to thank me for going and standing with Israel and gave me a dog tag in honor of their son who they had not heard from or about in over 74 days at that time. I have worn it since then and will until he comes home to them. Hostages from over 25 countries and every religion were taken hostage by Hamas.
A hostage village was set up in Tel Aviv, where families can gather, and people of Israel can go and pray. I found the poster for Omer Neutra, the son whose parents I had met the day before on the flight and sent a picture of me with a poster of their son and sent it to them. We met with several families whose loved ones are being held hostage. It was heartbreaking to hear first-hand their grief, uncertainty and bewilderment as to why their children, brothers, or parents had been taken from them. They all hoped for the best, but understandably feared the worst.
We visited the front lines of the war zone and walked through the devastated kibbutz of Kfar Aza, one of the first communities savagely attacked by Hamas. The barbarian atrocities inflicted upon babies, little children, young families and elderly people are unmentionable on TV. You’ve heard of some of the ways Hamas sought to murder, mutilate, rape, and humiliate civilian Jews simply waking up on a Shabbat morning to the sound of bullets, bombs, and rockets. But it actually was much worse. The uncivilized and crazed killing was made worse by the fact that the terrorists of Hamas wore cameras on their bodies to record the slaughter and celebrate it with great glee. Imagine how depraved one must be to place a live baby in an oven in front of its parents and to joyfully murder the entire family—children first and then the parents, but only after violently raping the females and mutilating their bodies. With body parts and dead bodies strown about the blood-stained homes, demon-filled Hamas terrorists then casually raided refrigerators and cabinets for food or their homes for possessions of value. And when the so-called peaceful Palestinians from Gaza knew that the villages had been neutralized from any living Jew, they themselves crossed over and looted the homes with the corpses of the families still there, having to step across the mutilated bodies to grab what valuables they could from people the monsters they voted for had just hours earlier killed.
I met with an Israeli major who I had met last August when he escorted me through the military base where military dogs are trained. The highly trained dogs are a major part of the forward operating mission to root out Hamas cowards hiding in the tunnels of Gaza.
I met with my dear friend and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews, Yael Eckstein who you see on our show as IFCJ is one of our show’s faithful partners. While at lunch in Tel Aviv, sirens summoned us to the bomb shelter where we were having lunch even as we heard overhead the Israeli Iron Dome defense system intercept rockets from Hamas intended to kill Jewish civilians. Thank God, the Iron Dome worked. Israelis deal with that several times a day, every day. Once was enough for me!
I also met with my longtime friend and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I assured him of the support of the Christian community of America for Israel and the Jewish people during a time of need. I can’t think of anyone who could better lead Israel during this critical threat to their existence than this Prime Minister.
The trip was so intense, I didn’t have time to process all I had seen and heard. Not until I got home did the emotional impact begin to sink in. Throughout the Christmas festivities with my church and family, I sometimes suddenly was filled with unexplained emotion and fought back tears hidden deep in my soul that were there for many of my Jewish and Israeli friends who were going through a living hell that erupted from the very heart of Satan. We are witnessing something that isn’t political, social, economic, or geographical. It’s a spiritual war of Evil vs. Good, and my only comfort is in reading the end of the book and knowing that in the end, God overcomes. Evil, death, and hate is forevermore relegated to an everlasting hell, and those of us who have placed our trust and our very lives in the hands of the one God will forever experience an everlasting life.
THE NEED FOR PRAYING FOR ONE ANOTHER
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? John 14:1-2 ESV
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HEALTH AND HEALING, IN MEMORIAM, PRAYERS ANSWERED
Christopher
Maria, who is in need of a new heart.
I don’t like asking for prayers for myself but the pain is so debilitating I can barely function. Going on just over 3 weeks having shingles on my face and head. Rash and scars are gone, but my face and head are numb, very painful and itching. Meds do not help. I’m afraid I’m going to have this forever. Only God can help. Please pray for me.
Prayers for supernatural healing for Lisa S.
Melissa, my niece who had major beast surgery yesterday, needs more healing prayers she is in a lot of pain??
Joyce, 83 sweet sister in Christ has had a stroke 2 days ago being treated in the hospital. Has facial paralysis, has been responsive but combative so she’s sedated. Her husband of sixty years, Ralph, is very distraught. She is my DILs grandmother, their whole family is very close. Please pray for healing and peace/ comfort for Ralph and all family members.
"Gratitude in advance for your prayers for my Mother Marilyn, afflicted and diagnosed with Dementia one year ago after she and I went through the storm that leads up to the disaster... First Encephalopathy due to chronic UTI which I learned is absolutely common in the elderly no matter how we try to prevent...then Sundowning which caused her so much confusion and emotional pain and caused me to fall apart bit by bit and pull myself together repeatedly as her sole 24/7 caregiver. She is 89 years old and was my best friend for 55 years until she was no longer in touch with her memory of me and became angry and hostile. I've read many testimonies about this happening when Dementia takes hold. Not only is the afflicted going through Hell. The ones closest, and some others, depending on their level of understanding, are deeply emotionally affected. Please pray for my Mother Marilyn. P.S. I've pretty much always capitalized Mom and Mother in recent years out of respect."
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