This is a small story out of my own life, to encourage everyone who feels desperate when he hears about Anti-Semitism and hate. I want to share with you a part of my life and the way the Lord had led me.

I am 31 years old and I was born in Germany. I was raised in a born again Family, and my parents always had tought me to love the Jewish people. Remembering the cruel past of Germany, my family had put a big focus on blessing the Jewish people. Already as a girl I was reading books about people like Anne Frank, who experienced the terrible happenings of the Second World War.

I was always wondering, how I would have saved some Jewish people. My grandmother had told me, that her mother had been in the underground movement the “white Rose” to save Jewish people. My mothers’ sister had grown up during the War, and she married a Jewish man several years after the war. They moved to Israel to begin their new life in the Promised Land.

As my mothers sister settled into her new life in Israel, we where traveling regularly to visit her in our Holidays. Through her marriage she had converted to Judaism, and she was very eager to become an accurate Jewish wife. She celebrated the Shabbat, cooked kosher, and raised her child with Jewish faith and tradition. I loved to be around them, and Israel as a Land fascinated me.

Even so I always new the Lord, I had become as a Teenager very lukewarm in my faith. I loved Jesus, but I loved the world too. Some years later, after I had experienced the disappointment of a broken relationship I came back to the Lord. After a very serious prayer, I made a new commitment to Him. I gave Him the permission to lead my life, wherever He wanted me to go.

Two years later I was serving on a Mission boot in the Mediterranean sea and we where reaching out to the other peoplepeople in Turkey. It was the first time that I was confronted with other peoplefaith, and I realized that hardly anyone had heard about the Good News and the wonderful salvation through Jesus Christ. To my surprise the Lord started to speak to my heart. A couple of month later I was sure, that Gods plan was for me to reach out the other peoplenations. But the question was where I could serve as a single woman?

To my big surprise the Lord was lead me to back to Israel. But to reach out to the Arabic people in Israel? Weren’t they people full of hate and Anti-Semitism? Didn’t they hate the Jewish people?

As I was obedient to Gods Guidance I moved to Israel and settled down in a small West bank village with some other Ladies from my team. In the first week I was standing on the roof of our House and I looked down to the street below. The air was filled from smoke, the Muezzin were singing and I saw the Arabic people in their traditional cloth rushing through the streets.

Suddenly I asked the Lord:” For what purpose did you bring me here? And I knew the Lord was answering me:" Only to bring my Love to them” and the second thing He said to me:” Never take a political position, it would take you focus away”.

I started to live my life in the Arabic areas; I learned to know the culture, the traditions, and the big difference between Men and woman. I started to share about the Lord, and I found a lot of opportunities to pray with Arabic people and to share the Lord with them.

Two years later, I got to know my husband, and you guess right, he was a Christian Arab. He loved the Lord and he was also in Fulltime Ministry. After our marriage we started to serve Him together to reach the un-reached. My husband, even so he is an Arab loves the Jewish people.

But it had not been always like this. Already when he was a small child he had always heard that the Jews had taken the Land of his family. He grew up as a refugee and his family was living in poverty. He did not see a future or hope in his life, and that led him several years later into a life of Drug addiction. After 7 years of addiction he was reaching out for help in a Christian Rehabilitation Center. As the leaders where praying for him, a certain man wept and prayed for the salvation of my husband. My husband was wondering who was weeping for a broken Arabic drug addict, until he discovered that the man was a Jewish man. Not only my husband got free from drugs at that time, but the Lord also restored his broken heart and filled it with love and peace for the Jewish people. Only through Jesus this miracle is possible. He can exchange Anti-Semitism with love, war with peace and un-forgiveness with reconciliation.

As I introduced my husband to my Jewish family they where all surprised. The wonderful love of Jesus that flew out of my husbands’ heart took away their inner hardness against Arabs. They love to listen to his personal experiences with the Lord, they ask him for favors, and one day we believe they will receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior. All this is only possible through the Love of Jesus. When we hear in our days about Anti-Semitism than our first calling is to pray for Love, mercy and hope, and than we have to put our feet on the road to preach the Good New to the once with a broken and bitter heart. God could change Saul into Paul! Than He can also change an Anti-Semite into a lover of the one Jew, who died for you and me.