Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

This is a very urgent update that needs to be quickly responded to due to the time sensitive materials it entails. Let me first begin by explaining the title I used above “The Discipline of Stealth”. I believe it will shed light on the modus operands of what is happening here in the Middle East.

As many of you know, the concept of “stealth” is the ability to operate in hostile environments without the knowledge of the enemy and has always been the primary goal of all military techniques and technology. From new computerized camouflage images now worn by our troops to high tech electronic countermeasures, the purpose is to give the attacker the time needed to perform his mission and exit before the defending force can counter-attack. To be compromised in this environment means to be exposed and operational failure ensues….

In a like manner, in my recent personal Bible study times the Holy Spirit has highlighted to me how the discipline of stealth was also readily employed from the very beginning of the New Covenant. In a detailed study you will see that John the Baptist was in stealth until his public appearing in Israel; Yeshua as a young child was stealthy moved in and out of Egypt; Yeshua in His later earthly ministry operated in stealth to side step the masses and the religious rulers; and even the early disciples moved in a lifestyle of stealth in their underground meetings and soul winning tactics. A interesting sub-study in this context was the supernatural ability of how angels were employed by God to secretly release believers from prison or even the supernatural transportation from one hot spot to the next like Phillip!

However, in our contemporary leadership models I have been schooled in over the years, the exact opposite discipline has been encouraged by the “church growth experts”. Instead of stealth services and evangelization on the winds of spontaneity everything has now become time focused and controlled. Ministries have become well trained in advertizing, marketing and brand logo effectiveness to be seen and located and thus attract a tithing base of families instead of a sold out band of warrior bondservants/ handmaidens. The idea of becoming a hidden ministry that can only be found out by those who hear from the Sprit of God has almost become a lost discipline in our current contemporary culture! Yet, it was in this shadow environment of stealth that the early church thrived and exploded in true discipleship until finally the enemy flushed them out of the catacombs in Rome to now hold ‘legalized” public services under Constantine. (Think about it!)

Now let us fast forward back to what is happening here in the Middle East. The Holy Spirit has been telling us repeatedly to go underground and get in stealth mode for this next phase of operations here in this sector of the most intense spiritual warfare found anywhere on planet earth. In so doing we have been constrained by Him not to divulge what we are doing and how lest we lose the element of surprise over the recons and schemes of the enemy.

Right now as you read this OIT update, we have been positioned by in Him in a stealth operation that blows our wildest imaginations. We have been planted in a very fast moving continuum of ministry here that cannot and will not be advertized or marketed to raise support and excite our hearers. However, we must continue to ask for your financial support while still being careful not to divulge our operation or position here. We currently need an immediate infusion of $147,000.00 to begin the build-out for the multipurpose stealth center here. This is the 10% first fruits of the total of $1,470,000.00 needed to complete this project. The builder and architect are ready to move on this with us and this first infusion will get the ball rolling for this operational multi-purpose center. We cannot explain more in this digital forum and we will just have to trust that you guys can dig deep into hearing mode and give as He directs you. You are giving into not just a physical brick and mortar building, but to an underlying stealth layer of ministry that is now in full operation while we are also building out this location!

In the early 1970′s in the former USSR, Dalit remembers the time that the KGB was hotly pursuing the believers in Leningrad. The stealth discipline that was employed by those believers Dalit and her family knew was simple yet profound. The next underground Bible study or prayer meeting was not even announced to the group. Only those who listened to the Holy Spirit would know the time and place for the next meeting…thus this kept out any false or carnal brethren that could be employed by the secret police. It was in this environment that the underground church in Leningrad and other places thrived in true discipleship making…(and may we say that this early church example is again being employed here in the land of Promise? Yes and Amen! …Enough said)!

So dear friends, now is the time to dig deep into his love that has been poured out into your hearts and let the effervescent of free will generosity bubble out of you for this current stealth operation that we are now deeply involved in. The first fruit 10% is needed urgently now ($147,000.00) and may you be richly blessed in this endeavor for His glory! …And may He surprise you with stealth blessings in the days ahead!!!

Come quickly Lord Yeshua!

In His service for your faith,

Scott Holtz