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Prayer and Intercession July 26, 2017

7/27/2017

Every Wednesday evening we gather for intercession for the restoration of Israel. The following is shared with you to help you in your own praying and interceding

These are prayer directions rather than prayer points.
We want to leave room for the Holy Spirit to lead you and your group to pray as you are led.

If at any time you want to be removed from the list, please write us at:
[email protected]

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Jerusalem
Most of you, no doubt, have been following the dramatic standoff between the Muslim world and Israel over the security arrangements on the temple mount, following the deadly terror attack that claimed the lives of two police officers.
Many, I am sure, are incensed by Israel’s capitulation to the Muslim world’s demand that it remove all security measures at the entrances to the temple mount.
It is not within the scope of this prayer bulletin to analyze the political or other issues involved in this conflict, except to say that behind it all is a spirit, a terrible spirit that does not yield to reason, to logic or common sense and that cannot be assuaged. We are engaged in an enormous spiritual struggle, between God and the enemy. The war will be won, but in this battle, Israel lost, or so it seems right now.

Those wanting to read more background, read here: http://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-temple-mount-tumult-the-who-what-and-why-of-its-waqf-rulers/

Standing and praying for Jerusalem
These verses reflect the true unchangeable counsel of God that is being carried out by the Lord; regardless of how things seem. Rather than waste our time fuming, we chose to spend our time standing on, proclaiming and praying over these truths.

We proclaimed, prayed and stood on these truths

Psalm 89:28-37 The throne promised to David and his seed (Yeshua) forever. That throne is in Zion (today its called the temple mount) See: Psalm 2:6
Psalm 132:13-14 God has chosen Zion to dwell in forever. This especially speaks of the day in which Yeshua will return to forever dwell in the midst of His people and rule over the earth.
Jeremiah 33:16 This verse points to the day in which the Jewish people will meet the Messiah and turn to Him. It amazingly ties Israel’s salvation with the Messiah and with a place - Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:6 This wonderful verse points to the fact that in all the turmoil and battle of the nations against God’s people and city, Jerusalem and her people “will remain intact in her place.” (EBC)
Psalm 102:15-16 The restoration of Israel and Jerusalem, will culminate in the great appearance of God in His Glory! The result is a great fear of God that nations and their kings and rulers are seized by.
We also prayed for our government: for wisdom, counsel, and unity regarding the current crisis. See Proverbs 11:14

Israel
We were led to pray for Israel from Ezekiel 39:25-29
These verses are a summary of chapters 36-39 which speak of the restoration of Israel. Several things are interesting to note:
All the enemy’s fuss and resistance end up in nothing. Although he animates all the nations to come against God’s people, land and plan, it is to no avail. God completes His plan and purpose; this is marvelous.
The promise is so sure that in the last verse the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is expressed in the past tense. That is not a mistake. Many versions have changed this verse to make it more logical, but it stands in the Hebrew that way. Can we say with the Lord: It is done! And yet still pray for it, and believe for the fulfillment?
God’s promises express His will, His passion, His heart. He desires to restore His people, He will do it, and not fail.

We prayed with great joy for the Holy Spirit to be poured out
We prayed for God’s name to be vindicated and sanctified (Ezekiel 39:27)
We prayed for God’s own will to be fulfilled
We prayed for God to reveal His face
We prayed for the great Mercy to come! (Ezekiel 39:25)

Body in the Land
We were inspired to continue and use the same scriptures for the Body of Messiah.

We all long for more of God.
We long for more of His Spirit, more of His presence.
We long for His presence in the midst of the Body.
Our hearts long for more of Him, not just to see power or thrills etc.
We long for a great cleansing, revival to break upon us.
We long for conviction in the Body of Messiah, for holiness, for victory over natures.
We long to know the Lord and walk in an overcoming, walk in Grace, walk in the Spirit.

Thank you for standing with us for all the will of God to be done in these last days.
All for His Glory alone!

Prayer and Intercession July 19, 2017

7/20/2017

The return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel
The dispersion of the Jews in the nations is a great embarrassment to the Lord. In Ezekiel 36, God enumerates the steps He will take to recover His honor, the first on the list is the regathering of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
Ezek. 36:20 And when they entered unto the nations, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. Ezek. 36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

Ezek. 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. Ezek. 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

We prayed into this promise, with a particular emphasis on the return of Messianic Jews to the Land. There are several cases now before the courts, one before the supreme court, regarding the right of Messianic Jews to return to the land and be recognized as Jews. So far the ministry of Interior has fought Messianic Jews in every way possible from receiving citizenship just because they are Messianic.

We prayed into this verse, applying the word redeemed to the Messianic Jews. Is. 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
We prayed for the Lord to break open the “closed gates” in the form of the ministry of Interior when it comes to Messianic Jews.
We prayed for the upcoming court cases and hearings; for a breakthrough for these families
We prayed for a breaking of the monopoly the religious parties have had on the Ministry of Interior
We prayed for encouragement of those Messianic Jews who are waiting in limbo for decision in their case. Do they go on building their ives here? Should they wait to see what happens? What about the children?
We prayed for the Jews in affluent countries; many resist making the move simply because they are happy where they are.
We prayed generally for the return of the Jews from every corner of the earth to the land. Ezek. 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

Government
In Yeshua, God has displayed his heart for His people. He is a shepherd. A shepherd cares for his sheep by taking them in and out to pasture, and a shepherd watches and guards his flock. There is no one like Yeshua, He is the ultimate shepherd of Israel and God has promised He will come back. See: Ezekiel 34:23-24
Meanwhile and until then, we must stand before the Lord for our nation’s government. Israel at least has a definite promise for good leaders! See: Jeremiah 23:4

We prayed again, concerning the many corruption cases that have been exposed lately. Some possibly endangering Israel’s security. (see link to article below).
We prayed for a real cleanup to take place within the government and its many branches.
We prayed for bold and courages leaders within the government to rise up and make their voice heard.
We prayed for a political reshuffle that would result in the minimizing of the religious parties’ power, thus opening the possibility for the state to manage a more equitable economy that will benefit all of the nation and not just their segment.

Temple Mount Crisis
As some of you may know, five days ago last Friday, three terrorists came out of the temple mount area and shot two border policemen to death. Israel has responded by setting up metal detectors at the entrances to the temple mount. So far the Arab world and the Palestinians have not acknowledged the outrageous attack and instead have attacked Israel for setting up the metal detectors. Islamic leaders have sought to inflame their people in telling them Al Aksa is in danger. This situation has the potential of blowing up into a season of violence. For those who would like to read more about it, see links below.

We prayed for great wisdom for our government. It cannot back down on security, it cannot allow the situation to escalate.
We prayed For the Lord to speak over this situation as he spoke over the raging sea “peace be still” He said, and the sea obeyed!

Please pray with us, and for us, for a God given strategy of prayer regarding Iran. We feel an urgency from the Lord, to find His mind and direction for prayer and intercession regarding Iran. That nation is slowly edging its way to the borders of Israel.
Read more here: http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-iranians-are-at-the-borders

For those who want to read more about:

Submarine Crisis:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-says-submarine-scandal-is-worst-corruption-case-in-israeli-history/

Temple Mount Tensions:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4989180,00.html

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-working-with-Jordanians-and-PA-to-calm-Temple-Mount-crisis-500157

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4991187,00.html

Thanks for standing with us for all the will of God to be done in these last days. All for His Glory alone!

Prayer and Intercession July 12, 2017

7/13/2017

The Need of our people for God
Hos. 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim Hos. 3:5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days.

Our people’s need for God is overwhelming. One cannot escape it when walking in the streets. We have been, as Hosea says it in chapter 3:4, “many days without king or prince.” Two thousand years to be more precise. Vs. 5 shows that Yeshua is meant.

Our challenge as intercessors who pray for Israel’s salvation is to stand right there, where the need is, and get a hold of God on the ground of His Word, His promises; this is where the prayer battle of faith takes place.

Vs. 5 describes a return and a seeking of our God and our Messiah. What could possibly bring this kind of change? This kind of return? It seems clear from verse 5 that the return and the seeking of God, will be a response, a response to the goodness of God in the latter days! God does something. God reveals Himself; God pours out grace and mercy in such a way that will bring great fear, the fear of God upon us.

To get a glimpse of such a fear, read the account of Yeshua and Peter in Luke 5:1-11

Especially vs.Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!
God’s goodness leads to repentance. In fact, repentance is a great mercy in itself; a great grace from the Lord. O’ for tender hearts, for broken hearts, for convicted hearts, that is what we ask for.

We prayed for the goodness of God to be poured out on Israel
We prayed for a great mighty outpouring of the Spirit of grace and supplication.
We prayed for a mighty conviction to come upon our people.
We prayed for the revelation of Yeshua the crucified one
We prayed for the breaking of the hearts of the people of Israel be a sight of the cross
We prayed for the Lord to unshackle our people from the bondage of religion
We reminded the Lord that He has promised that he will give us a heart of flesh instead of our stony hearts.
We prayed that “all shall know him from the greatest to the least, as we experience the forgiveness of our iniquities (See Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Praying for the Body of Messiah along the same lines
Hos. 11:10 They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;
We feel there is a great need in the Body of Messiah for that tender, broken heart. How soon do we forget where we came from, what our condition was. How soon we begin to seek for other things instead of Himself, His face. How quickly we begin to use God for the help and blessing, He gives, ignoring Him personally. All that God has ever wanted from His people is that they should love Him with all of their heart, mind, soul, and strength.

That roar of God must be a great visitation of God through the Holy Spirit bringing great conviction, fear of the Lord

We prayed for a sight of Messiah again
We prayed for a mighty conviction in the Body
We prayed for a mighty outpouring of the real Holy Spirit that would turn us to Messiah
We prayed for circumcised hearts
We prayed for the Word of God to be central again in every congregation
We prayed for the fear of the Lord to seize us all

Praying for our government and leaders in the Land
Our country needs good leadership. We have a great need for security, but also for justice and equity when it comes to how the government cares for the people. Sadly, there is great corruption, neglect of the needy parts of society, and much manipulation for power and by the orthodox.

God has promised to give us good shepherds (see Ezekiel 34:11-30)
He also has the sovereignty and power to give us those good shepherds.

We read from Daniel (for the whole story read Daniel 4:27-37)
Daniel 4:32…..until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”
Dan. 4:34 …for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Dan. 4:35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
Daniel 4:37 for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Based on the Lord’s authority and sovereignty:

We prayed good and healthy leadership, free from corruption
We prayed for a government that will be free from both the extremes of the left and the right
We prayed for leaders who will be fearless in their dealing with the tycoons
We prayed for leaders who will withstand the manipulations of the religious parties
We prayed for leaders who will bring some sanity to our economy and make Israel affordable.
We prayed for leaders who will watch over Israel’s need for security while navigating the complex world of international politics.

Praying along those lines for world leadership
It seems to us that the world is in a very unstable condition right now. The tensions between the West and North Korea, the tensions between the US and Russia, and conditions in Europe, all require good leadership, statesmanship rather than mere politicly savvy men and women.
We also recognize that God’s plan, and especially as it has to do with Israel and the nations, is greatly contested and resisted. Remember that the world would have looked very different if such leaders as Churchill were not raised up at that critical time.
We noted that the Lord raised intercessors as well, such as Rees Howells, and others who stood in the gap and prayed.

We prayed that the Lord will bring up good leaders in Europe and in the US
We prayed for a containment of North Korea, (God knew how to humble Nebuchadnezzar)
We prayed for leaders in the nations who would be favorable to Israel
We prayed for the leadership of Europe to recognize the threat of terrorism, call it by name and rise up to fight it.

Thanks for standing with us for all the will of God to be done in these last days. All for His Glory alone!

Prayer and Intercession July 6, 2017

7/6/2017

Every Wednesday evening we gather to intercede for the restoration of Israel. The following is shared with you to help you in your own praying and interceding.

These are prayer directions rather than prayer points.
We want to leave room for the Holy Spirit to lead you and your group to pray as you are led.

If at any time you want to be removed from the list, please write us at:
[email protected]

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Spiritual Salvation of Israel
Rom. 10:3 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

By far the biggest stumbling block for Israel is this very thing, that we have sought and are still seeking (actively searching) to establish our own righteousness. But mind you, we are reading this in Romans 10. Chapters 9-11 declare Israel’s restoration to God. There is Hope!

How will this be done? Zechariah 12:10-13:1 Read it and you will see it is by the Holy Spirit.

It is He who will come to our nation and by His mighty grace and power, will open our eyes to see God’s Son, and to turn to Him whom we have pierced. God the Spirit will come in person to reveal the Son of God, the crucified Messiah, the Lamb of God, to our nation! This is what the Holy Spirit does! He always turns the heart and mind of man to Yeshua. In that passage it is clearly seen: It will be personal, it will be national, it will be by the Holy Spirit.

We prayed For the the Holy Spirit, to open the blinded eyes of the Jewish people to Messiah
We prayed For the Holy Spirit to come in great heart-breaking grace and impart repentance to our nation.
We prayed For the Lord to break the power of religion that has so gripped parts of our nation.
We prayed for mercy and grace to be poured out like a flood on our people.
We prayed for the relief that imparted righteousness brings and the joy that it gives to those who believe.

Since we were praying for the Holy spirit to come to our nation and open our eyes and heart to Messiah, we continued to pray for the Body of Messiah in the Land and the Body of Christ in the nations

We prayed for the same kind of revival in the Body as in the Land - to see Yeshua afresh
We prayed for the bride’s heart to be turned again to His face, rather than His hand, or strength or His wealth.
We prayed for revived faith in believers to walk after Messiah and to stop pursuing this world and its pleasures.
We prayed For the real Holy Spirit to fill the Body and not another (see 2Cor 11:4)

“The super apostles proclaimed not only a different Jesus and gospel but a different spirit— someone or something other than the Holy Spirit.” (1) (super-apostles, meaning false apostles- OA) Scary isn’t it?

We prayed “Give us a heart for you, O Lord, only you and naught else.”
We prayed for simplicity and a single eye

Regathering of Israel from the nations - a longing for Zion
Psa. 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon,There we sat down, yea, we wept When we remembered Zion.

The heart-desire of God for Zion echoed in Psalm 132:13-14 and in Zechariah 8:2-3, expresses itself as a great longing for Zion in his people. The Jewish people long for the Land and for God, the Christians in the earth long for the Kingdom of God and the heavenly Jerusalem (or so they should).

We prayed for this great longing to be renewed in the hearts of all the Jewish people living in the diaspora (called exile in the Bible)
We prayed for this longing to motivate the Jews to make Aliya (come back to the Land from whatever nations they are scattered through).
We prayed For this same longing to come upon the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have left the country permanently.
We prayed for the Messianic Jews in the world to be deeply stirred by this longing to come to the Land.

Protection of God’s land and people in her time of restoration
Psa. 137:7 Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation!”

The Edomites, who became a rival nation to the east of Israel’s borders, came to the aid of the Babylonians when they came to destroy Jerusalem. This verse expresses their utter hatred for all of what Israel meant for the work of God on the earth. They became symbolic of all those who have a heart-hatred for Israel and for the purposes of God in restoring her.

We prayed for the divine protection of the Lord over the land
We prayed for the Lord to continue to build up Zion (Psa. 102:16 For the LORD shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory.)
We prayed for our government and for our armed forces and for Israel’s security in various ways and aspects.

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(1) Horton, Michael; Horton, Michael. Rediscovering the Holy Spirit: God’s Perfecting Presence in Creation, Redemption, and Everyday Life (p. 21). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

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