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Prayer and Intercession November 13-15, 2019

11/15/2019

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.

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We want to leave room for the Holy Spirit to lead you and your group to pray as you are led.

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A Cease Fire has been reached
A Cease-Fire has been agreed on between Islamic Jihad and Israel.

Here are the conditions:

Islamic Jihad will cease launching rockets into Israel, Israel will cease its counter attacks
Israel will cease with targeted assassinations of armed Islamic Jihad members
the IDF will not use live fire against demonstrators during the Friday demonstrations. Islamic Jihad will keep the protests peaceful.

The toll of the two-day fighting:

34 Palestinians have been killed, 25 of them were terrorists
450 rockets were fired at Israel. 90% were intercepted

Two articles for those who desire a deeper understanding and analysis:

1. The Gaza strike and what it means: click here
2. The unprecedented security threats Israel is facing: click here

Our Intercessions
Wednesday was the second day of the battle, so we kept praying regarding the conflict, as well as for Israel as we usually do. We read Psalm 47, and Psalm 67

Psa. 47:0 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Psa. 47:1 Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Psa. 47:2 For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth.
Psa. 47:3 He will subdue the peoples under us, And the nations under our feet.
Psa. 47:4 He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah
Psa. 47:5 God has gone up with a shout, The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Psa. 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
Psa. 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
Psa. 47:8 God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.
Psa. 47:9 The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.

Psa. 67:0 To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
Psa. 67:1 God be merciful to us and bless us, And cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
Psa. 67:2 That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
Psa. 67:3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You.
Psa. 67:4 Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You shall judge the people righteously, And govern the nations on earth. Selah
Psa. 67:5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You.
Psa. 67:6 Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us.
Psa. 67:7 God shall bless us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

We took time to declare that the Lord is Most High--this does not mean that God is a little higher than everybody else; He is Supreme. God is in a class of His own! How can He be compared with the creation?! Psalm 113 says that God has to humble Himself to look into the heavens (Psalm 113:4-6,) yet He lifts up the poor out of the dust. How wondrous is our God! He is awesome, meaning that people are struck with awe and fear when they see the mighty works of God in the earth! Psalm 47:3, but also Jeremiah 33:9

Lord you are supreme, there is no one like thee in the heavens
You are before all, and above all, you are the beginning and the end - you are awesome!
Lord, you have chosen this nation and people for your own purposes, and many are the nations that oppose your purposes. Be thou exalted O Lord in the situation
Lord use this situation to bring glory to your name — fulfill your purposes despite the terrific opposition to them
Lord let the situation serve as a catapult to the formation of the government you want for this nation
Rule over our enemies, take their diabolical wisdom from them, let the darkness they have chosen to imbibe, turn to confusion
Yours are the shields of the earth dear Lord, protect your people

We prayed for Israel in the light of Psalm 47 and Psalm 67
“God will be gracious unto us, and He will bless us and will shine His face upon us.” So goes the verse in Hebrew. It is an emphatic declaration of faith—our covenant God will fulfill what He has promised. His grace will win the day in Israel and for Israel.

O’ what a shining this will be! The Glory of God shining in the Face of Messiah, beaming His Holy Grace, and Holy Love, and Holy Judgment on sin and darkness as it appears at the cross. (Rev. 5:6 A Lamb as though it had been slain!)

Lord shine your face upon Israel. Surely this is the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Yeshua the Messiah! Shine, dear Lord, shine the glory and beauty of you Son upon this nation.
Be gracious unto us dear Lord, destroy our self righteous by the revelation of Yeshua crucified
Shine the Light of Messiah into the heart of darkness this nation dwells in (Isaiah 9:2)
Lord, you are the God of the “again”, you will gather us again, cleanse us again, covenant with us again (the New Covenant in Yeshua), sanctify us again, and best of all, you will come to dwell in our midst again!

We prayed for the nations in this light
Especially those nations around us, who do not rejoice but rather hate the people of God and the plan of God.

Note in Psalm 67 the effect Israel’s salvation will have on the nations, they will know His way; His salvation. Don’t fail to note this simple and wonderful truth: God’s blessing and saving Israel, will make His salvation known in the earth, again. (The world has rejected God and the whole Judeo-Christian ethic, as a myth, and have turned to darkness as their light and understanding.)

“The nations will praise you, O God, the nations will all praise you.” The earth will yield her increase! God will get the harvest He has desired.

Lord, let Israel become a place of the shining of your glory, beaming your grace, your salvation into the nations that surround us.
Lord, those nations that are around us have made it their goal and purpose to destroy your work in the land, to destroy the very people who will be the means of blessing to them. Shine your truth, your light, into those nations. Let them see the power of your grace toward Israel and let them turn. Shine, dear Lord, into Gaza, into Syria, into Iran, Into Lebanon and Jordan, into Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Lord you are the Lord of the harvest (Matthew 9:38), send laborers to those darkened nations and bring Your Light

We prayed for the Body of Messiah in this light

Lord make us a place of the shining of your face, to Israel
Trim our wicks, fill us with oil, burn within us and through us dear Lord
Shine your truth in our midst, let us live out the Word unto you and to one another
Let us be good ground for the seed of your Word dear Lord, not hard ground, not shallow ground, not thorny soil, but a good soil that you might receive the full grain in the head (Mark 4:28)
Prepare your body for the harvest that is surely coming, dear Lord
Prepare the Church in the Arab nations likewise, dear Lord

Thank you, dear friends, for sticking with us in prayer. May the Lord Himself shine His face upon you, revealing Messiah to you in ever deepening ways. May His light upon you be a source of great blessing and great joy, and may you delight in Him as your chief joy and bring Him much glory.

Blessings from Jerusalem,

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Prayer and Intercession November 7, 2019

11/8/2019

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Zech. 4:6 So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' Says the LORD of hosts.
Zech. 4:7 "Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!"'"

Zech. 9:9 "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zech. 9:10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be "from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.'

Zech. 10:6 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside (literally - neglected); For I am the LORD their God, And I will hear them.
Zech. 10:7 Those of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, And their heart shall rejoice as if with wine. Yes, their children shall see it and be glad; Their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
Zech. 10:8 I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them; And they shall increase as they once increased.

We dwelt on and prayed from the verses above. We were gripped by the lowliness of God, the lowliness of Messiah in Zechariah 9. There is the picture of the King riding towards His certain death on the cross. We will say more about that later.
We prayed for the urgent need in Israel for the formation of a government. It is essential for the running of the country and for its protection. After two elections, we still do not have a government! This is dangerous and irresponsible!

Zechariah 4:6-7 Flatten out
In these verses, the Word of the Lord assures Zerubbabel that the Lord will flatten out all opposition to his governing, by the Holy Spirit. No might or power or scheming of man will be able to resist God's Spirit in its purpose to restore His people (who must have proper government.) The Word of the Lord then commands all opposition and resistance to this restoration, to become a plain, to flatten out! The Hebrew is utterly direct and commanding. Notice the supplied words, italicized, in the verse. Take them out, and you get the gist of the verse: "to a plain!" Is the command, its an order! Flatten! That's it, just that. Just like you would command a dog, for instance, by saying, "sit!"

We asked the Lord to speak to this obstacle preventing the formation of a government
Remove every barrier, dear Lord, nothing is impossible for you!
Lord bring down every prideful thing in the current leadership that they might cooperate with Gantz for the well being of this nation
Do your Will, regardless of what seems possible or not, surprise the analysts and the know-it-alls, after all, you have never abdicated your throne
Lord involve yourself in these matters, just as you did in the time of Zerubbabel
Lord, your Will is specific down to smallest details. You have a will about matters, you know what you want here in the Land - bring your Will to pass dear Lord.
Let your Will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. Lord those things that have been decided in Heaven let them come to pass now!
Push your own agenda for Israel, Lord, override the will of man!
Lord, please cut through the manipulations of men, the conniving and self-plans, and do great mercy to our people.
Lord rule thou for the sake of your little ones, the weak and the powerless. Please don't let the strong and 'mighty' among men, shape the country for their own benefit. Rather let all that is done conform to your Word and promises.
Lord, please protect Israel during this time and let nothing that is decided militarily be decided for political expediency.
Have mercy upon us dear Lord, we cry to you to remove the "mountain" of man's Will, desires, and plans, and make it a plane, where the nations can move forward

Zechariah 9:9-10 Please come near to me
It's not the riding of a donkey that makes Yeshua lowly, but His death on a cross for us, for His people. And while His second coming is as a Great King and Judge, coming to rule the earth, nevertheless, His revelation to Israel will be as the Lowly, Savior King, who was pierced by us."They shall see me, whom they have pierced," He said. (Zechariah 12:10)

Can you imagine what happened at the moment of revelation when Joseph spoke to his brothers? That moment must have been one of total disorientation, perhaps confusion, till their brains came around to the reality that this man was their brother! Thus it will be when Israel's eyes are opened and in that instant, 2000 years of blindness, history, opinions, wrong knowledge, will be wiped out by truth and reality. In a moment, reality will hit, "this is our own brother Yeshua, our King and Savior." "I am Yeshua, your brother," He will say.

"But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed (terrified) in his presence.And Yeshua said to his brothers, "Please come near to me." So they came near. Then he said: "I am Yeshua, your brother, whom you sold…." (a light paraphrase of Genesis 45:3-4)

Lord, the reality of these verses bring great joy to us. Indeed they do, at the thought of you're soon revelation to your people
How lowly of you to bear 2000 years of misunderstanding and maligning of your name by us, your people, have mercy upon us and open our eyes to see you
Shine your light upon us, dear Lord, in your light we shall see light
This is your Will, your promise, and your desire — to reveal yourself and finally gather your people under your wing.
Pour your Spirit, dear Lord, upon this nation (Isaiah 44:3)
Lord, let thy Word, wherever it is read in the Land, penetrate the darkness of human thinking and give Light of understanding, revealing Messiah in all of scripture

Zechariah 10:6-8 I will whistle
When I was growing up, many families in Israel had a family whistle: usually a snippet of a song or some melody. This was handy in a crowd if we lost sight of each other. Such was the case when we visited the World Exhibition in New York in 1964. I got separated from my parents and brother. It was quite terrifying, but just as fear began to seize my heart, I heard that familiar whistle, oh the sound of that whistle! I answered with the same whistle, and was soon reunited with my family; we found each other.

What will God's whistle be? Surely it will have in it the sound of Mercy, Grace, the Love of God. The Holy Spirit will blow on our people. (See Zechariah 10:7), and the old, now forgotten sound of God's voice will call His people again. O' for that sound of God! The effect is wonderful — the Jewish people will be drawn to their Land and to their God, in Messiah.

Lord, we pray you will "whistle" for your people
Lord, we pray for that ancient voice of God to be heard again in the Land
Lord, we pray you will call your people to come Home - to the Land, and Home to You as well! Psalm 90:1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Thank you, Lord, for the miraculous ways you brought your people back (from Egypt, from Babylon, and even in the beginning of the last century,) we pray for your hand to do mighty things in bringing your people back again.
Lord, not one good thing of all you promised failed (Joshua 21:45)
Soon, Lord, soon. Please, draw your people back
It is in your heart to bring your people back, and ultimately to yourself
Lord give us the government that will facilitate Aliya of all Jews, whether reformed, conservative or Messianic

Thank you for praying with us for the things of God, may you experience His Word being fulfilled in your own life.

Blessings from Jerusalem,

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Prayer and Intercession November 1, 2019

11/1/2019

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Zech. 1:18 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns
Zech. 1:19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" So he answered me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
Zech. 1:20 Then the LORD showed me, four craftsmen.
Zech. 1:21 And I said, "What are these coming to do?" So he said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Zech. 2:5 For I,' says the LORD, "will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"
Zech. 2:10 "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," says the LORD.
Zech. 2:11 "Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you.

Although Zechariah prophesied in 520 BC, much of what he prophesied pertains to the last days. His is one of the most messianic books in the Bible, filled with prophecies about the Messiah.

In the portions quoted above, we see that God will send "engineers" to break the power of the nations that have so resisted His plans and purposes, especially as they pertain to Israel. This is so amazingly important for us to know, believe, and pray. There is fierce resistance to God's work on the earth.

The greatest of all promises, it seems, is God's promise to dwell in the midst of His people. With that, we see His wonderful promise that the nations, those who so opposed God regarding Israel's restoration, will actually be joined to the Lord. Israel's restoration spells the destruction of the veil cast over all people (Isaiah 25:7).

All of Zechariah 2 is wonderfully encouraging, we prayed through portions of it

Israel's reconciliation and restoration to the Lord Zechariah 2:4-5, 10

Lord we cry out to you to return to this Land and nation
Lord be Israel's Glory again, be Israel's King
Lord, we pray for your return to your people
How can you be our Glory if we as a nation resist you?
We pray you will break down the resistance of Israel to Yeshua
We pray you will come into the midst of Israel with great authority and power
We pray you come as a great King, our great King--Rule thou in the midst of your people
We pray you will remove the veil cast over our 'national' eyes
Open the heavens dear Lord and send the Holy Spirit as great Fire, Light, and Grace
Open the heavens dear Lord and let us hear your voice, not as in Sinai, but as from Calvary
Open the heavens dear Lord and grant us the Spirit of Repentance, the Spirit of Supplications at the sight of the Great Grace of the Cross
Lord, you are not waiting till we repent,for without your grace coming to us first we will never even think of it. You are only waiting till the set time to grant us repentance. Let it be now O' Lord, let it be now!
Lord, we do sing and rejoice at the prospect of seeing you in the midst of the nation

The blessing it will be for the nations Zechariah 2:11

Lord Israel's restoration though much resisted, will be a huge blessing to the nations that sit in darkness and are ruled and moved by the enemy to resist you.
Send those "engineers" who will break the power of the nations, and the forces that rule them so they might be freed from the enemy
We know Lord that the fight is not over and that the breaking of the power of the nations will probably be through much bloodshed and evil; nevertheless, we trust in you and dare to pray this verse to you
Glorify your name in Israel, Glorify your name in the earth — come Lord and free us from "Babylon's" rule
Primarily we are thinking of the nations around us who are so deeply held in the grip of evil and darkness. Free them dear Lord by the power of your right hand (Yeshua, and Him crucified.)

We prayed for the Body of Messiah in the Land

Lord, you promised to dwell among your people, how much more should you inhabit your Body — Your House.
Lord come powerfully to the Body of Messiah, throw out all things that offend you, and hang on the door of the Body a sign: God lives Here!
Lord cleanse us that we might be a priesthood (see how Joshua the high priest had to be purified to be made fit to minister before the Lord — Zechariah 3)
Lord fill our congregations with your Glory and Presence and the Word of God
Lord awaken your Body in the Land
Lord restore a passion for the Word of God in the Body
Lord bring your people in the Body to know you in the deepest possible way — through the cross, through the New Covenant (See Jeremiah 31:34)
Lord we just need you not programs
Lord, we desire that you might search us out, in every area of our lives, in every 'nook and cranny' and find us out.
Lord, we want to meet you in every room of our hearts, we open to you and beg you to come in.

We prayed for the formation of the government in Israel
We may be facing third elections if Benny Gantz from the Blue and White party is unable to form a government. Gantz's declared intention is to form a unity government, which seems to us to be the best solution for Israel's current and multiple challenges and problems.

Lord we pray you will bless those efforts to form a unity government
Lord we pray you will remove all obstacles, opposing these efforts.Is. 42:16 "I will lead the blind by a way they do not know…. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places (stubborn resistance in the Hebrew) into plains…. "
Lord give all the parties involved a shaking so that they may be shaken out of their' navel-gazing' selfish goals to cooperate for the good of the nation
Lord, accomplish your purposes for this country regardless of man.
Lord, we must have a government and a good one at that. Give us a government that will be a blessing and a mercy to this country
Lord deliver us from corruption in the government
Lord restore some integrity to any new government that you choose to build
We pray you will intervene and shed light on all the manipulation that is being exerted in media, in backroom negotiations

Thank you for standing with us. May God make all of these things real in your own life as you give yourself to prayer in this way.

Blessings from Jerusalem,

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