"There is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you!" Isaiah 64:7)
O’ what an anguished cry of the Holy Spirit through the prophet! Where are God’s people? Why are they not taking hold of God and calling upon His name to fulfill His covenant promises?

So often we act as if we are the ones who have to chase God do what is needed! How skewed and untrue is that! Rather, God has given us the Word, His Word; His covenant promises and has sealed them with the Blood of His Son and has assured us time and again, that he would stand by His Word and do what He has promised. All we have to do is seek Him, and stir ourselves up to take hold of Him! How wonderful is that! The word ‘stir’ means to awaken oneself!  Do you put on an alarm clock to wake you up if you have an important engagement? Let your spiritual alarm clock ring loudly, and awaken you to get a hold of God for His Kingdom, for the Church, for Israel!  

We are called upon to seek His face and call upon His name
Psa. 24:1 The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, 
Psa. 24:2  for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
Psa. 24:6  Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.  Selah

Psalm 24 reminds us of the greatness of God and of His ownership of all creation; it calls us to seek His face. We are called upon to seek His face and call upon Him to fulfill His covenant promises, specifically His covenant promises to Israel.

Psa. 99:6  Moses and Aaron were among His priests,  And Samuel was among those who called upon His name;  They called upon the LORD, and He answered them.

Two dangers to our praying effectively
One of the dangers we face is that we might take the call of the Spirit to seek the Lord, in a self-centered way. The spirit of the age encourages and promotes self-seeking and self-centeredness, and the church is deeply affected by this. Thus we are tempted to seek the Lord only for ourselves, for our needs, our wants, our fears. 

While there is nothing wrong with bringing our needs to the Lord, there is a danger in making that, the center of our spiritual life; of making it our primary motive for seeking God.

Instead, we are taught in scripture to seek the Kingdom of God first, or to be about our Father’s business, i.e., to center on His will and desire as revealed in the Word. 

Moses, Aaron, and Samuel called upon the Lord in times of great crises and won forgiveness and grace for Israel, in times of great need. 

We are called to do the same. 

We are meant to seek the face of God, and call upon His name to fulfill His covenant promises. This ought to be our primary vocation as far as prayer is concerned. And He has promised to add everything else to us. 

The second danger has to do with our attitude towards Israel. We are in danger of approaching Israel’s restoration in the last days, in a romantic, emotional way. What I mean is that if we are not careful, we might take Israel’s condition lightly. We could fall into thinking that because we are living in days of fulfillment and favor upon Israel that God has “winked” at Israel’s rejection of her Messiah, and at her sinful condition. 

Nothing is further from the truth in this matter. After all, it has taken the blood of His Son, to reconcile us to God. This lax kind of attitude will, no doubt, lead to weak and superficial praying, which will cause our prayers to be totally ineffective; a waste of time (His and ours). 
 
Instead we are called upon to give Him nor rest (Isaiah 62:7), to get a hold of 
God (Isaiah 64:7), and to go through in prayer (Isaiah 62:10)

With this in mind we read Ezekiel 36:23-29 This wonderful prayer list is of a quite complete scope.  Rather than write out our own praying, I am listing here the main verses we used in our praying, hoping you will be inspired by the Word and Spirit to stand with us for the fulfillment of these amazing promises.  

Some of you have been praying these verses for quite a while, and perhaps you feel they are ‘old hat.’ Not so! The Word has an unfathomable depth to it. One can pray over the same scriptures and be so moved and impassioned to such intensity that is beyond the realm of the natural. May the Holy Spirit ‘breathe’ on you as you pray these verses and may you experience the answers to them, not only for Israel but in your own life.

We prayed into the following verse:

• The great motive of God in restoring Israel - Ezek. 36:23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; 
• The great result of Israel’s restoration - "and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes."
• The great regathering of Israel - Ezek. 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.
• The great cleansing of Israel - Ezek. 36:25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
• The great heart-change of Israel - Ezek. 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• The great outpouring of the Spirit - Ezek. 36:27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
• The great outcome - Ezek. 36:28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
• The great blessing - Ezek. 36:29 I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.

Thank You for standing with us and more importantly, with the Lord, for His end-time, Kingdom purposes. Surely those who pray for 'rain', will be soaked by it too, if they go outside (of the Church's conventional replacement theology box).

Blessings from Jerusalem,

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Shalom,
We did not hold our regular Wednesday prayer meeting because of a weather alert in Jerusalem (high winds and snow). Nevertheless, we send the following as an inspiration to continue to stand before the Lord and give Him no rest till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth! 

Israel, rocked again, by scandal and corruption
Not only is Israel heading towards elections, some of because of alleged corruption in the highest levels of government. But a new scandal has hit the papers. A massive investigation of some of the top people in the Judiciary has hit Israel like a bomb. 

Just yesterday, it was reported that the Head of Israel Bar Association suspected of trading influence for sexual favors. The sub-headline read, “Effi Naveh, who represents the Israel Bar Association on the Judicial Selection Committee, allegedly promoted judicial appointments for sexual favors.” (Read here )

Scandal after scandal has exploded into the consciousness of Israeli society this year and is rocking Israel to its core; we are all wondering where it is all going to end?  A corrupt country becomes a weak country, both within and without. 

Living in a pre-election time, we are flooded with slogans, promises, and planks that enumerate each party’s vision for Israel and her future. Everyone is sighing and hoping that the next leader will really do wonders, fix everything, clean house and set Israel on a promising course towards a bright, safe and prosperous future. 

I don’t think this will happen. My hope lays somewhere else; in God. And He is not up for election or reelection.  

We don’t get to vote for Him; we get to believe. Period. He chose us and has revealed that our future as a nation is to be ruled by Him forever! Halleluia! He is the leader I am looking for to come and reign over us! 

Jer. 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Jer. 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

This is well expressed in Mary's song:  
Luke 1:51  He has shown strength with His arm;  He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke 1:52  He has put down the mighty from their thrones, And exalted the lowly.
Luke 1:53  He has filled the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty.
Luke 1:54  He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,
Luke 1:55  As He spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed forever.”

She expected, as her generation and all generations of Jews since then, that the Messiah would reign in Justice. 

But that generation did not expect the cross! They did not expect that the Messiah would first reveal God’s judgment on sin in man before He would bring justice on the earth between man. 

And this is where we very much are at the moment, in this land. We hope in man or in a man, who would bring the longed for justice in the land, and on the earth. How dangerous that is! One day an imposter will come and claim to be the Messiah. But his justice and rule will be a great delusion and illusion. For only the real Messiah, Yeshua can offer true liberty and justice. It starts in our hearts, through the word of redemption on the cross, and expands to our society. Any other hope is vain and delusive. 

So I will stand before Him, who is our King and continue to believe for my people that, He that is the true and only Messiah, Yeshua, will come and rule over us.  

Isaiah 42:4He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
 
The victory of the cross will one day fill the land, and indeed the world:

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

This is where we stand crying out for salvation for our nation. We have come back to the land and are finding out that our enemies are not only without but that we need to be saved from ourselves and not just our enemies. 

• O cry with us for Israel’s salvation, 
• Cry with us for His Light and Truth to invade our land. 
• Cry with us for mercy on this nation. 
• Cry with us intensely as Israel did until he hears  Ex. 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. Ex. 2:25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.

Blessings from Jerusalem,

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Shalom from Jerusalem, 
Our regular intercessory prayer meeting meets on Wednesdays. Bi-monthly, I also attend a  Jewish-Arab pastors prayer meeting, and this week we met on Thursday, a day after our regular prayer meeting. 

I was surprised and blessed to find a dear brother, who pastors in a neighboring Arab country also attending. He filled me in on what is happening in the Arab world and mainly what is happening in Syria regarding the gospel. It is exciting to learn how much the Lord is working there, but also of the challenges facing the work of God there. I share it here for your encouragement and for prayer, of course.

Pray for God’s work among Syrian Kurds
X shared with me that the work of God among the Muslims in many Arab countries is exploding. In Syria, there is a move of God among the Kurds. Hundreds of them have come to the Lord in the last few years. Many are coming to the workers to inquire of this Yeshua; there is a hunger and a longing for light. Still, others come, as they have experienced a visitation of some sort, whether in a dream or what.  Hundreds of House churches have sprung up as a result of this move. 

But there is a dark side to all of this delicate and beautiful work. The US plan to pull out of Syria is casting a dark shadow on the future of these churches and believers. Once American troops vacate, Turkey is planning to move in. Wherever the Turkish forces have come, they have persecuted and shut down any Christian activity. Two regions have suffered the most; Efrin and Kobane. There, the Turkish troops have abused and cruelly suppressed these new Christians.  

Please join us in prayer for the work of God among the Kurds in Syria. 

• Pray for some entity to fill the void that the US will leave behind, a body that would be conducive to the work God is doing
• Pray that the Lord would delay or time the US pullout to fit His Own Plans and Purposes
• Pray for the MBB’s in those areas (MBB stands for Muslim Background Believers)
• Pray for the house churches that they will be able to continue to meet by some miracle
• Pray for the leaders of this movement, pastors and workers who are risking their lives to reach their own countrymen with the gospel
• Pray this Arab pastor and all the Arab organizations that were working in Arab lands — that they may be highly successful in reaching out to Muslims throughout the Arab world. 

The fantastic thing about this pastor is that he totally believes in the restoration of Israel and the preaching of the gospel that his people do, includes this truth and conviction. That’s the best peace plan I have ever heard of! 

The rains have come - We rejoice in the blessing, but continue to pray for the fullness
Water water everywhere! Israel has experienced some excellent rainy weather in the last few weeks. The last few days have seen unusually heavy rains in the north; where it counts the most. The river and the springs are coming to life again, and everyone is delighted. The Sea of Galilee which has suffered terribly in the last 5 years for lack of rain, has come up 21 cm in the previous week alone. ​

The AMAZING love and grace of God and our total unworthiness of such love - Hosea 11

God: when Israel was a child I loved him….out of Egypt I called my son
Us: they sacrificed to Baals…
God: I taught Ephraim to walk…taking them by the hand… I drew them with cords of kindness..with the bands of love…eased the yoke…I bent down and fed them
Us: My people are bent on turning away from Me
God:  How can I give you up Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel…I will not execute my burning anger…. I will not come in wrath…When He roars then His sons shall come trembling…they shall come trembling like a bird….I will return them to their home! 

How amazing is God's faithful love. How can a just God not come in wrath? Ultimately, because He wreaked His wrath in judgment on His Son, our savior! 

How can the roaring of the Lion attract rather than sow fear in our hearts? We must understand this roar in light of Calvary! His Word and Voice and Call issuing out, calling us all to come and see, and be saved, and come near this Holy God who has loved us.

What love is this?!  How unworthy are we as a nation of this love and grace. How bent have we been, on turning away from the one who bent down to feed us?  Not that there are other nations or people more worthy, but still, this is a record that, we here in the land, have to take in.

We were much moved by this sight of God and were helped to intercede with a deep sense of God’s grace and presence. 

• We called on the Lord to utter His voice and 'roar' in this land
• We cried out for His Spirit to fall upon His people.
• We cried out for a heart of flesh instead of the heart of stone! (See Ezekiel 36:26, see Jeremiah 31:31-34)
• We called on the Lord to be washed in the blood of Yeshua
• We called on the Lord to reveal His own nature and being in this land
• We cried for the Lord to reveal the sufferings of the Messiah on the cross 
• We asked for the Lord to reveal His own heart and passion that propelled Him to the cross
• We prayed for the breaking of the bondage of religion in the land
• We prayed for the Lord to shake us and wake us, again, from our spiritual lethargy.
• We prayed out of Deut. 30:5-7 for the circumcision of our and our people’s heart to love the Lord with all our hearts and souls that we may live before Him.
• We called on the Lord to ‘heal the wounds of this nation' (see Jeremiah 30:17)
• We called for His Mercies and Compassions to come upon the tents of Jacob (see Jeremiah 30:18)
• We cried for the Lord to un-bend us from our bent on turning away from Him

The Lord roars from Zion - The Lord is a refuge to His people - Joel 3 
Last week we prayed from Ezekiel 34:25 ….I will banish the wild beasts… we compared some leaders (Assad, Nasrallah and the Ayatollahs) to devouring beasts. 

Jeremiah speaks in a similar way: Jeremiah 30:16 “all who devour you shall be devoured..those who plunder you shall be plundered..all who prey on you I will make a prey…”
No wonder then, that in the midst of this ‘jungle’ God likens Himself to a lion who roars…the King of the ‘jungle’ roars. But whereas the roaring of God in Hosea attracts His people, the roaring of God in Joel 3 causes a quaking of the heavens and the earth (and all therein), and He becomes the refuge, the protection of His people.

• We prayed for the voice of the Lord to shake the nations (See Psalm 46:6)
• We prayed for that ‘roar’ of God in the midst of Israel
• We prayed for God to be Israel’s refuge
• We prayed for God to become Israel’s stronghold
• We prayed for God’s intervention on behalf of Israel
• We prayed for the subduing of Hezbollah on our northern borders
• We prayed for Hamas’ plans to cause havoc and chaos in Samaria and Judea to fail
• We prayed for the wellbeing of Israel in the midst of amazing shifts in the political world
• We stood on the Word and God’s eternal purpose for this nation, to become a refuge for all the Jews in the world (they need to come home of course.)

We concluded the meeting with a reading of the last verses of Joel 
Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Joel 3:21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Thank you for standing with us, for His eternal purposes to be fulfilled in the earth! May the God of Israel and the Father of our Lord Yeshua, bless you at this special time of the year, and may His Presence by your joy throughout this Christmas season.

Please note that we will not be holding our regular prayer meetings, December 26 and January 2 

Blessings from Jerusalem,

Conviction

Hos. 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction, they will seek me early.

The Hebrew for this verse reads: “till they are convicted.” That is until they feel they're guilt.

Conviction can come to the heart by different agencies. 
First, as is the case above, as a result of circumstances. See Ezekiel 5 to get a sense of it. 
Second, through the direct Word of God spoken by the Holy Spirit through his servants. Remember the Word in Nathan’s mouth to David? “You are the man!” See 2Sam 12:1-9. 
Or in Acts 2:36 A mighty conviction came upon all who heard Peter cry out: “God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.” No theory was this! Many of the hearers were present in Jerusalem at the crucifixion. How penetrating a Word, it must have been! Nowhere to flee from it; they “were pricked in their heart, and cried back, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?!” (Acts 2:37) 
Third: Conviction can also be granted as a visitation of the Lord as He pours out His Holy Spirit, who is called in Zechariah 12:10 “The Spirit of Grace and Supplication” That is, the Spirit of Repentance.

Whatever way conviction (from the Lord) comes it is a blessed thing, is it not? It is the most wonderful thing in the world, and it comes from heaven. 

Why is conviction a blessed thing? 

Because He convicts us that we may have Him. He convicts us that we may come back to Him. He convicts us because He wants to give us His Grace and the fullness of all His blessings and nearness. It is Love coming to make you His own. It is Love coming to prepare you to live before Him. He is all that is Good, Holy, Blessed, Fulfilling.  

Hosea’s cry reveals God’s desired end:

Hos. 6:1 Come and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hos. 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Hos. 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

See how excellent is the result of the conviction and of returning to God?  Why its life from the dead for the nation of Israel. This mighty conviction will be Life from the dead for us.

We prayed for conviction unto salvation

• We prayed for a mighty conviction to fall on Israel, from heaven
• We prayed for a mighty outpouring of the Spirit of repentance to flood the land
• We prayed for a great Hunger and Thirst for a heavenly Righteousness to invade our land
• We prayed that God might take away our ability to enjoy our self-righteousness 
• We prayed for a strong conviction, especially among those who are in a mighty effort to keep the Rabbinical interpretation of the law… see Hos. 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• We prayed for the Holy Spirit to reveal the Son and cause men to long for Him
• We prayed for a mighty revelation such as Isaiah had, such as Paul had, such as Thomas had, of the glory and holiness of God and His mercy and grace at the cross

We prayed for conviction unto Aliya (returning to the land)
With anti-semitism rising so ferociously in the world, we felt an urgency to pray for a return to of the Jewish people to the land of their forefathers.

• We prayed for stirring in the hearts of the millions of Jews who are very satisfied in staying in other countries, totally ignoring the rise of the hatred for them in the nations they live in. Click here for more info: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46150677
• We prayed that God would do what He promised (Ezekiel 37:12) and what no man or agency can do by themselves, and that is to bring His Word to pass! 

We prayed for conviction to sweep the Church
In the book of Revelation, we see Yeshua, ascended and glorified, coming for His Bride. He will not tolerate a bride with a distracted heart, with a wayward heart. He who is Love comes with a mighty sevenfold word to His people to reclaim them for Himself! This is what Love does. So for instance, her rebukes the Ephesian Church Rev. 2:4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

• O’ that Love may ‘nail us.’
• O’ that Love would convict us
• O’ that Love would shine His Light into our hearts and souls
• O’ that we may see you as John did at Patmos
• O’ that we may have a revelation of the Son of God
• We prayed for the Lord to stir up the memory of His people, how it was at the first
• We prayed for a strong conviction, and deep desire in the hearts of God’s people For him 
• We prayed God's people would eschew substitutes. “As we needed you then, we need you now.”
• We prayed for a great deep desire for the Lord Himself to be given to His people

We prayed for the security of this land due to the present dangers
Although everything seems calm, things are so tense on our northern borders that at any moment the tension can break out into a full-scale conflict.

Ezek. 34:28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek. 34:25 s“I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

Nassarallah is a wild beast, Asad is a "beast" and so are the other leaders of those nations which are intent on devouring us! If you want to know what they want, read Ezekiel 35. If you want to know what God will do, read Eze 35 and Eze 36.

• We prayed for the Lord to fulfill His Word and remove those men who, through demonic hatred, have become beasts and not men. 
• We prayed for the Lord to remove the evil wisdom in these men as they plot our demise
• We prayed for divine intervention in removing Hezbollah as a threat to our nation
• We prayed the same for Iran, Hamas and every other “beastly” nation on our borders
• We prayed for the continued success of Israel’s efforts to locate and destroy the attack tunnels in the north
• We prayed for success for Israel in coming up continually with a strategy to overcome the demonic strategy of those terror organizations to fight within civilian centers

The Lord reigns let the earth rejoice! 
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Blessings from Jerusalem,

And I will not hide My Face from them anymore

There can be no greater and desirable thing than the nearness of God and to live in the presence of the Lord. Think of it, living in the Presence of God! Can there be anything more wonderful, sweeter and fulfilling than living In the presence of God?  

Can there be anything more terrible than losing the presence of God? This is what Israel lost; the Presence of the Living God. Ezekiel, who had been exiled to Babylon, was shown in the Spirit the departure of the Presence of the Lord from the temple, and then from the land. Nothing can be worse than that!

Seeing that the Presence of the Lord left Israel for its unfaithfulness to Him, His return is a wonder of Grace. See Eze 39:25. This is the main focus of Ezekiel 38-39, not the invasion of God and Magog, nor the judgment of God that comes upon them.

Isaiah 54:7 “For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
Zech.1:16 “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;

O’ how wonderful this! Just read these verses, let them sink in and tell me that you are not blown away by the sheer grace and wonder of the Lord coming back to dwell with His people. He actually wants us! He wants to dwell with us! He will dwell with us and we with Him!

Ezek. 39:25 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name--
Ezek. 39:26 after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.
Ezek. 39:27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,
Ezek. 39:28 then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer.
Ezek. 39:29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD.”

And it will all be done by the Holy Spirit!

We prayed for the nation of Israel

• We prayed much for the Return of the Shekhinah (abiding presence) and Glory of God to our nation
• We called upon the Lord to fulfill His covenant promises as declared in these verses, and to pour out His Spirit upon our people, without limit!
• We prayed for the Lord to open the eyes of this nation to His Son and their King and Savior
• We prayed much for the Holy Spirit come in heart-breaking power upon us
• We prayed for the mercies of God to flood the land with His Holy Goodness
• We prayed for such a move of God in this land that there would be no one left who does not know the Living God in Messiah (Jeremiah 31:34)
• We prayed from Hosea 2:19-20 God’s return to Israel is a time of the blossoming of Love, a time of Grace and Mercy and Compassion.
• We prayed for the Lord to pour out a Hunger for the Word of God into the hearts of His people so that they might seek Him, as the Shulamite did in Song of Songs. (Song 3:3)

We prayed for the Body of Messiah in the Land
Since we are in the midst of Hanukkah, in which we celebrate the victory God gave us over the enemies of Israel who invaded the land, and of the cleansing of the temple from idols and the reestablishment of the true worship of God in His temple, we prayed along those lines. (Adding this line of prayer to the passage from Ezekiel as quoted above.)

• We prayed for the Light of God to invade the Body of Messiah.
• We prayed for an unrelenting zeal in the Body to cleanse itself from any idols, or flesh or any other thing that does not belong in the House of the Lord
• We cried to God for that same outpouring of His Holy Spirit in the Body
• We prayed for the Lord to come in great mercy and revelation of Himself and ravish the hearts of His people
• We prayed for the Presence of God to fill the House of the Lord
• We prayed for a renewed sense of amazement at the incarnation, and of Calvary
• We prayed from 2Cor 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  
• We prayed from Cor 6:16
• We asked the Lord to make His Body a living Menorah full of light to give light to those who sit in darkness Isaiah 9:2 (which is the whole nation really.)

We prayed for Israel’s security as it faces grave danger on its northern border
As some of you may know Israel is in the midst of an operation to destroy attack tunnels that have been dug by Hezbollah into Israeli territory. Some of the tunnels are right by Metula, a small city at the very tip of the North of Israel, jutting into Lebanon.

Israel has known about the tunnels for several years but has lied to the public regarding the existence of the tunnel (read in article number 3)

For those interested in exploring further here are a few links to some newspaper articles:

1. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-may-have-to-act-inside-lebanon-senior-official-says/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2018-12-06&utm_medium=email

2. https://www.timesofisrael.com/army-claims-hezbollah-aimed-to-use-tunnels-to-cut-off-metulla-start-war/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2018-12-06&utm_medium=email

3. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-defense-minister-admits-officials-lied-about-hezbollah-tunnels-for-years/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2018-12-06&utm_medium=email

We were inspired by the story of Hanukkah to pray for Israel's security. God can save by the few rather than the many.

• We prayed for the current on-going operation to destroy the tunnels to be very successful
  
• We prayed for the IDF to find every last one of those attack tunnels
• We prayed for the Lord to keep His hand on the situation and not let the enemy take advantage of it to start an all-out war
• We prayed from Ezekiel 39:1-4 and Eze 39:17-22 There the Lord promises to deal with Israel’s enemies. (Although the wording paints a gruesome picture, the meaning of it is total victory over the enemy; those who have chosen to brazenly and unremittingly rebel against the creator and Lord of all, and to resist His purposes on the earth.
  
• We prayed for the Lord to glorify His name that the nations will know that He alone is God, and that Israel may know the same through that great deliverance
  
• We prayed from Jeremiah 30:10

Thank you for standing with us in these unusual and challenging days. May you have an amazing Holiday Season as the Lord invades your life with His light and presence and love.

Blessings from Jerusalem,

Shalom everyone,
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Although I was not present at our Wednesday prayer meeting, I am sending these prayer issues that are on our heart. (We bear these constantly whether we are in a prayer meeting or not.) 

Our nation's great need
Reading the 7th chapter of Acts is difficult for those who love God's people are praying for them. Acts 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, Acts 7:53 who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.” 

What a rebuke! O' how painful it is to realize the depth of our resistance to God and our rejection of our own King and Messiah! 

But there is light and hope in this passage, for among the blasphemers and persecutors (1Tim 1:13) and killers of Stephen, stood one who was going to become a Champion and a Defender and a mighty Spreader of the Faith! Saul. 

• O' how we long for our people to encounter Messiah in the way Saul did! Nothing is too difficult for God! 
• Pray for those who resist the Body of Messiah in the Land and persecute it
• Pray for a mighty visitation of the Living God in this land
• Pray for Yeshua, our King, and Savior to rip the veil from our eyes, that we might behold Him who was pierced for us
• Pray for a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of repentance, and brokenness of heart.
• Pray Psalm 51 for our people. 

We have a great hope, firmly anchored in the Word, the Day is approaching, it is coming, soon we pray, that our people will no longer be able to resist the love of God, the Spirit of God and indeed shall become His People and He, their God.

The Servants and leaders of the Body of Messiah
Ezekiel 44 describes two kinds of servants. One type, "the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity." (Eze 44:10) Those ministers who perhaps yielded to popular sentiments and "served" the people by leading them in the way they wanted, straight into idolatry.

The other kind, "kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me," (Eze 44:15) These servants kept the Word, kept the way, and were faithful to God, no matter what the people wanted, no matter how popular or not they were, no matter if anyone followed them or not; lonely road this is!  

Each will have their reward and place in the coming kingdom. We cannot go into it here, but just to say that the greatest reward for anyone who is willing to walk the lonely road of the Word rather than the popular, of the cross rather than the worldly, is "they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:" (Eze 44:15)  

• This is what we ourselves long to be; faithful to Him. O to be "near" to Him! Please pray for us in this way.
• Pray for the leaders in the Body of Messiah that they would hear the call of God to be His
• Pray for God's ministers here in the land to be purged of any alloy in their spirit or character
• Pray for God's servants to be made faithful to Him, to bear the Word with both truth and love and preach and teach the full counsel of God
• Pray for the Holy Spirit to bring a purging fire into our hearts and minds. Let Him not spare us, let him not leave us or forsake us to ourselves, but rather bring us near to Himself in purity, holiness, and brokenness

He that Keeps Israel
Lately, there has been lots of jet activity in our area. This morning as they passed by, an ex-lieutenant-colonel who happened to be at our home, remarked and said: "We are close to war."  "Hamas," I asked? Not Hamas; in the north (Lebanon, Hezbollah, etc.). "Hamas is nothing" he added.  That was the entirety of his comment. What he meant was that Hamas is not our biggest headache, but Hezbollah is. I repeat it not to alarm, nor to excite, but for prayer. Some think that Israel is not ready, or rather is not in the best state of readiness.

We should keep our watch, we should be alive to God and ready to pray as led of the Spirit. We must be confident of this one thing. Psa. 121:4 "Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." And, Psa. 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Let us keep vigilant, standing on the promises of God for this nation, and for His Kingdom plan. We believe that as was in the time of Joshua, so will be in our times: Josh. 21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

Messianic believers making Aliya (immigrating to Israel)
Just recently, a young messianic woman made Aliya to Israel. When the authorities found out she was a believer, they refused to give her citizenship. She went to court (the Supreme Court) and lost the battle. 

Personally,  I believe she was ill-advised to go into a head-on battle with the Supreme-Court, for recognition as Jew after having accepted Yeshua as Messiah and Lord. The Law states explicitly that those who converted to another religion will not be recognized as Jews and therefore forfeit their right to make Aliya. This law is horrendously wrong and unjust; nevertheless, our people are not ready to change it. The supreme court advised this dear sister to withdraw her case, and they did not even want to discuss it. 

Yeshua is The Stumbling Block which the builders rejected, and so it seems even the modern builders of Israel have also rejected. We must pray, we must believe for the breakthrough, for a change, but I believe this change must first be won in prayer in the spiritual realm before it is challenged in court. When our people change, so will the law. 

The scriptures must and will be fulfilled. 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.

But it must be won in prayer first. 

• Pray for this young woman - I think she went back to the US or shortly will. Pray for the Lord to draw near her and comfort her and lead her.
• Pray for the successful immigration of Messianic believers
• Pray for a change in the Ministry of Interior (which is controlled by one of the more rabid religious parties)
• Pray for the Word to be fulfilled (as in Isaiah 51:11), all things must yield to the Word! This is our faith, and that is why we pray! 

Blessings from Jerusalem,

Revisiting Ezekiel 36
Ezekiel 36 is comprised of two words from the Lord. One, from vs. 1 to 15, is addressed to the land, the second one, from vs. 16 to 38 is directed to the people of Israel. 

In the first part what comes to view is the humiliation and shame the land had borne when Israel's enemies overran it and desolated it. The second part deals with the shame and embarrassment brought to God's name when Israel rebelled against Him as it turned to idols in the worst possible manner. The consequent destruction and exile of the people furthered the disgrace and shame of God's name. (Ezekiel 36:20)

In the first part the enemy comes against God's land, but in the second part, God's people have gone against God Himself, which seems worse and much more grave than the first.

God's remedy for both catastrophes is one: grace and mercy! Reclaiming the land from the enemy and blessing it, and reclaiming his own people and giving them a faithful heart -- such as they could not seem to have before on their own; a loyal heart to love Him and serve Him in singleness of mind -- this time forever! 

The Revival of God's People Ezekiel 36:16-38
God's remedy for Israel's unfaithfulness to Him, is to give them a new heart, a new spirit and to make them His own people. The heart He will give will be a New Covenant heart. Washed in the Blood of Messiah, circumcised and knowing the depth of His forgiveness at the cross, broken by His unfathomable goodness -- Israel will finally come into a permanent condition of being His forever. Only He can supply the New Heart, the Washed-in-the-blood new heart... 

• We prayed for the great outpouring of the Spirit of Repentance upon our nation
• We prayed for the great revelation of the crucified one (Zech 12:10)
• We prayed for the opening of that fountain for cleansing (Zech 13:1)
• We prayed for the Old Heart, the Stony heart to be removed
• We prayed for the New Heart, the heart of flesh to be given
• We prayed for the cleansing of Israel in the blood of the Messiah (Zech 13:1), 
• We prayed for the great sanctification of God's name in His people
• We prayed for the justification of God's name in the earth
• We prayed for the demonstration of the power of God in pouring out His mercies and graces to bring Israel to the place of utter surrender to Messiah
• We prayed  for the Spirit of God to break the wall of partition between God and His people Israel
• We prayed for a hurricane of grace to destroy the walls of partition between God and His people. 
• We prayed God would bring Israel "home" -- to Himself. 

The revival of God's Land Ezekiel 36:16-38
It is utterly astounding to find that the words of the enemies of Israel, uttered so long ago, describe precisely the attitude of her enemies today:

Ezek. 35:10 “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the LORD was there,  (Two nations = Judah and Israel).
Ezek. 35:12 I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’
Ezek. 36:2 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’ ” ’

Do not these verses describe what Israel's enemies say and want? Do not these words express the enemy's utter hatred of all things God; all things that pertain to His eternal plan of redemption? 

What is God's answer? Blessing, fruitfulness, grace, multiplication, an abundance of goodness, blessing of the land, blessing of the people, blessing of their work...  All in the face of Israel's enemies. (See end of the chapter: Ezekiel 36:35-36). O the goodness of the Lord is by far, the greater-than-the-enemy's power. Life overcoming death, His faithfulness and love overcoming their hatred. Yes, His holiness and grace flowing from Calvary greater than our nation's sins! Multiplied sins, yet an even greater grace and mercy that will bring an utter change! 

• We prayed much into the current and deep threat from Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas
• We prayed for God's goodness to be poured unto the land and prosper it
• We prayed for God's divine protection over the land and its people
• We prayed for the undoing of the enemy's plans, means, and ways
• We prayed for Israel's utter readiness
• We prayed for God to give Israel wisdom and insight so that it might outdo the enemy's dark and evil wisdom
• We prayed into Zech 12:9 where God Himself promises to withstand Israel's enemies
• We prayed for the Lord to come into the field as once David did when Goliath defied the armies of the living God
• We prayed for Israel to be given a unique strategy to overcome what has bedeviled the whole western world, i.e., the enemies' use of civilian centers such as hospitals and schools to hide rockets and to fight from.

The revival of the God's Body
Praying for the restoration of Israel spiritually, we could not help but pray for the Body of Messiah in the Land and in the world, along similar lines.
O That we might be brought face to face with the crucified Messiah, that we might experience a true revival, sent down from above. 

We shared the following excerpts on prayer. May they be a blessing to you as well. One can easily pray for oneself along the same lines. 

(Excerpts from Torrey, R. A.. The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power, Kindle Edition.)

"Prayer will bring blessing, definite and rich and immeasurable blessing, to the church; praying will do more to make the Church what it ought to be than anything else we can do. Prayer will do more to root out heresy than all the heresy trials ever held. Prayer will do more to straighten out tangles and misunderstandings and unhappy complications in the life of a church than all the councils and conferences ever held. Prayer will do more to bring a deep and lasting and sweeping revival, a revival that is real and lasting and altogether of the right sort, than all the organizations ever devised by man.
 
"Time and time again the church has seemed to be on the verge of utter shipwreck, but just then God has sent a great revival and saved it. And if you will study the history of revivals you will find that every real revival in the church has been the result of prayer. There have been revivals without much preaching; there have been revivals with absolutely no organization, but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.

"It is true that we have a terrific fight on our hands, that “our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12), but we can win this fight by prayer; for prayer brings God on the field and the devil is no match for Him."

O' how we need to pray!! 

Let us cry to the Lord dear friends, for ourselves, for our congregations, for the body in our lands (wherever we may be living). 

• Send revival dear Lord
• Renew our sight of you
• Sweep clean your Body
• Send the fire from above, to burn the chaff
• Send a fire from above to ignite our hearts
• Purify our love for you
• Purify our love for each other 
• Until you see only a reflection of yourself in us dear Lord

May the Lord pour out upon you afresh His Holy Spirit, may your heart be re-ignited from above with that Holy fire of His Love, and love for Him! 

Thanks for praying with us,

Crisis:  an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending (Merriam Webster) [or necessary - O.A.]

We prayed into several issues and used the word crisis to describe them, within the sense given above: "a crucial time, or state of affairs in which change is needed and impending."

We prayed into the Leadership Crisis in the land, the Spiritual Crisis, and the Body of Messiah Crisis

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The Leadership crisis
There is a growing sense in Israel of lack of leadership, primarily as a result of the last few months of the conflict with Hamas in Gaza. We prayed into this without getting into the political issues but beseeching the Lord to raise the leadership Israel needs to move forward in His redemptive plan. (Which includes her physical survival and wellbeing.)

We read 1Samuel 8:1-7  There the people, out of insecurity, demanded a king.  We read it with the desire to refresh our confidence that ultimately God IS our King and Shepherd; we can trust him to give us good leaders in time of need.
We read Jeremiah 3:15 and stood on it as a covenant promise we can call on the Lord to fulfill

• We declared and proclaimed:  God's sovereignty, God Supremacy, God's omnipotence:
• 1Chr. 29:10 ....“Blessed are You, LORD God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever.
  
• 1Chr. 29:11  Yours, O LORD, is the greatness,  The power and the glory,  The victory and the majesty;  For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours;  Yours is the kingdom, O LORD,  And You are exalted as head over all.
  
• 1Chr. 29:12  Both riches and honor come from You,  And You reign over all.  In Your hand is power and might;  In Your hand it is to make great  And to give strength to all."
• We Acknowledged that God has already planted His King on Mt. Zion: Psalm 2:6-8
• We proclaimed that He is the ultimate leader and King of Israel, even now.
• We asked the Lord for the good shepherds He has promised to give Israel, those who would protect, feed and lead God's people in good ways.
• We asked the Lord to overrule in the current political situation to put the right people, Israel needs, in leadership.
• We asked for great wisdom for the leaders He will put in place, who would be able to navigate the complicated security situation Israel is currently in and the challenging political situation in the world.
• We prayed explicitly from Joel 3:9-14 The rise of nations against this land and people are actually, of the Lord, but are not meant for destruction but for their judgment. It will be God who has the last word! Joel 3:16
• We declared Psalm 47:8-9

The Spiritual Crisis
Matt. 23:39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ ”

The problem: Throughout the last two millennia the Jewish people have become entrenched in a deep resistance to Yeshua being God's Son who is her savior and king. It is hard to describe how deep this goes and what a problem that is. And yet, until Israel acknowledges Him as such, she will not see Him! What is the solution? Where will such repentance such as needed, come from?
The answer is: From God. God will have to supply the repentance, the turning, the yielding.
Zech. 12:10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn."

The Spirit of Grace and Supplication is the Spirit of repentance. The Spirit will turn us to God, to Messiah, to the crucified one. It is the Spirit that produces the soft heart, the tender-towards-God heart, it is the Spirit that produces the seeing of God as He is. "...They shall see Me whom they have pierced..."

• We cried for Israel, with the words of Jeremiah 31:16-19,
• We cried for the Spirit's outpouring on the people of this land
• We cried for great conviction and the piercing of hearts
• We cried for the opening of blind eyes to SEE the crucified one
• We called on the Lord to fulfill this promise
• We called on the Lord, longing to see repentance in the land
• We asked the Lord to give SIGHT of Himself to our people
• We asked for the breaking of the power of religion that has kept our nation in the dark.
• We asked for the great conviction of the Holy Spirit to come upon our nation until we say as  one man: "what must we do to be saved?" (Acts 2:36-39)

The Body of Messiah Crisis
It is no secret that the Body of Messiah needs revival. Yet revival is a confrontation with God. Surely He is Love, but Also He is Holy, and He is Truth. We see their union in one place: At the cross. From there Yeshua always comes to us to make us His own, to bring us to the Father, to reveal Himself.  Just today I received an email with this quote. Though it may sound grim, if you read it with the eyes of love, you will get the true sense of it. God comes to us to make us His own and to give Himself to us, entirely! Here is the quote: 
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"To the church, a revival means humiliation, a bitter knowledge of unworthiness and an open and humiliating confession of sin on the part of her ministers and people. It is not the easy and glorious thing many think it to be, who imagine it fills pews and reinstates the church in power and authority.... It comes to scorch before it heals; it comes to condemn ministers and people for their unfaithful witness, for their selfish living, for their neglect of the cross, and to call them to daily renunciation, to an evangelical poverty and to a deep and daily consecration....Because it says nothing to them of power such as they have learned to love, or of ease, or of success; it accuses them of sin, it tells them they are dead, it calls them to awake, to renounce the world and to follow Christ." (- James Burns in his 1909 book 'Revival, Their Laws and Leaders'.)
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We too long for a renewed sight of the face of the crucified one. We long to be drawn by the one who has been lifted up on the cross and is now exalted in heaven of heavens. We long to have a heart that is broken, turned, freed from any other love but for Him. O, how we too need the Holy Spirit, to reveal Messiah and Him crucified to us. We do not want only a visitation, but an abiding, We do not desire just to see power and miracles, but to be invaded by the power of God in our lives; our hearts, our souls, our minds and yes, even our bodies.

But it will take a willingness to be searched by the Holy Spirit, it will take a willingness to be exposed or corned by God, till we have nothing to say, but "I come to you without one plea, but that the blood of Yeshua was shed for me."  But O, how great a freedom that is! 

We need God!
We used the same scriptures as prayed for the land: Zechariah 12:10, Jeremiah 31:16-19

• We cried for this outpouring of the Spirit that is Holy, for the Spirit who is God the Spirit, who is Holy!
• We cried for the Lord to overrule in the Body of Messiah great revelation of His crucified Son.
• We cried for the Lord to take over in our congregation and in other congregations.
• We cried for the Kingdom of God to come upon us as a Body
• We asked that we would, as a Body, look to Him, depend on Him, Love only Him...
• We cried for a personal revival in this way (won't you join us in this cry?)

Let us stand before the Lord together, until he sends the rain, the showers we so need. Let us believe and trust and look to God until His Word comes to pass. Thank you for standing together with us in these things. 

Blessings,

God ever the same, His Word is sure
Is. 17:12  Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,  And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Is. 17:13  The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;  But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,  And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,  Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

What with the ebb and flow of world politics, changes in the US elections, the tumult in other nations and kingdoms, it is good to know and to be sure that the Lord is ever the same and that His word is sure! 

Sing O Barren - interceding for Israel in Isaiah 54
We prayed with Isaiah 54 as our guide. It would be of great benefit to you, to read it and absorb it before you begin to pray out of it. 

We looked at: 
The great background of this chapter, The great comfort, The great promise, The great vow, The great fulfillment, The great protection.

Being a prayer meeting, we did not elaborate too extensively on these points but just mentioned them so we could adequately pray from the Word. 

The great background - of this chapter is Isaiah 53. All the goodness and comfort and promise flows out of calvary here. We noted that Yeshua died as a lamb for the nation (Isaiah 53:). In other words, all of this goodness belongs properly within the New Covenant, which God has made with Israel (see Jeremiah 31:31-34)
The great comfort - The promise of children. Jerusalem thought God had forsaken her (Isaiah 49:14-23), He comforted her by assuring her it was not so (Isaiah 50:1-3). Children in the Word speaks of Sonship, inheritance, co-heirs with Messiah. This is Israel's calling (Romans 9:4) - i.e., the adoption.
The great promise - Mercy! See Isaiah 54:7-8 
The great vow - Isaiah 54:9-10  As the waters of Noah! What a pledge God is making here to do His Mercy to His people.
The great fulfillment - Isaiah 54:11-12 The beautification of Israel here is a symbol for the restoration of the spiritual. See Revelation 21:10-17. The JFB commentary connects this spiritual restoration of Israel, to the fullness of the Church. "The glory of the Church on earth, when the Hebrew Church, according to the original design, shall be the metropolis of Christendom."
The great protection - Isaiah 54:15-17  God assures Israel (this is so amazingly appropriate for today), that when the nations gather against Israel, it is not of Him. What is being said here, is that He is, that the time of His wrath and punishment is over. The gathering of the nations against us is not of God. This also means that He will be against those nations! (See Zechariah 12:9) 

We touched on the security situation we are facing, and read several paragraphs from an article 1 
When the next conflict erupts between Israel and Hezbollah, its scale and intensity will bear little resemblance to those of recent memory. Hezbollah today is highly competent, adaptable and lethal. Its forces have gained invaluable battlefield experience in Syria and amassed more weaponry than 95 percent of the world’s conventional militaries, including at least 120,000 rockets and missiles. This is more than all of Europe’s NATO members combined, and ten times as many as when it last went to war with Israel in 2006.

Especially troubling is Hezbollah’s growing arsenal of powerful long-range precision missiles capable of striking targets throughout Israel. Unlike in recent conflicts, Israel’s missile defenses will be incapable of shielding the nation from such a threat. From the outset of the conflict, Hezbollah will be able to sustain a launch rate of more than 3,000 missiles per day – as many as Israel faced in the entire 34-day conflict in 2006.

Despite this quantum leap in its capabilities, Hezbollah is under no illusion about its ability to inflict military defeat on Israel. It will not seek victory in the valleys of Lebanon or the skies over Israel, but in the court of public opinion.

To do so, it will use combat operations to lay the groundwork for an information campaign delegitimizing Israel.1

Amazingly, God's promise in those verses deal precisely with the combined double threat, that of weapons and that of delegitimizing Israel in the court of world opinion.

Is God ahead of everybody or what?! 

How we prayed

• We thanked God and acknowledged the cross of Messiah, we took time to thank Him for the Blood of the covenant, for the atonement, and for His amazing love and grace in taking upon Himself such great suffering, such great wrath, such great guilt, such great condemnation. 
• We prayed much for Israel's salvation and the great work of God. We acknowledged that many times we are overwhelmed by the greatness of the need, than the greatness of the cross and God's power to do what seems impossible.
• We prayed for the fulfillment of Israel's calling as a priestly nation. 
• We prayed for the bringing of Israel into the fullness of Sonship (this seems so far away, but it is only as far in human eyes, not to God. 
• We prayed for the comforting of Israel through the reunification of God with her (Isaiah 54:4-5, 11)
• We prayed for those great mercies to come, which will make two thousand years as if they were a small moment (Isaiah 54:7-8) O for the revelation of the crucified one n our midst. O for Israel to experience that forgiveness that flows from Calvary. O for Israel to experience the Presence of God in her midst again. O for God's love and grace to be revealed in the face of Yeshua! 
• We prayed for Israel's security - Isaiah 54:15-16 Pay attention to the sequence there, of the gathering of the nations, the military threat and the attacks on her to legitimize her. All these efforts by the enemy will be met and defeated! 

Finally, we prayed for the Body of Messiah in the Land and worldwide. 

Paul's prayers in the epistles express God's agenda for the Body. We ought to pray them more, much more. In light of the condition of much of the Body in the world, we ought to intercede, not just telling God what to correct, but asking God to fulfill His Will as expressed in these prayers. 

• In light of Revelation 21:1-3 we prayed out of Ephesians 3:16-19. God will bring the Body of Messiah into the fullness of God! 

God bless each of you as you meditate on this chapter, as you pray out of it, as perhaps you use some of what we have written, to approach the throne of Grace to ask God for Help in time of need.

Blessings,




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