Israel
Why Pray For Israel?Israel is still the apple of God's eye and His inheritance (Psa.148:14; Zech.2:8; Deut.32:8-11; Rom.11:29; Psa.33:11-12)
God's faithful servants are moved to prayer over Israel's condition (Psa.102:13-17) God commands us to give Him no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth (Isa.62:1,6-7) God wants to give us the desire, anguish and gift of travailing prayer for 's salvation (Rom.9:2-3; 10:1, 14) God commands us to seek the good of the Israeli people and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psa.122:4,6-9; Rom.15:25-27; 1:16; 2:9-11) The Jewish people's acceptance of Messiah Jesus (Yeshua) will lead to life from the dead — mammoth world-wide revival (Rom.11:15 Yeshua linked His second coming to Israel's national turning to Him (Matt.23:39) |
Prayer for Israel
- Father God, remove the veil You have sovereignly placed over the eyes of Israel, that they would recognize Jesus as their Messiah. (2 Corinthians 3:14)
- Lord, show Your mercy and favor to Israel in this set time. (Psalm 102:13)
- We pray for the current leaders in Israel. Raise up leaders in Israel (and worldwide) who will not seek to “divide the land,” and who would recognize the unique significance of Jerusalem in God’s end-time purposes.
- He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock. (Jeremiah 31:10) Father, continue to draw Jewish people to You according to Your sovereign plan.
- Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them be as grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up. (Psalm 129:5–6) Lord, deal justly and swiftly with Your enemies.
- Destroy and divide the tongues of those who would incite violence against Israel. (Psalm 55:9) In the name of Jesus, we bind every false religion and false doctrine that does not acknowledge Your eternal plan for the land and people of Israel.
- The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous. (Psalm 125:3) Father, break the strongholds of religion, pride and wickedness that seek to control Israel.
- The Lord will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make Israel His people. (1Samuel 12:22) Use us to help others understand Your plan for Israel and Your love for the Jewish people.
- The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes their plans of no effect. (Psalm 33:10) We declare that God’s purposes for Israel will be fulfilled and that He will be glorified.
- Show Your loving kindness to Your people Israel and keep them as from the wicked who oppress them, from their deadly enemies who surround them. (Psalm 17:7–9)
- We pray that You would remember your covenants and promises towards Israel, especially when others rise up against her to swallow her alive. When their wrath is kindled against her, the waters will not overwhelm her. God will not give her as prey to their teeth. (Psalm 124)
- Sanctify Your great name which has been profaned among the nations, which has been profaned in the midst of Israel. That nations shall know that the Lord is God, when He is sanctified in Israel before their eyes. Sprinkle the clean water of Your Word on Israel and cleanse her from her filthiness and from all her idols, including abortion and the occult. Give Israel a new heart, and put a new spirit within her. Remove her heart of stone and give her a heart of flesh that can respond to the Holy Spirit, and cause her to walk in Your statutes, keep Your commandments To do them. (Ezekiel 36:23–27)
- Cause the church to fulfill its commission to preach the Gospel to thewhole world, so the full number of the Gentiles would come into the Kingdom. Then all Israel will be saved. (Romans 11:25–26)
- We pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6) and for it to remain Israel’s undivided capital.
- Father, in Your mercy vanquish the tremendously powerful religious spirits which dominate the whole territory—Jewish, Christian and others.
- We pray for a spirit of unity—for peace between religious and secular Jews, for peace to exist between believers in the land. We pray for the body of Messiah in Israel to become a praying, maturing body. We pray that this body would allow the love and compassion of Yeshua to flow through them and touch everyone they encounter.
- Raise up intercessors for Israel. Put more watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem, who would give You no peace day or night until You establish Jerusalem and make her the praise of the earth. (Isaiah 62:6–7)
- Father, bring glory to Your name through the mercy You show to the land. Bring the necessary seasonal rain upon the country.
- We pray that the three spiritual forces of humanism, Marxist-socialis philosophy, and the spiritual inheritance of the Ottoman Empire will be broken and rendered powerless.
- Bless Israel through the many immigrants who are flowing back to the nation. Bring a sovereign, supernatural move of the Holy Spirit among these new immigrants, that they might proclaim Your truth to their fellow Jews.
- We pray for a radical change in the Israeli system of government, that divisiveness and partisanship would give way to unity and ooperation; grant wisdom and revelation to all members of the Knesset and Israel’s Supreme Court.
- We pray that, in the midst of the pressures, the people of Israel will turn to You, God. We pray that You will hear the heart cries of people in this land and have mercy. As it says in Isaiah 30:19, “You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer.”
- Pour out Your Spirit upon the people of Israel—especially upon the young people so that your works can be declared to future generations.
- Raise up “sons of Zion” who take God’s word seriously in opposition to the humanistic “sons of Greece.” (Zechariah 9:13)
- We pray for the Holy Spirit to intervene in the current situation in Israel. “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” (Isaiah 59:19)
- Turn the hearts of the people of Israel to trust in the name of the Lord for deliverance—not in the “chariots and horses” of their military might. (Zechariah 4:6)
- God, raise up elders and young leaders to teach and train the new generation of Israelis who are coming to faith in the Messiah.
- We pray that the Palestinian Arabs will come to faith in Christ and embrace God’s end-time purpose for Israel; send forth laborers to bring in the appointed harvest from the whole of the Middle East.
- May Israel’s relationship with our nation be strong, and may our nation—and especially young believers—recognize and support God’s purposes for Israel.
- Lord, we ask that young believers in our nation would come to ove the Jewish people as they seek to prepare the way for the return of Messiah.
Proclamations in favour of Israel Jeremiah 31:10b He that scattered Israel will gather him and will keep him as a shepherd doth his flock.
Psalm 129:5-6 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up.
Psalm 55:9a Destroy O Lord and divide their tongues.
Psalm 125:3a For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous.
1 Samuel 12:22 For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
Psalm 33:8-12 Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought; he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalm 17:7-9 Show thy marvelous loving kindness O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Keep Israel as the apple of thy eye, hide her under the shadow of thy wings. From the wicked that oppress her, from her deadly enemies who compass her about.
Psalm 124 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us; The waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul; Then the proud waters had gone over our soul; Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Derek Prince Ministries International www.derekprince.org
Psalm 129:5-6 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up.
Psalm 55:9a Destroy O Lord and divide their tongues.
Psalm 125:3a For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous.
1 Samuel 12:22 For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
Psalm 33:8-12 Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought; he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalm 17:7-9 Show thy marvelous loving kindness O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Keep Israel as the apple of thy eye, hide her under the shadow of thy wings. From the wicked that oppress her, from her deadly enemies who compass her about.
Psalm 124 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us; The waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul; Then the proud waters had gone over our soul; Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Derek Prince Ministries International www.derekprince.org