Praying for Israel

 

 

We can pray for Israel, regardless of her current situation. Here are just some areas for intercession that are always in line with God's will.

• Cry out for Israel to cry out: Call upon Me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you, and you shalt glorify Me. (Psa. 50:15; also 2 Chr. 7:14)
• Plead for mercy in the midst of God's righteous judgments: LORD, I have heard Your speech, and was afraid. LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known. In wrath remember mercy. (Hab. 3:2; also Psa. 85:4)
• Pray for aliyah: For thus says the LORD, Sing with gladness for Jacob, shout among the chief of the nations: publish, praise, and say, LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together. A great company shall return there. (Jer. 31:7-8; also Psa. 147:2; Isa. 43:5-7; Ezek. 36:23-24)
• Pray against any "Land for Peace" process: For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land. (Joel 3:1-2; also Lev. 25:23; Ezek 35:12-13)
• Pray for Israel's salvation:
  

  And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is My covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
  Rom 11:26-27

  Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved…
  Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved…
  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
  Psa 80:3,7,19

  See also Psalm 44:4 and Zechariah 12:10.
• Intercede for the salvation of Moslems through the destruction of Islam: Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Your name, LORD. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever. Yes, let them be put to shame, and perish: That men may know that You, whose name alone is YHWH, are the most high over all the earth. (Psa 83:16-18; also Zech 14:16)
• Intercede for the Church to awake to her responsibility and relationship to Israel:
  

  Ruth said, Do not beg me to leave you, or to turn from following after you, for where you go, I will go. Where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God:
  Ruth 1:16

  I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
  Rom. 11:11

  Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root [God's covenantal promises to Israel], but the root you.
  Rom. 11:18

  With a biblical foundation for our intercession, we are better able to hear the leading of God's Spirit as He places on our hearts His burdens for the nation of Israel - and the Church - in these days of great shakings.    Portions taken from Intercessors for Israel.