SITUATION ANALYSIS -- XXXIX

OCTOBER 2011 PRAYER UPDATE -- FOR ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

*ISRAEL’S SOVEREIGNTY, AS A NATION, AS STEWARDS OF GOD’S PROMISED LAND, IS BEING CHALLENGED BY THE NATIONS. ISRAEL IS BEING ISOLATED, DIPLOMATICALLY, AT THE UNITED NATIONS, AS DELIBERATIONS CONTINUE TOWARDS THE RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE.

PRAY THAT THE NATIONS OF THIS WORLD WILL SUBMIT TO THE LORD’S PLANS AND PURPOSES, AND TO HIS AUTHORITY ON THE EARTH. PRAY THAT INTERNATIONAL LEADERS WILL RECEIVE DREAMS AND VISIONS WARNING THEM NOT TO DIVIDE GOD’S LAND. PRAY THAT THEY WILL HEED HIS WARNINGS AND NOT PUT THEMSELVES IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY WILL HAVE TO FACE HIS JUDGMENT.

DECLARE PSALM 33:10:

“THE LORD BRINGS THE COUNSEL OF THE NATIONS TO NOTHING; HE MAKES THE PLANS OF THE PEOPLES OF NO EFFECT. THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD STANDS FOREVER; THE PLANS OF HIS HEART TO ALL GENERATIONS. BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD; THE PEOPLE HE HAS CHOSEN AS HIS INHERITANCE.”

PRAY AND DECLARE, ACCORDING TO PSALM 2:10-12: “NOW THEREFORE, BE WISE, O KINGS; BE INSTRUCTED, YOU JUDGES OF THE EARTH; SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR, AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING. KISS THE SON, LEST HE BE ANGRY, AND YOU PERISH IN THE WAY….”

*THE PALESTINIANS AND ARABS LIVING THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST HAVE BECOME EMBOLDENED BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE SETTING UP AN ISLAMIC STATE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF ISRAEL.

DECLARE THAT THE PROMISED LAND HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ISRAEL TO STEWARD, THROUGH GOD’S ETERNAL COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB. REMIND THE LORD THAT HE GAVE THEM THE LAND FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT TO THE GREAT RIVER…THE RIVER EUPHRATES (SEE GENESIS 15:18).

DECLARE THAT ISRAEL WOULD HAVE THE PROSPERITY AND WISDOM THAT SOLOMON HAD DURING HIS REIGN. ACCORDING TO 1 KINGS 4:21, SOLOMON REIGNED OVER ALL KINGDOMS, FROM THE RIVER TO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES, AS FAR AS THE BORDER OF EGYPT. THEY BROUGHT TRIBUTE TO HIM AND SERVED HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.

*THERE’S A HIGH ALERT IN JUDEA & SAMARIA (THE WEST BANK), AS WELL AS JERUSALEM. THERE’S A CONCERN THAT THERE WILL BE A THIRD INTIFADA IF THE PALESTINIANS DON’T GET THEIR STATE; OR, THAT HAMAS WILL RENEW TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELI CIVILIAN POPULATIONS.

PRAY FOR ISRAEL’S CITIZENS LIVING IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA TO HAVE THE FAVOR OF SOLOMON AS THEY CLAIM THEIR BIBLICAL RIGHTS TO THE LAND.

PRAY FOR THOSE LIVING IN JERUSALEM TO BE EXTRA VIGILANT; THAT THE LORD WOULD GIVE THEM EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR SIGNS OF DANGER.

PRAY AN EXTRA MEASURE OF PROTECTION FOR ISRAELI CITIZENS LIVING IN THESE AREAS OF THE COUNTRY.

SOLOMON HAD PEACE ON EVERY SIDE ALL AROUND HIM, INCLUDING THE AREA OF GAZA (1 KINGS 4:25-26). DECLARE THAT JUDAH AND ISRAEL WILL DWELL SAFELY: EACH MAN UNDER HIS VINE AND HIS FIG TREE, FROM DAN AS FAR AS BEERSHEVA, ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE, JUST AS GOD DID FOR SOLOMON.

*THERE’S A HIGH ALERT AT SEA. TURKEY AND LEBANON ARE ANGRY THAT ISRAEL NOW HAS CLOSE TIES WITH THE GREEK CYPRIOTS. ISRAEL HAS AGREED TO SHARE FINANCIAL GAINS FROM RECENT GAS FINDS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. THE GREEK CYPRIOTS CLAIM THEY WILL SHARE THESE FINANCIAL GAINS WITH THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS. BUT, TURKEY IS NOT SATISFIED WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS. ISRAEL’S GAS EXPLORATIONS CONTINUE AT SEA, BUT TURKISH SHIPS ARE IN THE AREA TRYING TO STIR UP TROUBLE.

PRAY AS ISRAEL PREPARES FOR THE POSSIBILTY OF WAR -- THAT THE LORD WILL EQUIP THE IDF WITH ALL WEAPONS NEEDED, JUST AS GOD DID FOR SOLOMON. (SEE 1 KINGS 4:26).

DURING THE LEBANON WAR OF 2006, ISRAELI SOLDIERS, ESPECIALLY, RESERVISTS, LACKED CERTAIN SUPPLIES AND FOOD. PRAY THAT, ACCORDING TO 1 KINGS 4:26-28, GOD WILL PROVIDE ALL THAT IS NEEDED IN PREPARATION FOR A FUTURE WAR.

*TURKEY HAS BROKEN DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY TIES WITH ISRAEL. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS MATTER. TURKEY COULD TRY AND SHARE ISRAELI WEAPONS SECRETS WITH ISRAELS ENEMIES. TURKEY IS EMERGING AS THE MOST POWERFUL SUNNI FORCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, EVEN CHALLENGING SHIITE IRAN.

PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL DEAL MIGHTLY WITH TURKISH PRIME MINISTER TAYYIP ERDOGAN, AS HE DID WITH KING NEBUCHADNEZZER. PRAY THAT ALL EVIL PLANS WILL BE THWARTED, AND ALL INTENTIONS OF THE MAN’S HEART WILL BE EXPOSED.

REMEMBER DANIEL’S INTERPRETATION OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZER’S DREAM? GOD HUMBLED THE KING AND REDUCED HIM TO THE LIFE OF A BEAST OF BURDEN. BUT, THEN NEBUCHADNEZZER BECAME A DIFFERENT MAN.

GOD DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH – THE ONE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL AND HIS MESSIAH. GOD GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. WE ARE STILL IN A TIME OF GRACE, AND MEN’S HEARTS CAN BE CHANGED AS NEBUCHADNEZZER’S HEART WAS CHANGED. AFTER GOING THROUGH MUCH SUFFERING, NEBUCHADNEZZER BLESSED THE MOST HIGH, AND, PRAISED AND HONORED THE LORD WHO LIVES FOREVER.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR DECLARED AND CONFIRMED IN DANIEL 4:34, GOD’S AUTHORITY AND POWER OVER ALL OTHER GODS. NEBUCHADNEZZER PROCLAIMED: “FOR HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING DOMINION. AND, HIS KINGDOM IS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.”

DECLARE THAT THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER WILL PROCLAIM THIS TRUTH BEFORE THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND BEFORE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH!

*THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD AND AL QEADA ARE BOTH EMERGING AS INFLUENTIAL FORCES IN COUNTRIES THAT SURROUND ISRAEL (SYRIA, EGYPT, GAZA, AND JORDAN). HAMAS TERRORIST OPERATIONS HAVE EXPANDED FROM SYRIA INTO EGYPT, TURKEY, AND SAUDI ARABIA.

PRAY THAT GOD WOULD WEAKEN THESE RADICAL SUNNI TERRORIST GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. PRAY THAT THE LORD WOULD BRING CONFUSION TO THE CONFEDERACY THAT IS TRYING TO ESTABLISH ITSELF IN THE REGION. (PSALM 83).

PRAY FOR ISRAEL’S BORDER WITH EGYPT AND GAZA TO BE SECURE. PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL GIVE THE IDF STRATEGIES FOR UPROOTING TERRORIST CELLS IN THE SINAI. PRAY THAT GOD WILL STOP ALL RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUPS FROM TRYING TO INFILTRATE ISRAEL’S SOUTHERN BORDER.

PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL GIVE ISRAEL’S CHIEF OF STAFF, BENNY GANTZ, WISDOM AND EXCEEDINGLY GREAT UNDERSTANDING, AND LARGENESS OF HEART LIKE THE SAND ON THE SEASHORE, AS HE PREPARES ISRAEL’S SOLDIERS TO DEFEND THE PROMISED LAND. (1 KINGS 4:29-30).

*THERE’S BEEN A WEAKENING OF THE INFLUENCE OF SHIIITES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THERE’S BEEN A SHIFT IN POWER, AND THE SUNNIS HAVE GAINED DOMINANCE IN THE REGION. THOUGH BOTH GROUPS HATE EACH OTHER, THEY ARE STILL WILLING TO COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT ISRAEL.

PRAY THAT GOD WOULD STOP SHIITE IRAN FROM OBTAINING NUCLEAR WEAPONS THAT COULD HURT ISRAEL. PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL WEAKEN THE POWER OF SHIITE HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON. PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL PROTECT ISRAEL’S NORTHERN BORDER DURING THIS VULNERABLE TIME OF THE FALL FEASTS.

PRAY THAT GOD WILL KEEP THE SHIITES AND SUNNI’S IN THE MIDDLE EAST DIVIDED BY THEIR HATRED FOR ONE ANOTHER. PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL CONFUSE THEIR PLANS. PRAY THAT HE WILL HOLD THEM IN DERISION; THAT HE WILL SPEAK TO THEM IN HIS WRATH; AND THAT HE WILL DISTRESS THEM IN HIS DEEP DISPLEASURE, ACCORDING TO PSALM 2:4-5. PRAY THAT THESE FORCES WILL BE LIKE THE CHAFF WHICH THE WIND DRIVES AWAY.

In the spiritual world, holding ground, by declaring God’s Word, puts the enemy to flight. We need to put the enemy to flight when it comes to protecting God’s Promised Land, Israel!