Jerusalem, Israel
APRIL 2020 PRAYER UPDATE
Israel and the
Nations
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WE LIFT UP THE LORD AND HIS MAJESTY AND HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HIS MERCY. MAY IT OPEN UP THE HEAVENS TO US!
PRAISE THE LORD OF
HOSTS, FOR THE LORD IS GOOD. HIS MERCIES ENDURE FOREVER. YOUR NAME OH, LORD,
ENDURES FOREVER. YOUR FAME O LORD, THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS. FOR THE
LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE, BUT THE LORD WILL ALSO HAVE COMPASSION ON HIS
SERVANTS.
SO, WE THANK YOU
LORD! YOU, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS WITH US. THE GOD OF JACOB IS OUR REFUGE. YES,
GOD, YOU ARE OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH, A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE. OUR EYES
ARE FIXED ON YOU, LORD JESUS.
IN THIS CRISIS,
YESHUA, YOU ARE ALL WE NEED, AND YOUR PROMISES ENDURE FOREVER. YOU WILL NEVER
LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US.
YOUR WORD SAYS, IN
JEREMIAH 32:42, “For thus says the LORD, ‘Just as I have brought all
this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I
have promised them.’ ”
WE DECLARE THIS FOR
ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE WORLD!
AND, IN JEREMIAH 33:3, YOUR WORD SAYS, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and
show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
WE CALL UPON YOU THIS
DAY, AT THIS TIME, AND BELIEVE AND RECEIVE THAT YOU WILL ANSWER THE CRIES OF
OUR HEARTS; THAT YOU WILL, INDEED, SHOW US GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS THAT WE, AND
THE WORLD, HAVE NOT KNOWN.
- CORONAVIRUS:
ISRAEL SEEMS TO BE ABOUT 10 DAYS AHEAD OF THE WESTERN WORLD
IN TERMS OF LOCKDOWN’S AND RESTRCTIONS. THOUGH THE NUMBERS OF SICK AND DYING
ARE INCREASING, IN A RECENT CORONAVIRUS INDEX ISRAEL WAS LEADING OTHER
COUNTRIES IN BEING THE SAFEST NATION IN THE MIDST OF THIS PANDEMIC. THE ISRAELI
GOVERNMENT HAS PLACED VERY STRICT RULES ON THE POPULATION.
IT SEEMS THAT, NOW,
THE GOVERNMENT HAS OBSERVED, MORE ACCURATELY, THAT THE ISRAELIS WHO ARE GETTING
THE SICKEST, ARE NOT THE ELDERLY AS THEY THOUGHT. IT IS THOSE IN THE HAREDI
JEWISH COMMUNITIES AND IN THE ARAB SECTORS. THEY ARE BECOMING ILL BECAUSE THESE
SPECIFIC PEOPLE GROUPS IN ISRAEL HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWING THE RESTRICTIONS AS
CLOSELY.
IT IS MOSTLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE THE VIRUS CARRIERS
(USUALLY WITH MILD SIMPTOMS). WHEN THE ELDERLY, WHO HAVE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
GET THE VIRUS, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THEIR 80’S, IT SEEMS TO BE LIFE-THREATENING.
AS WE PRAY FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRACTED THE VIRUS, WE
ALSO NEED TO BE GRATEFUL THAT THE LORD IS PROTECTING MANY FROM GETTING
INFECTED. AND, HE IS PROVIDING FOR US DAILY…
LORD, YOU ARE ALL WE
NEED. THE LORD IS OUR SHEPHERD, WE SHALL NOT WANT. WE SHALL NOT LACK ANYTHING
IN THIS CRISIS. WE SHALL BE CONTENT WITH WHAT WE HAVE. THANK YOU LORD, WE ARE
SHIELDED FROM THIS DISEASE BY YOU, YOURSELF. YOU GIVE US PROVISION. YOU SATISFY
THE NEEDY WITH BREAD. WE SHALL NOT BE CONCERNED BY WHAT WE EAT, OR WHAT WE
WEAR, OR THE THINGS OF TOMORROW, BECAUSE YOU GIVE US ALL THAT WILL SATISFY US
FOR TODAY. YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US.
WE WANT TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE UPCOMING PASSOVER
HOLIDAY…
IN THE VALLEY OF THE
SHADOW OF DEATH, DURING THIS GLOBAL CRISIS, WE PROCLAIM THE LORD’S DEATH. HIS
BLOOD WAS SHED FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE ETERNALLY WITH HIM. (PSALM 23:4-6); (1 CORINTHIANS 11:26).
AND, THROUGH THE
BLOOD OF JESUS, THE PASSOVER LAMB, SPREAD ON THE LINTELS OF THE DOORS OF THE
ISRAELITES; THIS PROTECTION OF THE BLOOD OVER OUR OWN BODIES, RESULTS IN THE
ANGEL OF DEATH “PASSING OVER US”.
SOON, WE WILL RECALL
THIS “PASSING OVER US”, AS IN THE TIME OF THE EXODUS, WHEN THE PLAGUES HIT THE
EGYPTIANS, BUT NOT THE ISRAELITES. AND, WE BELIEVE THAT THE COVED-19 PLAGUE
WILL CONTINUE TO PASS OVER US DURING THIS UPCOMING HOLIDAY.
WE PRAY THAT THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL AND WORLDWIDE WILL HAVE THE SCALES REMOVED FROM
THEIR EYES, AND THEY WILL SEE THE COMING OF THE LORD TO DELIVER THEM FROM THIS
DEADLY VIRUS. THEY WILL NOT ONLY REMEMBER, IN THE DAYS TO COME, THE POWERFUL
MIRACLES YOU DID, LORD, IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT EXODUS FROM EGYPT, BUT THE
SIGNS AND WONDERS YOU DID, DURING PASSOVER THIS YEAR, TO LIFT THIS VIRUS OFF OF
THE WORLD!
AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE SIT DOWN
TO THE SEDER MEAL; AS THEY BREAK THE MATZAH, THE ‘AFIKOMEN’, MAY THEY
UNDERSTAND THAT “YOU HAVE COME, AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN.”
AS THEY OPEN THE DOOR,
HOPING FOR ELIJAH TO ENTER THEIR HOMES, MAY THEY RISE IN FAITH, AND MAY THEIR
HEARTS BE OPEN TO RECEIVE THE COMING OF THE LORD IN FUTURE DAYS!
YOU, LORD, ARE THE
LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD!
LORD, WE ASK YOU TO
REPLACE THE CROWN OF THIS DEADLY CORONA (CROWN) VIRUS, WITH THE CROWN OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS, THE MESSIAH. KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!
THE PLAGUE IS PARTICULARLY FIERCE IN THE NEW YORK AREA,
WHERE THE LARGEST POPULATION OF JEWS LIVE OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL:
SO, WE PROCLAIM JEREMIAH 33:22… THAT YOU WILL NOT
ALLOW YOUR PEOPLE TO BE WIPED OUT. YOUR WORD SAYS: “As the Host of Heaven cannot
be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the
descendants of David, My servant, and the Levites, who minister to Me.”
ACCORDING TO JEREMIAH 32:38-42, YOU SAY ABOUT
THE JEWISH PEOPLE: “They shall be My
people, and I will be their God. Then, I will give them one heart, and one way,
that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after
them. And, I will make an everlasting covenant with them… that I will not turn
away from… doing them good. But, I will put My fear in their hearts, so that
they will not depart from Me. Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good,
and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart, and with all
My soul. ‘For, thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great
calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have
promised them.’ ” AMEN!
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THE ISRAELI
GOVERNMENT:
2 SAMUEL 23:3: “The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke
to me, ‘He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.’ ”
LORD, WE ASK YOU TO
PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN ISRAEL’S GOVERNMENT, AND IN THE POLITICIANS THAT WILL
SOON BE PART OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT COALITION --
THAT THEY MAY BE JUST; AND DISCERN, ACCURATELY, WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS
TRUE, AND WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
- CRISIS IN THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN THE JUDICIAL BRANCH, THE
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IN ISRAEL:
PROVERBS 11:1: “Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord.
But, a just weight is His delight.”
PROVERBS 16:11: Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s. All
the weights in the bag are His work.”
MICAH 6:11: “Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales,
and with the bag of deceitful weights?”
GOD HATES UNBALANCED
SCALES. HE WILL LOOK TO PUNISH NATIONS AND POLITICIANS ENGAGED IN THIS KIND OF
WICKEDNESS. WE MUST INTERCEDE, AS MOSES DID, THAT THE LORD WILL STOP HIS RAGE.
MAY THE LORD SHOW
ISRAEL WHERE THE SIN IS; THE CORRUPTION THAT IS HIDDEN; THE CHEATING AND
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS GOING ON BETWEEN THE POLITICIANS. MAY HE EXPOSE THAT
WHICH IS DARK, AND BRING IT TO THE LIGHT. AND, SHOW ISRAEL WHERE THE BALANCE
SHOULD BE.
AS THE UNITY
GOVERNMENT FORMS, MAY THE DISHONEST GAIN BY ANY ONE OF THESE BRANCHES OF
GOVERNMENT, BE PUT BACK INTO BALANCE, IN YESHUA’S NAME.
ISRAEL MUST
UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS TO BUILD THEIR GOVERNMENT ‘HOUSE’ ON A SOLID FOUNDATION:
MATTHEW 7:26-27: “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine,
and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the Rock.
And, the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that
house. And, it did not fall, for it was founded on the Rock. But, everyone who
hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man
who built his house on the sand; and, the rain descended, the floods came, and
the wind blew and beat on that house, and it fell. And, great was its fall.”
SOME ISRAELI POLITICAL ANALYSTS ARE PREDICTING THAT THIS NEW
GOVERNMENT WILL NOT LAST MORE THAN A YEAR; THAT IT WILL FALL BASED ON ILLUSIONS
THAT THERE COULD BE A SPIRIT OF UNITY AND TRUST BUILT AMONG COALITION MEMBERS.
WE PRAY THAT ISRAELI
POLITICIANS WILL COME INTO GODLY
UNITY; LISTEN TO THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD; AND, THAT GOD WILL RAISE UP
COUNSELORS WHO SPEAK OF HIS WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE HALLS OF
THIS NEW GOVERNMENT BEING FORMED.