Jerusalem, Israel
JUNE 3, 2023 PRAYER UPDATE
Israel and the Nations
PRAYER FOR THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL:
It is God that takes care of Israel’s borders. Today, the borders are vulnerable, and IDF guards are getting killed. The latest happened on the Egyptian border. It was during an operational activity mostly likely to stop drug smugglers. An Egyptian guard was killed too.
We were on the Israeli northern border with Israel this past week. Hezbollah watches the residents of border communities 24 hours a day, from tall watch towers. We were only meters away from those watch towers. They were watching us. We were watching them. They are watching because they want to eventually overpower this nation. These are the enemies of Israel. But, the God of Israel will rise up, and protect His flock!
Deuteronomy 32:8-12:
“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided all mankind, He set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. In a desert land He found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; He guarded him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings --The LORD alone guided them; they followed no foreign gods.”
PRAYER POINTS:
Father, today, we pray for Your “shield” to cover the borders of Israel with a double measure of Your protection. We ask that Israel will stop following foreign gods and start following You! Let them have no other gods before You! Protect Jacob, Your inheritance, in this land, as You have done before. Thank you, Lord, for spreading out Your eagles wings, and covering Your Chosen People.
Lord, rise up, that so that Israel will know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides You! (“Hear O Israel”).
Yes, may Israel understand, this day, and take heart, that that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
Declaring Isaiah 63:7, we will tell of Your kindness O LORD, the deeds for which You are to be praised, according to all You have done for us. Yes, the many good things You has done for Israel, according to Your compassion, mercy and love.
You, Lord, said, surely they are Your people, children who will be true to You, and so You became their Savior. (verse 8).
Lord, in all Israel’s distress, You too are distressed for them. And, the Angel of Your Presence will save them, as You did before. In Your love and mercy You are redeeming them. You are lifting them up and carrying them as in the days of old (verse 9).
EGYPT:
After this grave incident on Saturday on Israel’s southern border, we pray regarding Israel’s relationship with Egypt. Though there is a current peace treaty with Egypt, there are Egyptians on the streets who hate Israel. So, in the Spirit realm, we pray that Israel would be released from any burdens concerning this.
Exodus 6:7: “I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.”
We continue to ask You Lord to remember Your promises to Israel on the borders and beyond:
Malachi 1:5: “You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the LORD—even beyond the borders of Israel!’ ”
GATES ON THE NORTHERN BORDER:
We had to get through a special gate in order to go along the northern border road. The citizens that live in these areas live within these gates. Despite the restrictions to even get to the most northern route, we see that God has His hand of protection on the northern residents:
We declare Psalm 147:13 for the residents in the north: “He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.”
We also proclaim God’s favor for these residents, according to Psalm 147:14:
“He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.”
NO SEALED ROOMS:
Residents in these northern communities on the border recognize they will have to run to bomb shelters with no siren, and no Iron Dome, as they live too close to the border. It will be the sound of the missiles coming, or the IDF warning them ahead that will cause them to run to bomb shelters. There is no food or water in these shelters.
The residents want sealed rooms in their homes, but the government has yet to provide them – even though there was money in the 2022 government budget for sealed rooms.
PRAYER POINTS:
Lord, we pray for the government of Israel to be responsible to provide the border communities with not only IDF protection to get them out; but, also with sealed rooms built for them.
Despite the fact that there are no sealed rooms, currently, in the homes on the northern border, we trust You God to provide all residents what they need, in regard to food and water, and sustenance from You, as they flee to nearby bomb shelters.
Get them safely to the shelters and quickly. As they wait on You in these shelters, reveal Your truth to them, and give them the will to persevere. May they not fear the strike of the enemy.
Isaiah 26:20: “Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.”
There is a wall that separates the northern residents from Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. We declare Isaiah 26:1:
“In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.”
PRAYER: Bring salvation to Your people O Lord. Save them from their enemies, and bring them into relationship with You, and Your Son, Yeshua!
Isaiah 12:2: “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD my GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation."
ENLARGE ISRAEL’S TERRITORY:
Lord, you promised Israel, through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that this land would extend from the Euphrates River to the Great Sea. Just as You caught Israel by surprise in the 1967 Six Day War, and gave them control over the Old City, bring a surprise to them, now, if they have to go to war.
We declare 1 Chronicles 4:10:
“Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, ‘Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.’ And God granted his request.”
We have been talking about violence, borders, walls, and gates.
We proclaim Isaiah 60:18: “No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.”
PROMISES TO ISRAEL IN ALL HER BATTLES:
2 Samuel 7:10: “And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning.
Isaiah 54:14: “In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.”
Isaiah 19:19: “In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border.”
PRAYER POINTS:
We thank You Lord that You will not allow Israel’s enemies to oppress these citizens anymore. We pray for all residents in the country that are in the range of enemy fire: Save Your people Lord. Save Israel, according to Psalm 91 – from the terror by night and by day. Protect her and give her supernatural peace from her enemies!
We also thank You for re-establishing peace on Israel’s border with Egypt, in Yeshua’s name!