Jerusalem, Israel
PRAYER UPDATE -- MAY 13 2025
Israel and the Nations
GPW News and Prayer Update
With darkness and deep darkness coming upon the earth, we need to focus on the Light of God. Here are encouraging scriptures from the Amplified Bible:
LIGHT SCRIPTURES
The Son is the radiance and only expression of
the glory of (our awesome) God, (reflecting God’s Shekinah glory,
the Light-being, the brilliant Light of the Divine); and,
the exact representation and perfect imprint of His (Father’s) essence.
And, upholding and maintaining and propelling
all things (the entire physical and spiritual universe), by His powerful
Word (carrying the universe along to its predetermined goal). When He
(Himself and no other) had (by offering Himself on the cross as a sacrifice for
sin), accomplished purification from sins, and established our freedom
from guilt, He sat down (revealing His completed work) at the right hand of the
Majesty on high (revealing His Divine authority). (Hebrews
1:3).
For once you were in darkness, but now you are Light
in the Lord; walk as children of Light (live as those who are
native-born to the Light). (For the fruit, the effect, the result of the
Light, consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
trying to learn (by experience), what is pleasing to the Lord (and, letting
your lifestyles be examples of what is most acceptable to Him – your behavior
expressing gratitude to God for your salvation). (Ephesians 5:8-10).
You will also decide and decree a thing, and it
will be established for you. And, the Light (of God’s favor) will shine
upon your ways. (Job 22:28).
He covers His hands with the Lightning. And,
commands it to strike the mark. (Job
36:32).
But, for you who fear My name (with awe-filled reverence),
the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And, you
will go forward and leap (joyfully), like calves (released) from the
stall. (Malachi 4:2).
Praise the LORD (Hallelujah!) I will give thanks to the LORD with all my
heart. In the company of the upright and in the congregation. Great are the
works of the LORD. Studied by all those who delight in them. Splendid and
majestic is His work, and His righteousness endures forever. Psalm
111:1-3).
And, His appearance changed dramatically in their presence;
and His face shone (with heavenly glory, clear and bright), like
the sun, and His clothing became as white as Light… While He was still
speaking behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the
cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased and
delighted. Listen to Him!” (Matthew
17:2, 5).
So, Yeshua said to them, “The Light is among you
(only) a little while longer. Walk while you have the Light (keep
on living by it), so that darkness will not overtake you. He who walks
in the darkness does not know where he is going (he is drifting aimlessly).
While you have the Light, believe and trust in the Light (have
faith in it, hold on to it, rely on it), so that you may become sons of
Light (being filled with Light as followers of God).” Jesus
said these things, and then He left and hid Himself from them. (John 12:35-36).
He brought them out of darkness, and the deeply (deathly)
darkness and broke their bonds apart. (Psalm 107:14).
(I always pray) that the God of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
the Father of Glory, may grant you a spirit of Wisdom and of Revelation [that
gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true
knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son].
And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center
and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy
Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope
[the Divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called
you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),
And, [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing
greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe.
These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, which
He produced in Messiah, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him
at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule
and authority and power and dominion [whether angelic or human], and [far
above] every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not
only in this age and world but also in the one to come.
And He put all things [in every realm] in subjection
under Messiah’s feet, and appointed Him as [supreme and
authoritative] head over all things in the Church, which is His body,
the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all
[believers]. (Ephesians
1:17-23).
Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life],
shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the LORD];
for your Light has come. And, the glory and brilliance
of the LORD has risen upon you.
For in fact, darkness will cover the earth, and deep
darkness will cover the peoples; But, the LORD will rise
upon you [Jerusalem].
And His glory and brilliance will be
seen on you.
Nations will come to your Light, and kings to the
brightness of your rising. (Isaiah 60-:1-3)
(Source: Global Prayer Watch News and Prayer Update)