Intercessory prayer from someone in Israel about the upcoming elections:
Help us, Lord!!! We are UNABLE to do this on our own. We are too deceived … too blind … too weak … too fearful … too confused … too oppressed and often too wounded to stand, and to figh,t as we should. We can’t know You unless You break through our darkness and overcome us with Your light. You are right here for us, but we can’t grab hold of You, or even recognized You because of the great oppression. We must be able to hear Your voice … You and YOU alone must be the loudest sound in our ears! You have shown us miracles and have historically done wonders on behalf of this nation and people, and yet we act, feel, and speak as if we are orphans upon a stormy sea. We seek salvation from other sources of power rather than acknowledging that YOU ARE THE ONLY SOURCE for all that we need. We don’t know who to trust among men! We don’t recognize the truth. We lack wisdom. The world tells us … our enemies shout to us … that our survival depends upon our surrender to their will. As a result we have laid aside Your word and will for us … not believing that You are the only dependable reality. Deliver us, Lord!!! Our hearts are failing us and our minds are deceiving us. Bring forth true prophets from among us to speak with strength and with authority … revealing Your truth in a way that we can grasp it and understand/see it. Give us ears to hear and eyes to see. We need to see You demonstrate Your power, as You once did to Pharaoh. Display Your sovereign power and Your hand of deliverance for the people of Jacob. We need Your comfort. We need Your relief from the overwhelming pressure that is squeezing us from all sides. We must not grasp at the straws being extended to us by the UN, by the Arab nations, by the western nations, and by the global elite, but we don’t understand how to stand against them and still survive. We need to have our hope restored to us. Time and time again we have made the concessions demanded of us … we have extended peace and opportunity to our enemies, to show that we truly want the best for them and for us. Yet, each time we suffer more loss, and receive greater demands for more surrender. We are in a trap, and do not know how to get ourselves out. HELP, LORD!
Our surrounding enemies are arming and conspiring together for war against us. ISIS is at our door, even as Hamas and Hizbullah are expanding their operations against us. Terrorists … whether coordinated or lone wolves are cutting our people down without warning. Every area of our lives is vulnerable to a sudden attack. Living in a state of hyper alert is exhausting and discouraging, so we have been looking to men to save us from this heavy stress of life. Let us feel Your presence in our lives. Heal us, Lord! Defend us, Lord!
Clothe us in new garments that reflect, who we truly are IN YOU!. The garments of rejection that we wear … which were handed to us by the nations … are fraying. We are becoming more naked every day. We are scrambling for covering.
Help us to find you and to know you, so that we can adore You! What does it mean to be Your people? Is the Messiah real or merely a myth? Show us!
Replace the overwhelming fear that we have of the hatred/rage of our enemies and allies, with confidence in YOU, arising from Your love for us.
We are greatly afflicted. We are greatly divided. Those, who hate us, and who are building weapons with the sole intention of slaughtering us, surround us. They are unified, while we are divided. Many of the Jews in the Diaspora are not standing with us, but often are our chief accusers. There is no peace in our world. There is no justice and no truth found among men. What future do we have? Why would you bring us back to the Land so that we could be stripped and slaughtered? Are you still listening and still watching? Why don’t you do something?
Breathe upon us, for we are running out of breath from running so hard, to stay ahead of the enemies and allies, who are hotly pursuing us. Forgive us for running away from You. Restore the truth of Who You are to us, and who we are to You.
The spirit of RACISM is moving across the world like a prairie fire driven by a high wind. The people most hated across the globe are the children of Jacob, whom You call “BELOVED”. It’s hard for us to believe in the love of One unseen, when those of human flesh are shouting into our faces that we are a wicked scourge upon the earth … a people without honor or value, but rather, a nation of those, who are mere thieves, liars, and the greatest troublemakers of the whole earth. We are hearing their voices more loudly than Your voice, Lord! Become thunderous in our ears, Lord.
It feels as if we are running out of landing strip, when it comes to holding onto our possession of the Land, but the engine of this “Two State Solution plane” is still operating at full throttle, and coming in for a landing. You gave us this Land, but we are not able to hold onto it by ourselves. Our enemies have threatened to cut off our hands, if we refuse to let ago of the land deed and sign it over to them. We don’t know what to do. Help us! Send revelation from Your holy mountain!
If we would KNOW that You are WITH US, we would fear no one! Help us to know that You are with us, Lord!
Distinguish Your choice of leadership for our nation in this hour. DO SOMETHING that will demonstrate Your will, and Your choice to receive our votes.
We are getting tired of holding on, Lord. We are in the process of letting go … letting go of hope … letting go of faith … letting go of our identity … letting go of our Land. Trouble keeps coming regardless of what we do … regardless of what we give or concede. It’s never good enough. What contradiction can we give to the world’s assessment of us? What credible evidence can we give beyond our faith that we are a valid people living in our own land? Every piece of legal evidence, and every treaty still in effect, have been ignored or disqualified as contrived Jewish manipulation enacted against the world.
The prospect of standing alone against the whole world is terrifying unless we know that YOU are with us. Reveal Yourself, and Your intentions regarding us in this hour. In this present moment, reveal the power of Your hand and Your presence. Hold us, Lord and lead us as our Shepherd. We are in desperate straits.
The Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; the One who carved the ocean’s depths and set the stars in place; who gives us life and food to eat; who gave birth to the nation of Israel; who by His mighty hand delivered her from Egypt; and who will never let her go – He hears this prayer. It reaches deep into His heart as the prayer that He has longed to hear from His own people. And He will answer. In strength and power, He will answer, and will indeed make known His truth to all those whose hearts earnestly long for it. He will demonstrate His sovereign power, and His hand of deliverance.
Isaiah 30:15
This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength…
Isaiah 30:18-21
…the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
May it be Holy Father, Lord Yeshua, just as you spoke so long ago through the prophets. Hear the prayers of your people, and pour out Your Spirit on them as they pray. Give them full confidence in your wisdom, in your mighty power, and in your love and care for all whose hearts belong to You.