 Hey, good morning. We are in the final week of our Isaiah 62 prayer and fasting initiative for Israel. And we're gonna pray Isaiah 62 and Ephesians one today. And today I wanna take some focus. Those of you who've been following probably know this, but there's six million people that have committed to pray an hour a day for Israel. But it's culminating in this Sunday. There's gonna be 100 million intercessors praying at once. And I don't know about you, but that number doesn't even make sense to me. I don't even know how to calculate 100 million people. But it's a pretty profound sign of the times that we live in. And I wanna even open up just praying out of Isaiah 62, this passage about Watchman being set on the wall and just asking for intercessors as they unify and pray together on Sunday that the Lord would set them as Watchmen or intercessors on the wall for Israel. That they would get the Lord's heart for his people. And we were just even talking about it with the worship team this morning that you can't get God's heart for Israel without getting God's heart for Jesus returning back to the earth. And it just has such a beautiful, it leads us to long for the Eschaton. It leads us to long for the return of Jesus back to the earth. And when we are praying and lifting the people of Israel we'll believe there's a hastening of the day. The bride being made ready as we are learning this action of surrendering our own life and will, laying down our own will and desires for the people of Israel, which we know will ultimately do when we provoke them to jealousy. So if you're in your Bible size, Isaiah 62, we're gonna jump right in as we've been doing during this fast and just pray in verse six, I have set Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent and give him no rest until he establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Lord, we lift before you right now these hundred million intercessors. Lord, we just give thanks and praise like, oh, the wisdom and the knowledge of God, how insurchable are his ways, Lord, how brilliant you are in this thing that man could not accomplish, but I believe has been written into the scrolls for this hour on the earth to raise up a hundred million people to pray for Israel and to intercede for the people that is on your heart, God. And so Lord, I just ask, Lord, this upcoming Sunday, would you just send forth the Holy Spirit to prepare the waters, just like the Holy Spirit hovered over the waters at creation? Holy Spirit, would you hover over the waters of the hearts of these intercessors, Lord, and even begin to prepare their hearts? Would I ask that you would undo anti-Semitism, Lord? You would undo just even some wrong beliefs, some replacement doctrine in different ways that the enemy has convinced the people of God that he is done with Israel, he has forgotten Israel, Lord. We just ask, Lord, that you would just bring conviction, Lord, that you would bring understanding, Lord, but that you would bring compassion. God, I just ask for your people all over this earth, Lord, for these hundred million and for the body of Christ globally, oh, God, that we would have a heart of compassion. Lord, that we would not be like the Levite and the Pharisee, Lord, that passes by the beaten and bludgeoned man who is hurting on the road, going to where we want to accomplish our mission, but we would see, Lord, that your people are wounded, your people are hurting. Lord, that we would be those who loves that person as if we're loving you, Lord, that we would give them a cup of cold water as if we are giving it to you, Lord, that we would lay down our lives as if we are giving it to you. God, I just ask for compassion in our hearts, over there's been callousness and coldness, Lord, that you would soften our hearts, give us the art of flesh, replace that heart of stone with that soft heart of flesh, Lord, for the people of Israel. Lord, and would you set watchmen on the wall? God, I ask for these 100 million people praying in unison, God, that you would strike them like arrows right to the heart, Lord, with conviction, with compassion, with love, and with mercy, Lord, that they would bleed like you bleed for your people, Lord, that they would somehow carry the heart that Paul had in Romans nine He said, I would wish myself a cursed if you would save the elect Israel that this unbelievable heart of compassion that says, even if I had to go to El but all of Israel would be saved, I'd be willing to do that because my heart is so moved with compassion toward Israel. God, I ask, move our hearts with that same compassion, Lord, for these 100 million intercessors, move their hearts with that heart of compassion, Lord, and set your watchmen on the wall, Lord, Jesus. Have your prayer language, sing in your prayer language, if not pray in English and just lift up your voice in this moment as we're praying and interceding. Praise is something that there's a deep reservoir of whether it's pain or suffering, or whatever it is that we come at a reservoir to give God something. And when we give Him that actual heart response, He responds. So I feel like we need to sing this again and we need to dig deep into the reservoir of praise that's within us, whether it's pain, whether it's suffering, whether it's rejoicing, whether it's just this deep desire to encounter the living God. I feel like we need to just spend time just praising and just giving Him glory and giving Him honor. So let's sing this again and let's dig deep the well of praise. Let's dig deep into our souls, what it means to give the Lord praise that costs of something. Lord, we will not come empty handed. We will not give you that which cost us nothing, Lord. We say, we will exalt you above our circumstances, Lord. We will exalt you. Oh, Israel, how can I forget you? See, I have inscribed your name on the palm. Just singing about the faithfulness of God and how great His faithfulness is. It stirs up the remembrance of how faithful you are, God, that everything you do is built on your covenants to your people, your word that does not return void, your promises that never fail. You are faithful, Lord. You are faithful to complete every work you've started. Just have that picture of the Father to have a name inscribed on the palm of your hand, to be a daily, even an hourly, constant reminder, not of a task, but of a name. You have inscribed the name Israel onto your hand. Oh, Israel, how can I forget you? You are the faithful God. You've been faithful. Even though your people have been faithless, you have been faithful. Even though they have broken your covenants, you have not broken yours. All man's empty promises lie broken at your feet, but you, God, you've never broken one. You've never broken one promise. Lord, we go before the faithful God this morning. We thank you for the faithfulness in our lives, the kindness you have shown us. The mercy and the goodness and the grace of God in every aspect of our lives. And Lord, it's with those hearts of gratitude, Lord, that we lift up the people of Israel in intercession. Lord, I pray out of Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. Lord, I ask for Orthodox Jews that are living in the land of Israel for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened. That you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints and the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of His mighty power. Oh, God, I lift up Orthodox Jews living in the land of Israel today. And I ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of Jesus. Lord, I can't help but think that the man who prayed this prayer, Paul, once an Orthodox Jew who did not believe, who was killing Christians thinking he was doing God a service. And then the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus knocked him off his horse. And scales fell from his eyes and he saw the fulfillment of all the law and the prophets. He saw the culmination of history's narrative. He saw the alpha, omega, beginning and the end. He looked upon the one that he pierced and he mourned. And Lord, I thank you. Lord, I would not be here if it wasn't for those Jewish believers who brought the gospel to the Gentile world. Lord, I thank you that you have a history of being faithful and carrying a remnant of those who love you. And so, God, I just ask today, Lord, I ask for rabbis that pour over Torah, rabbis that study the law, the penitence, the prophets, the poetry, the wisdom, Lord, who pour over the scriptures thinking that they're gonna find eternal life but they miss the very fulfillment of every one of those words, the one who every one of those words points to in Jesus. But Lord, you can in a moment remove scales from eyes in a moment. You can reveal the beautiful slain and risen Jesus. You can connect the dots. You can make Isaiah 53 come alive with picture and imagery and you can bring them to the foot of Calvary, Lord, just like you brought us Gentiles who were far from you and you revealed Jesus to us. Lord, we now then turn and intercede. Our older brother, Israel, and we say, Lord, would you do the same thing that you did for us? Would you remove the scales? Would you give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of who Jesus is? Lord, would you let salvation come to Israel today? So Lord, we pray for Orthodox Jews in the land and with God we ask for a spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. The inside, the Holy Spirit poured out for salvation in Israel. God, I ask that you anoint your church in the land of Israel, Lord, both Jew and Gentile. Lord, I thank you for the Messianic Jews who have had their eyes open. Lord, the remnant that you have reserved for yourself. And Lord, I also thank you for the Gentiles that you have sent and raised up in the land. Lord, I thank you for my Arab believers who love you and represent your heart in the land of Israel. Lord, I thank you for those from different nationalities, missionaries from the west, missionaries from the east. Lord, those who you've planted in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Galilee and all the regions of Israel. God, we just pray for the church in Israel. Lord, for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus, God, we ask for an anointing. Lord, how beautiful the church in Jerusalem, the very first ecclesia who you poured your spirit out or the ones who spilled out into the upper room. Lord, the original revival, Lord, that touched the ends of the earth because you poured out your spirit on the church of Jerusalem. Lord, once again, would you fill the church of Jerusalem? Lord, what better place to start a global outpouring of the Holy Spirit than the same place where the original token, the down payment of the greater fulfillment of all flesh having the Holy Spirit poured out? Lord, would you do it again, another Pentecost? Would you do it again, Lord? Even in this 21 days, there's many fasting and praying in the land of Israel. Lord, would you pour out revival fire? Would you pour out your spirit of grace and supplication on your church? Lord, would you put such a spirit of love on your church in Jerusalem, Lord? It would cause Orthodox Jews to be provoked to jealousy. Lord, that there would be such extreme acts of mercy, of kindness, of grace, of laying down their lives for their brother, of laying down their lives for the one who's bloodied and beaten on the road and needs to be attended to and ministered to. Oh God, would you anoint your church in Jerusalem, Lord? Would you send revival fire to Jerusalem, Lord? Once again, that you would confound the wisdom of the wise. Lord, even in the midst of a people that often is scared for their life because of the turmoil of all the nations surrounding them and trying to eradicate them, God, that you would raise up a fierce and bold witness in your church to proclaim the gospel. Lord, let your word run swiftly and be glorified in Jerusalem, Lord. Anoint believers, anoint preachers, anoint pastors, anoint evangelists, Lord. Anoint prophets, Lord. Anoint teachers, Lord, to describe the goodness and the kindness of God. So Lord, we ask for your church in Jerusalem, Lord, your church in Israel. Lord, let your word run swiftly and be glorified in the name of Jesus. Pour out your people. Pour out your spirit. Pour out your spirit. People on your church. On your church. In Israel, Lord. Out your messengers and your laborers, Lord, we pray, Lord of the harvest, send forth laborers. Lord, call them from the north to the south and the east and the west, Lord. Lord, from Tarunga, New Zealand, Lord, the furthest place from Jerusalem all the way to Palestine and Iran and Iraq and the nation's closest to Israel, Lord, send forth your messengers from the ends of the earth back to Jerusalem as a witness. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Well, let's continue on in prayer and also just mark your calendars for Sunday. Just make sure you set aside a bit of time to join in this global prayer initiative praying for Israel. Amazing time to be unified together as God's people. So amazing. Have a great day.