 All right, good morning. Welcome to the Radiant City Center. It is Thursday. We're in the last week of our Isaiah 62, Fast for the Nation of Israel. We're joining millions of intercessors around the world who have focused their prayers and their intercession towards the nation of Israel, the apple of God's eye. And this morning we're gonna step into the intercession for the land of Israel right off the bat this morning. So if you have your Bible, I just encourage you. We're gonna dive into Psalm two right off the start. And Psalm two is a prophetic picture of what's to come and the fulfillment of things that haven't even quite happened yet, but are going to happen. And we see little sprinkles of it now. And it's a declaration Psalm that came through this, through King David, through this place of intimacy where he's seeing into the future and seeing the Lord mount on Zion. And it says in verse one, it says, why are the nations and an uproar in the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their courts from us. He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffed at them and then he will speak to him, to them in his anger and terrify them in his fury saying, but as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain. And I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord. He said to me, you are my son and today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will surely give the nations your inheritance and the very ends of the earth as your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall shatter them like earth and wear. And this is where we're gonna focus in and really pray for Israel and for discernment. It says in verse 10, now therefore, O King show discernment, take warning. O judges of the earth, worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. Do homage to the son that he not become angry and you perish in the way for his wrath may soon be kindled and how blessed are all who take refuge in him. This morning, we're just gonna dive right in. So if you're in the room, I'm just gonna welcome you to raise your hands with me and we're just beginning to worship the Lord with fear and trembling. And we're gonna begin to ask on behalf of the nation of Israel that they would turn and worship the Lord with reverence. For behold, the Lord is coming with a rod of iron and he's gonna establish his kingdom. He's gonna rule and reign and he's going to release his kingdom, manifest, tangibly that eyes will see, that eyes will be open. So right now, Lord, we come before you as sons and daughters of the most high. You have purchased us by your blood and we have become a kingdom, a priest to you, Lord. To you, so Lord, as intercessors, we stand in the gap and we say, Lord, would you mend your nation, Israel, Lord? Would you install your kingdom on your mountain, on Mount Zion, God? Would you begin to break off demonic strategies, demonic principalities? Would you unveil the eyes of the people of Israel, of the Jewish people, God? Right now we step in and we step into a place of intercession that says, Lord, we want your will to come. We want heaven to rule on the earth and, Lord, you died for the sins of the world. So, Lord, we ask that your blood would cover a multitude of sin and, God, I pray for the offense, Lord, or the bitterness or the hatred that comes at the name of Jesus, Lord. I pray you flip the script and, Lord, where kings and nations are an uproar and devising vain things, God, I pray that you would bring your purposes, you would bring your plans, you would rewrite the script, you would flip the enemy on his head and you would rule and you would reign. So, King Jesus, we ask that you would stir yourself up. Oh, man of war, anointed one, holy, seated, right hand of the Father, God, we ask that you would stir yourself up for your holy nation, that you would come and mount on Zion, Lord. We speak it in the name of Jesus. Let your kingdom come, let your will be done. And your chosen people, let your kingdom come. Let heaven fall, let heaven invade when you break through the skies and when you make yourself real and relevant to your people, Lord. In the cry of Israel, out for the Messiah, the anointed one, the king rules with a rod of iron. You're the king. Say, Israel, take refuge in the sun. Take refuge in the Lord, your God. Lord, I pray for a heart of stone be turned to a heart of flesh in your people. Lord, I pray the tears that Jesus wept as he rode on a donkey into Jerusalem, weeping over the people. Lord, I pray the tears from your heart would soften the soil of your people that they would receive you. Yes, sir, we just ask for a revelation of the sun who all the scriptures point to, God. We ask that they would see the man with eyes of fire. They would see the outstretched love, but they would also see God the just. So Lord, let your kingdom come. Let your will be done in Israel as it is in heaven, God. Yes, sir, we prophesy over Israel. Feel the redemption, feel the redemption of generations. Generation two, who did not choose Jesus to be the Messiah, with scales falling off their eyes like salt of all moments. Let your kingdom come over Israel, Lord. You've gathered your people back to your nation. We ask that you pull back the curtain. And you would reveal that you were the one. You were the one in the Exodus story. You were the one in the wilderness. You were the one who wrestled with Jacob. You were the one, the promised one. You're the one who sits on the throne of David. Let your kingdom come. Just picture the people of Israel crying out to the sun. You're the king that we want. The king we've rejected. The chief cornerstone that's been rejected. Because who is like the Lord? So who is like the Lord Almighty? Who was and is and is to come? So we just bless you, God. We ask for your purposes to go forth. This, would you wake up your people? Would you wake up a nation? Who is like the Lord? Look to the sun of Israel. Behold, the Lord is gathering you back together. Would you look to the sun? He's brought you together to look to him. So we say, lift up your head, O Israel. Would you lift up your head, O Israel? Lift up your gaze. Would you look at the one who's been longing for you? We ask you remove the blindfold. Who is like the Lord? Faithful and true. The word of God. But we bless you this morning. We bless you as we continue. Just to worship you in reverence. At Psalm 2 verse 11, worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. So we love you, King Jesus. We magnify you in this morning hour. We ask that you reveal yourself in a greater way. Our great intercessor, our great high priest who sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. We ask that you reveal yourself as we worship you with reverence and rejoice with trembling. Also set me free, it's the secret. Harvest grows from bed. A poor tree with better grafted. Richer, sweeter life I'll gain. Let's just begin to pray in the spirit, pray in our understanding. As we've been singing, I've just felt that, kind of like that new breaking of that, the bedrock of the heart to awaken love to the beauty of the Son, the worthiness of Jesus. It's not something we can strive for or earn, but it only comes when the Holy Spirit begins to break our hearts. Begins to open up revelation to see Him rightly. Let's just begin to sing in the spirit, pray in the spirit, begin to wait upon the Lord. Amen rightly, angels and the elders look upon the Son and they fall on their face and they cry, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. Our heart wired for people of your pastor, people of your presence. I still feel like the Holy Spirit wants to just minister a little longer to our hearts. The Holy Spirit, we just ask that you even come in a greater measure. We're only scratching the surface of seeing your beauty, your worthiness, your holiness. Whether you're at home or in the room, it's gonna encourage us. Let's just begin to give a sacrifice of praise, a sacrifice of adoration and worship. We've been singing about how beautiful, how holy, how we long to look upon Him. But let's begin to offer something that cost us from the inside, that deep well of worship that says, Lord, I am undone and I will lay my life on the altar to see you glorified. Lord, we will give all our worship, we will give all our praise for it is you alone. It is you alone, nothing else, no other, no other thing of this earth could take the throne, could open the scroll, but you alone and you alone deserve our worship. You alone deserve our praise. You alone deserve our affections, our attention, our gaze, our eyes. Let's just begin to let it bubble up from the inside. Let that overflow of the Holy Spirit. Just begin to flow out of you, those rivers of living water. Let's just begin to press in, just begin to offer worship. Whether in your car right now, I encourage you, let's just let out a sound of worship, a sacrifice of praise this morning. Let's just like Mary, every ounce, else, nothing else. Amen, I'll give you the discomfort. I'll give you the disappointment, be the accolades. I'll give you the praise, not an older song, but a fresh praise. Recommit, re-solidify, preeminence of the sun. You stand alone, you stand alone. You don't change, you're consistent, you're marvelous, you're matchless, you're perfection, you're God Almighty, you're a manual God with us, you're a Jehovah Shalom, you're the Prince of Peace, you're the mighty God, Jehovah Rafa, you're Jehovah Nisium, you are Yahweh, you're Jehovah, you are Elohim, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, you are the God of Israel. So as we enter into a time of intercession, I just encourage you to not leave this posture of adoration. And we know in the scriptures that it's in God's heart to return to the earth again. That actually that's part of the gospel is that he's coming back. And so we're gonna begin to intercede. I'm gonna read out a Psalm 122, we're gonna pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We're gonna begin to enter into God's heart. We haven't left God's heart, we're actually just pressing into his heart and the intercessor that is Christ Jesus. Psalm 122 verse one says, I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. Our feet are standing within your gates of Jerusalem, Jerusalem that is built as a city that is compact together to which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord in ordinance for Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord for their thrones were set for judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Verse six, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you, may peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say may peace be within you for the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. So Lord, we enter in to the prayer for your city, Jerusalem, God. And we pray the Jehovah Shalom, the Prince of Peace would rule and reign over a city where there's been turmoil for centuries upon centuries, God. We pray Lord on Mount Zion, Lord, we pray that your holy mountain, your holy city, Jerusalem that you would come and rule and reign and Lord, where you rule and reign there is peace because you are the Prince of Peace. So Lord, we ask right now that the Prince of Peace would rule and reign over Jerusalem and we as saints of the living God as Gentile people grafted in, we for the sake of the Jewish people ask that you would graft them back in like your word says you're going to do. So Lord, we pray a peaceful presence of your Holy Spirit over your city, Jerusalem in Jesus' mighty name, Prince of Peace over Jerusalem, your city, would you rule with your peace, confuse the schemes of the devil, be within your walls, Jerusalem. Yes Lord, we're asking on behalf of a city, on behalf of a nation that you gathered together that was scattered for centuries and you've brought back in the last hundred years and you've culminated and you've gathered your people Lord for a holy setup of your rule and reign on the earth God. I pray the epicenter of Jerusalem Lord, you would begin to create a portal from heaven to earth and you would establish your purposes, your kingdom but we just pray hasten the day Lord, hasten the day Lord, we pray for the peace of your city and we pray for the ruling over your nation God and we say man of war stir yourself up, we rend the heavens, we ask rend the heavens and come down Lord, would you establish your kingdom Lord would you quicken the day, would you quicken the gospel to come and go forth and power and boldness, we ask that you would re-establish the early days of the church and the here and now for this holy arrival of your presence to come down and to flood Jerusalem and to flood the nation of Israel and the nations of the earth God, I pray for the prayers and the incense of the saints the bowls to be full to capacity and God we ask that those bowls would begin to tip and your heart would begin to burn and break for your people God. Lord I pray right now that the saints would not grow in an apathetic or entitlement spirit God we pray even just for the church outside of Israel God we pray against the apathetic spirit that says it doesn't matter what happens in Israel it doesn't matter what happens in Jerusalem but your word says Lord pray for the peace of Jerusalem so Lord I pray even in the West even in the European church Lord in the Asian church Lord even in Australia and Africa Lord in South America God would you awaken your bride to pray for your Jewish people your Jewish believers God that their eyes would be open and that Jerusalem would see you rightly God just like in the days of old when David established the tabernacle and incense and prayer and worship 24 seven would arise to your throne God we pray for a re-establishment of the temple where you rule and reign in your holy city and incense and worship go up to your throne and God you will rule, you will reign you will see your kingdom come to pass here on earth so Lord we ask awaken your people awaken your bride Gentiles and Jews alike to pray for the peace of Jerusalem in Jesus' name Yes, awaken the hearts of your people Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Awaken hearts God break up the follow-ground of apathy selfishness God you turn the hearts of your saints to face the nation of Israel Would you use the Gentile Church to awaken the Jewish non-believers to the Prince of Peace in your chosen nations to align with Jerusalem, Lord? Yes, let's just join in with this chorus. Let's make this our prayer. Let's extend our hands to the nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. We just ask for the winds to blow. The winds of the Spirit pray for an awakening of souls. We just even intercede for the hastening of the day when you split the clouds. Behold, He's coming on the clouds and every eye will see. O Jerusalem, don't you see Him? Jerusalem, a place for all the earth to see. Jerusalem, a place for all the earth to see. He's coming on the clouds. Split open the heavens. He's riding on the clouds. Can you see Him coming now? Come back for the apple of your eye. He's riding on the clouds. Haste in the day. When the gospel will go forth. Would your word go forth? Can you see Him coming now? Would you set the stage for your holy arrival? He's coming. Behold, you came as the lamb and you're coming back as the lion, the tribe of Judah. And you're about to roar. You're about to shake the earth. Chapter 1 verse 5 says, From Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood. He has made us to be a kingdom of priests to His God and Father to Him. Be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. And behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him. Even those who pierced Him. Even the Jewish people who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be amen. Jesus says, I am the Alpha and the Omega. The one who was and is and is to come the Almighty. Well Lord, we just bless you this morning. We continue interceding for your Holy Land. Would you awaken us to the intercession that you're praying for in your city and your nation. Holy Spirit, we thank you for your leadership this morning. Holy Spirit, we thank you that you teach us how to pray. You teach us what to pray. So Lord, we bless you. We thank you God. We pray for a hastening of the day of your return. We pray a speedily quickening to your purposes and your process. And Lord, we pray every prophetic promise would come to pass, Lord. And that we would see with our very own eyes you coming through the clouds. In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen. I just want to say thank you for joining us for morning prayer this morning. We've got a few days left of our Israel fast. Isaiah 62 encourage you to just press in these last couple of days. And we'll be here at noon in 6.30. We'll be back tomorrow at 8 a.m. Bless you and have a great day.