 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning prayer. If you're here in the prayer room, let's all stand together in the presence of the Lord, those of you who are joining us at home, online, maybe even picking us up later on and joining in with us. I want to remind everybody that we're in the midst of a 21-day season of prayer and intercession fasting called the Isaiah 62 fast, and we're part of this massive army of intercession. Globally, that's going on right now. Yesterday, they estimated 5 million intercessors across multiple nations and denominations are praying for 21 days and fasting for the nation of Israel, which if you've noticed in the news over the last week or so, has been such a pivotal, a pivotal, I believe, timing of the Lord as Israel has begun to see massive attacks coming against it, something like 1,000 missiles being launched at it from Gaza and the surrounding areas, even aiming at the city of Jerusalem. And so the timing of the Lord and calling all of these intercessors globally and us to pray for the people of Israel, the Jewish people that are in the land, is just so strategic in the timing of the Lord. And so I want you to know and I want you to understand that you may have never been to Israel in the Middle East, may just seem like millions of miles away to you, but because you are a child of God, because Jesus is your Savior and your Messiah, that you've been grafted in to what Ephesians 2 calls the commonwealth of Israel, the covenant people of God. We are those wild olive shoots that have been grafted in, but Israel, according to Romans chapter 11, is yet to be grafted in and the entire nation, before the return of the Lord at the end of this age, is going to believe and receive Christ as their Messiah, Yeshua as their Messiah. And so today we're going to pick right back up on that today's May 14th. Today is the 75th anniversary today of Israel being born and being formed as a nation after 2,000 years of being scattered among the nations. So today is a historic day. We're going to pray into that enough. I want to remind us of what Isaiah 66 prophesied some 3,500 years ago, or let's see 2,500, 2,400 years ago when he said in Isaiah 66 verse 7, he said, before she was in labor, she gave birth. And before her pain came upon her, she delivered a son who has heard of such a thing, who has seen such a thing. Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth, says the Lord? Shall I who causes to bring forth shut the womb, says your God? Verse 10 says, Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her, that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast, that you may drink deeply with her delight from her glorious abundance. This idea of a nation being born in a day requires the miraculous intervention of the Lord and that's what Isaiah is speaking of. If you and I have seen it and take place in 1948, May 14, Israel has declared a nation after being scattered among the nations of the earth. God has begun the process of bringing them back into the land even though it's an unbelief. It's unto the moment in which their redemption will draw nigh. And in 1967 we see Israel recapture Jerusalem and a nation in a city with huge eternal destiny is born in a day. And so today we're going to just spend the next few minutes praying over Israel, praying over Jerusalem. I want you to join us as we do. Lord, today we come before you in intercession as Watchman on the Wall like Isaiah 62 said that you would appoint Watchman on the walls overlooking Jerusalem who would not sleep, who would not slumber, but they would give you no rest calling you into remembrance of the promises that you have made over your people, Israel. And over the city of Jerusalem, the city of the great king. And so Lord, today we stand on the wall from our living rooms, from prayer rooms, joining in with millions of others here in Americans, Central and South American, Europe and Africa and the Middle East and Asia and Australia, Eastern Europe. Lord, we stand together as the people of God saying, can a nation be born in a day? And the answer is it can by the help of the Lord. What is impossible with man as possible with you? And Lord, we've seen in our day the birthing of the modern nation of Israel and the bringing in from the North and the East and the South and the West, your people, the Jewish stem, the stem, the stump of Jesse, the remnant that are being brought back into the land and Lord, even though we know that for the most part they stay and they remain in a state of unbelief and that your dealings with them is incomplete. Lord, we know that your hand is upon them and Lord, we know that your eye and your heart is towards them. And that just as Paul said as he prayed that I wish that I could be, I wish I would even be able to be lost so that my kinsmen after the flesh could be saved. Lord, we cry out in intercession for you to be a wall of fire like you said in Zechariah 2 around Jerusalem today. That you would be a wall of fire that Lord that nothing would touch them that does not pass through your hands and that your heart is ever turned towards them. And so Lord, we call you into remembrance today as watchmen on the wall. Your promise is made to Abraham that you said I will give you this land as an everlasting covenant. If you said that you would be their defender, so Lord today calling on you to watch over the nation of Israel, watch over the Jewish people and that their eyes and their hearts would be open to the reality that Jesus Yeshua, you are their long-awaited Messiah. You are the Passover Lamb. You are the suffering servant of Isaiah 53. You are the long-awaited son of David, son of man. Jesus, it's you. And even though they missed their day of visitation, Lord, your heart is sore towards them that you said I will not relent until I have brought them back to myself. I will scatter them, but I will bring them back from the north. I will bring them back from all nations and from their captivity, and I will not forget them should I forget my own name. I will bring them back and I will fulfill my promises to them. Lord, we're living in days of fulfillment. We're living in days where your promises are at work. We're living at days where even the Prince of Persia and those spiritual forces in the nations that surround them long to destroy them off of the face of the earth, long to humiliate you and mock you, oh God, and say, look, God was unable to save them. Look, Messiah came and they missed their day of visitation. Look, we'll put them under the blade of the sword and we'll wipe them out completely and humiliate the purposes of God. But Lord, your promises stand. God, your faithful promises stand and the people have been born in a single day and you are at work. What looks like chaos, what looks like war is nothing more than a setup for you to reveal yourself once again to the people of the promise and the covenants. Jesus, Yeshua, Messiah, would you pull back the hardening of the hearts of the Jewish people? Would you remove the veil once and for all and reveal yourself as the one who was pierced for them? Save all of Israel, God. Save all of Israel. Jesus, we pray today on the 75th anniversary of Israel's birth and we pray, Lord, move in a mighty way. Lord, just as you coordinated political and military and spiritual tactics altogether for the miracle of their birth to take place in a single day, God, so much can happen in a single moment, in a single day. We're praying that today, on this 75th anniversary today, Lord, that there would be something that marks this moment, a sign. You said that Greeks seek after wisdom but Jews seek signs. So we're praying, Lord, would you let there be signs that take place, wonders that begin to break out in the streets of Jerusalem, prophets that are raised up, messianic believers that begin to testify, dreams and visions that people begin to have, rabbis begin to have as they study the Scriptures and their eyes are suddenly open to the reality of who you say that you are. If a nation can be born in a day, a nation can be born again in a day. So we're praying, Lord, move in a profound and a powerful way, O God. Come on, just wherever you're at, begin to pray in the Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit partner with you as you intercede on Israel's behalf right now. We're in the city limits of Jerusalem, all the way from Dan and then it's overlooked Israel in the beautiful land, down to where the Gaza Strip is. In Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in Caesarea, the West Bank, on move, pour out a spirit of grace and supplication on the nation of Israel, set angelic warriors with blazing swords to defend the borders of your promises, Lord, not just the borders of men, but the borders of your promises. If a nation can be born, a nation can be born, be saved. If a nation can be born, a cross breaks trends, it's just a doorway. Jesus, you are worthy. Every tribe, tongue, and nation bows down before you, King of kings and Lord of lords. You alone are worthy. You alone are worthy, Messiah. Jesus, we come before you. We offer our song and our hearts. We want to burn for what you burn for. If we surrender to you, King, we want to surrender our hearts and we want our hearts to care for the things that you care for. What is the desire of your heart? What is the constant thought in your head? What are your eyes gazing towards? It's not our success. It's not our own dreams, but your heart's desires for your people and we want our hearts to be knit with that. That our eyes and our hearts and our thoughts would be aligned with you, worthy King. For the next few minutes, we're going to be praying out of Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. I encourage you, if you have your Bible, to turn there. And while you're turning there, I just want to, while you're turning there, I want to read from Romans 10, just a couple of verses. As you're getting Ephesians 1 ready, it says, brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God is that they may be saved, talking about Israel. For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of the righteousness of God and to seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. So we're going to be praying for Israel that they would know the righteousness of God. They would know that their salvation is through Jesus alone and not in their own identity. Their salvation is through the righteousness, the gift that was given through the cross. The one that they scorned and rejected is their very gift and is their very identity and salvation. So as we're praying through Ephesians 1, and we typically pray this for ourselves, but we're going to be focusing it for the people of Israel, that they would receive a revelation of Jesus. They receive a revelation of His beauty, of His majesty, of His worthiness, and that they would walk in their true calling, in their true destiny of God's chosen people, only through the power of the cross. So Ephesians 1, it says, for this reason, starting in verse 15, I know I told you 17, but verse 15, for this reason, because I have herded your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks, remembering you with my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and a revelation and the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of our hearts, of their hearts, the people of Israel's hearts be enlightened, that they would know what is the hope to which He has called them, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power towards those, the people of Israel, towards those who believe according to the working of His great might. So Father, we come before you right now as the Church partnered with your heart, these Gentiles, the nations that have been brought in through a Jewish Messiah who has made a way for us to experience salvation that was once only for the Jews. God, we come together and we partner with our Jewish brothers and sisters and we pray for wisdom and revelation. We thank you that you have chosen them as a nation to be set apart and that through them all the nations of the earth will be blessed, through them all the kings and kingdoms will come and bow before the King Jesus. So God, we ask for scales on their eyes to fall, we ask for hard hearts to be softened, we ask for deaf ears to be opened, we ask for confusion and we ask for bitterness in the mind and the heart to be removed and to be broken. God, we ask that they would see Jesus rightly as the worthy Lamb, the Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the one who was in the beginning before the foundations of the world, the one who was the Word and was the Word and through all things were created. We pray for a revelation of Jesus, the one who sits on the throne high and lifted up, the one that they raised up to be crucified is the one that through hymns and sacrifice lifted up is now glorified through all creation. We pray for dreams and vision, revelation, that apocalyptic revelation, that the enlightening of eyes, the things that were not known before are made known now, that dreams, visions, revelation right now, wisdom, not just head knowledge but wisdom is that experiential knowledge, that applied knowledge of I have heard and I have seen and now I am walking out. I am now changing my life unto the dominion of the kingdom of God through his Son Jesus. So we pray for our brothers and sisters and right now in the name of Jesus which you give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation. Turn your eyes to Jesus, revelation, look to him, open their eyes, open their hearts. With your heart for Israel, in their eyes and give them that spirit of wisdom and revelation. Holy Spirit, I pray that right now that you would just be thick, that your presence would be thick in Israel. God that there would be dreams in the night and visions Lord, that you would reveal to your sons and daughters the glory of Jesus, the truth of Jesus, that they wouldn't just see him as a prophet who died on the cross Lord but that they would see him as the resurrected Christ, the fulfillment of the law. Lord would they see you as the fulfillment of the law Lord that they cannot obtain righteousness by their own works but only through the cross and through the blood of the Lamb. God would they see you as the bridegroom long awaiting the day of your return but would they see you as the lamb who was slain for their sins and God would they see you as the lion of Judah who's coming back to defeat all the enemies of Israel, all the persecutors of the saints God. You're chosen beloved, you're chosen beloved God. We as Gentiles were grafted in but Israel is the chosen beloved of Jesus. God would they see all facets of you, would it not just be head knowledge Lord but would it be a Holy Spirit revelation by your grace, by your works God, by your might would they see all sides of you Jesus, would they see all sides of you through a spirit of revelation God in Jesus name would they see you as the Lord. I pray just as I just pray the lyrics of the song we were singing earlier that whenever human heart finds its native cry then in one enraptured hymn of praise will sing Christ be magnified. God as you reveal yourself to them would they praise you would they worship you would they lay their lives down sacrificially to serve you God just like you encountered Saul he was persecuting you that's what you said to him I'm Jesus whom you persecuting just like Saul became Paul and turned his and laid his life down to serve you to worship you to send your gospel forth over that also happened in Israel now even as we're praying God as you encounter people would it lead to it to praise and to worship and to the glory of Jesus and would it lead to the gospel going forth other Jews evangelizing to Jews God but I just pray that as you bring a spirit of wisdom and revelation that there would speak praise in the streets evangelism God that there would be Jewish believers laying their lives down to serve you radically laying the lives down to serve you radically God and Jesus let them see you holy and righteous as you really are flood them with life do as you are true king messiah son of man make just one worship you so father we just pray for your people we partner with them we partner with us on your heart we pray for eyes to be open hearts to be opened ears to be open and minds to be open to see your son was beautiful and glorious king of kings and lord of lords seated at the right hand of the father the only way the truth in the life the only way to enter in to the throne of God with boldness and confidence we ask for that revelation in the name of Jesus we pray amen and amen thank you for joining us for this hour of prayer we're going to be continuing to pray for Israel through these next week Monday through Friday 8 noon and 6 30 you can join us online at 8 a.m but you can come down town to the radiant city center and join with us in person for the afternoon evening thank you and God bless