 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer. So glad you're joining us today. We're going to jump right in as we have been throughout the month of May praying specifically for the nation of Israel and for the Jewish people part of this Isaiah 62 fast that we're joining with five to 6 million intercessors around the globe praying daily for at least an hour. Every single day. So think about that five to six million hours of prayer every day going up globally before the Lord for the nation, the covenant people of God, Jewish people. Today we're going to jump right in and spend the first 10 to 15 minutes praying specifically for this whole focus and bringing our hearts into focus. You might think, well, why do we do that? Why do we do that first? Well, remind you that Paul wrote in Romans chapter one verse 16. He said, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation for those who believe to the Jew first and also to the Greek. So there's a primary principle even about the going forth of the gospel that because of election because because God chose them first, not as the only nation that he loved, but as the first nation that he would establish his covenant with that there's even a gospel precedent for us. And I believe a prayer precedent that as we pray in the power of the gospel, the power of the Holy Spirit that we pray for Israel first. So we're going to do that this morning in our focus over the next few moments as we're praying is that their hearts would be softened to the gospel of Messiah, the gospel of Jesus Christ. You know, even though Israel is in the land, even though that Jews have been brought from all the different four corners of the world over the last 50 to 60 hundred years back into the land. For the most part, they're in the land in unbelief and doubt and still not embracing the Messiah that God sent to them. Now there are some there are many mess, messianic communities and many messianic believers as well as Arab Palestinian Christians that live in the land of Israel. And so we thank God for that, but it's just a foretaste. It's just the beginning. The Bible says very clearly in Romans chapter 11 verse number 25, it says that a partial hardening partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. So it's not a complete hardening, but it's a partial hardening which makes it difficult, makes it very hard for the gospel to penetrate the barrier of the traditional Jewish heart. And in Israel at this at this moment in the nation of Israel and around the world as well like New York and different places like that where there's large concentrations of Jewish population. There are those who are secular in their minds that they're Jewish by lineage, but really have no religious orientation whatsoever. And their hardening is just to the gospel as a whole because they're not spiritual. And then there are the Orthodox and the Orthodox are those that are very religious, almost like the Pharisees that Jesus encountered in the gospels. But they are very resistant to the gospel, even in the nation of Israel. This has to do with that hardening that they are under, but the Bible says there's going to come a time when the fullness of the Gentiles is beginning to fade and God's going to re begin to work among the Jewish people to win them back to himself. And so we're going to pray for that today. Lord, we come before you and we pray first for those that you elected first those that you selected and called your people gathered them together out of Egypt around Mount Sinai and you came to them. You came in clouds of fire and thunder and lightning and divine glory, the Kabad presence of the Lord approached Mount Sinai with might and with zeal and with love. You drew near to the nation of Israel and you spoke to them and you gave your law to them and you married yourself to them. It was a wedding covenant. You said, I will be your God. You will be my people. And Lord, your heart still still burns with zeal, still burns with passion for the ones that you called to yourself that were to be a light to the nations, a nation of kings and priests set apart in holy from all the other nations of the world that through Israel, you would disperse the good news that you would bring righteousness and redemption and justice. But Father, hardening has taken place because of the rejection. And so we, the Gentile church, the church of Jesus, we're praying right now that that hardening would begin to soften. We're praying for a softening of hearts. We're praying, Father, that just as you said in your word that Hebrews chapter three today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness. When you put your fathers, they put me to the test and they saw my works for 40 years. Therefore, I was provoked with that generation and I said, they always go astray in their hearts. Lord, we're praying that the heart that has become hard because of the rejection of Yeshua today. We intercede on their behalf as watchmen on the wall and we're saying, Lord, would you release the oil of conviction, the oil of your Holy Spirit out upon the Jewish dispersion and even those regathered begin to soften their hearts. Lord, we know that it's the kindness of the Lord that leads to repentance. So, Father, we're praying that our hearts would encounter your kindness. Lord, that even as rabbis are standing before the western wall and they're praying and they're studying the scriptures. Lord, that they would have sudden awareness of your spirit upon them and their eyes would be open and their hearts would be softened. That they would see Jesus even in the Torah. Jesus, you said on the road to Emmaus when you were walking with the two disciples, you opened their eyes and you opened their hearts. That they might see you beginning in Moses and all throughout the Old Testament and their hearts burned within them. Lord, we pray for that same type of encounter to take place. Lord, that you would come up near those who are searching for you in the scriptures. Jesus, you said to the Pharisees, you study the scriptures because you think in them you find. You think in them you're going to find everything that you're looking for, but here I am, I'm standing in your midst. Lord, would you stand in their midst and would you open their eyes? Pull back the veil as they read Moses. Give them eyes to see that the God of this age would no longer blind them. That their unbelief would no longer dull them to the reality of who you are, that Jesus, you are the Messiah. The long-awaited King, Son of David, fulfillment of all the ancient prophecies. The fulfillment down to every jot and every tittle. The one that Moses spoke of when he said that a prophet like unto Moses but even greater would be raised up from within your midst. That that is speaking of Yeshua. When you said Shiloh would come, that it's speaking of Yeshua. When you said a shoe would come out of the root, come out of the stump of Jesse. That's speaking of Yeshua. When you said that a suffering servant would come who would bear our transgressions and by his stripes we would be healed. That's speaking of Yeshua. When you said a great star would arise, you're speaking of Yeshua. A son of David, a son of man would emerge, you're speaking of Jesus. Out of Bethlehem, of Ephrathah, who is small among all the tribes, a prince, a king would emerge. It's speaking of Yeshua. Jesus, it's all about you. And we pray that as the Torah, as the Old Testament is read in Israel today, eyes of rabbis, eyes of hungry searchers would be enlightened and their hearts would be softened. That their stone hearts would be chiseled away by the hammer of your word and by the oil of your Holy Spirit. Father, we're praying soften our hearts that they might see and believe. That their hearts would mourn for you as for only a begotten Son. Jesus, it's never going to happen until you reveal yourself. Father, it's never going to happen through intellect. It's only going to happen by your spirit. It's not by might and it's not by power, but it's by your Holy Spirit. God, bring softening to their hearts, even to those secular Jews that are scattered in Israel and Tel Aviv. Lord, who have a lineage, some going all the way back to the tribe of Levi, they were dedicated from the very beginning to serve you in the temple and the tabernacle as a holy priesthood. And their names are Levi and Levinson and Cohen and they have no idea that their destiny was to serve you in your house forever. Lord, we're praying, awaken the gifts and the callings of God that are without repentance. Awaken our hearts that want to sing praises to God. Awaken the teachers. Awaken the prophets. Awaken those who's in their very genetic code is traced all the way back to those who saw you at Sinai. Who encountered you. Who were brought out of Egypt through the Red Sea. Who were brought into the Promised Land across the Jordan. Who possessed the Promised Land. Who defeated giants. Who received the glory of God. Who ate the manna in the wilderness. Who drank water from Iraq. Who got awakened the very chromosomes in their bodies to hunger and to long for you the living God. Not just through religious systems. But that Psalm 63, Lord I hunger and I thirst for you is in a dry and a weary land. Lord that that would break through the hardness of their heart. Awaken hunger, soften their hearts today. Jesus name. We prophesy those moments over Israel today. We prophesy those sudden leaves. God said today is the day I helped you for today is the day of salvation. We speak that right now over the nation of Israel. We say today this hour is the day of salvation. Salvation has come to you. God has raised up the Savior Jesus. We pray right now salvation spring up from the ground. Salvation spring up from the ground right from the center of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem. The city that killed the prophets. Jesus said oh how I've longed to gather you together in my arms as a pen does her chicks. But you would not. But we're praying that today would be a day when they would. They would not miss the day of their visitation. We're praying this would be an hour of visitation. For today is the day of salvation. Wherever you're at I just want you to pray that. Vocalize that. Just say today oh Jerusalem is a day of salvation. Today oh Israel the Lord is drawing near to you. It's a day of salvation. We prophesy it in Jesus name. Let's just sing that. When they read the old covenant. The same veil remains unlifted. Because only through Christ is it taken away. Yet to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their heart. But when one turns to the Lord the veil is removed. Now the Lord is a spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. Father we pray today that according to. The blood of Jesus that was shed the Passover lamb were praying. God remove and lift the veil. Move and lift the veil that blinds their hearts. And not just theirs only but father. Even here in our own city in our own nation. In the nations of the earth Lord. There's such a blindness to the gospel of Jesus. There's such a blindness to the freedom that's found in Jesus. Where it's words go in our ear and come right back out. We miss it. Our heart does not absorb it. Father we're asking you today. To soften both Jew and Gentiles hearts. Lord soften our hearts. Lord we don't want to miss our day of visitation. Lord we don't want our hearts to become hard. Our minds to become hardened. That when we read the word we miss it. Because only in you Jesus is that veil and that hardness taken away. We say with David in Psalm 51 where he said. Restore unto me the joy of my salvation. Give me a new heart. Give me a renewed heart and a right spirit within me. Create a me a new heart oh God. And renew a right spirit within me. Give us soft hearts pliable hearts today. Like your word says today if you hear his voice do not harden your heart. As in the day of rebellion Lord today we pray God we choose not to harden our hearts. And to the place where it has become hard. We're just welcoming the Holy Spirit to begin in us by softening our hearts. In an age right now where culture is like a hardening agent. It's hard to go through a day Father. And not have our hearts just become a little harder. A little more calloused. A little more desensitized. A little more distracted. But Lord today in your presence there is freedom. Today there is freedom. We want our hearts not to grow cold. We want our hearts to burn red hot. We want soft pliable hearts. That feel every prompting and every moment of conviction by your Holy Spirit. Lord we want the freedom that comes from your presence. We don't want bondage. We don't want captivity. We don't want anxiety. Lord depression and fear. We were not created to carry those mantles. Lord we were meant to walk in the freedom that is found in you. And to have the mind of Christ. To have the fruit of the Holy Spirit and peace. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness. Self control Father. We want the fruit of the Spirit because we have the presence of the Spirit. That our heart is soft and alive towards you. Wherever you're at right now I want you to just make this your prayer before the Lord. Just say God give me a soft heart. Whatever veils, whatever hardening has happened in me. Whether I know it or not. Today Lord would you apply the oil and the wine to my heart. I knew a right spirit with it. Created me a pure heart once again. Softened my heart. It is kings and priests from all nations. Lord you are worthy to receive glory, majesty and dominion. And might not just from one nation and not just from a few. But Father from every nation. All nations will come and worship before you Jesus. Before your throne. Kings and authorities. And people from every tribe on every continent and every language and every skin color and every era. Will come and bow before you on that day. And say worthy. And say glory to the righteous one. Glory to the only one. The only righteous one. The root of David, the son of man, the glorious, beautiful lamb of God. Joining in with the first fruits of that moment. The first fruits of that day. When we see you receive all the glory that you are doing. All the honor that we lift you up. We exalt you righteous one. We exalt you holy one. We exalt you worthy one lamb of God. One with nail scars in his hands. The one with fire in his eyes. The one who radiates righteousness. The one that all the angels worship. The one that the saints and the elders fall down before and cast their crowns. The beautiful, glorious, spotless lamb of God. The righteous root of David. Worthy are you. Lord may you receive all the glory and all the honor that you are. Lord would you break through the darkness. Would you break every idol. Would you dispel all the darkness and reveal your glory in the earth. And mark a people with your glory. Mark a people with your praise. That our kings and priests before you everywhere we go. Wearing the ephod of thanksgiving. Marked by the glory of God in our lives. Our mouths filled with hope. Our mouths filled with faith. With soft, pliable hearts. Walking in the power of your holy spirit. We give you the praise and we give you the honor for it this morning in Jesus name. Amen. Listen we want to thank you for joining us over the last hour and encourage you. Pray without ceasing and join us today at noon and tonight at 6 30 p.m. As we continue to lift up his name. Glorify Jesus from the heart of our city right here. God bless you have a great day.