 Good morning and welcome to Friday morning prayer. So happy to see everyone here in the room, just to invite you to stand. I wanna welcome those of you with us online as well. We're gonna be opening today out of Psalm 63 in verse one, oh God, you are my God. Early I will seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you. In a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your powers and glory. Let me come before you this morning, putting aside every other thing, every other desire of our heart and choosing to set you in the first place. What our soul longs for you. You are the one thing of our hearts. What our eyes be fixed on you this morning. What distractions and just other things be put aside. But there be nothing in the way of keeping our souls from longing just for you. Lord, we love you. We love you. Who are the one thing we desire. Let's worship. In the center of come and take your center of our hearts come and take and share with us how we long to see voices one. Our heart is Maranatha. To be lifted up, highly exalted, where you belong. This is the soul cry of our heart. It's come, Lord Jesus. Nothing else matters. Always say, it's come, Lord Jesus. What's it would you come? Would you hasten the day of your return? Thank you, Lord. We're gonna stay right here and we're gonna continue singing, but I want us to do it as an intercessory worship. Declaring this song, this cry of Maranatha over Israel, over the conflicts happening there right now. And so Lord, we just come before you and our cry is Maranatha. Lord, would you come? Would you pour out your spirit? God, would you come and establish your throne? Lord, you are the most high. The principalities and powers influencing the things happening in Israel are below you. It's not even close. So Lord, would you come and would you, as we sing, would you stir yourself up like you promised? Would you stir yourself up like a man of war? As we sing, God, would our worship stir you up? Would it call you to move? Would it beckon you to draw near to your beloved people? The ones who your covenant is with? Do not forget them, God. So as we worship, Lord, would you stir yourself up like a man of war? Would you go forth and battle the principalities and powers that are moving in Israel right now, God? Let's continue to sing. Would you come as a man of war? To take what's yours? To take your throne? Show yourself as the God of Israel? Would we ask that right now, in the name of Jesus, Lord, that the Lion of Judah would come forth, devouring, would you devour every principality and power, every spiritual principality and power that stands against Israel? God, we pray in faith that you hear our prayers and that you move it. So God, we just pray that you would come against the principalities and powers that are influencing Hamas, influencing Hezbollah. Lord, that you would be the God of Israel, that you would protect your children, and forget them not, Lord. Israel shall be a praise in the earth. Israel shall be a praise in the earth, and right now she is being attacked, Lord. Would you come and would you be her defender? Would you come and be her God? Would you come and be the Lion of Judah, who goes forth like a man of war? Then Jesus' name, that the Lion of Judah, would come. Your voice splits the cedars, foundations. Would you roar, Lord? Lift your voice against the enemies of Israel. Do not be silent. Your voice has the power to split the cedars, to shake the foundations of the earth. With your very voice, Lord, the earth was formed. God, we ask that you would not be silent as Israel is under attack, but God, that you would lift up your voice and that the Lion of Judah would roar against her enemies. Pushing back the principalities and powers, nothing can stand before you, Lord. Nothing can stand before you. God, your voice has the power, your voice has the power to split the cedars. God, so we ask that you would speak, Lord, that you would declare that you are the God of Israel, that none may come against her. God, in Psalm 129, say, let Israel now say, many a time they have afflicted me for my youth, that they have not prevailed against me. The flowers plowed on my back, they made their furrows long. But the Lord is righteous. He has cut and pieces the cords of the wicked, let all those who hate Zion be put to shame and turned back. God, this is your word. So we pray, Lord, acknowledging that you are righteous, Lord, that you would cut and pieces the cords of the wicked, that those who hate Zion would be put to shame and turned back. So Lord, we just ask that you would come and that you would cut into pieces the cords of the wicked. God, that their plans and their schemes against Israel would simply fall apart, that their strategy would be, it wouldn't make sense. Lord, in the practical, that their attacks against Israel would fall flat, things would go wrong, that their advances would fall flat, that they wouldn't, they wouldn't prevail. God, so we ask in Jesus' name that you would cut and pieces the cords of the wicked against you. The God who rules over Israel can stand against you. You don't have any. No military strategy of nations. He stands against you, Lord. Military strategy, no plan of man and against you. One that would seek to destroy your people. One that would seek to, to wipe them off the face of the earth that you created. Nothing can stand against you. So God, we just pray that you would exalt yourself in Israel. That where one day you will have a physical throne, God, in the spirit, would you establish your throne today. God, that the powers that have been ruling and reigning in Israel and Gaza on the West Bank or that those thrones, those idols would be torn down and the throne of Jesus would be established. In the spirit, Lord, come down and drive out all principalities and powers and establish your throne. Exalt yourself. You are righteous. You are righteous concerning Israel, God. You have been good to her. You have never forsaken her. You have always been with her. Lord, as these principalities and powers, Lord, as they attempt to claim the land that you have promised to your chosen people, God, would you come down and would you establish your throne, the throne that is above all others, the throne that is higher than any others, the one in which Jesus sits and rules and reigns on. God, so in Jesus' name, would you establish your throne in Israel? Jesus and Hezbollah would realize they are fighting against the God of Israel. It's the God of Israel. To you that we can to lean on your arms of love. To you are deserving of everything that we could ever give you. Our song, our worship, our lives, our service. Nothing will be ever to pay back the debt that we owe you. The price that you paid on the cross, how great it was. We're gonna take the last few minutes here and continue in a time of intercession for Israel, starting in Isaiah 49, verse 14. But Zion said, the Lord has forsaken me. My Lord has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her nursing child and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. Lord, the very scars in your hands remind you of your promises to Israel, the price that you paid, Lord, the price that you paid. So we ask, Lord, that you would fulfill your promise and forget her not, that you would remember them in their affliction, that you would remember the promises that you have given to her. But she shall be a praise in the earth. Lord, so we ask for you to show mercy to Israel, to look upon them with compassion, to be moved by the cries of your children, the cries of your beloved, forget her not. Continually, Lord, put her before you. You have inscribed her on the palms of your hands. So God, in Jesus' name, we ask that you would remember Israel in her affliction. Do not turn away. Watch over her. Watch over her, Lord. Shadow of your wing, Lord, her affliction. Run to her like a good father. Would you lock eyes with her? Isaiah 51, verse 12. I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who will die? And of the son of man who will. Lord, you alone are the comforter of Zion. You alone are her peace. You alone are her promise. So Lord, we just come before you and we ask that as you look upon her, as you see what's being done in the land that you have promised to your beloved, God, that you would be the comforter of Israel. God, as they're being attacked, as there's murders happening in the streets, as people and children are being beheaded, as men, women and children are all being taken captive and held hostage by these terrorist groups. God, would you comfort Zion? Would you comfort your beloved people? Would you be with them? Would you be close to them? Would you strengthen them by your spirit? God, as they're being held hostage, would there be testimonies of visitations of the man in white, the man Jesus, whom even though they may have rejected you as a Messiah, you still love them. Your promises are still for them. You have not broken your covenant with them. God, we ask that you would be close to your people, that you would be their comforter, that you would not forget them or the comforter of Zion or strengthen them in their time of need. Bring them peace. Bring them their daily bread. You know their needs, God. Let's be asking Jesus' name that you would be the comforter of Zion. God knew that the leader of Hamas has declared a global day of Jihad. These terrorist cells across all of the earth for them to go out to kill Jews across the earth, not just in Israel. So as we end, we're just gonna go before the Lord in prayer. God would just pray for a holy protection over your people no matter where they are, no matter what country, what corner, what end of the earth. God, you see them. You hide them in the shadow of your wing. You stand with them when you protect them. God would just demolish the plans of the enemy, demolish the plans of the wicked. God come against these terrorist cells across the earth who would declare today as a day of Jihad, a day to exterminate Jews. Come against it, Lord. Show your wrath. Show your wrath, God. Come against those who would stand against your people, against those who would seek to devour Israel, who would seek to devour Jews across the earth. Stand against them and be with your people. Forget them not. Rise up, God, in your cause. According to your will and purposes, remember the covenant you have made with them. Hurt yourself up, God, in heaven. Heaven and earth would be accomplished, not the will of the leader. We choose just to seek to devour your children, your beloved people. Be the man of war today. Pray all these things in your holy name. We're gonna be back here today, praying for Israel at noon at 6.30. We hope to see you here.