 Hey, good morning. Welcome to the morning prayer meeting from the Radiant City Center. This is day two of the Isaiah 62 fast. If you haven't heard about that yet, there's a incredible about six million people globally that are joining in a 21 day prayer and fasting initiative for Israel. And culminating, we haven't even said it, but day 21, there's going to be a hundred million people praying for Israel on the same same day. And I feel like whatever reason that is just blowing by us and we don't it's like, oh, that's cool. No, that's that's pretty historic. A hundred million people at once praying for the nation of Israel. That's like signs of the time stuff. And we get to join in with our little prayer room in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and join in and pray for the apple of God's eye. And we're going to be praying out of Isaiah 62. So go ahead and pull out your Bibles. Turn to Isaiah 62. This is one that it's really helpful to to read along and pray along side. We're going to read a little bit of Isaiah 62 and then we're going to pray for a bit and go into worship and end with more intercession. By Isaiah 62 verse one says, for Zion's sake, I will not hold my peace. And for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles, so see your righteousness and all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will name. You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no longer be termed forsaken, nor shall your land any more be termed desolate. But you shall be called Hesbaba. The Lord, you shall be called Hesbaba and your land Bula, for the Lord delights in you and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. In verse six, I have set my watchmen, 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 he makes Jerusalem a praise in all of the earth. So God, we come before you. Lord, we enter through the gate of thanksgiving. Lord, we thank you for your plans and purposes. Lord, we thank you for the nation of Israel. Lord, we thank you that our salvation has come. Through Israel, O Jesus, you came through the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And Lord, because of their partial blindness, Lord, the gospel has come to us. We are like wild olive branches that have been grafted in to the salvation that came to the house of Israel. Lord, we come with gratefulness this morning. Lord, we don't want to be like the wild olive branches that boast against the vine that boast against the tree that say, God, why would we spend time praying and interceding for this nation that you care for that our salvation came through? We consider the goodness and the severity of God this morning. We say thank you for our salvation. Lord, thank you that the oracles and the promises of God came through Israel. Lord, we thank you that the covenants came through this people and we're grateful, Lord, that we have been grafted in as one new man. Gentiles who were not born of Israel, but now grafted into Israel and part of the promises of God thanks to the covenantal blood of Jesus. And so Lord, we stand as one new man, Jew and Gentile, standing together as those who have been bought and purchased with the blood of Jesus, who are robed in the righteousness of Jesus, who because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, we are alive to the promises that you made for the people of Israel. And so Lord, just like Paul had the burden, he said, I would be accursed. I would wish myself accursed if my nation Israel could be saved. Lord, that level of intercession that Paul, the apostle had where he was willing to be accursed from you if it meant salvation for Israel. Lord, we want to step into that level of burden praying for your people. Lord, we want to have that type of intercessory heart. Lord Jesus, just like you were willing to go to the cross even though Jerusalem had rejected you. Lord, even though so many in Israel have rejected you, Lord, we don't want to respond with that same spirit and reject them also, but like you were willing to suffer and go as our great high priest and pay the price of intercession. Lord, we want to pay the price of intercession and lay down our lives for the sake of this nation that you care for. And so Lord, we approach you this morning and we ask for salvation in Israel. Lord, we ask during these 21 days, God, why not send revival to Jerusalem? Why not send it to Tel Aviv, Golan Heights and all throughout the land? Lord, this land that you once walked, Lord, we ask that you would walk through this land once again. Lord, our hearts desire for Israel to be saved. And so this morning we ask for your salvation and your hands and your purposes to be made manifest. Lord, as six million people joined together in unity, Lord, we ask that it would be like dew down Mount Hermit. Lord, it would be like oil down the beard of Aaron, the priest, Lord, that it would equal refreshments in Israel in the name of Jesus. Watchman that you set on the wall. The prize of your heart. Come on, let's all bless the name of the Lord together. Everyone's 11 around what we're singing, just as we're prophetically singing about the mercy of God toward Israel. Romans 11 28 says concerning the gospel, speaking of Israel, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers for the gifts and the callings of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet now you have obtained mercy through Israel's disobedience. Even so, these also have now been disobedient that through the mercy shown you, they also may obtain mercy for God has committed them all to disobedience that he might have mercy on all. And then in verse 11 11, I say then, have they stumbled speaking of Israel that they should fall? Certainly not. But through their fall to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now, if their fall is riches for the world and their failure riches for the Gentiles, this is key. How much more their fullness. Lord, if we have received mercy because of Israel's disobedience, how much more will we receive by Israel's fullness when they step into the promises that are irrevocable? The callings of God that you have set irrevocably, Lord, where you have made covenant with your people. And Lord, we remember mercy this morning. Lord, we have obtained mercy, Lord, because of your great love and your great mercy for us that you've allowed a partial blindness to come upon your people. But Lord, we will not be like the servant who receives mercy and leaves the presence of the king and he chokes out the other servant and refuses to show mercy to him, even though he just received great mercy. But we refuse to be like that servant who receives mercy from the king and then turns to Israel and will not bless and will not contend for Israel. So we right now in thankfulness and gratitude for the mercy of God, Lord, if through their fall we've obtained mercy, then how much more their fullness? And so, Lord, we step in as Gentiles who've been saved and redeemed, who've been grafted into the plans, purposes, promises, covenants of God. And we say, Lord, we contend for the fullness of Israel. We contend for the fullness of the promise. Like Paul says, I pray that all of Israel would be saved. Like Zechariah 14 prophesies, they will look on the one they pierced and they will mourn and all of Israel will be saved. Lord, we step in content for those promises and that fullness. God, we ask in this time where six million people globally are praying for 21 days and 100 million people are praying for 24 hours for the people of Israel. Lord, we contend for the expression of your fullness, where we think of Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. Lord, and we ask that God of glory might give the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Lord, Israel has wisdom and zeal, but not of knowledge. Lord, we need to see you step in and release the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. Lord, like the two Jews that were walking on the road to Emmaus, where you opened up the scriptures and you opened their eyes and their hearts burned within them, you revealed the risen Savior. Lord, like the thousands that got saved on Pentecost, when there was a witness of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem and tongues of fire descended on your disciples, Lord, and Peter preached the gospel and thousands were saved. The blinders of thousands were removed. Lord, you did it 2,000 years ago on Pentecost. Lord, we know that was just a down payment of a greater expression of you pouring out your spirit on all flesh. And so Lord, we ask 2,000 years later, Lord, would you send a fresh Pentecost? Would you again release your Holy Spirit on the people of Israel? Lord, we pray for every Messianic believer in the land. Lord, this minority group, Lord, that have had their eyes open. The blinders, the scales have fallen off their eyes and they see Messiah. They see Jesus Christ for who he is. They see him as the fulfillment of the law and the prophets, the fulfillment of the covenants, the fulfillment of the purposes of God. And God, we ask, would you pour out your spirit on those believers living in the land of Israel? Lord, that there would be a mighty revival in Israel, Lord, even in the time of great turmoil and testing. Lord, let your word run swiftly and be glorified. So Lord, we ask Ephesians 1, 17, for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, Lord, let scales fall off eyes in the name of Jesus. Jesus, Lord, I ask during this 21 days, Lord, as rabbis study your word in Israel as they read through the law and the prophets ask that you would reveal Jesus. Lord, as they read even some are tempted to skip over Isaiah 53 because of how descriptive and how revelatory Isaiah the prophet prophesied of Jesus is suffering. Lord, I ask as they read of the one who's been wounded and pierced, Lord, that they would see Jesus, that their eyes would be open, that they would no longer look for Messiah to come from within, but they would look up to see him seated on the throne. God, like you reveal Jesus to the disciples or where he walked through the walls and he showed them the scars in his hands and his disciples in a small way fulfilled that promise of Zechariah 14 where they looked on the one they pierced and they mourned and then they rejoiced. Lord, we ask again, Lord, would you exalt Jesus? Would you glorify him? Would you show him off, Lord, that they would see the one they pierced and they would mourn and weep for they see the Messiah Jesus? Lord, as they pour through the law, as they pour through the prophets, God, just like you did for each one of us, we were once blind, we were once far, we once did not see Jesus for who he was and we had our eyes open. So Lord, I ask for the rabbis, Orthodox Jews that are in Israel, that are studying your word. Oh, God, that you would open their eyes to see the wondrous things from your law. God, that you would unveil your son Jesus, that they would see the suffering, risen, exalted, glorified Jesus, the one who came not first to be a political leader, but to be our great high priest and our intercessor. To be our atoning sacrifice, Lord, they would remember the Passover and the blood of the Lamb that had to be spilled for the redemption and forgiveness of their sins. So Lord, we ask for those Jews that are living in the land, where particularly the rabbis and the leaders, Lord, as they read the scriptures, open their eyes and let them see Jesus. In the revelation, in the knowledge of who Jesus is, let them see the risen Savior. Rapid fire prayer, we're going to keep praying for Israel, we're going to keep asking for the Lord to save those in the land of Israel and send revival. And so anyone who would like to come and pray, just go ahead and line up right here beside me. Just pray 10 to 15 second prayers and we're going to close out this prayer in the last 10 minutes. I just want to encourage you. Stir yourself up, set yourself on the wall and let's continue to contend for Israel for this last 10 minutes. Father, it is your heart's desire that Israel would be saved. We pray for scales to fall off their eyes. We pray for encounters in the night of the man Christ Jesus who is their Messiah, born into flesh, dwelt among them perfect and sinless, lifted high to offer salvation for Jew and Gentile. We ask for encounter and salvation in the name of Jesus. Concurrentians chapter 3, what their minds were hardened for to this day when they read 3 the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses has read, a veil lies over their hearts. 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. Lord, we pray for the tearing of the veil, that same veil that that was torn from top to bottom that kept us from looking into the Holy of Holies. Lord, we pray for the nation of Israel, that that veil that is read when Moses, when the Old Covenant is read, that that veil would be removed in Christ. Supernaturally, let the season of the Gentiles provoke to jealousy the people of your calling, the people of your destiny in Jesus name. In Joel, Lord, you say, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions. God, we just pray that you would reveal your son to these people. Lord, that visions would come and dreams would come tonight. That dreams would come tonight at midnight, that you would show off, that you would show up in their dreams. God, that they would wake up and have testimony. Did you see that? Did you see that? They would say, I had a dream about that too. What is this? Lord, would you show up in the nighttime with dreams and visions, spirit and wisdom and revelation? Come with discernment of the living God. And I ask God that you would awaken hunger deep within them, or that they would search for truth for Jesus. And as they hunger and thirst for righteousness, that you would fill them and meet them in that place in Jesus name. God, I just pray that you would continue to raise up Christian believers to stand with Israel. Lord, to stand with your people, that as they return, God, that we would not have the attitude of the older brother, Lord, that we would join you in celebrating and receiving them. And God, just that, you would mobilize believers to pray for them, to intercede for them. God, bring Israel back to you. Yes, sir, we thank you that you're the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and you are the God of Israel. So Father, I pray that you would put an epicenter on your chosen city, Jerusalem, Lord. And I pray the world would turn and focus. God, we pray that kings would be in awe of a land that's got the shalom of God over top of it. But I pray that the rumors of wars and the spreading God, I pray you would put a supernatural dome over your nation, God, that it would be, it would be defended by the king of kings. And Lord, we thank you that you're using this time, this period, Lord, I pray for an apathetic spirit of those not supporting Israel as believers, Lord, that we would shed our Western mentality of climbing of influence and we would humble ourselves to the biblical story, your story, God, we revolve around you. We are not the center, Lord, you are the center and you chose Israel as your people, in Jesus' name. That the mountains might quake at your presence, God, we pray for a quaking over Israel today, that you would rend the heavens over your nation today. And in this time, for such a time as this, why not today? Holy Spirit, would you pour out your presence over the country of Israel in homes and gatherings of people? Would there be outpouring and moments of revival that would begin to stir up in the country of Israel? Lord, we just pray for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit in greater measure in the nation of Israel. And God, I ask that you would continue to raise up apostolic messianic Jews like Dr. Michael Brown, who would not be afraid of shame or what anybody thinks of them, God, but that they would witness to the nation of Israel. God, and I ask for just the return of apostolic leaders who would witness to the nation of Israel in Jesus' name. But Pastor Spencer was praying about delivering us from our ego-centric gospel, where we are the center of the universe, into God's story. And Paul just hits the nail on the head when he says, for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of Gentile has come in. And so all of Israel will be saved. As it is written, the deliverer will come out of Zion. He will turn away on godliness from Jacob, for this is my covenant with them. When I take away their sins, I love those two warnings, to not be ignorant of the mystery and not to be wise in your own opinion. And that's what's happened when we elevate ourselves and just cast Israel out and say, God's done with them, why should we have to pray for them? That Lord says you're being ignorant and wise in your own opinion. I love what the call that Pastor Spencer gave us. We need to humble ourselves and recognize that it was God's great mercy that he saved us because of the blindness that happened to Israel. But we're stepping in in this fast and there's a, there's just a humility that comes with saying, it's not about me. It's not even about my nation. It's about you and your plans and purposes. And I come in agreement in that. And what's beautiful is in doing that, you receive all of the blessing that God pours out on Israel. You know that, right? Like they don't get their own special blessings and covenants that you don't get to participate in. We kind of act like that. But no, you actually benefit and get those same benefits when you bless and speak blessing over Israel. So let's just remember that and just be in prayer and in intercession. We're going to keep contending every, every morning. We're taking the whole hour during this 21 days and all the other prayer meetings in person. We're beginning by, by interceding for Israel. And so let's, let's go out humble, not wise in our own opinions, but thinking God for our part to play in the story. So amen. Amen. Amen. And amen. Thank you, Lord, for getting to bless your people. So we'll be back on June 6, 30 p.m. And then tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Bless you.