 Hey, good morning, welcome to morning prayer. We are on day eight, I believe. Day 10, so close. So, so close. Day 10 of the Isaiah 62 prayer and fasting initiative, Praying for Israel. Most of you are probably aware, but during six million people who've committed to praying an hour a day for Israel, culminating on day 21, there's gonna be a hundred million people praying for Israel on the same day that has never happened in the history of the earth. And so, pretty incredible moment we get to live in. I wanna start out of Isaiah 62 and we're gonna begin today. I wanna encourage you to grab your Bibles out and we're just gonna begin praying right off the bat and then go into some worship and then back into intercession. But I wanna pray and read that Isaiah 62 passage is so good to see it with our eyes as we pray. But Isaiah 62, one, 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 shall 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 be termed desolate, but you shall be called hefsaba 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 as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride. So shall your God rejoice over you. I have set watchmen on your wall of 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 till he establishes and makes up Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Let's go before the Lord in prayer and intercession. Father, we are honored to in a small part be your watchmen on the wall. God, those even Gentiles, thousands of miles away from Jerusalem, Lord, ones who are willing to step in and feel your heart and your burden for Israel in our weak simple little way, Lord, we come before you right now from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Lord, and we bless the people of Israel, Lord. We bless the city of Jerusalem, Lord. We bless this plot of land that you've had in your heart since before the foundations of the world. Lord, this city that you picked out for your glory to rest and dwell. Lord, this mountain that you picked out for the new Jerusalem to come down and for you to reign forever on the earth. And Lord, from this house we bless Jerusalem and Israel. And God, I just ask during this time, Lord, we're praying Isaiah 62 and there's six million intercessors globally praying for 21 days and 100 million praying on the final day. God, I ask that you would set watchmen on the wall. Lord, I ask that you would apprehend intercessors, Lord, that would get your heart and your burden, Lord, that they would see the apple of your eye, Lord, that they would carry your heart in prayer and in intercession. God, I just ask that you would set your watchmen on the wall, Lord, raise up intercessors for Israel, Lord. Raise up those who would stand guard and watch and pray for your people in Israel. So God, we just ask across the globe during this prayer initiative, Lord, set watchmen on the wall for Israel. Set your watchmen on the wall over Israel. If you're to the drowning, I was lost till you found me. You broke the chains of your steadfast love in the generation. Your steadfast love endures forever. It's just like you taught us to pray on earth as it is in heaven. We long to see your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. We long to see a break into this moment in time and we long to see your throne descend and be established in Jerusalem when you come again and the increase of your government will know no end. Well, that's the day we're looking at and that's the day we're contending to see right now on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, we want to see your kingdom come and be established. Jesus, we think of your words in Matthew 24. So you will not see me again until you say, bless to see who comes in the name of the Lord. You peered over the balcony of Jerusalem. Felt the sting of the rejection of the city, the blindness that had to happen so that the fullness of the Gentiles could come in. You said, you will not see me again until you say, bless to see who comes in the name of the Lord. And so Lord, that's as Gentiles who have been grafted in wild olive branches that have been grafted into the roots or that have been grafted into Israel who pertains the adoption, who pertains the covenants, Lord, who pertains the glory, who pertains the promises, Lord, as wild olive branches have been grafted in. Lord, we commit to stand on the wall until Jerusalem says, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Until they look upon the one they pierced and they mourned. Until your feet stand on the Mount of Olives, it splits in two. And the weakest of them fight like David and the strongest fight like God. And they look upon the one they pierced and they say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Lord, we stand before you and contend just like your kingdom is now and not yet, Lord, we contend for the fullness of Israel now. Even though we know the fullness won't happen until that day, Lord, we contend for it to break in now and to save souls right now. So as we move into intercession, Lord, we come before you and we lift up Jews in the land of Israel and we ask for salvation out of Ephesians one, 17 through 19, we ask that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him. The eyes of your understanding would be enlightened. You may know the hope of his calling. What are the riches of the glorious inheritance of the saints and the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe? So Lord, we lift up Jews in the land of Israel and Lord, we pray the same prayer that Paul, a Jew prayed 2000 years ago for the church in Ephesus. Lord, even as a Jew contended for Gentiles, Lord, we flip the script and as Gentiles, Lord, we contend back for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, Lord. We remember that Paul, a Jew who had all the pedigree, all the knowledge in the world, all the, he knew the scriptures front to back. Lord, he knew the promises and yet his eyes were blinded but in a moment the spirit of wisdom and revelation met him on the road to Damascus. Lord, you came as a blinding light and revealed yourself to Saul. And Lord, we ask in that same way, would you show up, Lord? Even in this 21 days, supernaturally, God, would you send your blinding light from heaven that reveals Jesus, Lord? I specifically pray for the Orthodox Jews who are studying Torah, who are pouring through the scriptures and they see the one who was promised but they don't see him. They see Messiah but they're blinded and they don't see Jesus. So Lord, we just ask, even as they pour through the prophets, they pour through the Psalms, Lord, they pour through the Pentateuch and all of the law and the prophets that speak of you, Jesus, Lord, in a moment you can open their eyes. In a moment you can show yourself. In a moment they can see you in Isaiah 53. They can see the suffering servant, the one who went to the cross like a lamb to the slaughter. In a moment they can see Jesus, the Jewish man who walked. Emmanuel, God with us who walked the very land of Israel and who died and was resurrected and is now raised to life and glorified. Oh, Lord, they miss you as the suffering servant, Lord. I ask that you would reveal the glorified Jesus. The Jesus that showed up to John, the island of Patmos and he fell on his face like a dead man. Eyes like a flame of fire, hair like wool, feet like burnished bronze, Lord, that Jesus glorified, exalted and lifted high. God, we contend for salvation of the people of Israel. We ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation, the knowledge of Jesus, Lord. I ask that you would overcome just centuries, even millennial hurt, Lord, that's come from, from those who've borne the name Jesus, Gentiles who have persecuted the people of Israel, Lord, and created a deeper hardness and bitterness in their heart. God, we just ask that that would dissipate and that would fall away, Lord, and that even in this time, Lord, you would raise up Gentiles who would be a friend to Israel, Lord, that they would see the kindness of Jesus even through the love of the Gentiles. So, Lord, we ask for the people of Israel, Lord, out of Ephesians 1.17, Lord, give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. To continuing to pray for Israel. Pastor Caleb started us here. We're gonna end here in a rapid fire. So just be preparing to line up here. But in verse 10, it says, go through, go through the gates. Clear the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway. Remove the stones. Lift up a standard over the peoples. The primary way we do that, that we clear away for the people to see Jesus, to know Jesus is through the place of prayer. Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, lo, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him and his recompense before him. And they will call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord, and you will be called sought out, a city not forsaken. So, Lord, we just come now and we pepper the throne room with our prayers of agreement. Even as the world is aiming the prayer cannons on Israel and Jerusalem, God, we stand in agreement with you today and we say, Lord, release the revelation of Jesus. We declare over Israel, lo, your salvation comes. Today is the day of salvation. So we're just gonna go ahead and line up here, maybe 10, 20 people. We're gonna do 15 second prayers, this short little prayer burst of agreement in the throne room. Father, we agree that it is your desire that Israel would be saved, that you have not forgotten them, that you have set them apart to be a city on a hill that all of the nations will be blessed through them and the kings of the earth will come and bow to King Jesus, the king of the Jews. God, I just pray that you would release boldness in the messianic believers, God, and in the Christians in Israel, Lord, that just as you are mobilizing an army of intercessors, you would also mobilize an army of evangelists to send your gospel forth. Jesus, we just ask for dreams and visions that you would come in the night, God, and that you would reveal yourself to your people, God, that you would, just as you revealed yourself to your disciples as you walked down the road, God, that you would reveal yourself in scriptures to the Jewish people. Pray for laborers, for Israel, for you to begin to open the hearts of people that are interceding in fasting, Lord, that they would receive visions of a people that they have not known, a people that they have not met, that they would book one-way tickets, long-term laborers, Father, that would go without an end, that would go without a cause, that are not seeking fruit, that are not seeking notoriety, Father, but are seeking the kingdom of Israel to be known and fully known to a Messiah that died for them, by them, and with them. In Jesus' name. Jesus, we plead your blood over Jerusalem. Lord, would you surround them in faithfulness as the mountains surround the city? We ask for protection over them from missiles and rockets. Lord, we plead your blood over them. Would you protect them physically and spiritually in Jesus' name? Nor by power, but by my Holy Spirit. God, we just ask you to, the Holy Spirit to awaken the Jews that are seeking, that are searching for answers for truth. We know that they're hungry, we know that they're desperate. God, we throw without you, without Jesus, there's nothing, God, there's no life worth living without you, God. And so we ask you, Holy Spirit, to make yourself real, we take authority over that deaf and dumb spirit that's blocking them, that's binding them so they cannot see God, open their eyes so they can see, open their ears so they can hear the truth of your word in Jesus' name. This is of the depth of the riches of the wisdom, the knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments, how inscrutable are His ways for His known the mind of the Lord and who has been His counselor. Lord, I ask for the mystery of your heart. God, for the nation of Israel to be revealed. God, the plan that you had at the beginning. God, the mystery of creating a people, Lord, birthing a Messiah, birthing a church and redeeming a people back to yourself. Father, I ask in these days, in these days that the plan that's been hidden in the heart of God will be revealed on the earth. Lord, I ask for even a new prophetic messenger. God, new prophetic messengers to declare with new language to the nation of Israel the love and the kindness of God, in Jesus' name. I pray, Isaiah 40, 11, He will tend this flock like a shepherdy. He will gather the lambs in His arms. He will carry them in His bosom and gently lead those that are with you on. God, we ask, Lord, that you would fulfill this promise in your heart, that this is your flock, your sheep, your the good shepherd. And would you gather the lambs? Would you leave the 99 for the one? And would you speak to your chosen people and you would gather them and you would gently lead them in the name of Jesus? Lord, we thank you for the nation of Israel. We pray today from the north to the south, east to the west in that nation that your word would move quickly. Your promises will come to pass in Jesus' name. Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews that seek the Tanakh, they seek other rabbis. Lord, that they would seek the true rabbi, that their hearts were to be open and they can see you, Jesus, in Jesus' name. Father, I ask that they would no longer know you as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, but that they would know you as their God. That you would no longer be a God of their ancestors who has done things for their people in the past. The God that you'd be, that they would know you as the God who has done something for them now. That they would understand the things that you're doing for them now. God, just open their eyes. They have all this knowledge, but open the eyes of their heart in Jesus' name. Nine, starting in verse 17. It says, So in days departed and entered the house and laying hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight. So God, I just pray like the Saul to Paul conversion, that something like scales would fall from the eyes of the Israelites, that they will see you, that they will be known and that they will reveal, that you will reveal your glory to them and that they will see you. And God, I just pray for anisees to rise up, that they're not going to fear, that they will not fear the persecution and the fear that will come, but that they will still go and pursue the nation of Israel. Jesus' name. Let's just go ahead and stand and we're just going to end with this chorus. This is our cry. We thank you, Jesus, for this sacred hour, to stand in agreement with your heart, to stand in the power of agreement with millions across the earth, God, for the things that you love, for your purposes and plans and heart for Israel. We thank you, Jesus, for this sacred privilege and honor. And Father, I ask that all that has transpired this hour, God, that you would multiply it right here at this altar in across our city and region and nation and the nations of the earth. Lord, that you would have watchmen on the walls of the cities of the earth and the towns of the earth, perpetual prayer fires burning in the day watches and night watches, the incense of worship ever declaring the worth of your son, Father. We ask you to do these things that are on your heart to do. And we bless you, Jesus, and we bless Israel in the name of the Lord. Amen. Thank you for praying with us this morning. We are on day 10 as Pastor Caleb said of a 21 day prayer fast for Israel, joining with six million, some believers across the face of the earth. If you would like more information about that, you can visit isaias62fast.com or radiant.church slash prayer room for any resources or additional information. Otherwise, we're back here today at 12 and at 6.30 tonight. Come join us. God bless you.