A Prayer for Israel

Almighty G-d, G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the G-d and Father of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we humbly bow before you and acknowledge that you are the only G-d and that beside You there is none other.

On behalf of Israel we pray using the words of Ezekiel the Prophet:  Sanctify Your great name which has been profaned among the nations by your servant Israel.  Then nations shall know that the Lord is G-d, when He is sanctified in Israel before their eyes.  Sprinkle the clean water of Your Word on Israel and cleanse her from her filthiness and from all idols, including abortion and the occult.  Give Israel a new heart, and put a new spirit within her.  Remove her heart of stone and give her a heart of flesh that can respond to the Holy Spirit, and cause her to walk in Your statutes, keep Your commandments and do them.  (Ezekiel 36:23-27).

Destroy and divide the tongues of those who speak against Israel.  In the name of Jesus, the Messiah, we bind every false religion and false doctrine that does not acknowledge Your eternal plan for the land and people of Israel.  (Psalm 55:9).

Lord, it is You Who brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; Who makes their plans of no effect.  We declare that G-d’s purposes for Israel will be completely fulfilled and that He will be glorified. (Psalm 33:10).

Show Your loving kindness to Your people Israel and keep them as the apple of Your eye.  Hide them under the shadow of Your wings, from the wicked who oppress them, from their deadly enemies who surround them.  (Psalm 17:7-9).

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.  Let them be as grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up.  Lord, deal justly and swiftly with Your enemies.  (Psalm 129:5-6).

Cause people everywhere to understand, particularly in the Church, that there will not be peace in the world until there is peace in Israel.  For that reason we pray for those things that make for the peace of Jerusalem.  Primary among these is that You, Father G-d, remove the veil You have sovereignly placed over the eyes of Israel, that they would recognize Jesus as their Messiah.  (II Corinthians 3:14).

Finally, we acknowledge the fact that If Israel’s falling away resulted in the light of the Gospel going fully to the Gentile, what shall her return to the purposes of G-d for her mean but resurrection from the dead. (Romans 11:15).

Therefore we bless Israel in the mighty Name of Jesus, remembering how You promised to Abraham, “I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you” (Genesis 12:3).

All these thoughts we offer in the mighty name of Jesus, AMEN.