The Bride in Israel is Getting Herself Ready!

After nine long months of war with Hamas in Gaza and with the northern border also becoming more and more volatile, the Body of Messiah in Israel is cranking up the prayer and taking their place as spiritual warriors.

We are not talking about a battle against flesh and blood - God loves and grieves for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people and longs for all to know Him - but about the spiritual principalities and powers that are manipulating people and events for the increase in evil across the globe. Of course, both Messainic Jewish and Arab Believers have been praying deeply about this situation but there seems to be a new intensity to pray and fast as a Bride making herself ready.

Messianic Jewish leaders and Pastors launched a national intercessory prayer and fasting chain beginning on the first day of the Jewish month of Tammuz (7th July 2024) - a month which traditionally includes prayer and fasting in remembrance of the breaching of Jerusalem’s walls by both the Babylonian Emporer Nebuchadnezzar the Great (586 BC) and later by the Romans in AD70. For the whole month, leaders are prioritizing face to face gatherings as well as zoom prayer meetings.

Face to Face prayer and worship gatherings will be held at Kehilat Ha Carmel (Haifa), King of Kings (Jerusalem), Kehilat HaMaayan (Kfar Saba), Kehilat Tehilat (Rishon Le Zion), Christa House (Jerusalem) and Morning Star (Tiberius).

Also this month, HOPE - House of Prayer in Nazareth, has started a 40 day Daniel fast. The House of Prayer has been meeting almost daily since the war began and they are now sensing an intensity in the heavenly battle. “Let us unite at this critical time in prayer and fasting to seek the face of the Lord for our country and the nations of the Middle East” shared Rania Sayegh, the Director of the ministry. “The drums of war are continuing to beat across Israel and the Middle East. This is a call to 40 days of prayer and fasting to “Fortify the gates,” and awaken the church for God’s intervention in the face of escalating tensions and war in the Middle East. A shift is happening. The war season is changing, and God is calling us to “anoint our shields” into the shift. The enemy is seeking to destroy nations, but God is calling watchmen to the wall to contend for His covenantal promises and destiny... We hope and pray that you will hear the sound of the trumpet and lock shields with us!”

Earlier in the year, during Purim, a gathering of Jewish and Arab leaders, followers of Jesus stood together to seek the Lord and repent on behalf of their people groups and nation. As a prophetic act they decreed a breaking of any covenants of death, replacing it with a covenant of life - together as one family, in the Land of Israel.

We unite with the Bride in Israel, the followers of Jesus, and stand with them in prayer for God’s plans and purposes to be fulfilled in Israel and in Gaza and across the whole Middle East. For Arab and Jew and for every people group that has made their home there. Not the wisdom of man or even the desires of the human heart, but the inheritance of God and His strategy for this region. For His Kingdom to come on earth as in heaven and for the salvation of all people!