1. You are good and Your mercy endures forever.

    • Precious Lord, the goal of our prayers is that men may know that You, whose name alone is YHWH, are the most high over all the earth. (Psalms 83:18)

    • We bless You for Your plans for this city and nation.

      At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of LORD [YHWH]; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of LORD, to Jerusalem, neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and shall come together out of the land of the north to the land I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

      Jeremiah 3:17-18

    • Despite what we see or hear, we declare that LORD reigns! (Psalm 93:1; 96:10; 97:1; 99:1)

  2. The relationship between the US and Israel took a turn for the worst in the past several weeks - because Jews are building homes in Jerusalem! The arrogance of the current Obama administration is very dangerous - for America. We first prayed about the intense pressure the US is putting on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government.

    • I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. You that make mention of LORD [lit: the LORD's reminders, His secretaries], keep not silence, and give him no silence, until He establish, and until He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

      Isaiah 62:6-7

    • God, today Jerusalem is a "prize" in the earth. Everyone is praying for "a piece" of Jerusalem. So we remind You that Your will is for Jerusalem to bring You glory, to be known as the city of the great King (Psalm 48:2; Matthew 5:35).

    • We hold Netanyahu into the anointing that You have provided for Israel's current PM.

    • Give him, for Your holy name's sake, boldness, wisdom and clarity to declare Israel's red lines - especially that Jerusalem is Israel's eternal capital and will not be divided.

    • We bless You that in 1967 - although Israel had no intention of conquering Jerusalem - You put a hook in the nose of Jordan's king and drew him into battle. The end result - the restoration of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the Jewish people.

    • Reveal to us how to pray about Jerusalem as we are aware of what Zechariah 12:2-3 says. If this is You drawing the US against Jerusalem, please show us.

    • ...Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: For I, says LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her... And LORD shall inherit Judah His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

      Zechariah 2:4b-5, 12

    • We remind You of Numbers 23:23 as protection against any witchcraft or manipulation from the nations against this government or people.

      Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

      Numbers 23:23

  3. We prayed for the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to stand as one on the issue of Jerusalem.

    • Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of [America], nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there are more with us than with him:

      2 Chronicles 32:7

    • The God of heaven, He will prosper us. Therefore we His servants will arise and build - but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

      Nehemiah 2:20

    • Cause most of Israel's Knesset Members to sign the petition that is being passed around in support of Netanyahu and an undivided Jerusalem.

    • Aid the current government to stand as One Man when it comes to the issue of Israel's capital.

  4. This nation needs the worldwide Body of Messiah to stand before God and cry out to Him for Israel's complete restoration - which is in line with His word and purpose.

    • But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

      Obadiah 1:17

    • LORD builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

      Psalms 147:2

    • Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

      Zechariah 12:2-3

    • Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel... You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

      Jeremiah 31:4-5

    • Abba, we see that the area that the world calls "the occupied territories" is the very place where You decree that Israel is to return to - Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Therefore, we request that You set the trumpet to Your mouth and wake up our brothers and sisters in the nations to take a strong stance in prayer - and any other way You direct - against the division of this land.

    • Lord, reveal to them that their nations destines depend on whether that nation divides this - Your land - or whether they support Israel's restoration (Joel 3:1-2; Zechariah 2:8)

    • We pray particularly for the Body of Messiah in America to see the recent past and current judgments that You are releasing on that nation as they continue to insist that Israel divides Your land and create another Islamic ruled Arab nation.

    • Wake up American leaders - both spiritual and political - who have a revelation of Israel to withstand what the Obama administration is trying to do to Israel's land and current government.

    • We pray the same for the leaders of Europe and the European Body of Messiah.

  5. Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons - as evidenced by a recent report that North Korea has helped them to develop International Continental Ballistic Missiles. Meanwhile, it appears that the world has already accepted the fact of a nuclear Iran. Yet Israel cannot accept that - and neither can we. We first prayed for God to arise and deal with this threat.

    • Arise God. Scatter Your enemies (Psalm 68:1).

    • Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail. Let the nations be judged in Your sight. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

      Psalms 9:19-20

    • Arise, O LORD... deliver my soul from the wicked...

      Psalms 17:13

    • God, shake Iran through the salvation of multitudes of Iranians - especially Shi'ite Moslems.

    • God, shake Iran by stirring up political unrest again - on a much wider scale.

    • God, shake Iran physically and let the earth swallow up all of her nuclear weapons sites.

      And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

      Revelation 12:15-16

    • Remove the scepter of authority from Iran's president and her religious leaders.

    • Give Iranian believers a revelation of how to pray for their nation and an understanding that because of their leaders rage against Israel - Iran is facing God's furious judgment.

      I have laid a snare for you, and you are taken... because you have striven against LORD. LORD has opened his armory, and brought forth the weapons of His indignation - for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [ancient Iran]... Let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

      Jeremiah 50:24-25,29

  6. The other option is that God will use Israel as His weapon of war (Jeremiah 51:20-24) against Iran and her accomplices - Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas.

    • Open up the eyes of Netanyahu and the Israeli security cabinet to understand what they need to do to counter this existential threat against Your land and people.

    • Give Israel insight to be prepared for the day after she attacks.

    • Supernaturally lead Israel's leaders.

      A man's heart devises his way: but LORD directs his steps.

      Proverbs 16:9

    • In the book of Esther, we read that You did not deal with Haman directly, but directed the circumstances from behind the scenes to enable the Jews to defend themselves and gain victory out of a deadly trap. Do the same today.

      ...in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) the Jews gathered themselves together... to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

      Esther 9:1b-2

    • Anoint all of Israel's intelligence services, spies and informants to present Israel's leaders with correct, up-to-date intelligence information.

    • Pluck out the 25,000 strong Iranian Jewish community and bring them home all at once - as You did with the huge Jewish community in Egypt many centuries ago.

  7. Passover starts a week from this coming Monday evening. It is a wonderful time to pray for the eyes of Jewish people worldwide to be opened to see Yeshua as the Lamb of God who takes away their sins.

    • From this week's prophetic portion:

      For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I will pour My Spirit upon your seed, My blessing upon your offspring... One shall say, I am LORD's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob...

      Isaiah 44:3,5a

    • Sing, O heavens; for LORD has done it. Shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, forest, every tree therein - for LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel.

      Isaiah 44:23

    • We entreat You for Israel's salvation - for Your glory.

    • Bring multitudes of Jews into Your kingdom this Passover season.

We ended by praying into Israel's water situation. Although we have had several good periods of rain here, Israel is still in need of much more water.

Blessings from Zion and Shabbat shalom from the IFI Team

He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalms 98:3