1. Praise: Shabbat's Torah portion (Ex. 35:1-40:38), tells how the tabernacle in the wilderness was set up. All Israelis contributed what they could, while some were anointed by God to do special tasks, and when it was done, the glory of God came down and dwelt in it. This is a striking type of the Body of Messiah, including our final goal – that God would be glorified in our midst.

    • Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tabernacle…YHWH's glory filled it, and Moses was not able to enter… And when the cloud was taken up off the tabernacle…Israel went forward in their journey. But if the cloud was not taken up, they halted until the day it was taken up, for the cloud of YHWH was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.Ex. 40:33b-38

    • Thank You Lord, that while You said that You would build Your Body – still You desire for us to contribute to it as well (Matt. 16:18b; Rom. 12:3-8).

    • Bless You that Your Body is now, by Your Holy Spirit, Your tabernacle on earth (1 Cor. 3:16).

    • What a joy to co-labor with You in our individual callings in Your Body (1 Cor. 3:9).

    • Thank You for the anointing You give to each of us to fulfill Your will (1 John 2:27).

    • We praise You, and trust that You will be faithful to complete Your will in us (Psa. 138:8; Phil. 1:6).

    • Thank You for placing the solitary in families and having a unique plan for everyone (Psa. 68:6)

    • You not only answer prayer, but You have also called us Your friends (John 15:15)!

    • We are full of awe and gratitude as we contemplate our relationship with You (Gal. 4:6; Jam. 2:23).

    • We thank You that when we are weak in ourselves, we are strong in You and Your strength is then shown in our weaknesses (2 Cor. 12:9-10).

    • Lord, You often stretch us beyond our comfort zones, and while we do not enjoy that when we are going through it, we bless and praise You for those opportunities to grow (Phil. 2:12-13).

    • Lord, Yeshua, we confess and declare that You are the King of the Jews (Matt. 2:2), the King of all kings (Rev. 19:16); You are seated at the right hand of God the Father (Psa. 110:1; Acts 2:34), and that in You we are no longer aliens, but legal citizens of You kingdom (Eph. 2:4-6; Col. 1:12-13).

  2. Israel & US President Biden: The way Biden and his administration are dealing with the Middle East is a step backward to when Obama was president. In reality it is worse, as we would expect that the "smart" people surrounding Biden could see how successful Trump and his team were in making inroads towards peace and the curtailing of the terrorist regime in Iran. Yet they are blind to any good thing that has the Trump tag attached to it. There are also reports out of America that Vice President Kamala Harris could be taking over for Biden very soon.

    • Please watch over Romans 8:28 concerning Biden and his advisors' policies for the ME.

    • Lead us in prayer for Your will to be accomplished in this issue (Psa. 10:17; Rom. 8:26).

    • Forbid Biden from pursuing any policies which put Israel in existential danger (Psa. 124:6-8)

    • If Harris does become president, grant much wisdom in Israel when dealing with her (Prov. 15:1a).

    • Do not allow the fact that her husband is Jewish cloud Israel's discernment when dealing with her actions or policies (Psa. 35:14-15).

    • Reveal any hidden agenda that this US administration might have in relation to Israel (Job 12:22).

    • Bring alongside Biden/Harris someone who truly understands the Arab mindset (1 Cor. 14:10-11).

    • Confront Biden and the US State Department on their inconsistencies in their treatment of some ME nations' human rights records (Hab. 3:2).

    • Let Israel do what is right in Your sight – without any fear of American backlash (1 Kin. 15:5).

    • Help Israel's current and its future government be consistent in their response to the US (Matt. 5:37).

    • Anoint Israel's current prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, with Your wisdom when dealing with either Biden's or Harris' policies (Prov. 21:1).

    • Let Your Spirit guide Israel's sharing of its intelligence with America under Biden (Isa. 39:1-7).

    • Continue to anoint Israel's US and UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan (1 Sam. 16:13; Psa. 105:15).

    • Surround him with believers and save him (Psa. 74:12; Rom. 11:11, 14).

    • We ask You to sovereignly choose America's next Israeli ambassador (Psa. 75:6-7).

    • Stir up the US Church to pray that their nation has a godly relationship with Israel (Num. 24:9b).

  3. Israel & Iran: Was the massive oil spill eco-terrorism or not? The verdict is still out on this. It tarred long stretches of Israel's Mediterranean coastline, and even reached unto Lebanon. Yet even if it was not deliberate, Iran continues to threaten Israel, and many other ME nations, in various ways.

    • If this is proven to have been eco-terrorism, Lord, please watch over Revelation 11:18b.

    • Thank You for Netanyahu's persistence in exposing the danger of an Islamic Shi'ite nuclear bomb since the late 1980s. Do not let him give up in this battle (Ex. 17:11-12; Isa. 40:29-31).

    • Prevent Iran from exploiting this election season in Israel and protect Your nation (Jer. 31:10).

    • Forbid that Israel's current leaders would miss any treacherous Iranian tactics (Psa. 83:1-5; 16-18).

    • May Israel's intelligence units, satellites and spies obtain all the data needed (Job 34:21-22).

    • Aid the interpretation of that obtained intelligence data to be supernaturally accurate (Eccl. 12:14).

    • Thank You for using Israel's Air Force to enforce Israel's red lines against Iran in Syria (Isa. 31:5).

    • If Israel needs to come up with new strategies against Iran, show the IDF's Iran Command exactly what Your will and Your ways are at this time in history (Josh. 5:13-6:5; Psa. 37:39-40).

    • Quicken Israel's development of Electro-Magnetic-Pulse [EMP] weapons, it cyber warfare systems and all its other cutting edge weapons systems (Psa. 44:4-8; Jer. 51:20; Ezek. 37:10).

    • Replace all fear of man with Your fear in the minds of all Israeli leaders who are responsible to protect this nation and its people from Iran's demonic plans (Psa. 25:14; 33:10-11; 83:1-5).

    • Create a godly unity between the political and military leaders on how to handle the Iranian threat.

    • Destroy all of Iran's sources of finances that are used for their global terror activities (Deut. 11:6).

    • Cause division between Iran and it many proxies throughout the world (Psa. 129:5).

    • Use earthquakes, whether physical, social, or political, to shake up the ayatollahs (Hab. 3:10-13). 

    • We again ask for You to break the bow of Elam (Jer. 49:35).

    • Remove the scepter of authority from Iran's satanically-inspired leaders (Jer. 49:38b).

    • Send Your fear into the hearts of many of those leaders, and even save some (Ex. 23:27; Mark 5:15).

    • Lord, save all Iranians who are ordained to be Yours before a war with Israel begins (Eph. 1:4-5).

    • Thank You for spiritually shaking Iran by Your growing, maturing Iranian Church (Jer. 49:38a).

    • Impart spiritual strategy to them to know how to intercede for their nation today (1 Tim. 2:1-4).

    • Let them have a biblical understanding of Israel's restoration at this time (Ezek. 36:32-36)

    • Give Israel great wisdom in her relations with Saudi Arabia and any other Arab or Muslim nation – especially in the area of defense alliances (Isa. 31:1-2).

  4. Israel & Covid-19: If anyone has the solution on how to defeat Covid-19, it has not been revealed yet. In some places lockdowns work while in others they do not. Are masks really helpful? Are vaccines protecting people – as the current data seems to show – and if so how far should any government go to encourage its citizens to take it? How should the authorities deal with those who refuse it? These are not simple answers and if you think they are, please consider what you would do if you were in the place of authority with the well-being of millions resting on your decisions.

    • God of Israel, we look to and praise You even in the middle of this virus crisis (Psa. 107:31-32)

    • Thank You that You have been answering our prayers and overruling, or modifying, many decisions that were made by Israel's government in this war against the coronavirus (Psa. 50:15).

    • Bless Israel's government with Your wisdom to know how to move forward (Psa. 23:3b).

    • Because of Your love for this nation, turn even their wrong decisions around (Deut. 23:5).

    • Give Israel's Health Ministry and government courage to present only the truth (3 John 1:4).

    • Forbid the "green passport" program from being one more thing to divide Israelis, and if it is of You (and we are not sure), show the authorities how to utilize it to protect Your people (2 Sam. 23:2-3).

    • If the green passports are not of You, then let the whole program be trashed (Prov. 19:21; 20:23).

    • Comfort those who have lost loved ones due to corona (Job 2:11; Psa. 23:4; Isa. 40:1).

    • Have mercy on all who are paralyzed between fear of the virus and fear of the vaccine (Luke 12:7).

    • May believers hear Your voice and obey You as You lead them (John 10:4, 27).

    • Vaccinate the Israeli Body against the deadlier virus of division (Eph. 4:3).

  5. Israeli elections – March 23rd: In less than two weeks Israelis will cast their votes again in national elections. Yet hardly any of the parties' policies have been publicly presented. Again, it seems to all be focused on whether you are for Bibi Netanyahu or against him.

    • Lord, this fourth election in two years has not taken You by surprise. Please do a new thing (Isa. 42:9) and miraculously create a government in which unity and stability prevail (Matt. 12:25).

    • Abba, raise up in Israel a government that would further Your end-time goal of making this nation the head and not the tail (Deut. 28:12-13; Isa. 60:1-2; Zech. 8:23).

    • Lord, we know that You resist the proud and give grace to the humble (Prov. 3:34; Luke 18:14; Jam. 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:5). Please God, humble Israel's arrogant politicians and leaders in the right wing parties so that they will serve Your nation in humility, as well as in unity (Jer. 32:27; Eph. 3:20-21).

    • Guide Israelis on whom to cast their vote for (Prov. 16:9, 33).

    • Give Israelis discernment to know how to test the "truths" presented by the media (1 Thess. 5:21).

    • Use the next government to change the way elections are held in Israel.

    • Thank You for using Netanyahu during this very unstable time in Israel and in the world to further Israel's ties with many other nations, and to watch over this nation's security (Psa. 89:19).

    • Raise up in Israel other leaders like Bibi who will not be ashamed to use Your Word when speaking to this nation or to the nations in the world (Isa. 55:11).

  6. Aliyah: It is God's will – and for His glory – that all Jews still living in the Exile come home. For any Jew living outside of Israel to think that that gentile nation is their home is a total rejection of God's Word and will. And today, God is turning up the heat so that His people who still reside in "Babylon" will come to see that they are not welcomed to live there as Jews any longer.

    • She bare [Moses] a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, 'I have been a stranger in a strange land'. (Ex. 2:22) Wake up Your people to this reality which describes their life in the nations.

    • Tear up the deceptive "comfortable nests" of Jews in exile and draw them to Zion (Jer. 31:3).

    • Abba, bring home whole communities of many of the small groups of Jews in the obscure corners of the world (Jer. 24:6-7).

    • Speak to the south to give up the Jews in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand (Isa. 43:5-7).

    • Open the doors for the Iranian Jewish community to be set free from its captivity (Acts 12:5-12).

    • Thank You for all the Ethiopians who have come home both in 2020 and so far in 2021. Bring all of those remaining in Africa home this year.

    • Give them, and all other Jews from non-Western nations, a relatively easy time of integrating to Israel which is today a modern Western-style nation (Amos 9:14-15).

    • Draw Spanish and Portuguese speaking Jews home and settle many in the Negev (Obad. 1:20).

    • Use the lockdowns and the inability to travel freely to increase the desire of many of the Jews in the Exile to come and live in Israel (Psa. 137:4-6).

    • Place this question on their hearts: "When the next global emergency suddenly falls [and it will], do I want to depend on gentile leaders and armies to protect and care for me and my children or would I not rather be "stuck" at home in Israel (Jer. 50:4-8; 51:8-9)?"

    • Show young Israelis who left to make their fortunes, that the time to return is now (Isa. 60:9).

    • Abba, we read that it was relatively easy for Israel in the wilderness, as You provided all their needs, yet when they entered the land they needed to fight and conquer it. Let this prepare the Jews who are coming home that while life is harder in Israel, it is also much more gratifying (Psa. 85:1, 9-13).

    • Use the upcoming Passover feast to make Jews still in "Egypt" extremely homesick (Deut. 16:16).

    • Bless all Christian organizations that are working to carry Your people home (Isa. 49:22).

    • Provide them with all finances that they need and with excellent – even a "provoking to jealousy" type of – relations with any and all Israeli authorities (Isa. 60:10-11).

    • Lord, wake up Christians in the nations to start to speak boldly to their Jewish neighbors about making aliyah and also to openly warn them of the rising anti-Semitism (Prov. 17:17; 27:6)

    • Let Your Body also comfort and exhort those Jews with a promise to help them in any way they can, in order to see them safely settled in Israel – for Your holy name's sake (Ezek. 36:21-24).

    • Let Your Body open its treasuries to see all this happen (Isa. 60:5-6; Rom. 15:27).

    • In that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand for a sign of the people. Gentiles shall seek Him, and His rest shall be glorious… [And] the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, who shall be left, from [many nations]. He shall set up a sign for the gentiles, assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.Isa. 11:10-12

Shabbat shalom and blessings from Zion

For the IFI team