PRAY FOR ISRAEL!!!

Most of us understand that the Israelites are God’s chosen people!!! They are the nation that God chose for HIMSELF!!!




But I wonder how many folks understand or have been taught that we are supposed to be praying for Israel???




Romans 10:1-21 (CEB)

10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire is for Israel’s salvation. That’s my prayer to God for them.

² I can vouch for them: they are enthusiastic about God. However, it isn’t informed by knowledge.

³ They don’t submit to God’s righteousness because they don’t understand his righteousness, and they try to establish their own righteousness.

⁴ Christ is the goal of the Law, which leads to righteousness for all who have faith in God.

⁵ Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law: The person who does these things will live by them.

⁶ But the righteousness that comes from faith talks like this: Don’t say in your heart, “Who will go up into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down)

⁷ or “Who will go down into the region below?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

⁸ But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the message of faith that we preach).

⁹ Because if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and in your heart you have faith that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰ Trusting with the heart leads to righteousness, and confessing with the mouth leads to salvation.

¹¹ The scripture says, All who have faith in him won’t be put to shame.

¹² There is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord is Lord of all, who gives richly to all who call on him.

¹³ All who call on the Lord’s name will be saved.

¹⁴ So how can they call on someone they don’t have faith in? And how can they have faith in someone they haven’t heard of? And how can they hear without a preacher?

¹⁵ And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the good news.

¹⁶ But everyone hasn’t obeyed the good news. As Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our message?

¹⁷ So, faith comes from listening, but it’s listening by means of Christ’s message.

¹⁸ But I ask you, didn’t they hear it? Definitely! Their voice has gone out into the entire earth, and their message has gone out to the corners of the inhabited world.

¹⁹ But I ask you again, didn’t Israel understand? First, Moses says, I will make you jealous of those who aren’t a people, of a people without understanding.

²⁰ And Isaiah even dares to say, I was found by those who didn’t look for me; I revealed myself to those who didn’t ask for me.

²¹ But he says about Israel, All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

Because Israel didn’t accept Jesus as THE MESSIAH; The Christ, God sent The Good News of HIS SON to the Gentiles (all those that are NOT Jewish!!!) 




And THANK GOD, HE did!!!!




But it is important that we understand that God has NOT given up on Israel!!!! 




God says in HIS WORD that we are to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem!!!



Psalm 122 (NKJV) 

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

122 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go into the house of the Lord.”

² Our feet have been standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem!

³ Jerusalem is built
As a city that is compact together,

⁴ Where the tribes go up,
The tribes of the Lord,
To the Testimony of Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

⁵ For thrones are set there for judgment,
The thrones of the house of David.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.

⁷ Peace be within your walls,
Prosperity within your palaces.”

⁸ For the sake of my brethren and companions,
I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God
I will seek your good.

Still GOD TELLS us to pray for HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE!!!!




We need to be teaching everyone in our churches to pray for Israel and for the Peace of Jerusalem because God tells us that it is important that we do this!!!!



And because God has said that HE WILL NOT FORGET what Israel’s enemies have done to her. 




Everyone needs to know and understand that when the nation of Israel begins to seek GOD, GOD WILL COME TO SAVE THEM!!!!




Psalm 83:1-18 (CEB)

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

¹ God, don’t be silent!
    Don’t be quiet or sit still, God,

²  because—look!—your enemies are growling;
    those who hate you are acting arrogantly.

³  They concoct crafty plans against your own people;
    they plot against the people you favor.

⁴  “Come on,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation!
    Let the name Israel be remembered no more!”

⁵  They plot with a single-minded heart;
    they make a covenant against you.

⁶  They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷  Gebal, Ammon, Amalek,
    Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.

⁸  Assyria too has joined them—
    they are the strong arm for Lot’s children. Selah

⁹  Do to them what you did to Midian,
    to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰  They were destroyed at Endor;
    they become fertilizer for the ground.

¹¹  Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—

¹²  those who said, “Let’s take God’s pastures for ourselves.”

¹³  My God, make them like tumbleweeds,
    like chaff blown by wind.

¹⁴  Just like a fire consumes a forest,
    just like flames set mountains ablaze,

¹⁵  pursue them with your storm,
        terrify them with your hurricane.

¹⁶  Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they might seek your name.

¹⁷  Let them be shamed and terrified forever.
    Let them die in disgrace.

¹⁸  Let them know that you—
        your name is the Lord!—
    you alone are Most High over all the earth.