Friday, February 2, 2024

Prayer Focus
Thank God that more and more Gazans are vocalizing their feelings about Hamas and its culpability for the current situation. Pray that their voices will be heard by the international community, revealing the treatment of the people of Gaza under Hamas’s leadership and garnering support for Israel’s efforts to dismantle the terrorist organization and its supporters.

Scripture

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

- Proverbs 28:15 ESV

Prayer Focus
Thank God that the ICJ—ridiculous as the proceeding was—at least did not demand an immediate cease-fire, indirectly acknowledging Israel’s right to self-defense. Pray that this and any future response from the ICJ will have no effect on Israel’s ability to reach its goals or the ability of the nations to support Israel’s actions.

Scripture

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey.

- Isaiah 10:1¬–2 ESV

Prayer Focus
Pray for the success of this project, that it will be seen around the world and have the impact its creators hope for. Pray for the survivors and others who were willing to relive the horror of their experiences in order to bring the truth to the world. Ask the Lord to touch them with His love and deliver them of their trauma and grief.

Scripture

He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.

- Psalm 107:20 ESV

Prayer Focus
Pray for the readiness of the IDF regardless of the front to which they are deployed. But pray especially for those who are defending Israel’s northern border. Cry out to the Lord for a successful end, whether military or diplomatic, to the threat from Hezbollah forces.

Scripture

For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.

- Joshua 23:9–10 ESV

Prayer Focus
Beseech the Lord for the dismantling of UNRWA—a UN organization that has long been known for its deeply ingrained Jew hatred, its cooperation with terrorist organizations and its commitment to indoctrinating Palestinian children to hate Israel and embrace martyrdom. Pray that every individual UNWRA employee will be held to account for their participation in Israel’s long battle with Hamas and in the horrific massacre on October 7.

Scripture

Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish. You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

- Isaiah 41:11–12 ESV

Prayer Focus
Praise the Lord that the IDF was able to find these terrorists and, without injuring civilians, interrupt their plans before they were able to carry out another October 7 incursion. Cry out to the Lord that Israeli forces will have ongoing success in stopping terror before it happens.

Scripture

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

- Isaiah 30:21 ESV

Prayer Focus
Pray that the US $6 billion remain frozen and that not a penny falls into the hands of the Iranian government. Pray that the Biden administration will remain true to its word, making sure Iran doesn’t receive additional money with which to fund terror in the Middle East and around the world. Also cry out to the Lord that President Biden will react strongly and appropriately to the Iranian murder of three American citizens.

Scripture

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

- Proverbs 2:6

Prayer Focus
Cry out to the Lord for institutions of higher learning, once bastions of free speech and safety for the respectful exchange of ideas. Pray for a shift in the current climate, with administrators and students alike recognizing what anti-Semitism really is and standing against it. Pray that the contemptible training manual at York University will be banned, not as an affront to free speech but as an acknowledgment of the document as true and dangerous hate speech.

Scripture

Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

- Proverbs 18:21a ESV

Prayer Focus
Plead with the Lord for the release of those who are still being held in Gaza, the mechanism that Hamas is using to hold an entire nation hostage, as all Israel is subjected to psychological warfare, living in constant fear and anxiety for those children of Israel who remain in captivity. Pray for God’s protection over each hostage and for their soon release. Also beseech the Lord that Hamas’s plans to defeat Israel through emotionally manipulative means will backfire.

Scripture

“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”

- Isaiah 41:10 NASB

Prayer Focus
Praise the Lord for the resilience of the Jewish people and for Michael Amar’s commitment to “Zionism, the rebuilding of ourselves.” Pray for the success of this project and for the countless other aspects of reconstruction and rejuvenation that Israel will soon be facing.

Scripture

He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

- Isaiah 40:29–31