Friday, October 27, 2023

Prayer Focus
Pray for the success of Israel’s pinpoint raids as the nation prepares for a ground incursion. Ask the Lord to protect every member of the IDF who faces death during these raids and pray there will be no fatalities among them. But also beseech the Lord that innocent civilians will be able to get out of the way and will not become casualties of war because Hamas refused to let them evacuate.

Scripture

Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand, O You who save those who trust in You from those who rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings…from my deadly enemies who surround me.

- Psalm 17:7–8, 9b

Prayer Focus
Cry out to God for these children who have lost their families and have been robbed of their innocence. Pray that He will erase from their minds the atrocities that they witnessed and heal their trauma quickly. Pray that the system will be expedited so that each child will find a loving home where they will receive the help, care and resources they need to recover. Also pray that they will know that God has not deserted them but still loves them and is watching over them.

Scripture

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you.

- Jeremiah 1:5a

Prayer Focus
Pray for an awakening in the nations that will cause a powerful international outcry and a demand for the release of the hostages. Pray for every kind of international pressure to be applied until all the hostages are safely returned to Israel. Also cry out to the Lord for their healing from the horrific trauma they have experienced. Pray also for their families who are agonizing over their loved ones.

Scripture

For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven the LORD viewed the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death, to declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem.

- Psalm 102:19–21

Prayer Focus
Beseech the Lord that Guterres will indeed be removed from his position as UN secretary-general and will be held accountable for his outrageously anti-Semitic remarks that only contributes to growing anti-Israel sentiment in the nations.

Scripture

A righteous person hates a false statement, but a wicked person acts disgustingly and shamefully.

- Proverbs 13:5 (NASB)

Prayer Focus
Praise God that Hamas terrorists were not able to follow through on their plans to release cyanide gas during their attacks. Pray that chemical warfare will not become an issue as the war progresses. Also cry out to the Lord that the discovery of a handbook on how to poison, torture and murder innocent people will be further evidence of the gruesome reality that Israel faces.

Scripture

The LORD roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge for His people, and a stronghold to the sons of Israel.

- Joel 3:16 (NASB)

Prayer Focus
Pray that people will not be taken in by Hamas’s mind games. Pray for physical, psychological and emotional healing for these two traumatized elderly women. Cry out to the Lord for the release of their elderly husbands and every other hostage still in captivity.

Scripture

Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

- Isaiah 46:4

Prayer Focus
Pray that the unholy alliance among these three terrorist organizations will crumble. Ask the Lord to create such chaos in their camp that they turn on one another. Also pray that Hezbollah will heed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s warning and end their shelling from the northern border.

Scripture

“The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.”

- Deuteronomy 28:7

Prayer Focus
Pray that the fear of the almighty God will come upon Iran’s leadership as they recognize it is with Him that their proxies are fighting and that His power to destroy Israel’s enemies is limitless. Pray that their supply routes to Hamas will be cut off and their ability to provide training, weapons, funding and technological knowledge will come to an abrupt end. Pray that they will be held accountable by the international community for their part in the atrocities of October 7 and the loss of innocent life in Gaza.

Scripture

Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God! For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” For they have consulted together with one consent; they form a confederacy against You: O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like the chaff before the wind! As the fire burns the woods, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD. Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish, that they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

- Psalm 83:1–5, 14–18

Prayer Focus
Pray that Regavim’s video will be widely seen and will engender much support in the international community as they realize that this is not a war over territory or to end “oppression.” Pray for a revelation that Israel faces multiple enemies on multiple fronts who are bent on their total annihilation and is thus fighting for the very existence of the Jewish people.

Scripture

The snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, because He was angry. Smoke went up from His nostrils, and devouring fire from His mouth; coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down with darkness under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind…The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice, hailstones and coals of fire. He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them…He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

- Psalm 18:5b–10,13–14,16–18