Friday, February 28, 2025

Prayer Focus
Cry out on behalf of Yarden Bibas and his family members who have been devasted by the kidnapping and violent deaths of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir. Weep also for the people of Israel whose hearts are weighed down with grief as they mourn alongside the Bibas family. Pray that both the Bibas family and the people of Israel will find healing and light in the face of such darkness.

Scripture

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.

- Job 17:11–12

Prayer Focus
Pray that both the Israeli and American leaders would be like Joshua, full of the spirit of wisdom, and know how to respond to Iran’s threats. Pray that the governments of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump would recognize the sovereignty of the Lord over the affairs of nations and act accordingly. Continue to pray that Iran will never achieve their goal of obtaining nuclear weapons.

Scripture

Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

- Deuteronomy 34:9

Prayer Focus
Give thanks for this miraculous, divine intervention that saved the lives of many commuters who would have been killed or injured if the terrorists’ plans had succeeded. Pray that the Lord would bring confusion into the terror cells that are actively planning further attacks and that none would be able to be completed.

Scripture

Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their hearts; they continually gather together for war.

- Psalm 140:1–2

Prayer Focus
With the return of these bodies, the full number of hostages agreed to in Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal has been completed. Pray for the immediate return of the remaining 59 hostages (Israel believes 27 are living) without any compromise to Israel’s security. Pray that Israel’s leaders will have wisdom as they consider the next steps to take.

Scripture

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Declare His deeds among the people. When He avenges blood, He remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

- Psalm 9:11–12

Prayer Focus
Give thanks for the unequivocal support of Senator Ted Cruz and other like-minded American legislators for the God-given right of Israel to its biblical heartland—Judea and Samaria. Pray that under President Trump’s administration, Judea and Samaria will finally be formally annexed to become part of Israel proper.

Scripture

Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): “If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.”

- Jeremiah 31:35–36

Prayer Focus
Pray for the soldiers of the IDF’s Bashan division who are conducting raids and seizing weapons within the buffer zone between Syria and Israel. Pray that they will continue to have accurate intelligence and be protected from harm as they locate armaments that endanger Israel’s security on her northern border. Pray that the US will not agree to exert pressure on Israel to withdraw from this strategic area.

Scripture

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly.

- Proverbs 2:6–7

Prayer Focus
Pray for the various initiatives and platforms that are currently developing means of harnessing the tool of AI to counter misinformation about Israel and combat online antisemitism. Pray that journalists would have access to unbiased facts rather than slanted narratives when it comes to the Middle East. Pray that educational institutions would also feel the impact of these initiatives.

Scripture

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

- Deuteronomy 7:6

Prayer Focus
Pray that the enemy’s camp—their leadership especially—will be divided and suffer from confusion with regard to their goal of annihilating the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Pray that the fear of the Lord—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—would fall upon them.

Scripture

Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; though they join forces, none will go unpunished. In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity; and by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.

- Proverbs 16:5–6

Prayer Focus
Pray that the double-game Qatar has been playing with the West and Hamas at the same time will be revealed without any question or doubt of their intentions to ultimately bring the world under the domination of Islam. Pray that educational institutions would carefully screen the materials that Qatar is introducing into Western curricula at the university and even high school levels.

Scripture

Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity.

- Psalm 64:1–2

Prayer Focus
Pray for a spirit of repentance and the fear of God to come over the world’s leaders and decision makers who are attempting to find a solution to “the day after” in Gaza without God. Pray that all, including the Gazans themselves, will respond in belief of God’s sovereignty as the city of Nineveh did when Jonah prophesied millennia ago.

Scripture

And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

- Jonah 3:4–5