Friday, April 4, 2025

Prayer Focus
Pray for the new IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Gen. Yaniv Asor, head of the IDF’s Southern Command and all troops currently stationed in Gaza. Pray that they will be completely successful in dismantling of Hamas’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and bringing the terror group to a point of absolute surrender. Pray for accurate intelligence on the location of Israel hostages in order that the IDF can accomplish its goal to bring every hostage home.

Scripture

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

- Joshua 1:9

Prayer Focus
Continue to pray for wisdom on the part of Israel’s leaders and her military commanders as well as for the Trump administration. Pray that Iran’s plans for nuclear weapons that will be used as a threat to Israel and the West will never come to fruition. Pray for confusion in the enemy’s “camp.”

Scripture

To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity…a wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel.

- Proverbs 1:2–3, 5

Prayer Focus
Give thanks for this young couple who have a deep love for the Land of Israel and discovered their love for each other while they were volunteering in that very Land. Pray that, as their love grows and they are married, they will be drawn to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) and will raise their family here in the place God gave to Abraham for an eternal possession.

Scripture

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

- Isaiah 35:10

Prayer Focus
Praise God for the Hungarian government’s very public and open stand supporting Israel in defiance of the International Criminal Court. Pray that other nations would come to the same conclusion reached by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, that the ICC decision to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant was shocking and shameful.

Scripture

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel! Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.

- Numbers 24:5, 9b

Prayer Focus
Continue to cry out for the hostages who remain in captivity, asking the Lord to be very present with them in the darkness and despair of the tunnels. Pray that they will continue to hang on to life and the hope that they will once again see their loved ones. Pray for the families of the hostages as well, that they will be strengthened and encouraged by the prayers and support of those around the world who are standing with them.

Scripture

Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, that I may tell of all Your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation.

- Psalm 9:13–14

Prayer Focus
Pray for those in Gaza who simply want to live and are currently paying a high price—even with their lives—as Hamas brutally silences all voices that oppose them. Ask the Lord to comfort the families of the six courageous demonstrators who have been killed and to shield any others who may be targeted by Hamas at this moment.

Scripture

Deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked.

- Psalm 82:4

Prayer Focus
As Turkey increases its influence in northern and central Syria, pray for clear strategy on the part of the IDF as well as Israel’s political leaders, a strategy that will retain the buffer zone along the Israel–Syrian border without Turkish military presence. Pray that Israel’s leaders will be able to maintain security for her northern communities without Turkey’s military escalation spiraling into outright hostility between the two countries.

Scripture

The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell.

- Psalm 27:1b–2

Prayer Focus
Pray for Israel’s intelligence-gathering agencies—both internal (Shin Bet) and external (Mossad)—that they will continue to obtain the information needed to prevent terror attacks within the nation itself and those planned against Israelis who are abroad. Give thanks to God as He alone is able to reveal all the hidden plans that are being formed against His people.

Scripture

The king answered Daniel, and said, “Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.”

- Daniel 2:47

Prayer Focus
Give thanks for this “Safe Country” award that shows Israel is a nation where each life is valuable and people watch out for each other. Give thanks also for the vigilance of Israel’s security forces, the IDF, Border Police, and Shin Bet as they have prevented thousands of terror attacks over the last year.

Scripture

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

- Proverbs 17:17

Prayer Focus
Pray that the executives at the BBC, one of the world’s premier news outlets, will encounter the fear of God over their unwillingness to provide balanced reporting with regard to Israel. Pray that eyes will be opened to see the hypocrisy of their statement that their organization “stands united against any form of abuse, prejudice, or intolerance.”

Scripture

And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.

- 2 Chronicles 20:29