Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Prayer Focus
Offer praise and thanksgiving to the Lord for His steadfast love and sure promises to the descendants of Abraham. Praise Him for His goodness and mercy in the face of seemingly impossible situations. But God! Give thanks that light has indeed overcome the darkness.

Scripture

When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer.

- Ezekiel 39:27–28

Prayer Focus
Continue to pray for Israel’s leaders as they stand firm in their resolve to defend the nation from all who seek its destruction. Pray that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will trust in the Lord who gives wisdom and strength so that he can endure all the pressures from the world’s leaders to end the conflict before the terrorist entities have been fully defeated. The victory belongs to the Lord!

Scripture

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power and the glory, the victory and the majesty; for all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head over all.

- 1 Chronicles 29:11

Prayer Focus
Give thanks, praising the Lord for the testimony of this Australian journalist who has chosen to speak out clearly for Israel and paid a cost. Pray for other voices to rise to the challenge as well, to stand with the Jewish people in days when so many are remaining silent.

Scripture

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.

- Psalm 1:1–2

Prayer Focus
Continue to pray for the situation on Israel’s border with Syria, asking the Lord to be a shield between Israeli communities on the Golan Heights and any terrorist activity. Pray for the soldiers of the IDF as they locate and dismantle any enemy tunnels or underground bunkers.

Scripture

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall submit to you, and you shall tread down their high places.

- Deuteronomy 33:29

Prayer Focus
Remember the nearly half a million Israelis who live in Judea and Samaria—the biblical heartland—in spite of daily terrorist threats. Pray that they will remain rooted in the Land that was given to their forefathers by God’s sovereign covenant. Pray for the soldiers of the IDF who are on the front lines, asking the Lord to keep them alert to all threats and the ability to prevent any terror attack planned against the Jewish people.

Scripture

“I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

- Amos 9:15

Prayer Focus
Praise the Lord that plans for this terror attack were discovered before they could be carried out. Pray that the security branches of both the United States and Israel would continue to work together at the same level of alertness that will keep Israel’s diplomats, as well as all Jewish people, safe from harm. Give thanks for the strong statement of New York’s governor against hate-motivated crimes and in support of the Jewish people.

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 this time of economic shaking in Iran would produce a change in the government and a turning to the Lord. Pray for the underground Church which has grown, even during this period of radical Islam, that believers would have open doors to share with the Gospel with their friends and neighbors, telling them of Israel’s God.

Scripture

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no God.

- Isaiah 44:6

Prayer Focus
Pray that the information shared during this interview does not give any insight to Hezbollah, Hamas or Iran as to how Israel prepares its covert operations. Give thanks, once again, for the evidence that Israel and the IDF go to extreme lengths to ensure that civilians are not intentionally harmed by its operations.

Scripture

Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity…

- Psalm 64:2