1. Pray against evil agendas, unwise counsel, or delays promoted by foreign presidents suddenly visiting Israel: Jeremiah 30:8: “In that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.”
2. Pray for the government and military of Israel to have the anointing of the sons of Issachar overruling their own thoughts: I Chronicles 12:32 “…from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command”
3. Pray for warning dreams from the LORD to leaders and members of Hamas: Job 33:15-18: “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears, and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing, and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.”
4. Pray for the occult shields of protection to be removed from all Hamas leaders / terrorists who will not repent: Numbers 14:9: “And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
5. Pray for Ziklag type miracles for the rescue of the Israelis held as hostages: I Samuel 30: 11 They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. 15 David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?”16 He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. 17 David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day 18 David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. 19 Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.”
6. Pray for the people of Gaza and the people of Israel to be delivered from the tyranny of the demonic “kings” operating over Gaza and the surrounding cities in Israel:
Amos 1:6-8
This is what the LORD says:
“For three sins of Gaza,
even for four, I will not relent.
Because she took captive whole communities
and sold them to Edom,
I will send fire on the walls of Gaza
that will consume her fortresses.
I will destroy the king of Ashdod
and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
till the last of the Philistines are dead,”
says the Sovereign LORD.”
Zechariah 9:5-7
“Ashkelon will see it and fear;
Gaza will writhe in agony,
and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
Gaza will lose her king…
and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.
I will take the blood from their mouths,
the forbidden food from between their teeth.
Those who are left will belong to our God
and become a clan in Judah,
and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.”
7. Pray for the protection of Jerusalem and the Lord’s “Holy Hill” the Temple Mount, as the stated goal of Hamas was not Gaza, but Jerusalem and the Temple Mount (the location of the al Aqsa Mosque” as the Hamas terrorist crusade was officially called “Al Aqsa Flood”. Zechariah 9: 8: “But I will encamp at my temple [mount] to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch.” Zechariah 2:4 “And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory within.”
8. As Iran (Persia) is obviously behind both Hamas and Hezbollah, it is important to pray this Scripture about Elam, which was the core area of Persia where the Palace in the story of Queen Esther was located:
Jeremiah 49:35-39
This is what the LORD Almighty says:
“See, I will break the bow of Elam,
the mainstay of their might.
I will bring against Elam the four winds
from the four quarters of heaven;
I will scatter them to the four winds,
and there will not be a nation
where Elam’s exiles do not go.
I will shatter Elam before their foes,
before those who want to kill them;
I will bring disaster on them,
even my fierce anger,”
declares the LORD.
“I will pursue them with the sword
until I have made an end of them.
I will set my throne in Elam
and destroy her king and officials,”
declares the LORD.
“Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam
in days to come,”
declares the LORD.
Compiled by Rick Ridings, Succat Hallel, Jerusalem 17 October, 2023
