Join With 100 Million and Pray for Israel
On your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who profess the LORD, take no rest for yourselves. And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem an object of praise on the earth.
The Prophet Isaiah, 62:6-7
Many have said that the simple plot lines of the sitcom Seinfeld reveal nuggets of wisdom that can be applied to almost any scene of life’s real storylines.
In one episode, as the chronically woeful George Costanza ruminates over the endless string of failures in his life, he surrenders to the fact that every decision he’s ever made has been wrong. His reckoning birthed a revelation that changed his entire worldview; well, at least for that episode:
If every instinct you’ve had has been wrong, then the opposite must be right.
As George jettisons his initial instincts and dares to believe the counter-narrative must be true, his life miraculously blooms with countless benefits and heaps of good fortune.
What does this have to do with Israel?
Nearly every Spirit-filled believer and independent thinker has been fully convinced for a long time that establishment media cannot be trusted. As mainstream media goose-steps their hackneyed propaganda across the many screens of our lives, we can be 100% certain of one thing: Whatever they are telling us, the opposite must be true.
Newspeak like, “Safe and Effective, “Russia Collusion”, “The Lab Leak Theory”, “The Covington Boys”, “Brett Kavanaugh is a Serial Rapist”, “Putin’s Price Hike”, “The Most Secure Election in US History, “The Greatest Threat to Our Democracy”, and endless others have exposed our media as a wholly untrustworthy arm of the regime.
The only thing more reprehensible than their barrage of anti-truth flash-bang grenades is their unbounded shamelessness as they lob bomb after bomb into our homes.
If every narrative the mainstream press presents is wrong, then the opposite must be right.
But what does this have to do with Israel?
As protests erupt in Tel Aviv and you hear the mainstream media herald that Benjamin Netanyahu represents a “Threat to democracy”, remember the George principle. When the Washington Post promotes the World Economic Forum’s anti-Christ candidate, Yuval Noah Harari, to foment that unelected judges on Israel’s Supreme Court should have more power than the elected government and the military — remember the George principle.
And when the BBC cobbles the death of three armed Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank with the political protests in Tel Aviv to instigate further anti-Israel sentiment, rewatch Season Five, Episode 22 of Seinfeld.
As both the establishment media and our current administration display deepening animus toward Israel and unthinkably wink at blatant and growing antisemitism, stop to recount whether your positions on Israeli policy and their right to exist have been formed by biased pundits or holy scripture.
The opening verse above from Isaiah 62 charges us to pray unceasingly until Jerusalem is an object of praise on the earth. Do not let biased billionaire-funded outlets control how you think. Rather, allow scripture to invite you how to pray.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!
Psalm 122:6
Notice the inherent promises for those who pray for Israel.
How beautiful are your tents O Jacob, and your dwelling places, O Israel . . . Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.
The Book of Numbers, Chapter 24, Verses 5, 9
As Israel prepares to celebrate her 75th anniversary of rebirth this April, millions of intercessors around the world are preparing to pray blessings upon the nation of Israel like never before.
What’s Happening?
A collaboration of ministries from around the world is mobilizing over 100 million intercessors to fast and pray for four specific regions in 2023. If this number of believers praying for a specific nation seems outlandish to you, you may be right. But then again, doesn’t lavish, extravagant prayer seem exactly the thing Heaven desires from us?
Before you dismiss this as impossible, did you know that on January 22 of this year, over 100 million people prayed at the same time for the nation of China? On April 17, over 100 million will simultaneously pray for the Middle East and on October 31 over 100 million will pray in concert for India.
Has your attention been piqued yet?
Most importantly for Christians and Jews, on May 28 over 100 million believers will set themselves on the wall and earnestly intercede in focused prayer for Israel. And in preparation for this historic event, over one million intercessors are being rallied right now to pray and fast from May 7 through May 28.
Pastor Mike Bickle has announced this will be the most important event in the history of his ministry at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, MO (IHOP). If you know anything about the 50-year prophetic history of IHOP, your attention was just piqued even more.
The Lord has chosen this humble community of faith to birth some of the most significant movements our country has ever experienced. The most notable is the IHOP Prayer Room which has sustained over 23 years of continuous praise and worship.
I have soaked for hours in that holy place and can only imagine how heaven’s angelic beings marvel at what mere humans are accomplishing there. 23 years of perpetual, uninterrupted worship. Seven days a week. 24 hours a day. If this sounds heavenly to you — it is.
How to Take Part
Visit the Isaiah 62 Fast website to learn more about how this movement started and what is happening next. Then pray and ask The Lord how you can be an active participant in this global solemn assembly.
It may be as simple as praying every day from May 7 through 28. Maybe you will be drawn to fast for all or part of that time? If that feels at all overwhelming, remember that you will have over one million people appealing to Heaven along with you!
Then on May 28, we will all join with over 100 million intercessors from around the world and pray tirelessly and with great faith as Jerusalem is more and more conformed as an object of praise on the earth.
What’s the Goal?
Never think this is just about Israel. Scripture is very clear that the Jewish and Gentile believers will be united as the consummation of the ages described in Hebrews 9 continues to unfurl. Therefore, pray also that the Christian church will more and more reveal the fullness of Yeshua so that her Jewish brothers and sisters can see Messiah:
For I tell you, you [Jerusalem] will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord’.
~ Jesus, The Gospel of Matthew, 23:39
And while our gaze is affixed on the return of Messiah, we should also continually contend for more and more to take part in the Kingdom here and now; every day. Many prophets have said this next era of the church will be marked by: The billion soul harvest.
The billion soul harvest is something IHOP has been praying and preparing for these past five decades.
The eccentric and richly anointed prophet, Bob Jones, famously prophesied three occurrences that would herald the most exciting, heaven-on-earth harvest we have ever dared to dream of. He shared these prophetic insights with Mike Bickel almost exactly 40 years ago.
First, Jones declared the days would come when an abortion could be accomplished by swallowing an over-the-counter pill. Can you pause long enough to hear the scurrilous snickering Bob endured in 1983 for such a claim? Well, claim number one has come to pass.
Next, he declared that homosexuality would be the law of the land in America. In 1983, even the most virulent activist could not have imagined such a cultural shift. Today, in light of the Biden administration’s passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, we are now forced to acknowledge Bob’s second projection has come to pass.
And third, he unthinkably envisioned Chinese farmers working in the rice paddies watching livestreams of 24/7 worship and prayer for Israel — on hand-held TVs without plugs. Again, linger to hear even the staunchest of Star Trek fans mercilessly mock him. As the IHOP Prayer Room is live-streamed today around the world and nearly every rural corner of the planet has cell phones, prophetic claim number three can be checked off.
The more we understand the scriptures, the more we see that Israel is the centerpiece of Adonai’s plan here on earth.
May we lift our eyes in this season of active revival and be emboldened to pray more than ever before. May we celebrate the great love Adonai holds for the nation of Israel and remember why they are the apple of His eye. May we joyfully position ourselves atop the intercessor’s wall and with uncountable millions, pray and fast for Israel this May.
And may we continually be transformed into the likeness of Our Risen Christ so that our lives are temples of perpetual worship and display to the world the praise of His glory.
For more information, please visit: Isaiah 62 Fast
