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Evangelical Leaders and Christians Around the Globe Unite in Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem
Robert Stearns and Dr. Jack Hayford Lead Millions of Christians to Pray Throughout October 5th for Peace in Jerusalem and for the Many Needs of All Inhabitants
Buffalo, NY: Oct. 6, 2008
Millions of Christians united across denominational, cultural, and political differences on Sunday, October 5th to participate in The Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (www.daytopray.com <http://www.daytopray.com/> ) and to ask for God’s blessing and provision upon all of her people. Christians gathered to pray not only in their local worship services around the world, but also in larger regional gatherings throughout states and nations, in a cyberspace “prayer room” created by a 24 Hour Prayer Conference Call, and through a special Jerusalem gathering where the prayers by Arab, Jewish, and Christian leaders were broadcast to 200 nations on GODTV Satellite network.
The multi-national and religiously diverse character of this global prayer movement – Co-Chaired by Rev. Robert Stearns, founder/director of Eagles’ Wings Ministries, and Dr. Jack Hayford, president of the Foursquare International Church – was uniquely reflected in the Jerusalem gathering where Christians from dozens of nations prayed on the Haas Promenade, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem.
Rev. Stearns said “We are praying past the place of political agenda; we are praying past the point of theological doctrinal statements. The Bible commands that we pray and the current situation demands that we pray.”
Josh Reinstein, director of the Israeli Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus, reminded those gathered that, “Throughout the entire Hebrew Scriptures, God asked man to pray for one thing….the peace of Jerusalem.” Gilad Erdan, Knesset’s rising leader in the Likud party, boldly declared: “The most powerful weapon that Jews and Christians have is prayer.”
“I am living proof that there is hope for the Palestinian people and there is love for the Palestinian people, in the name of Jesus,” prayed Rev. Steven Khoury in both English and Arabic. Rev. Khoury is a Palestinian Christian who pastors Calvary Jerusalem Ministries and whose father pastors First Baptist Church in Bethlehem.
Although reports are still coming in, it is estimated that 175 nations and over 200,000 churches participated throughout October 5th. Some reports, like the one from Pastor Jesse Karanja of Mizpah Prayer Centre in Nakuru Kenya, shared how they devoted the entire weekend from Friday through Sunday, to worship and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
While intercession was lifted up from cosmopolitan cities to jungle villages, from European cathedrals to underground churches in Muslim countries, teleconferencing technology allowed almost 700 callers to pray with other Christians during the 24 hours of October 5th in a “virtual prayer room.” (www.greatercalling.org) Christians not only from American but also from Morocco, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Brazil, and the Netherlands, prayed and sang in their native tongues, and wept as they prayed for Jerusalem and her people.
Note to Editors: More details can be found at www.daytopray.com
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem - Oct. 5th
The day to pray for the peace of Jerusalem is coming up pretty quickly. I hope that your church will participate in this monumental event as thousands of Christians and Jews around the world will be praying for peace for Jerualem and Israel.
If you need any flyers for this event, just go to www.daytopray.com and then click on where it says store and you can order stuff for your church.
Blessings and Shalom in Yeshua,
Rev. Bob
If you need any flyers for this event, just go to www.daytopray.com and then click on where it says store and you can order stuff for your church.
Blessings and Shalom in Yeshua,
Rev. Bob
Friday, May 30, 2008
Why the Church Should Support Israel
Why the Church Should Support Israel
Many Christians ask me, “How do I know if my church is a Bible-believing church that doesn’t teach replacement theology, progressive dispensationalism or supersessionism?”
Ask yourself some questions:
Does my church pray for the Jewish people, the peace of Jerusalem, and Israel?
Does my church give offerings of compassion to comfort them?
Does my church preach on Israel and its Biblical significance?
Does my church take tours of Israel?
Is there an Israeli flag in my church?
Does my church teach on the significance of Church’s Jewish roots?
Does my church have a Night to Honor Israel or Jerusalem Prayer Summit annually?
Does my church ever preach against replacement theology, progressive dispensationaism, or supersessionism?
If the answer to these questions is “No,” then you may be a member of a church that refuses to believe the Bible, and rejects God’s Eternal promises to the House of Israel. If your church seems powerless, and appears not to be blessed by God, perhaps this is the reason.
Israel is a Miracle Nation because of its formation; and when we stand with Israel, we are standing with God’s prophetic plan.
We must be part of God’s dream and His team and support Israel and the Jewish people. Their existence and the rebirth of Israel is a miracle. As Christians, we believe in miracles. The resurrection of our Lord was the greatest miracle. If He can live again, it is no problem at all of for Him to restore the Nation of Israel.
Israel was not born in 1948. It was born in the heart of God and revealed to Abraham many years before the birth of Isaac. God made a blood covenant with Abraham that the land of Canaan would be given to Abraham’s seed through Isaac. (Genesis 15:18) As part of that vision, God told Abraham that for 400 years his seed would be strangers in a land that did not belong to them. (Genesis 15:13) The seed of Abraham from Isaac spent 400 years in Egypt before Moses led them out, and Israel, the nation, was born.
“Who had heard such a thing? Who had seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.” (Isaiah 66:8)
Enduring Covenant People
Unique as this religious centrality is, there is one reason above all others why committed Christians must stand with Israel: The God of the Universe, the God that we worship, has chosen to make an everlasting convent with the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-the Jewish people.
The word “everlasting” has nothing temporary or confidential about it. It clearly means, “lasting forever.” And although Jews are found today in North and South America, Australia, Russia, Europe, many parts of Africa, and virtually every other continent on earth their historic spiritual and physical center was, and always be, the Promised Land of Israel.
God’s Eternal covenant with the descendents of Abraham featured the promise to give them the land of Israel as an everlasting possession. This is recorded in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, in chapter 17.
Why the Church Should Support Israel? Because God Does!
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:1-3)
Israel is God’s dream, and we are called to be a part of His team. The title deed belongs to God Almighty. When God made His eternal promises to Israel, there was no United Nations. There were only pagan nations to challenge this dream, to challenge God and His word.
To be apathetic toward of God’s Divine plan or Eternal purpose, and our role as Christians in it, means to reject Our Lord’s Divine Assignment to the Church and heavenly opportunity. God’s prophetic time clock has been set on Jerusalem time! And the spotlight of Heaven is still on the Jews. It all began with them, and it will all end with them. God’s plan is an eternal one! If what we do as Christians does not matter in the light of eternity, then we had better stop doing it. As Christians, can no more neglect our responsibility to stand with the House of Israel then we can neglect believing in the promises of God.
Jerusalem is the only city for which God commands us to pray. He also commands a blessing on those who pray for Jerusalem! When you pray for Jerusalem, Psalm 122:6, you are not praying for stones or dirt, you are praying for revival (2 Chronicles 7:14), and for the Lord’s Return. Also, you are joining our Lord, the Good Samaritan, in His ministry of love and comfort to the suffering. “If you’ve done it unto the least of these, my brethren (the Jews) you’ve done it unto me.” It is our divine commission.
King David explained precisely why God Almighty has commanded us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and has commanded a blessing upon us for doing so. The revelation is found in Psalm 122:8: “For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.” God is telling us to pray for the souls of Jerusalem. David felt that prayer needed to be offered up for all of his brothers, and friends who lived there. Prayer needs to be offered today for the House of Israel, for those who live there from over 120 nations of the Earth. It is the city most targeted by terrorists, simply because it is Jerusalem. It has drawn the Jewish people of the world like a prophetic magnet…those who have prayed, “New Year in Jerusalem.”
In Psalm 122:9, David’s revelation says, “May there be peace as a protection for the Temple of the Lord.” Ultimately, we are praying for Satan to be bound. In Isaiah 14, Satan said he would battle God from the Temple of the Lord, on the sides of the north. When we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we are praying for the souls of the City of Jerusalem; we are praying for the Temple of the Lord; and, we are praying for the Messiah to come. The prophecies of the Bible point to the Temple of the Lord as the key flashpoint that will bring the nation of the world to Jerusalem, and ultimately result in the battle that will end Satan’s reign over the earth for all eternity. It will spell his final death.
In 691 A.D., Islamic adherents in Jerusalem built the Dome of the Rock over the Foundation Stone, which was the spot of the Holy of Holies in the Bible. Islam later attributed another event to the Foundation Stone: the binding of the son of Abraham the “Hanif,” the first Monotheist. As the Koran does not explicitly mention the name Isaac, commentators on the Koran have identified the son bound by Abraham as Ishmael. Thus Islam teaches that the title deed to Jerusalem and the Temple Site and all of Israel belong to the Arabs – not the Jews.
If fact, Mohammed never set foot in Jerusalem, nor is the city mentioned by name in the Koran. His only connection to Jerusalem is through his dream or vision where he found himself in a “temple that is most remote.” (Koran, Sura) It was not until the Seventh Century that Moslem adherents identified the “temple most remote” as a mosque in Jerusalem (perhaps for political reasons.)
The truth remains that this site which now stands the Dome of the Rock, as is sacred to Jews as the Temple site, will be the basis for the battle of ages that will be fought.
There is a divine reason the Church was born in Zion! All roads lead to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. The world is hopeless, not knowing what to do. Heaven and Earth met in Jerusalem, and will meet there again. The destiny of America and the world is linked to Jerusalem. It is epicenter of spiritual warfare and affects the entire world.
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria are the battle zones. It is no accident that the Great Commission is directed toward these prophetic areas. If Christians are not salt and light then the Great Commission will become the Great Omission! “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
If Our Lord and Savior reached out in compassion to Israel, and made prayer for her His highest priority, do we dare make it our lowest? There is a direct correlation between the power that Heaven promises for the Church and its birth in Jerusalem, and the Church’s obedience to be a witness In Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. The church cannot, and must not, ignore Christ’s Eternal mission for her, and at the same time, expect power from on high. If His disciples’ obedience was directly related to a power surge from Heaven and the birth of the Church, can disobedience empower the church and lift her heavenward to fulfill her final mission?
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” (Isaiah 60:1-3)
The above is an excerpt from Dr. Evans’ book Why Christians Should Support Israel.
All of those who send a donation of $50 to help create Jerusalem prayer teams throughout the world will receive an autographed copy of the book. Click here to make your gift.
Your Jerusalem World News: www.myjwn.com
Your Save Jerusalem Site: www.savejerusalem.org
Many Christians ask me, “How do I know if my church is a Bible-believing church that doesn’t teach replacement theology, progressive dispensationalism or supersessionism?”
Ask yourself some questions:
Does my church pray for the Jewish people, the peace of Jerusalem, and Israel?
Does my church give offerings of compassion to comfort them?
Does my church preach on Israel and its Biblical significance?
Does my church take tours of Israel?
Is there an Israeli flag in my church?
Does my church teach on the significance of Church’s Jewish roots?
Does my church have a Night to Honor Israel or Jerusalem Prayer Summit annually?
Does my church ever preach against replacement theology, progressive dispensationaism, or supersessionism?
If the answer to these questions is “No,” then you may be a member of a church that refuses to believe the Bible, and rejects God’s Eternal promises to the House of Israel. If your church seems powerless, and appears not to be blessed by God, perhaps this is the reason.
Israel is a Miracle Nation because of its formation; and when we stand with Israel, we are standing with God’s prophetic plan.
We must be part of God’s dream and His team and support Israel and the Jewish people. Their existence and the rebirth of Israel is a miracle. As Christians, we believe in miracles. The resurrection of our Lord was the greatest miracle. If He can live again, it is no problem at all of for Him to restore the Nation of Israel.
Israel was not born in 1948. It was born in the heart of God and revealed to Abraham many years before the birth of Isaac. God made a blood covenant with Abraham that the land of Canaan would be given to Abraham’s seed through Isaac. (Genesis 15:18) As part of that vision, God told Abraham that for 400 years his seed would be strangers in a land that did not belong to them. (Genesis 15:13) The seed of Abraham from Isaac spent 400 years in Egypt before Moses led them out, and Israel, the nation, was born.
“Who had heard such a thing? Who had seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.” (Isaiah 66:8)
Enduring Covenant People
Unique as this religious centrality is, there is one reason above all others why committed Christians must stand with Israel: The God of the Universe, the God that we worship, has chosen to make an everlasting convent with the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-the Jewish people.
The word “everlasting” has nothing temporary or confidential about it. It clearly means, “lasting forever.” And although Jews are found today in North and South America, Australia, Russia, Europe, many parts of Africa, and virtually every other continent on earth their historic spiritual and physical center was, and always be, the Promised Land of Israel.
God’s Eternal covenant with the descendents of Abraham featured the promise to give them the land of Israel as an everlasting possession. This is recorded in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, in chapter 17.
Why the Church Should Support Israel? Because God Does!
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:1-3)
Israel is God’s dream, and we are called to be a part of His team. The title deed belongs to God Almighty. When God made His eternal promises to Israel, there was no United Nations. There were only pagan nations to challenge this dream, to challenge God and His word.
To be apathetic toward of God’s Divine plan or Eternal purpose, and our role as Christians in it, means to reject Our Lord’s Divine Assignment to the Church and heavenly opportunity. God’s prophetic time clock has been set on Jerusalem time! And the spotlight of Heaven is still on the Jews. It all began with them, and it will all end with them. God’s plan is an eternal one! If what we do as Christians does not matter in the light of eternity, then we had better stop doing it. As Christians, can no more neglect our responsibility to stand with the House of Israel then we can neglect believing in the promises of God.
Jerusalem is the only city for which God commands us to pray. He also commands a blessing on those who pray for Jerusalem! When you pray for Jerusalem, Psalm 122:6, you are not praying for stones or dirt, you are praying for revival (2 Chronicles 7:14), and for the Lord’s Return. Also, you are joining our Lord, the Good Samaritan, in His ministry of love and comfort to the suffering. “If you’ve done it unto the least of these, my brethren (the Jews) you’ve done it unto me.” It is our divine commission.
King David explained precisely why God Almighty has commanded us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and has commanded a blessing upon us for doing so. The revelation is found in Psalm 122:8: “For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.” God is telling us to pray for the souls of Jerusalem. David felt that prayer needed to be offered up for all of his brothers, and friends who lived there. Prayer needs to be offered today for the House of Israel, for those who live there from over 120 nations of the Earth. It is the city most targeted by terrorists, simply because it is Jerusalem. It has drawn the Jewish people of the world like a prophetic magnet…those who have prayed, “New Year in Jerusalem.”
In Psalm 122:9, David’s revelation says, “May there be peace as a protection for the Temple of the Lord.” Ultimately, we are praying for Satan to be bound. In Isaiah 14, Satan said he would battle God from the Temple of the Lord, on the sides of the north. When we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we are praying for the souls of the City of Jerusalem; we are praying for the Temple of the Lord; and, we are praying for the Messiah to come. The prophecies of the Bible point to the Temple of the Lord as the key flashpoint that will bring the nation of the world to Jerusalem, and ultimately result in the battle that will end Satan’s reign over the earth for all eternity. It will spell his final death.
In 691 A.D., Islamic adherents in Jerusalem built the Dome of the Rock over the Foundation Stone, which was the spot of the Holy of Holies in the Bible. Islam later attributed another event to the Foundation Stone: the binding of the son of Abraham the “Hanif,” the first Monotheist. As the Koran does not explicitly mention the name Isaac, commentators on the Koran have identified the son bound by Abraham as Ishmael. Thus Islam teaches that the title deed to Jerusalem and the Temple Site and all of Israel belong to the Arabs – not the Jews.
If fact, Mohammed never set foot in Jerusalem, nor is the city mentioned by name in the Koran. His only connection to Jerusalem is through his dream or vision where he found himself in a “temple that is most remote.” (Koran, Sura) It was not until the Seventh Century that Moslem adherents identified the “temple most remote” as a mosque in Jerusalem (perhaps for political reasons.)
The truth remains that this site which now stands the Dome of the Rock, as is sacred to Jews as the Temple site, will be the basis for the battle of ages that will be fought.
There is a divine reason the Church was born in Zion! All roads lead to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. The world is hopeless, not knowing what to do. Heaven and Earth met in Jerusalem, and will meet there again. The destiny of America and the world is linked to Jerusalem. It is epicenter of spiritual warfare and affects the entire world.
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria are the battle zones. It is no accident that the Great Commission is directed toward these prophetic areas. If Christians are not salt and light then the Great Commission will become the Great Omission! “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
If Our Lord and Savior reached out in compassion to Israel, and made prayer for her His highest priority, do we dare make it our lowest? There is a direct correlation between the power that Heaven promises for the Church and its birth in Jerusalem, and the Church’s obedience to be a witness In Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. The church cannot, and must not, ignore Christ’s Eternal mission for her, and at the same time, expect power from on high. If His disciples’ obedience was directly related to a power surge from Heaven and the birth of the Church, can disobedience empower the church and lift her heavenward to fulfill her final mission?
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” (Isaiah 60:1-3)
The above is an excerpt from Dr. Evans’ book Why Christians Should Support Israel.
All of those who send a donation of $50 to help create Jerusalem prayer teams throughout the world will receive an autographed copy of the book. Click here to make your gift.
Your Jerusalem World News: www.myjwn.com
Your Save Jerusalem Site: www.savejerusalem.org
Welcome
Welcome to the first posting for Day to Pray - Arizona.
I am the state coordinator for Arizona for the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem which is put on every year on the first Sunday in October by Eagles' Wings Ministry led by Rev. Robert Stearns.
Their call is for sustained, fervent, informed global intercession for the plans and purposes of God for Jerusalem and all her people.
I will periodically post information leading up to this yearly event and hopefully you and your church will become involved in this event to pray for the peace of Jerusalem according to the biblical command found in Psalm 122:6.
If you want more information, feel free to contact me either by phone at 602-670-2918 or by email at daytopray.az@gmail.com , or you can go to Eagle's Wings website found at www.daytopray.com .
Shalom in Yeshua,
Rev. Bob Fritch
State Coordinator for Arizona
I am the state coordinator for Arizona for the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem which is put on every year on the first Sunday in October by Eagles' Wings Ministry led by Rev. Robert Stearns.
Their call is for sustained, fervent, informed global intercession for the plans and purposes of God for Jerusalem and all her people.
I will periodically post information leading up to this yearly event and hopefully you and your church will become involved in this event to pray for the peace of Jerusalem according to the biblical command found in Psalm 122:6.
If you want more information, feel free to contact me either by phone at 602-670-2918 or by email at daytopray.az@gmail.com , or you can go to Eagle's Wings website found at www.daytopray.com .
Shalom in Yeshua,
Rev. Bob Fritch
State Coordinator for Arizona
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