Day 13: True Peace in Jerusalem
Prayer Points
- That all Israelis will see that political and social solutions won’t bring real and lasting peace, but only the Prince of Peace, Yeshua, can give true peace
- That Jewish and Arab believers will set an example of true unity, that is possible only in Messiah, leading to opportunities to testify of Yeshua’s work and share the Good News
- For shalom – not only absence of war, but true peace and wholeness between all the different sectors of Israeli society that are often raging against one another, so that God can fulfill His purposes for the whole nation
- That the Jewish people in Jerusalem and Israel will make peace with Yeshua and welcome Him as their Messiah, so that He will return and establish peace in all the earth
Key Scriptures
Psalm 122:6-8 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.” For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria…and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians.
In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria – a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”
Isaiah 19:23-25
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.”
Isaiah 26:1-4
“Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel….”
“I will also make your officers peace, and your magistrates righteousness. Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.”
Isaiah 60:14, 17b-18
“Behold, I will bring [Jerusalem] health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the peace that I provide for it.”
Jeremiah 33:6-9
For He himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 2:14-18
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!... For I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
Matthew 23:37, 39
2 Chronicles 7:14 “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
“I am zealous for Zion with great zeal; with great fervor I am zealous for her.” Thus says the Lord: “I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the Mountain of the Lord of hosts, the Holy Mountain.”
“I am determined to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear….”
“Peoples shall yet come, inhabitants of many cities; the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us continue to go and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of hosts. I myself will go also.’
“Yes, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.”
Zechariah 8:2b-3, 15b, 20b-22
