Although I love Israel, I want you to know this: I also love the other nations and America in particular. The Lord gave me a prayer assignment for her many years ago and today it is stronger than it’s ever been. I want America to be blessed. I want her to fulfill God’s plan and purpose. And to do that, she must deal with Israel not according to political opinion but according to the Word of God.
Those who bless Israel will be blessed. So as Americans, one of the greatest things we can do for our nation is to pray for America to bless the nation of Israel.
In what ways should we bless it?
Our government should recognize Jerusalem as its capital, for one thing. God says it’s the capital, the Jews say it’s the capital, and we should agree with them. Congress should also continue to provide aid to Israel whenever it’s needed. And our national leaders should refuse to join those who are criticizing Israel and be supportive instead.
As believers, we’re instructed to pray for “kings and for all that are in authority” (1 Timothy 2:2) and one of the things we can pray is for God to turn the hearts of our leaders so that they treat Israel with favor and wisdom. That’s crucial if the United States of America is to stand as a sheep nation in the millennial judgment and not be destroyed with the goats.
I can almost hear someone thinking right now. What’s this about sheep and goats? What are you talking about?
I asked the same thing when I first started praying about Israel many years ago. I had no clue about the sheep/goat judgment until the Holy Spirit spoke to me about it in prayer and warned me that in the last days Satan would try to turn America into a goat nation. The Lord explained it by pointing me to Matthew 25. Take a moment to read through what Jesus said in Matthew 25:31–36, 40–43,
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I used to assume that Jesus was talking about personal judgment in this passage. But He wasn’t. He was teaching about the judgment of the nations, and the “brethren” He refers to are the Jews.
Once I saw what qualifies a nation to be a sheep nation is blessing and helping Israel, I began praying for America’s leaders to stay on the sheep side of things! Sheep nations don’t oppress the Jews or try to push them off their land. Sheep nations don’t make evil compromises and alliances with Israel’s enemies.
That’s what goat nations do and they don’t have any place in the ultimate plan for the ages. They end up destroyed and forgotten. I don’t want America to end up as a goat nation. I’m sure you don’t either, so let’s keep this prayer point before the Lord.
Since this is an election year, we also have opportunity to put feet to our prayers. There are many different criteria to consider when pondering how we should vote and one of them must be the candidates’ attitude toward Israel. When I have an opportunity to talk to government officials, this is always my first question to them: What are you going to do about Israel?
To be honest, it’s a question we must also ask ourselves, as individual believers.
What are we going to do about Israel?
I believe we’re going to pray. Go after it! Pray for God’s will to be done concerning
Israel. Be confident that your prayers make a difference!
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