Prayer for Israel. You yearn for the land you set your heart upon as for a first-born child

Connections Track 19 Prayer for Israel. You yearn for the land you set your heart upon as for a first-born child. Lord we declare your glory among the nations Your marvellous deeds among all peoples, for You take especial care all Your hand has formed. We give you now the land You first set Your heart upon, whose soul Jesus quite reshaped, and for whom You yearn as for a first born son. We pray for its people, so long the despised among the nations, who all but wandered from their Messianic expectations; and Jerusalem, that You set in the midst of the nations with hostile countries all around. We give You now its immediate future, its texture, soil and infrastructure. The outreach of Your people there, and the nation’s response to them, Pour out upon these mountains the longed for springs and fountains that the prophet Jeremiah foresaw concerning the promised Messiah, and whatever direction and protection will prove the key to bring the nation to its knees. Whatever You desire the enemy opposes, and so we pray, let not those who gaze upon the land with envy succeed against Your will, but rather let Your full and perfect blessing rest upon the people and the land, and all the peoples of the Middle East who are invited to Your feast.