A group of believers in Jesus our Messiah unite in prayer before the throne to stand in the gap for others.

 

© Desireofmysoul.faith (.com and .org) & SoulBreaths.com. All rights reserved.

 

Please join us before our King . . .

Email your prayer requests or questions: prayer@desireofmysoul.faith

 

typically 3-4 minute AUDIO Prayers

► girded by the WORD OF GOD

► a targeted shortlist sent as led, often once or twice a month

 

How It Works: Look for the media bars after the intro and click on the arrow to listen and pray along.

 

GREETINGS . . .

 

Shalom, shalom, Beloved. Thank you for standing with us on God’s immovable, unshakeable WORD to give prayer support at this vital hour for three audio prayers.

 

Even now, in these spiritually difficult times, God is here, right now, ever present. His Name—through our Messiah Jesus—sealing you to Him for all eternity.

 

King of all kings, LORD of all lords, we pray Psalm 108:12-13.

Grant each of us help from the tightening straits of distress, of trouble, of the enemy

because deliverance from man is a desolating emptiness,
a nothingness, vanity.

But in YOU, our God, we will gain strength, be valiant,

for He will trample, subdue, our adversary.

 
 

⌘ ⌘ ⌘

 

INTERCESSION SECTION . . .

 
 

THE FIRST AUDIO OF PRAYER REQUESTS

8 WOMEN – 5 MINUTES prayer focus (besides Scripture reading)

Psalm 73:21,23-28 forms the scriptural foundation.

 

Click on the AUDIO MEDIA BAR’S ARROW below to pray along with us for . . .

► JONI

► HOPE

► SALOME

► IRIS

► KIM

► PAULA

► TONI

► BERNIE

 

 

⌘ ⌘ ⌘

 

THE SECOND AUDIO OF PRAYER REQUESTS

5 MINUTES prayer focus (besides Scripture reading)

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and Isaiah 43:18-19 form the scriptural foundation.

 

Click on the AUDIO MEDIA BAR’S ARROW below to hear the prayer and pray along with us for . . .

► SUSAN

► NONBELIEVER FAMILY OF YOUNG WOMAN WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE

► MARCUS’S NEIGHBORHOOD

► ANONYMOUS BELIEVER EXTRADITED

 

 

⌘ ⌘ ⌘

 

THE THIRD AUDIO OF PRAYER REQUESTS

5 MINUTES prayer focus (besides Scripture reading)

Jeremiah 31:35-36 , Isaiah 54:17, and 1 Chronicles 16:11 form the scriptural foundation.

 

Click on the AUDIO MEDIA BAR’S ARROW below to hear the prayer and pray along with us for . . .

► BIBI NETANYAHU/ISRAEL/

► NEW REPLACEMENT SQUADS FOR US AIR FORCE STAFF SERGEANT JOSH & FELLOW AIRMEN (Saudi deployment: US Air Base)

 

 

⌘ ⌘ ⌘

 
 

LED TO PRAY A FEW MORE MINUTES?

MAY GOD ANOINT YOU TO INTERCEDE FOR THOSE ON OUR ONGOING LIST for . . .

SALVATION, PERSECUTED, DELIVERANCE & PRODIGALS

 
 

Acts 26:17b. This Acts verse is our continual prayer for deliverance: God’s commission to Paul . . . “Open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.”

 

We pray that because of Romans 1:16. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.”

 

#1. In this tenuous hour on the prophetic time clock, we stand in pray for B’nai Israel in the Land and throughout the world. Especially for those Jews caught up in New Age/Buddhism and those not knowing the truth of Yeshua, their Jewish Messiah.

 

Special mentions for salvation and deliverance:

√ The Lord’s mercies and continual healing (spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically) for all the returned hostages and their families.

 

√ Bibi Netanyahu–God’s hand on his heart, strengthening him, leading him, imparting wisdom to him so he doesn’t fall sway to the global noise/pressure. Also for Bibi’s family and all Israeli leadership, plus every facet of the courageous Israeli military forces/IDF, Israeli Intelligence forces/Shin Bet/Mossad/Aman, and for unity in the nation.

 

√ May the Lord’s garment of protection be on Jerusalem and Israel, sending angelic forces to stand shoulder-to-shoulder, a holy barrier around Jerusalem, Israel, and Your people, Lord. Guard them from their many enemies, those on their borders, those within their borders, those nearby, those globally. Move in the hearts of her enemies to turn them to You, Lord, and the righteousness of your salvation, Yeshua.

 

√ Lord, may your redemption truth in Yeshua intervene in Yad L’Achim, the Haredi Jewish organization focusing on countering evangelical “missionary” work in Israel

 

Salvation for Jewish friends and rabbis:

√ the extended Katz family, Marc, Bill, Rabbi Mendy Deitsch/family, Neil S., Bobbi/Neil, Edie/Hal, Etta, Julie, Robert, Ellen B., Barbara/family, Jackie/family, Nancy E., Doug B., Dale G., Judith L., Ruth M., Ira P. and wife, Carolyn S., and the family of Ellen R.

√ The Chosen’s Jewish actors Shahar Isaac, Noah James, others. [We are eternally grateful for the Lord answering our longtime prayers for Elijah Alexander, who now is a messianic Jew, a believer in Yeshua!]

√ Rabbi Richman, the Temple Institute, Aish.com, Pardes Institute rabbis/teachers, Rabbi Mintz/family & her longtime Torah study group, Rabbi Fohrman, Rabbi Wyne, Rabbi Goodman, Rabbi Herlig/Chabad, Rabbi Hecht and family, Rabbi Goodman, Rabbi Cohen, Rabbi Goldbart, Tovia Singer, J. Goldfarb.

 

#2. Deliverance from Persecution

√ The demonic realm is at work, stirring hatred, swaying and corrupting hearts, minds, and souls. Even infiltrating churches disguising themselves—wolves in sheep’s clothing—to perform spiritual attacks up close and personal against believers, thwarting their faith, health, marriages, families, jobs, more. May believers lock arms in unity with the Word, holding fast to God’s promises and His holy, faithful character.

Psalm 121:7-8—The LORD shall preserve you from all evil. He shall preserve your soul. In Yeshua’s Mighty, Mighty, Redeeming Name.

√ Believers throughout the world are under heavy, unspeakable persecution for their faith–in Nigeria (a Christian dies every two hours on average), Iran (a crime to be a Christian), Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, North Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, China, India, Nepal, Algeria, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Cameroon, Venezuela, and on it goes. Some are murdered, beaten, ostracized, raped (men, women, children), imprisoned, unable to make a living or fellowship with other believers, enduring hostility, violence, surveillance, and driven from their homes and villages.

 

#3. US Government Officials & Families: Salvation

May our governmental leaders and citizens humble themselves before our LORD GOD. May their power-lust, bitterness, envy, jealousy, anger be replaced with unity and the love of God and righteous decisions for the good of the nation and its people—and may they support and bless Israel.

√ For God’s hand and leading on President Donald Trump and his family, drawing them closer to His Presence and ways. And for Marco Rubio and his family, for God’s continued anointing on him and his righteous work for/with Israel and the nations. Also for VP J.D. Vance and wife Usha Vance (and her salvation/she’s Hindu), and for all unsaved members of the new administration and the House/Senate and their families that they’ll seek God and His Word in their political decisions and in their daily lives, putting Him first.

 

#4. Prodigals

√ all those we know/love who once walked with our Messiah but have gone rogue, become compromised, blinded by the enemy’s sway

√ special mentions: Nina, Matt, Anthony (homeless), Kevin, Rachel, Grant & Shannan, Chippendale-ish performer who is a believer/works at Fremont Experience, Emily S., Austin, Lisa, Heather, and all those in the film/music/entertainment industry who knew the LORD but compromised and fell under the enemy’s beguiling ways.

 

#5. Salvation for the spiritually lost, wayward/wobbly in the faith, and/or demonically troubled or bound:

√ Michael F.

√ Jeremy

√ Leslie’s mother, stepfather, sister

√ Ann Marie

√ Robert

√ Claire

√ Mary’s cousin in Vietnam who is possibly a Buddhist (other family members in the area are Muslim)

√ Landon, Lisa, Alexander, Lindsay, Mary, Leah, Daniel, Oren

√ E. Davis.

√ Cin H.

√ Bryan H. & family, Jesse S. & family, Ted W. & family

√ Emily D., K. & Z., Nicky W.

√Christina, Dr. Jacks, Nurse Practitioner Shannon, Greg & his wife

√ the unsaved family members of the late Ed Honore, a believer who now is with our King

√ Luigi

√ Erica

√ Bruce

√ The Chosen’s unbeliever actors/crew, with a praying heart-focus for Paras Patel (Matthew) and Erick Avery (Nicodemus)

√ Unsaved dancers, buskers, performers, and Chippendale dancers working the Fremont Street Experience

√ Anthony & Lilly (following New Age)

√ Donny D.

√ Benjamin, Cliff, J., Gary

√ Bob K, Paul P., Michael, Tim C.

√ Erica & Richard, Susan R., Erica M.

√ Cynthia and her family

√ James J., Alexandria, Cole, Joe D., Mercedes, Bob, Michael, Alexander

√ all our family/friends/loved ones who are still unwilling to disengage from prior demonic agreements, humble themselves, surrender their souls and lives/lifestyles to our LORD JESUS

 

#6. Deliverance and salvation for those under gender confusion/gender bending and homosexuality:

√ Bob & Don (male partners)

√ J. & his male partner

√ Joey (dresses as a woman), “Joan” (biological male), and “Hannah” (biological male)

√ Emily, Barb, Annie, Abbie—all need freedom from lesbian hold

 
 
 

PHOTO CREDIT:

Wrecking ball photo only was purchased from iStock.com (my text was inserted onto the photo afterward).

 

MUSIC CREDITS

The Calm:Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/the-calm
License code: H7SXQRRS8TQVURIT
 

Inward Voice: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/inward-voice
License code: WMZ9JURP8LGBVNFB

 

Endurance: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/endurance License code: I3FXP575TAEBHLWN

 
 

PRIOR MUSIC CREDITS

Let the Light In: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/arend/let-the-light-in
License code: UED3MNBH5SEHJZWY
 

Quiet Streams: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/quiet-streams
License code: QWWVCIWJTMMFHGHY

 

Another chapterMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/another-chapter
License code: LLTWAIDWCCUZBUQS

 

 

The heavenly chamber. The Father’s urgent call. The exhortation. Three components of 2025’s watchwords from New Year’s Eve intercession.

 

I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself on the tower and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1
 

© desireofmysoul.faith (.com and .org) & SoulBreaths.com. All rights reserved.

 

READING TIME: 8-10 MINUTES

 
 

WATCHWORD GIVEN: At the stroke of midnight (heralding in January 1, 2025) through the third watch (midnight to 3 am).

 
 

A distinct vision stood before me during my latest New Year’s Eve midnight rendezvous with God, a longstanding, specially designated intercessory appointment for the coming year’s watchwords.

 
 

But in the weeks prior, He’d given guideposts that I recorded—three spiritual dreams, followed by a fourth in the early hours of New Year’s. Each vivid, each a brick in the buildup to round out the 2025 watchwords.

 

Only excerpts of two dreams—the third and fourth that sandwiched the New Year’s Eve intercession, titled below—are woven into the last section of this post.

 

Dream 3. White Parchment: stand fiercely

Dream 4. Gowned Bride Running Late: discern the schemes

 

The other two watchword-dreams appear in separate prior posts, though connected: Buffet, No Food and 61/22.

 

For easy reading, this post is divided under three subheads:

The Heavenly Chamber. The Father’s Urgent Call. The Exhortation.

 

 
 

THE HEAVENLY CHAMBER

 

As the Holy Spirit surrounded me after midnight, He soon brought me to an ethereal, broad yet unwalled chamber, embodied in a heavenly white with delicate, regal architecture rising in the distant front.

 

A chamber . . .

 

Purified.

Sanctified.

Set apart. Intimate.

Holy. Kadosh. (קָדוֹשׁ)

Ensconced in immeasurable awe and reverence.

A stilling, holy quiet.

 

A heavenly prayer chamber that hushed a thousand questions . . . and a thousand more concerns. Hamakom (המקום)—the place, His place where shalom is inhaled and exhaled. Where my soul can see this world and pray from Heaven’s eyes, from Heaven’s heart.

 

I was alone in the white silence but not alone. My King’s presence was with me. For He is Hamakom Hakadosh (המקום הקדוש), The Holy Place.

 

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me after you and let’s run together!

The king has brought me into his chambers.

 

God’s Desire. Our King yearns for one thing in His bridal prayer chamber: You.

 

You, rushing to Him more often, with more longing for Him and more intentionality. Sitting in His holy quiet. An act of worship. An act of honest love. Allowing the flames of His heart to ignite the flames of yours.

 

A heaven-earth convergence. Where you abandon all defaults, rote wording and thinking. Instead, listening for His words. His lead. There, a deeper work begins within you, little by little, in His time, burning off the dross, melting away the hardness, kashering (making ready for use) your soul so you can walk in maturity and intercede with prayers led by Heaven.

 

“Come to me,” says the Lord in Matthew 11:28 to the tired, weary, burdened. “Come,” says the Holy Spirit in Revelation 22:17. “Come! Let the one who is thirsty come.”

 

“Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” —Jeremiah 33:3

 
 

 
 

THE FATHER’S URGENT CALL

 

During that same midnight-onward intercession on New Year’s Eve, while my arms were lifted and far apart, the LORD placed a large word into my open hands. The word—ZION—extended from one outstretched hand to the other.

 

That word—encompassing Israel and Jerusalem—has been the center of my personal prophetic intercessory calling for many years. And although He was confirming something in that image and in another image immediately following it, I sensed that this first word-image was a clarion 2025 call to believers everywhere.

 

Prayer focused on Israel/Jerusalem is what the Father is setting in our hands. It’s His heart call and a biblical command . . . and critical in this turbulent time in Israel—and for what lies ahead that only He knows.

 

Not only is Zion surrounded by a growing list of terroristic, demonic-driven enemies in a world drunk on anti-semitism, but she is THE EPICENTER of God’s unfolding last-days prophetic events.

 

Remember . . . Adonai says, “You are my Servant, Israel, through whom I’ll show my glory . . . and who says, “I will make you a light to the nations so my Salvation can spread to the ends of the earth.” —Isaiah 49:3,6

 

Of course, that doesn’t negate battling in prayer for the numerous other issues blanketing our lives and the world. It all matters to God. Every detail. Every heartache. Every tear. He is faithful and true—to Israel and to you.

 

May we be obedient and revere the LORD at all times

who calls Jerusalem the pupil of His eye and says that He will be

“a wall of fire to her on all sides,

and He will be the glory in her midst.”

—Zechariah 2:5

 

(A cursory list of scripture-reminders are at the end of this post.)

 
 

 
 

THE EXHORTATION: TWO DREAM ALERTS

 

Can you discern the enemy’s slick games and twisted words? These two dream excerpts—given to me as bookends to the New Year’s Eve watchwords—are a heads-up to what may be pulling on you and confirm God’s authority over it all.

 

WHITE PARCHMENT

Stand fiercely

 

Throughout the dream, I was clutching a rectangular white parchment-like bag, holding it near to my chest. It was about 18 inches long and 16 inches wide. The feel of the parchment was vivid through the dream and after I woke up.

 

A small group of people also were there. We sat in a car, darkened inside as if we were parked at night with the car and lights turned off and no street lights.

 

I sat in the middle backseat, seemingly trapped. Two darkened figures sat on other side of me. Another darkened figure sat facing forward in the front passenger side.

 

I knew the contents of the parchment bag held proof that these people had hidden, deceiving plans, the antithesis of how they were portraying themselves to others.

 

I kept expecting them to haul off and grab the parchment since it would expose their whole game plan–strategies, deceit, phony ways, lies. But instead, they kept eyeing the bag while trying to convince me they were good people and that I just didn’t understand them. They wanted me to go somewhere with them to talk about it.

 

Nope. I didn’t trust them and kept guarding the parchment.

 

Then a blonde-ish haired male figure entered the car and slid into the driver’s seat. Clearly he held some level of leadership or power. He came across as dangerous and certainly not trustworthy, a true manipulator and out to destroy or harm and sway. Whether that intent was to harm me in order to get to the bag, I didn’t know.

 

I could see a bit more of him, unlike the darkened, shadowed, faceless figures that were shrouded in the car. Interestingly, he never completely turned to see me straight on, face to face. That seemed sly-like. So I gripped the parchment tighter and kept rejecting their claims of having good intentions, as if the content in my parchment bag was false.

 

Eventually, we got out of the car. No one attempted to rob the parchment. We all stood there, them waiting for me to go with them for more discussion.

 

I didn’t. Instead, they watched me walk away clutching the parchment bag of proof.

 

Why? I believe it was because they had to. They had no authority to take the parchment or me. But they were permitted to try to tempt, lure, deceive, sway me.

 

Bottom line. I may have kept the parchment close to me, but the parchment was really keeping me. It exposed the twisted words, lies, sway of the enemy. Because the parchment was the Word of God. In the dream, it was symbolic of the ancient biblical scrolls written on parchment paper.

 

GOWNED BRIDE RUNNING LATE

Discern the enemy’s schemes

 

If you’re a born-again believer in Jesus our Messiah, you’re His Bride, the Betrothed. And with that, there’s a cautionary tale here in this short dream excerpt.

 

I was dressed in a bridal gown but couldn’t leave for the wedding. My groom was waiting at the altar, yet well-meaning people kept stopping me from leaving. Everyone had a need, so I hurried and helped this one and then that one and another and another . . . but time was running out. If I didn’t leave, I definitely was going to be late for my wedding!

 

As I turned again to go, two people stopped me. One actually grabbed my arm, pointed to a woman, and in a near-convincing tone said, “But she needs you, she’s going through so much.” Well, no argument there. The woman legitimately was distraught.

 

Pressed, I had to decide. A Mary vs a Martha moment. I’m both at times, divergent. But my longtime intercessory calling, ministry, and comfort are totally the Mary side. When the rising needs of others nudge into my Mary space, I can get pushed out of that comfort zone and into the Martha zone.

 

The merciful Martha seeing the heaviness weighing on others, busy wanting to bless them, nourish them (spiritually and physically) as a service before God. But the lovesick, grateful, WORD-student Mary in me hungers for His voice and presence, the quietness He gives my soul. Only then can my Mary-ness rise, spiritually realigned and refilled, to bring a refreshing cup of water (spiritual and otherwise) to others.

 

How it had to play out. In the dream, the need this distraught woman had was great . . . but the pull to obey and keep my word to my groom was stronger. How could I dishonor the One who rescued me, who deserves all my love, by keeping him waiting even longer at the altar?

 

Or do I prayerfully trust God, follow His timing and lead, and obediently run to fulfill my intimate appointment with my groom, resting in the fact that God will love on this troubled woman, calling forth the exact source of help needed for her situation?

 

Legitimate needs are everywhere. And however we can help, as He leads, we should. But if it’s at the expense of what our King, our Groom, has called us to—like meeting Him when called into the holy prayer chamber, resting when He tells us, getting out of His way when instructed, etc.—then it’s outside of our abilities at that moment.

 

Sure, it can be a precarious line. And some may not understand. But that fine line must be walked in obedience, His leading, His balance. That means stepping aside and trusting Him in the process. We’re not the default rescuer for life’s situations. God is the preeminent one. No default required. Ever.

 

And when God does move in their situation using whatever unexpected resource He chooses, He alone will get the glory and the person’s faith and relationship with Him will grow.
 
 

THE 2025 TAKEAWAY

Four watchword-actions for this year:

 

1. Run to His holy prayer chamber often

2. Intercede for the Father’s heart (Zion)

3. Study/know/fiercely stand on the Word (the holy parchment) to confront the enemy

4. Watch out for spiritual disrupters disguised with legitimate needs that rob your time with Him and whatever He’s called you to at that time

 

***

 
 

ZION: Father’s Heart Scriptures

Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; May they prosper those who love you.

 

Isaiah 25:25. Here is Adonai’s answer [to Israel]: Even a warrior’s captives will be snatched away, and the booty of the fearful will be freed. I will fight those who fight you, and I will save your children.

 

Isaiah 52:8 Listen! Your watchmen are raising their voices. They’re shouting for joy together for they will see before their own eyes when Adonai restores Zion.

 

Isaiah 62:1,6,7

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet, until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that is burning.

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.

 
 

PHOTO CREDITS

Lighthouse by Michael Krahn on Unsplash

White cathedral arches by Sophie Soilmann on Unsplash

Israeli pin, kippah, flag by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash

Bride scaling rock by Dylan Siebelink on Unsplash.