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

 

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Please join us before our King . . .

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AUDIO FORMAT CONTINUES:

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

 
 

Seasons. Our spiritual and physical lives morph through each season released by the hand of God. Each one a faith-walk in its own right. A time of blossoming, a time of shedding, a time of quiet and solitude, a time of gathering, a time of learning, a time of discipline and growing.

 

Whatever season you’re in—like those on our prayer list, many ill, one in hospice nearing Heaven, others desperate for deliverance or a breakthrough—may you run to Him and find comfort, wisdom, understanding, and joy in His Presence because you are His beloved.

 

May the Name of God be blessed for ever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. It is He who changes times and seasons . . . It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him.—Daniel 2:20, 21a, 22

 

Thank you, Adonai, for all that you are, for all you have done for us. Glory to your Name, your Holiness, your Great Chesed (lovingkindness), your everlasting love given through our Messiah, Jesus. We will spend all eternity thanking you, worshiping you, serving you for you alone are worthy, you alone are LORD.

 
 

FIVE AUDIO PRAYER ALERTS with Scriptures

Thank you for whatever time you can give.

 

Click on the FIRST audio link below to pray with us for Ev, Neil, Amanda.

(Psalm 95:4-7 and Isaiah 41:10)

 

 

Click on the SECOND audio link below to pray with us for Bernie, Kim, Freda.

(Psalm 23, Psalm 29, and Isaiah 26:3)

 

 

Click on the THIRD audio link below to pray with us for Michael, Kevin/Mary.

(Ephesians 6:10-17 and 2 Corinthians 10:5)

 

 
 

Click on the FOURTH audio link below to pray with us for Josh, L. & J.

(Deuteronomy 31:8 and 2 Corinthians 9:8 and Psalm 32:8)

 

 

Click on the FIFTH audio link below to pray with us for Kellie Farag, Pastor JD’s wife who is nearing her time to enter Heaven.

(Psalm 116:15 and 1 Corinthians 15:55-57)

 

 
 

HEY, GOT A FEW MORE MINUTES TO PRAY?

UPDATED LIST for SALVATION, 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 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 or unwilling to know the truth of Yeshua. Special mentions for salvation and deliverance:

√ with mercies and healing on all the returned hostages and their families, Bibi Netanyahu–God’s hand on his heart–and Bibi’s family and all Israeli leadership, every facet of the courageous Israeli military forces/IDF, Israeli Intelligence forces/Shin Bet/Mossad/Aman, and for unity in the nation—and for their enemies to turn to the Lord and be saved

√ Yad L’Achim, a Haredi Jewish organization focusing on countering evangelical “missionary” work in Israel

 

Jewish friends and/or 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, Elijah Alexander.

√ 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

 

#2. Deliverance from Persecution

√ The demonic realm is at work, stirring hatred, swaying hearts 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 we STAND shoulder-to-shoulder 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 under heavy, unspeakable persecution for their faith–in Nigeria, Vietnam, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Middle East, Philippines, China, North Korea, Central & Southeast Asia, India, Nepal, Algeria, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Cameroon, Venezuela, and on it goes. Some are 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 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 and/or demonically troubled or bound:

√ Ann Marie

√ Robert

√ Claire

√ Michael

√ 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, 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).

 

The world may be swirling in every direction, but God’s plan, purpose, mercies, and faithfulness will prevail. ALWAYS. Here are the words and scriptures that unfolded before and within me at the stroke of 2023’s entrance and shortly thereafter.

 

“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

 

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READING TIME: 5 MINUTES.

 

WATCHWORD GIVEN: January 1, 2023, 12:01 am through God’s appointed third watch (midnight to 3 am).

 

As midnight released 2023, my soul began to grieve for the state of the world.

 
 
 
 

The coldness, self-centeredness, vanity, violence, ethnic divisions, deepened darkness, escalation of Christian persecutions and persecutions of all kinds.

 

The false religions and lies about God’s Word and our Messiah Jesus, and the twisted mindset and reversals in global culture that have wormed their way into the souls of humanity on every level—calling good evil and evil good.

 

And the sins stirring within each of us. Sins that we gloss over, accept, and daily commit before Him, our holy, powerful God.

 

I thought: Lord, if you hadn’t written yourself into our human story . . . where would we be? You alone are our hope, our salvation, the very life breath of our soul.

 

An image flashed, leading me upward. Over the next three hours, I would experience a message with moving parts:

 

(1) various scriptures

(2) interwoven teachings

(3) a holy-fire vision (regarding our 2023 Call)

(4) a dream with 1 Samuel 3 prominent, a dream He’d first given me in mid-November and then brought forward during this special third-watch prayer time.

 
 

 
 

HIS NAME, HIS CHARACTER, HIS PROMISE

 

Random worship softly played in my room, then one word rose within me.

 

RESTORER

 

In Hebrew, Eli Shuv (אֶלְיָשִׁיב, My God Restores). This is who God is. This is what He will show Himself to be in 2023 as we humble ourselves before Him and call out, surrendered to His glorious, supreme being.

 

“Shuv” (שוב) is the Hebrew root found in teshuva (teh-shoo-vah), a critical word during the High Holy Days—the Judaic Days of Awe beginning with honey-kissed Rosh Hashanah (Head or First of the Year) and ending with the somber Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur—calling us to turn back from our offenses and return to God for restoration.

 

It’s also the beginning step to God’s ABC ROADMAP TO HEAVEN. His redemption plan from the beginning through Yeshua (Jesus), the Messiah.

 

That first word He’d impressed on me—RESTORER—and 1 Samuel 3 (from that dream I mentioned earlier) are hinged, forming the crux of this 2023 word. (And I couldn’t help but think how this “restorer” had already begun its unfolding with Bibi Netanyahu being restored as Israel’s Prime Minister.)

 

I’ll get to that I Samuel 3 scripture shortly, but keep reading because the following scriptures link everything together.

 

Psalm 23:1-3 (ESV). In the latter part of 2022, God had laid the groundwork for these moving parts and in the third watch of January 1, 2023, he brought those parts forward. This psalm was among them, confirming His words, confirming Himself on an even deeper level than before as the mighty, compassionate RESTORER.

 

The One we need as 2023 unfolds.

 

The LORD is my SHEPHERD (tending to me, pasturing me).

 

I shall not want (He’ll tend to my needs, my soul won’t be lacking).

 

He makes me (causes me to) lie down in green pastures (refreshed).

 

He LEADS ME (leads me to a watering-place or station that He’s ordained for me and causes me to rest there), beside STILL waters (rest, quietness, refreshment).

 

He RESTORES (refreshes, repairs, returns to a better condition) my soul.

 
 

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CHOSEN, REDEEMED, RESTORED, SENT OUT:

YOU, ME, IN MESSIAH

 

I then was reminded of the spiritually moving scene at the end of The Chosen’s Season 3/Episode 2. The disciples were being sent out two by two to teach what Jesus had taught them and to heal the sick and cast out demons.

 

Gulp. The disciples were shocked, scared, baffled, and felt totally inept. Rightly so. And yet . . . although the mission—and its timing—made no sense to them, they chose to trust their Messiah and stand as one with Him and each other.

 

Locking arms, they prayed Psalm 3, the psalm of David when he was fleeing his son Absalom . . .

 

O Lord, how many are my foes!
Many are rising against me;
many are saying of my soul,
“There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah

 

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
I cried aloud to the Lord,
and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah

 

I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.

 

Arise, O Lord!
Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.

 

Salvation belongs to the Lord;
your blessing be on your people! Selah

—Psalm 3 (ESV)
 
 

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THE RESTORER’S PROMISE: EZEKIEL 34:16 (ESV)

Ezekiel 34 targets Israel and is a Messianic promise as well (verses 23-24)

 

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God.

 

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back [אָשִׁ֔יב, restore, return] the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak . . .

 

and the fat (stout, robust, rich) and the strong I will destroy; I will pasture it with justice.

 
 

 
 

THE DREAM, THE HINGE, THE CALL

 

Sometime during the night of November 17/early morning November 18, 2022, the Lord gave me a dream. There were different elements to the dream, but here’s the critical part to share with you—a scripture that was on a board in front of a congregation: 1 Samuel 3.

 

As God brought the scripture and dream again to mind in those wee hours of January 1, 2023, I had to ask: Is there a link between RESTORER and this 1 Samuel 3 dream? Plenty, as it turns out.

 

For the foundation, I was led to an older teaching from East Hill Baptist in the UK that highlighted 1 Samuel 3. (I’d never heard of that church prior.)

 

Then God stirred my inner waters from that point, knitting all the moving parts (RESTORER, scriptures, dream, vision, etc.) together. It went something like this . . .

 

LAMP OF GOD. As the light was physically waning in the temple of the LORD, where the ark was, the WORD of GOD was also waning among the people and the priests—i.e. Eli’s sons. As you might recall, even Eli hadn’t taken a hard line with them.

 

There was no word or vision from our Lord. No ear open to hear, no heart willing to receive, no one surrendered.

 

Until God called Samuel.
 

THE CALL OF GOD. In 1 Samuel 3:1, Samuel was ministering to the Lord under the tutelage of Eli. Per the Hebrew text, at that point, Samuel was a na’ar, a young man or lad, defined by age (teen through twenties) or of marriageable age, and sometimes, rabbinically defined as not yet ready to fulfill his duties/position.

 

Side note: You can read about another na’ar in my Soul Remodeling Series: A Wilderness Call [Jeremiah] Actually, Isaac, Joseph, Samuel, and Jeremiah were all called na’ar, not yeled (boy, child).

 

Still growing in things of the Lord, Samuel at first (or even the second or third time) didn’t recognize the Lord’s voice. But then he got it, saying “Here I am” (ready to serve), and from there obeyed the Lord regardless of the cost, speaking what God said to speak, doing what He said to do.

 

I like East Hill’s application of this chapter (my paraphrase about that in the paragraph below):

 

God calls us again and again until He gets our attention. He’ll call when we least expect it—any year, in any circumstance, at anytime, at any age. Remember that Caleb [who “wholly followed the LORD” per Joshua 14:14] had a new call at 85 years old to take up the high mountains of Israel. God will stir something within us, allowing situations to call us into something more.

 

My precious fellow believers in Messiah, this is where we are. A New Year, a new calling, regardless of circumstance or age.

 

There’s work to do and a way for us to be and walk before the LORD. Wholly surrendered, carriers of His Presence. That begins and ends with . . .

 

WORD OF GOD. Verse 19 tells us that Samuel “grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.” The LORD revealed Himself to Samuel by the “word of the LORD.”

 

THE VISION. Fire flashed before me at this point in my third-watch prayer time. It started at the center, then spread out in every direction like a huge circle. That fire is God’s holy fire of Truth, His Word, in us. It’s not meant to be contained. It must be released.

 

No matter the cultural mindset, oppositions, persecutions, or the enemy’s divisive tactics . . . we must carry the LORD’s words to others: His truth, His redemption plan, His love for the lost, His love for Israel, His love for fellow believers in Jesus, and our testimonies of what He’s done for us: His faithfulness, mercies, goodness, holiness, and might.

 

It’s our souls breathing Him in and exhaling Him out onto an increasingly dark, troubled, stubborn, dying world.

 

In this late hour, like never before, we are to be the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:10-14)—standing against the tide of secular lies and mindsets countering God’s way. Standing unafraid, boldly calling sin for what it is . . . rebellion against our most holy God.

 

Silence is no longer an option. Not to worry. We can do this together in Him. Psalm 3 reminds us: The LORD is a shield about us, our glory, the lifter of our heads, our Sustainer. We will not fear.

 

So let’s turn from (shuv) the world noise/distractions and from any self-focused, lethargic living to walking how Jesus walked: spending time alone with the Father, saying/doing as led to glorify our LORD, continually lifting the Lamp of God high for all to see and know.

 

A holy fire that cannot and will not go out.

 

Then we will stand and watch as our king, the great RESTORER, the loving Shepherd, refreshes, repairs, restores, and heals our souls, bringing us to pastures of spiritual rest—as well as restoring the souls of those we’ve lifted His lamp to.

 

May the whole world know of His glory and truth and bow before the majesty of our King.

 

Behold—hinnêh, הִנֵּה—He is doing something new. May you and I lock arms and humbly answer the call like Samuel: Hineni . . . Here I am.

 
 

CREDITS

 

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Person kicking back with boombox by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash.com

Man looking up at starry sky by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash.com

 

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