"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: 'May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.'" (Psalm 122:6,7)
The word translated, "peace," is, "shalom," which means, "completeness, soundness, welfare, peace." Most people just say, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem," and stop. But our text tells us what to pray, "May they prosper who love you," etc. I pray that only, "they...who love you...prosper." Arabs do not love Jerusalem. They only want Jerusalem so that they can drive the Jews out. They have absolutely no tie, emotional or otherwise, to Jerusalem. Furthermore, many politicians who vote favorably towards Jerusalem do it for the Jewish votes; they don't love Jerusalem. American Presidents too have been cowardly, both Democrat and Republican, in their refusal to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Moving the embassy would declare to the whole world that America, and any government which would so do, we too, "love you," Jerusalem.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from you eyes." I leave for Jerusalem next Thursday, December 1, and arrive in, "The City of the Great King," in the morning of December 2. I am and will be praying in the city, that Jerusalem will come to know, now, "in this your day, the things that make for your peace!" I pray that, "the things...hidden from your eyes," will be manifest by obedience to, Messiah Jesus, "King of kings, and Lord of lords." I pray that the President of the United States of America and leaders of the nations will boldly proclaim to the world, not by talk and political rhetoric, but by the action of moving embassies to Jerusalem, "We love you, Jerusalem." And most importantly, that the nations, before it is too late, will surrender to King Jesus Christ as King of the Kingdom of God, and King of, "the City of the Great King."
Father, in Jesus' Name, May only those who love Jerusalem prosper; may the Jews have the veil lifted to see things which are, "now...hidden from [them]." Amen.
The word translated, "peace," is, "shalom," which means, "completeness, soundness, welfare, peace." Most people just say, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem," and stop. But our text tells us what to pray, "May they prosper who love you," etc. I pray that only, "they...who love you...prosper." Arabs do not love Jerusalem. They only want Jerusalem so that they can drive the Jews out. They have absolutely no tie, emotional or otherwise, to Jerusalem. Furthermore, many politicians who vote favorably towards Jerusalem do it for the Jewish votes; they don't love Jerusalem. American Presidents too have been cowardly, both Democrat and Republican, in their refusal to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Moving the embassy would declare to the whole world that America, and any government which would so do, we too, "love you," Jerusalem.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from you eyes." I leave for Jerusalem next Thursday, December 1, and arrive in, "The City of the Great King," in the morning of December 2. I am and will be praying in the city, that Jerusalem will come to know, now, "in this your day, the things that make for your peace!" I pray that, "the things...hidden from your eyes," will be manifest by obedience to, Messiah Jesus, "King of kings, and Lord of lords." I pray that the President of the United States of America and leaders of the nations will boldly proclaim to the world, not by talk and political rhetoric, but by the action of moving embassies to Jerusalem, "We love you, Jerusalem." And most importantly, that the nations, before it is too late, will surrender to King Jesus Christ as King of the Kingdom of God, and King of, "the City of the Great King."
Father, in Jesus' Name, May only those who love Jerusalem prosper; may the Jews have the veil lifted to see things which are, "now...hidden from [them]." Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
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