Our Prayer for Today

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Psalms 74:1 God, why have You cast us off? And is it forever?

Psalm 74:2 Remember Your people – redeemed to be your own tribe. Remember Mt Zion, which You made to be Your dwelling place.

Psalm 74:3 Restore now what damage Your enemies have done to Your sanctuary.

Psalm 74:4 Your enemies shouted for victory in Your Temple.

Psalm 74:5-7 They brought it crashing down and polluted the House of your Name.

Psalm 74:8 They said to themselves; let us oppress them and they burnt every Holy place throughout the Land.

Psalm 74:9 We cannot see any sign for us, we have no prophet now.

Psalm 74:10 How long, O God will the foe utter his taunts?

Psalm 74:11 Why do you hold back Your hand?

Psalm 74:12-17 God – our King from old, whose saving acts preserve the earth. You fix the boundaries of the land and sea.

Psalm 74:18 Remember, Lord the taunts of the enemy, the scorn that a barbarous nation pours on Your Name.

Psalm 74:19 Lord, save the soul that confesses You. Do not forget the suffering of Your servants.

Psalm 74:20 The Land is a place of violence .

Psalm 74:21 Let not the oppressed be shamed, may the downtrodden praise Your name.

Psalm 74:22-23 Rise up, God, defend Your cause. Ignore no longer the ever rising clamour of those who defy You.
Ref. Revised English Bible. Some verses abridged.



V 1-2 The Lord’s people, the faithful Christian believers; scattered around the world, praying for the Lord to take action in this ungodly world. . Psalms 118:25-29

V 3-8 The Temple, twice destroyed by enemies. Babylonians, then Romans.

V 9-11 We have no righteous or Prophetic leaders. Why must we wait so long? Isaiah 8:16-17

V 12-17 You, Lord, have the power to save us. Psalms 37:39-40

V 18 See how your enemies denigrate You. Isaiah 2:6

V 19 Lord, remember Your righteous servants. Psalms 80:18-19

V 20-23 Your Holy Land is oppressed and occupied. Take action, we pray, to carry out Your plans. Isaiah 59:16-18, Revelation 6:12-17

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         Psalm 85:1  You showed favour to Your Land and restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Psalm 85:2  You have forgiven the guilt of Your people and put their sins away.

Psalm 85:3  You have withdrawn all Your wrath and turned from Your hot anger.

 

Psalm 85:4  God our saviour, restore us – put away Your displeasure toward us.

Psalm 85:5  Will You be angry with us forever? Must Your wrath last for all generations

Psalm 85:6  Will You not give us new life, so that Your people may rejoice in You.

Psalm 85:7  Lord, show us your love and grant us your deliverance.

Psalm 85:8  I will listen to the Lord, He promises peace to His people and His loyal servants. Let them not go back to their foolish ways. 

Psalm 85:9  Deliverance is near to those who worship Him, so that glory may dwell in the Land.

Psalm 85:10 Love, faithfulness have come together; justice and peace have embraced.

Psalm 85:11 Faithfulness appears from earth and justice looks down from heaven.

Psalm 85:12  The Lord will grant prosperity and our land will yield it’s harvests.

Psalm 85:13  Justice goes before Him and peace on the path He treads.

Reference – Revised English Bible.

 

Psalm 85 – from an end times perspective:

Psalm 85 is a beautiful example of how God wants us to be. The first 3 verses are in the past tense because God wants us to trust Him and totally believe what it is that He will do for us- as though it was already done.

V 1 the Land of Greater Israel, deserted and damaged after the terrible Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, is restored and made fruitful. His Christian peoples, divided into 12 tribes: the Israelites of God, are gathered, judged and settled in it with prosperity and peace.   Jeremiah 12:14-17, Ezekiel 34:11-16

V 2 The sins of those who truly believe in Him and follow His Laws, will be forgiven.

V 3 After the judgement, the Lords wrath is over and He blesses His righteous people.

 

V 4-7 A prayer of the exiles of Israel, for their restoration and redemption.

V 8 The Lord promises peace for His people, those who believe in Him and keep His laws

V 9 Those who do worship the Lord, can expect separation from this idol worshipping and atheistic world, so that they can be an example of right living to the nations.

V 10-11 Love, faithfulness, justice and peace will be the hallmarks of this nation, Israel.

V 12 Although the Jews have achieved agricultural wonders, there is still large areas of desert and barren hills, especially where the Land is occupied by ‘evil neighbours ‘.

V 13 The Lord will bring justice and peace to His people, in the Promised Land. 

Trusting in God, that He will fulfil His promises- Psalms 62:8, Psalms 115:9, Proverbs 3:5-6 Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 50:10-11, Nahum 1:7, Romans 15:13.

                                                                                      

 

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Events now unfolding in the Middle East are rapidly bringing closer the apocalyptic scenario as predicted in more than 100 prophetic scriptures, mainly Psalms 83, Joel 3:1-3 Isaiah 2:12-21, Isaiah 66:15-16, Jeremiah 4:23-28, Ezekiel 21:1-7, Micah 4:11-12, Zephaniah 1:14-18, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 6:12-17 

 As described, the Lord Himself intervenes and destroys His enemies, triggered by a massive attack from the Islamic confederation, using the means of a seemingly natural event – a Coronal Mass Ejection that is accurately described by Isaiah 30:26, Malachi 4:1, Psalms 50:1-3, the Sixth Seal worldwide disaster; Revelation 6:12-17

  

Psalms 83 begins by describing a conspiracy against Israel, by their neighbouring peoples.   Their aim is total annihilation of the Jewish State of Israel, to occupy all the Land and to wipe out any remembrance of them. Although each of the tribal groups mentioned is a historic enemy of Israel and has fought against them on various occasions, there is no record that they ever joined in such an alliance. All of the modern nations who are descendants of the peoples mentioned in Psalms 83, are currently obsessed with an Islamic inspired determination to completely eliminate the Jewish State of Israel.

Psalms 81:13-15 O that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!   I would soon subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their adversaries. The haters of the Lord pretend submission to Him, but their fate will endure forever.

Verse 15 tells of a people who hate God [Y’hovah] when they think in their minds that they submit to Him. The word Muslims, means submitters to their God. [Allah]

 

So then, when we read in Psalm 83:2 “For your enemies raise an uproar, those who hate you hold their heads high”, it is saying that the enemies mentioned, are those who believe they submit to God, but in reality are full of religious pride and are in fact haters of the true God.

Psalms 83:18 So let it be known that You, whose name is Y’hovah are alone the Most High over all the earth.

The reason that God will be so powerfully victorious in this coming attack, is to witness to all unbelievers, especially the Ishmaelite peoples, who will then recognise the true religion and Islam will be discredited.

The writer of Psalms 83, the prophet Asaph, prays that Israel’s current enemies will be just as soundly defeated as were the Midianites, etc, when their armies were scattered and their leaders executed. Judges 7:25 When this prayer is answered, Israel will be a much bigger country, comprising all the area given by God to Abraham. Ezekiel 47:13-23 

There will be a terrible loss of life, as well as large numbers of refugees, who will flee from all the Mid East countries. But a holy remnant will survive in Jerusalem. After the Land is cleaned and regenerated, then all the faithful Christian believers be they descendants of Jacob, or grafted in Israelites: will be motivated to emigrate to the holy Land. There, they will be an example to the world of how all should live and 144,000 of them will go out to all peoples and proclaim the coming Kingdom of Jesus.  Isaiah 66:19, Revelation 7:1-13