So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. (Daniel 9:3 NIV)
I found these prayer points by Christa Elisha* that were helpful to me as I considered how to pray about the conflict in the Middle East, and especially about Iran. Will you join me in praying?
• Pray for the underground church in Iran.They are the fastest-growing church on earth, and they are paying for it with their freedom and their lives. Pray for protection over house church leaders. Pray for the women who are leading the majority of these discipleship movements. Pray for Iranian Believers sitting in prison right now, some serving sentences of ten, fifteen, even forty years for the crime of believing in Jesus. Call them by name before the throne. They are your brothers and sisters.
• Pray for Israel—that the veil of spiritual blindness would be lifted, that the testimony of Iranian believers would pierce the hearts of Jewish people and provoke them to seek their Messiah. Pray Romans 11:26 over Israel: “And so all Israel will be saved.”
• Fast in this season. Lent and Ramadan are overlapping for the first time in thirty-three years. While Muslims across the Middle East are fasting for Allah, JESUS is showing up in their dreams and visions! Add your faith to a fast to the one true God and cry out for more souls to be saved! Set aside time this week to fast and pray specifically for the Iranian people, the underground church, and this prophetic word to come to fullness.
• Give to ministries on the front lines. Elam Ministries, Transform Iran, and SAT-7 PARS are broadcasting Christian content in Farsi 24/7 into Iranian homes. International Media Ministries is releasing a Persian-language dramatization of the book of Esther this summer, timed for exactly this moment. Your financial seed into these ministries is a weapon in this war.
• Pray for the threefold alliance—for Kingdom connections between Iran, Israel, and America that cannot be broken by political agendas or demonic interference. Pray Ecclesiastes 4:12 over this alliance.
• Hold your post. If you are an intercessor, this is your hour. The sentry in Isaiah 21 said, “I continually stand on this watchtower day after day for You, O Lord. I am stationed at my post throughout the night” (TPT). That sentry is you. The birthing intercessors must not stop travailing. Deliverance is near.
God,
We stand at watch, interceding for your people in Iran and Israel. Guide them, protect them, awaken them, and pour out your Spirit on all of them so that all will come to faith. We pray this in Jesus’s name, AMEN.
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12 NIV)
*https://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=33817#word-truncate