Praying for Israel
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An excerpt from A Way to Pray by Matthew Henry, ed. by O. Palmer Robertson, p. 188
An excerpt from A Way to Pray by Matthew Henry, ed. by O. Palmer Robertson, p. 188
Make a special plea for God’s ancient covenant people the Jews, that they may see Jesus as their promised Messiah.
Make a special plea for God’s ancient covenant people the Jews, that they may see Jesus as their promised Messiah.
Lord of the Covenant, our heart’s desire and prayer for Israel is that they may be saved. Let them look with faith on him whom they have pierced. Let them turn to the Lord so that the veil blinding their hearts may be taken away. Let the branches which are broken off not continue in unbelief. Let them be grafted back into their own olive-tree. Though blindness has happened to part of Israel, let the fullness of the Gentiles come in, so that the fullness of the Jews may also be realized. In this marvellous manner, let all Israel be saved. Rom. 10:1; Zech. 12:10; 2 Cor. 3:16; Rom. 11:23-26
Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”