There are places in Israel where the Bible suddenly feels very close. You can stand where kings prayed, where prophets cried out to God, and where Yeshua taught and walked. The places are real. The history is beneath your feet. And the words written thousands of years ago remind us that the God who revealed Himself here is still the same God we call upon today.
This week, I want to invite you to begin a new journey with me.
Together with our ministry team, we are beginning a new series called Praying for You from Israel. In the weeks ahead, I want to take you to biblical places throughout this land. From each place, we will open the Word of God, remember what happened there, and then pray specifically for you, your family, your ministry, and the things you are carrying before the Lord.
And there could hardly be a more meaningful place to begin than Jerusalem.
Standing at the Western Wall, near the place where the Temple once stood, I found myself thinking about one of the great prayers of Scripture. When King Solomon dedicated the Temple, he first prayed for the people of Israel:
“May you hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place…”
1 Kings 8:30
But Solomon did not stop with Israel.
He spoke about the foreigner who was not from the people of Israel, but who would hear about the great name of the God of Israel, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm, and would turn toward Him in prayer. Solomon asked the Lord to hear that person from heaven and answer,
“so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name”
1 Kings 8:41–43
Thousands of years ago, standing before the Lord in Jerusalem, Solomon was already looking beyond Israel to the nations who would hear of the God of Israel and call upon His name.
As I read those words, I thought about you.
Many of you reading this live thousands of miles from Jerusalem. You love the God of Israel. You pray for Israel and the Jewish people. You have stood with us through difficult seasons, rejoiced with us in times of breakthrough, and become part of what God is doing through this ministry in the land.
But today, I don’t want to ask you to pray for us. Today, from Jerusalem, we want to pray for you.
The God Solomon prayed to is not confined by geography. Solomon himself declared that even the heavens could not contain Him. Whether you are in America or anywhere else in the world, He sees where you are. He knows your family. He knows the prayers you have prayed when nobody else was listening. He knows the doors you need Him to open and the situations you cannot change in your own strength. And He hears from heaven.
That is at the heart of this new series. We want to take you with us through the biblical landscape of Israel—to places where kings prayed, prophets stood, miracles happened, and Yeshua walked. We will open the Scriptures there and allow what God did in generations past to strengthen our faith in who He still is today.
And from those places, we will pray for you.
Here at the Western Wall, our team and I prayed for miracles and breakthroughs. We prayed for healing and restoration, for relationships that need the touch of God, for provision, divine connections, and doors that only He can open. We prayed for families, ministries, and businesses. We prayed for the things some of you have carried quietly before the Lord for a very long time.
Above all, we prayed that you would know Him more deeply and see His mighty hand at work in your life. The stones themselves have no power. Our faith is never in Jerusalem or in any biblical site. Our faith is in the living God who hears from heaven. Yet there is something deeply meaningful about standing in the land where these words were first spoken, opening the same Scriptures, and remembering the faithfulness of the God who has kept His promises from generation to generation.
So from Jerusalem, this is my prayer for you today. May the Lord visit your home. May He bring healing where there has been pain and restoration where something has been broken. May He provide where there is need and make a way where you cannot see one. May He bring the right people into your life and open the doors that only He can open. May His shalom enter the places where there has been fear, uncertainty, or heaviness.
And above all, may He strengthen your faith to believe again that He is mighty, He is near, and He is faithful.
This is only the beginning.
In the weeks ahead, I want to take you to more of the places where the Bible comes alive beneath our feet. Together we will open the Word, remember what God has done, and believe Him for what He can still do.
From the land of Israel, we will be praying for you. And when God answers—when something changes, a door opens, restoration comes, or you recognize His hand moving in a situation you have carried before Him—we would love to hear your testimony. May this journey become more than a journey through the places of the Bible. May it become a testimony among us of the faithfulness of the God of Israel today.
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6