"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. Maybe peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, 'May peace be within you.' For the sake of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good." -- Ps. 122:6-9
Genesis 12:3 -- I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.
God is in control, now and always.
Can we also please pray for the Arab Christians caught in the middle?
I see on the other threads the consideration of Israeli nuclear action against such targets as Beirut and Damascus if Syria steps in to the conflict. My own Orthodox Christian Patriarch resides in Damascus, and there are numerous Orthodox seminaries and monasteries in Lebanon. Please remember the suffering Christians of these lands in your prayers.
Christ Bless.
I do pray for Israel... the TRUE Israel of God - His church. I also pray for national Israel that they would repent of their sins and trust in the true Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. There will be no peace in the middle east until the Prince of Peace is recognized. We, as evangelical Christians should know that.
So when we pray, let's pray from a Biblical standpoint. We must pray for the evangelization of all of the middle east. For our blessed Lord commanded us to go into all the world making disciples. We can do no less for the Arab than we do for the Jew. For the Jew has no special standing before God in the New Testament age. The only special standing before God is in the person and work of the Messiah - the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is available to all peoples no matter what your heritage. Now that's Biblically correct and theologically sound.