Prayer Points: July 2025

Consider these prayer points as springboards into deeper prayer and intercession.

“He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot carry out their plans.”  Job 5:8,12

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ATTACKS ON IRAN

Events have happened quickly in the Middle East. Iran, the terror epicentre of the world, has been advancing a covert nuclear weapons programme to destroy Israel. At 03.00 AM on Friday 13^th June Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities.

On 21^st June, the USA attacked three Iranian nuclear sites using bunker busting bombs that could penetrate deep underground. We pray that these attacks have severely damaged or completely destroyed these nuclear facilities.

However, this has been achieved at considerable cost to Israel and its people. The backlash of ballistic missiles from Iran has caused widespread damage and destruction to buildings across Israel. 28 people were killed by the attacks and 3,238 injured, 240 buildings have been severely damaged. Iranian missiles have devastated entire neighbourhoods leaving around 12,000 people homeless. More than 40,000 homes and businesses have been damaged. Behind every number is a family facing economic hardship, many have lost almost everything. Streets lie in ruins and livelihoods hang by a thread. Shops remain shuttered. Paycheques have vanished. Homes are uninhabitable. 

We wait to see how effective the ceasefire brokered by America on 23^rd June will be. But in all that has taken place we see the Hand of God Almighty.

Israel mounted “Operation Rising Lion” based on Numbers 23:24

“The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion
that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.”

Words spoken by God to Balak, King of Moab, through Balaam, who was summoned to curse Israel:

“But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.””

God blesses and always will bless His People Israel.

Modern day Iran is comprised of ancient Elam (about 10%) and Persia (90%). God’s Word speaks of disaster against this nation followed by restoration.

Jeremiah 49:34-39

This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:

This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“See, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might.
I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven;
I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation
where Elam’s exiles do not go. I will shatter Elam before their foes,
before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them,
even my fierce anger,” declares the Lord.
“I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.
I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials,”
declares the Lord.

“Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come,” declares the Lord.

The spiritual war between Islam and the God of Israel continues.

PRAY

• That the evil regime of the Ayatollah and his mullahs will be toppled and removed.
• That God’s Sovereignty and rule will be established in Iran.
• That He will restore “the fortunes of Elam as His Word says.
• That the distress and destruction in Israel will arouse a desperation to seek the God of Jacob, producing a harvest of souls coming to faith in Yeshua, the salvation of the remnant.
• That they will cry to the Lord in their trouble and He will deliver them.

Psalm 107:13-16

 “Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.

He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.”

Psalm 81:13-14

 “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,

how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!

As the Psalmist says in Psalm 44:4-5

“You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.
Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.”

ISRAEL HEADLINES

• The ceasefire between Israel and Iran is holding. However, the Houthis in Yemen have fired a missile towards Israel since the ceasefire came into effect.

• The struggle to control food distribution in Gaza continues with daily confrontations around the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) food distribution centres. Hamas and local militias are trying to disrupt distribution and wrest back control.

• The IDF continues to operate in Gaza destroying tunnels and eliminating Hamas. Sadly, IDF personnel continue to lose their lives fighting this battle.

• Pressure is increasing on Israel and Hamas to secure the release of the 50 remaining hostages in Gaza. Sadly, only 20 are believed to still be alive. Hamas continues to threaten execution whenever the IDF get close to locations where hostages are being held.

 Acknowledgement:  These prayer points have been consolidated from a number of sources including Prayer Letters and Newsletters originating in God’s Land.