by Rick RidingsWatch the video, or read the transcript below.
Hello, this is Rick Ridings coming to you with a prayer alert from Jerusalem. Amazing days that we’re living in. And we thank all of you who are praying for us. Those of us who live here have been getting a lot of exercise with the sirens going off. Where we live, we have three flights of stairs to go down.
So sometimes in the middle of the night you have to jump out of bed and go down in one and a half minutes to the safe room. So we thank you for your prayers. God has wonderfully protected us.
One time a warhead fell even within sight of Succat Hallel and it did not detonate. It didn’t go off. So we thank the Lord for His protection. Thank you for your prayers for us. And continued Psalm 91. Prayers for all, all the believers here and over the land.
A Full Uprooting
I want to share today’s a little something a little different. First of all, you’ve all been brave with us that there will be a full uprooting of the Iranian regime.
Not just even a deep pruning, but a deep, full uprooting. And there’s the news today is declaring from the Israeli military that they’re not going to stop short of that.
They realize that with Hezbollah like last year, they had made great, great progress against Hezbollah.
But the year where according to a peace agreement and UN peacekeepers and all of these things, Hezbollah was not supposed to be able to build their weapons supply back up.
They built their missile supply up again. And so this time Israel has declared they’re ready to go in whatever is needed. They will fully uproot Hezbollah and not just prudent. So that’s very much in keeping with what you’ve all been praying with us.
And of course we’re believing that for the Iranian regime. And the good news on that side is that Israel has gone into another phase of what they’re doing where they’re not only striking missile launchers, nuclear production or missile production facilities.
But, now they have started something where it Iranians are able to call or video the men from Basij and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards that are the ones that have killed tens of thousands of Iranians, peaceful Iranians who had no weapons.
And now they’re being targeted by the IDF at key checkpoints, which means could very soon get to a phase where there would be a freedom for the people to come onto the streets.
And Crown Prince Pahlavi has told the people, stay in your homes for now. Those who are special ops kind of people do those special ops, but stay in your homes until we give the signal that it’s safe once again to come to the streets and to hopefully see the overthrow of the Iranian regime.
So thank you for your prayers that are standing together with us for full uprooting of the head of the snake, the cutting off the head of the snake, and that all of their proxies, such as Hezbollah, would also be cut off as the Iranian regime is uprooted.
Isaiah 60: A Time of Restoration
But then we need to plant, and we are planting by the Lord’s grace in prayer, the Jeremiah 1. He says, “you uproot and you plant. You tear down and you build”.
So, I’d like to share quickly from Isaiah 60 how to be praying for the Arabian Peninsula as part of the new work that God will do.
We believe there will be a new Iran that will align together with, in positive ways with Israel and protect their people and be able to prosper again.
As you’ve been praying with from Jeremiah 49, that after the Lord sets His throne in Elam and destroys her king and princes, then there will be a time of restoration for the Iranian people.
So we need to keep praying for the right government based on righteousness and justice. It seeks righteousness and seeks justice to be put in place and after this uprooting.
But there are also scriptures about the Arabian Peninsula and how that ties in with what God is doing here In Isaiah chapter 60, it is addressed to Jerusalem in the context it’s clearly addressed to Jerusalem.
And I will just pray some of these scriptures now and I think you’ll see what we’re believing for. Lord, we thank You here in Jerusalem that you have said to Jerusalem, arise and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises upon You.
And we declare over Jerusalem that the glory of the Lord, the light of the Lord is rising. That through all this pressure there is a new day dawning and coming. See, darkness covers the earth, thick darkness over the peoples.
Lord, we thank You that even though there’s thick darkness upon the nations, you say to Jerusalem, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you.
A Light to The Nations
Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn. So we thank you, Lord, you will do something so powerful during this time period in Israel, in Jerusalem, that while thick darkness is there upon the nations, so much light will come forth.
That leaders, we thank you for ways. They’ve already been coming from certain countries. We just heard about some of the African countries fighting with drought and Israel helping them to know how to overcome drought and how to deal with water in dry situations.
Lord, thank you that Israel is becoming a light to the nations. Nations are coming to the light and that leaders will come to the brightness of their dawn.
And we thank you Lord, that you’re using what Satan means for evil with anti Semitism to cause your people to wake up, your Jewish people to realize it’s time to come home.
You say, lift up your eyes, look around you, all assemble and come to you. Your sons come from afar, your daughters are carried on the hip. So we thank you Lord, that we’re seeing Aliyah even in the midst of such a difficult time.
But we believe the results of uprooting the Iranian regime will be such that their proxies that there will be much more peace for Israel.
The Jewish people who are experiencing the rising anti Semitism in the nations will realize it’s safer to come here and they will come home and that they will be safe. Then He says in verse five, “You will look and be radiant. Your heart will throb and swell with joy.” We thank you, Lord.
You’re bringing Israel out of this time after this war into a time of joy. The wealth of the seas will be brought to you. To you the riches of the nations will come. We thank you, Lord.
Life, Not Death From The Sea
Many years ago you showed us to pray over the Mediterranean Sea that there would be blessing and life that would come out of that sea and not death.
And we thank You that after that they discovered one of the largest natural gas fields in the whole world and now they’re exploiting that.
And Israel is a huge becoming a huge exporter of natural gas. The wealth of the seas, just like You prophesied, is coming now in our time, we’re seeing it in our time.
But then You say in verses, “six herds of camels will cover your land. Young camels of Midian and Ephah.”
We thank you, Lord. Camels were the symbol of commerce and we thank you that you have renewed commerce with the Arabian Peninsula. We’ve already seen that in huge ways with United Arab Emirates.
But we thank you Lord, that through this evil regime’s evil actions in attacking the nations, the Gulf Arab nations talking Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, even Qatar and Kuwait.
We thank you Lord, that through this, what they thought would bring pressure upon President Trump to stop the war, instead is causing these nations of the Arab peninsula to say, we will join in the coalition with Israel, with the United States to come against this evil, oppressive regime in Iran.
So we thank you. Something major is happening. Huge shifts are happening.
Aliyah of The Jewish People
And we believe you, Lord, according to Your word that at this same time that that huge wealth is found in the seas by Israel, that there is a huge Aliyah of Jewish people back to Israel.
In that same time period, the herds of camels, the businessmen will come from the Arabian Peninsula, Midian and ifa, where the Arabian Peninsula. So we thank you Lord for restored and increased relationship, not just business, but friendship that grows out of that.
There’s a realignment that these Arab nations that were so aligned with this terrorist expression will are now having their eyes open that it’s coming against them.
And we thank you Lord. You said even those from Shiva will come bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the Lord. Now for those that don’t know, Shiva was basically the southern part of what is now Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
So we believe the Houthis will be uprooted in Yemen. We believe Saudi Arabia will begin to shift and change because this is God’s word, that at a time when Jewish people are coming home, at a time when increasing light begins to come upon Israel, at a time when a great Aliyah is happening to Israel.
That at that time you’ll not only restore business relationship with the Arabian Peninsula, but even in the deepest part of the Arabian Peninsula, that Saudi Arabia and Yemen, they will come not only bearing gold and finances, but incense which speaks of prayer and worship.
The Men in White Will Come
And it says they will proclaim the praise of the Lord. So Lord, we’re looking forward to the day in Sukat Alal when we will see Saudis walking into these doors, through these doors and coming to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. At the footstool of Your Throne and to bring praise and worship to You.
We believe that even during this Ramadan, huge numbers of Muslims all over the Arabian Peninsula will have revelations of Jesus, of Yeshua, of Yasuwa, that the men in white will come in dreams and visions and visitations to them.
And that during this Ramadan, during this time of war, there will be a great eye opening and they will begin to realize who You are, Lord Jesus Yeshua.
And that they will come here to the footstool of Your Throne in Jerusalem, bringing not only financial blessings to Israel in terms of business, but coming to places like Sucatol to worship You and bring their praise to You and join together with the Jewish people and the Arab people of this land to worship You and to praise You at the footstool of Your Throne in Jerusalem.
A Great Harvest
So Lord, we pray for your long term purposes. We don’t know how long it will take, but we do believe we’re at a time of huge turning, huge shifting.
And we say, not only let Iran be changed, not only let Iran come into fear, freedom and a throne of the Lord and blessing, but let the Arabian Peninsula shift and change their alignments.
And may they align with your purposes more fully at this time. May there be a great remnant of people in the Arabian Peninsula, even as there already are in Iran. And let there be more and more Muslims in Iran coming to know You. We thank you for the million or more believers there in Iran.
And so we pray we’ll see a season of great harvest here in the Middle east and a great time of You bringing forth many of these rich promises that You’ve given in Your word for this region. Yes, we know. We’re realistic.
We know that there will be wars, rumors of wars, until You come back, Lord Jesus.
But we believe we’re coming into a season of, not a World War 3 type season, but a season of great, great harvest in the Middle east and seeing large numbers of these people coming and even from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, that they will come and bring praise to the Lord in Jerusalem in the name of Yeshua. Amen.