by Rick RidingsWatch the video, or read the transcript below.
Hello, this is Rick Ridings coming to you with a prayer date from Succat Hallel in Jerusalem. It’s June 19th, and the big topic right now is the so-called Iranian deal and Iranian negotiations. People have been asking how we are praying here.
Very much what has come alive to us to pray concerns the things that God did with Pharaoh, as various plagues and judgments were coming upon his regime, his officials were coming to him, and Moses was coming to him. And so, there were negotiations going on.
Exodus Parallel of The Pharaoh Regime
If you read in Exodus chapter 7 through chapter 12, almost every time there was a major plague, Moses would come to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh would say something like, “If you will pray and it stops, then I will let the people go and they will worship.”
And then Moses would pray, the plague would be stopped, and Pharaoh would not keep his word. Another time Pharaoh would say, “Well, I’ll let you go, but only the men.”
Or another time he would negotiate and say, “I will let you go plus the women and children, but not your livestock.” Just thing after thing. So, there was like a series of negotiations that were going on with Pharaoh.
Now, why was God so patient? Because God said through Moses at one time, “I could have just wiped you out immediately and wiped out all of Egypt from the very beginning of this.”
But God was patiently allowing Pharaoh to totally repent and turn, but he had to prove it. And unfortunately, he did not prove it.
The Hardened Heart of The Pharaoh Regime
Each time he would read the Bible says he would harden his heart, and then it says God would harden his heart. God only hardened his heart because Pharaoh hardened his own heart.
Each time he was deceitful, each time he did not keep his word, and each time he was still oppressing the people.
He made it even more oppressive at one point, forcing them to add straw into the mud with the bricks they were making, which was very difficult for the people who were so oppressed.
But in the end, God alone got the glory.
Amen.
No other army, no other person, even Moses, did not really get the glory. God got the glory.
So, we have been praying that God will bring down the Pharaoh evil regime in Iran in such a way that only He, the Lord God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, will get the glory for what He’s done.
He’s been very patient. We see there are all kinds of negotiations and promises and deals, but I believe we are to pray that the Lord will expose Pharaoh’s heart.
Each time that he’s being deceitful, it will be quickly exposed, so that it won’t drag out long enough for the evil regime to rebuild their military system and other things that they would do, and funnel lots of money into their proxies to prolong this.
The Sudden Collapse of The Pharaoh Regime’s Wall
So, we’re praying that the Lord will quickly expose every lie.
We’re praying that if we are correct in understanding that the Pharaoh system has hardened their hearts to the point of no return, that it will be clear to the whole world that they have relied on oppression and depended on deceit, as we have prayed often from Isaiah 30.
We pray that their high wall that has been cracked and bulging will not be rebuilt, will not be reinforced, and take a lot longer to fall, but that very quickly there would be more cracks, more bulges, and more softening and weakening of that wall, so that it will collapse suddenly in an instant.
So, we’re continuing to pray what God gave to us already on October 8th, 2023: that the Lord Himself will fully uproot the evil regime, the Iranian regime, and that all of their proxies as well will be uprooted.
It looked impossible then. There have been a lot of major victories along the way, but in the end, we believe God is working in such a way that throughout these endless so-called negotiations and deals, it will be totally revealed that Pharaoh has hardened his heart.
Amen.
We pray that it will be revealed that he is obstinate, deceiving, and lying, and not truly repenting or truly changing.
We pray that it will all happen so quickly that it will not allow a long opportunity for the evil regime to rebuild or to restrengthen their proxies, but that God will continue to work in such a way that this wall will collapse suddenly in an instant.
A Prayer Against The Pharaoh Regime for Global Glory
So Lord, we thank You from Jerusalem that You are the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and You’re also the Lord God of Moses.
And we thank You that You could have wiped out Egypt in an instant, but You did not. In the end, You didn’t even wipe out Egypt; You only wiped out their evil ruler, his regime, and his military might.
Amen.
And so, we believe You once again, God, to do mighty, mighty miracles and to work in such a way that this wall of lies and oppression will continue to be softened, weakened, and cracked, not rebuilt or reinforced, waiting for another time, but that it will collapse suddenly in an instant.
And we pray this in Your great mercies.
Thank You, Lord.
According to Your great mercies for Israel, for Iran, and for the people of Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza, we ask that You would quickly, Lord, accelerate and hasten this process of exposing the lies, the deceit, and the lack of true repentance and true change.
We pray that You Yourself will bring about all of this uprooting of this evil regime and its proxies in such a way that You, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Lord of the armies of heaven, will get all the glory. We pray this in the mighty name of Yeshua, Jesus.
Amen. Amen.