A Friend Loves at All Times

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all their troubles! ~ Psalm 25: 22

By Christine Darg

Believers in Bible prophecy know that this present battle is vitally important. Proverbs 17: 17 declares that a friend loves at all times and is born for adversity.

While there is not a single Israeli family unaffected in some way, Bible-believing intercessors around the world are also feeling the anguish. The largest pro-Israel gathering in history took place this week at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Approximately 300,000 persons gathered to show their support as Israel fights a war against Hamas. This time Jews and Christians stood together.

These are indeed days of Elijah. A friend commented, “Despite these most painful days … we see Israel producing increasing unity, brotherly love, care for neighbour across the recent divides and renewed seeking of the Lord's face, even the seculars are praying.” 

Some Gazan Christians have been killed and oppressed by the billionaire Hamas overlords. James 5: 1-3, portends the fate of these terrorist billionaires!

“Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.”

As an intercessor, mother and grandmother, the burden of the Lord is heavy. I could sense my blood pressure arising as I have participated as a panelist along with 1,400 other intercessors via Zoom in the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s daily Global Prayer Gathering.  We believe it is no coincidence that the number of intercessors has steadily been the same as the number of the 1,400 innocent lives who were murdered.

We have been praying relentlessly for God in his mercy to guard over the hostages and set them free (Psa. 79:11; 102:20; Isa. 49:24-26). We have been praying continually for the Lord to send angels to pull the hostages out, as happened with the rescue of Abraham’s nephew Lot in Sodom in Genesis 19: 16 and with the miraculous angelic rescue of the apostle Peter in Acts 12: 5-11.

I’m reminded that the great Welsh intercessor Rees Howells (whose prayers kept Hitler out of Britain) died in his early 70s due to prolonged stress of great prayer battles. Therefore, dear friends, I believe it is time to meditate on divine healing! We must appropriate the promises of God, like Abraham, who did not consider the mortality of his own body but made God's promises his priority and reality. We have been praying for supernatural health and stamina for the captives, the families, the bereaved and the soldiers.

The following is a portion of an important prophetic word given by Jerusalem orator Lance Lambert, of blessed memory, at a Bible conference on Mt. Carmel in 1986. I believe this word perfectly describes events that are unfolding:

". . . Do not fear the power of the Kremlin, nor the power of the Islamic Revolution, for I [Adonai] plan to break both of them through Israel. I will bring down their pride and their arrogance, and shatter them because they have blasphemed My Name. In that day I will avenge the blood of all the martyrs and of the innocent ones whom they have slaughtered. I will surely do this thing for they have thought that there was no one to judge them. But I have seen their ways and I have heard the cries of the oppressed and of the persecuted and I will break their power and make an end of them. . . . “

Christine Darg can be contacted at her website JerusalemChannel.tv