36th Intercessory Prayer Conference: 'Truth Has Fallen in the Streets'

JERUSALEM, Israel – Scripture admonishes us to pray without ceasing -- to bring our requests before God to find help in time of need. Prayer is one of the most effective ways to support the State of Israel and its people.

This year's 36th International Prayer Conference Jerusalem (IPCJ) will be held from Jan. 25 through Feb. 1. As has often been the case, it comes during increasingly critical times for the Jewish nation-state.

Every January believers from around the world come to Jerusalem to take part in a week-long prayer conference sponsored by Intercessors for Israel.

Many feel called to come back year after year to intercede on behalf of God's covenant nation and people. Some stay on for a prayer tour of key locations around the country.

With Russian troops and military weapons paraphernalia in Syria and the economic windfall to Iran brought by the U.S.-led Iranian nuclear agreement, this year's prayer tour will focus on Israel's northern border.

Isaiah 59:14-21CloseIsaiah 59:14-21 Our courts oppose the righteous,  and justice is nowhere to be found.Truth stumbles in the streets,  and honesty has been outlawed. Yes, truth is gone,  and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.The LORD looked and was displeased  to find there was no justice. He was amazed to see that no one intervened  to help the oppressed.So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm,  and his justice sustained him. He put on righteousness as his body armor  and placed the helmet of salvation on his head.He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance  and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion. He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds.  His fury will fall on his foes.  He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth. In the west, people will respect the name of the LORD;  in the east, they will glorify him.For he will come like a raging flood tide  driven by the breath of the LORD.* "The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem  to buy back those in Israelwho have turned from their sins,"*  says the LORD. "And this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children's children forever. I, the LORD, have spoken! OPEN VERSE IN BIBLE (nlt) , this year's scriptural theme, seems in many ways an apt description of the world's response to Israel.

"Justice is turned back and righteousness stands afar off, for truth has fallen in the street and equity cannot enter." (Isaiah 59:14CloseIsaiah 59:14 Our courts oppose the righteous,  and justice is nowhere to be found.Truth stumbles in the streets,  and honesty has been outlawed. OPEN VERSE IN BIBLE (nlt) )

Many situations facing Israel today testify to Isaiah's prophecies. 

• Daily stabbings
• Rock and firebomb attacks
• Anti-Israel boycotts and demonstrations
• Anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, the United States, South Africa and elsewhere
• The E.U.'s labeling of Israeli products from outside the 1949 armistice lines as "not made in Israel"
• The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement
• Threats from Iran and Islamic terror groups
• Demands from pro-Palestinian activists, far removed from reality on the ground
• The U.N.'s double standard when it comes to Israel

The world's response to these inequities attest to the prophet's words.

God raised up IFI more than three decades ago. This indigenous Israeli ministry focuses on the need to intercede on behalf of the nation and its people and in doing so, to prepare the way for the Lord's return.

After all, the Messiah is returning to Jerusalem, the eternal undivided capital of the Jewish nation.

For more information on this year's conference, visit the IFI website.