Watch Focus    Friday 6/27    Preserved from Evil
 
I will lift up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. the Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore. Psalm 121
 
This psalm is a response to the cry for deliverance in Psalm 120. We find ourselves in days like Daniel as powers of heaven are contending. We enter prayer for help from the Lord to protect, defend, and preserve us from evil.
 
In coordination with Israel, the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities to deter the determination of the radical Islamic death cult from having nuclear bombs. Immediately after, Khomeini called for renewed attacks on America and Israel. Next week nations will gather in Brazil for the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit led by nations whose leaders embrace centralized control, state dependency, and ideological warfare. The agenda is to shift world order away from the Western worldview and replace the dollar as the global trading currency further weakening western economies. In New York City, in a frightening example of the shift among American youth, a failed rapper who espouses communism and hatred for Israel has won the mayoral primary with strong support from the youth.
 
Years ago, the Lord gave us a prophetic word about the watch arising as a shield in a time of terror: “Hornets of God will defend His people to terrorize those who would terrify them also in America. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchmen wake in vain: the partnership of God’s praying people will defend America from high terror alert in the year of the Lord’s Favor from 3-11 to 11-3. The Day of Sacrifice shall see the Intercessor stand in the gap before the day of sacrifice, and the voice of the Lord shall rise like a mist over the land to make up a wall. Go set a watch. Call the watchman to his post and let them stand day and night to cry out before the Lord. Make heaven hear the sound of prayers and God will save His people.” Shortly after this, the national terror alert system was established using orange and 3-11 as the indicator of heightened terror threat. The several nations included in that word are aligned with BRICS.
 
The watch focus this week is to hear the Lord’s strategy, pray in alignment, and make up a wall of defense against these threats. Our focus is also prayer for the gospel to be preached in power everywhere people are in distress and for peace on Israel.
 
“…a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves… Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words…“At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time.” Daniel 10-12.
 
“And at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12:1-3.
 
“The Lord bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem. All the days of your life. Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!” Psalm 128:5-6.
 
“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places...And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:6-7; 14.