Prayers for Our City: December 3, 2018 – Religion
“O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling.” Psalm 43:3 AMP
This week, Father God, we are honoring and covering our Jewish friends here in Huntsville/Madison County with prayer. As they celebrate the Feast of Dedication, Hanukkah, with the lighting of candles for eight days, may they be drawn more deeply into Your love and receive all the generous blessings You want to pour out upon them. Help us to understand and value the Jewish people the way You do. (Romans 9:4-5)
We pray blessings on Rabbi Eric Berk and the congregation of the downtown historic Temple B’nai Sholom. [This past April, they completed the Huntsville Jewish Heritage Center at the Temple which explains the religion and traditions of Judaism, provides a history of Huntsville’s Jewish population and shares the many contributions of the Jewish community to Huntsville’s civic and cultural life. Learn more here.]
We pray blessings on Et Chayim, Huntsville’s Conservative Synagogue, located in southeast Huntsville with visiting Rabbi Stephen Listfield.
Thank You for the efforts of the Jewish Federation of Huntsville and North Alabama which conducts fund-raising and leads Jewish cultural, social, education, and philanthropic programs that strengthen both Jewish identity and community unity.
Lord, we pray Psalm 91 protection over our Jewish community’s lives, their meeting places, homes and businesses. We are so sorry for the level of anti-Semitism we are seeing in this country and around the world, and we commit to being part of the solution, not part of the problem. We ask that you free them from fear and comfort their hearts that are grieved over the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings and other acts of hatred, especially in their beloved Israel.
Guide us with graciousness in praying for and loving the Jewish people; never forgetting the “root onto which the wild olive branches are grafted!” (Romans 11:16-27)
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