Moshe Dacosta: Jewish prayer to protect the state of Israel and its citizens [2023]

The Traditional Jewish  Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel:

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your lovingkindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory. Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness.

Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.” Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute. Amen forevermore.

Transliteration of the Prayer for the State of Israel:

"Avinu shebashamayim, tzur Yisrael v’goalo. Barekh na et m’dinat Yisrael, reyshit tz’mikhat g’ulateynu. Hagen aleyha b’rov khasd’kha, ufros aleyha sukkat sh’lomeykha. Sh’lakh orkha va’amtkha l’rasheyha l’shofteyha ul’nivkhareyha, v’taknem b’eytzah tovah milfaneykha, l’ma’ayn yelkhu b’derekh hatzedek, hakhopesh v’hayosheyr. Khazek y’dey m’giney eretz kodsheynu, v’hankhileym y’shuah v’khayim. V’natata shalom ba’aretz, u’simkhat olam l’yoshveyha. P’kad na livrakha et akheynu beyt Yisrael b’khol artzot p’zureyhem. Ta b’libam a’havat tzion u’mi vahem mikol ameynu y’hi elohav imo v’ya’al l’y’rushalayim irkha, asher nikra shmeykha aleyha. Ha’atzel meyrukhakha al kol yoshvey artzeynu. Haser mikirbeynu sinah v’eyvah, kinah v’rishut. V’ta b’libeynu ahavah v’akhavah, shalom v’reryut. V’kayem bimheyrah khazon n’vi’eykha: Lo yisa goi el goi kherev, v’lo yilm’du od milkhamah: V’nomar amen."

Prayer for the State of Israel in Hebrew:

Moshe Dacosta: Prayer to protect the IDF Soldiers at war [2023]

Prayer for IDF Soldiers in English:

"He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under our soldiers’ sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you."

Prayer for IDF Soldiers in Hebrew:

Moshe Dacosta: Jewish prayer for the hostages [2023]

Read the transcript below, or watch a video of the teaching by Moshe Dacosta.

Shalom, dear brothers. Considering the grave situation that we are living here in Israel today, I believe that one of the main roles of the church is to join us and intercede for Israel, help us comfort our people, think that now we have old people, young people, kids, even babies, in the hands of terrorists. And here in Israel, this is the prayer that we use to cover them with our prayers and to ask for God's protection.