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Discovering God’s Heart

for Israel During the Days of Purim!

by James W. Goll
Vision Cast February 2007
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Discovering God’s Heart for Israel During the Days of Purim!

God wants us to know His heart for Israel and to be filled with compassion for Israel’s condition. He also desires that this compassion provoke us to cry out to Him about what is on His heart. The good news is that the Lord answers when we cry out to Him for help. Israel’s history shows a clear pattern of people who, time and again, found themselves in trouble, cried out to the Lord and saw Him deliver them out of their adversity.

It is my conviction, and also that of many other leaders in the Body of the Messiah, that the Holy Spirit is opening a strategic window of opportunity for the Gentile church to arise “for such a time as this.” We must pray and take a stand as never before in all our Church history. We must pray for God’s purposes to be fulfilled in Israel, in the Jewish people and in all the descendants of Abraham.

In the Spirit of Esther and Mordecai

It is time for us to pray, read and live out the book of Esther again. God is raising up new Mordecai’s who have His grace upon them to prepare the corporate Esther (Body of believers) to do radical exploits in His name in behalf of God’s purposes amongst the Jewish people world wide and in Israel particularly.

The Holy Spirit wants to inject the burden of the Lord for purposes of God among the Jewish people into the global prayer movement, like a nurse with a fully loaded needle. We need a potent injection of God’s heart into our heart! That is why God wants to raise up a Mordecai anointing to prepare Esther for a time of intervention. We know what Esther accomplished, but what was Mordecai’s task? What was his divine assignment?

Mordecai’s job was to raise up and prepare Esther for her hour of influence before the king. Mordecai raised Esther as his own daughter. He did not bow down or pay homage to Haman, who sought the destruction of the Jews, but only worshipped the one true God. He intercepted Haman’s scheme of the enemy and revealed it with wisdom to those in authority. He walked in prophetic counsel and instilled courage into Esther.

Esther, properly tutored and mentored by the counsel of Mordecai, seized the moment through prayer and fasting. Esther was anointed to intervene and stand in the gap, yet she had to walk in cooperation with the preparation of Mordecai, the spiritual authority God had placed in her life.

God chose to work through Mordecai to alert Esther to her destiny and timing of her intercessory acts on behalf of the Jews. God is looking for modern day Mordecai’s to prepare corporate Esther - His people for such a time as this!

The Days of Purim

The celebration of Purim originated out of the decrees of Mordecai and Queen Esther (Est. 9:29-32). It was a time when intervention arose through desperate acts of prayer and fasting led by Queen Esther to over turn the decree for the annihilation of the Jewish people inspired by Haman. Haman’s evil plot was revealed, the tables were turned and he was hung on his own gallows. The events took place historically roughly between 483 to 471 B. C.

According to the Jewish calendar, Purim is held in the month of Adar, which usually falls in February or March. Moses was born in Adar. It is also the month when the Jewish leader of the Maccabees defeated the Syrians and the month when the orders were given to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem preceding the reconstruction of the Temple and first return of the Jewish people to Israel. Redemptively, the period of time known as Adar has been a time when intervention comes out of crisis.

Although Purim was founded in biblical times, its observation is not commanded by God as are the holy convocations mentioned in Leviticus 23. But the Holy Spirit is prophetically calling believers today to participate in this special time of sacrifice in this generation.

Every year I am calling on Christians to sacrifice our time, our comfort and our agendas to undertake a three-day Esther Mandate Fast at Purim. This spiritual investment of the Worldwide Prayer Movement in the global body of Christ will not fail. It will bring about nothing less than “God’s will on earth as it is in heaven” for the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.

The Cry for Israel’s Sake

In the name of the Lord, I boldly and humbly call for a yearly, three day time of prayer and fasting in the days of Purim by the body of Christ for Israel’s behalf.

May this time of crisis intervention prayer and fasting for the purposes of God amongst the Jewish people and the nations of Israel arise until "Jerusalem is established as a praise in the earth" (Is. 62:6,7).

Join me as we seek the face of God once again as a bride prepared for her king. This years’ Esther’s Mandate Fast is March 2 – 4, 2007.

As a part of this thrust this year, I will be ministering on Friday night, March 2nd at 7 pm at the Fortress of Hope in Nashville, TN as part of The Pre Call Gathering. Then on that Saturday I will be joined by various worship leaders and intercessors at our ministry center in Franklin for a day of intercession for Israel and God’s purposes with the Jewish people. Visit our web site for more details and come and join us! Or simply join us in this special time of prayer during the time of Purim in your own home, congregation and city.

Engage with Me!

Dr. James W. Goll

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and Encounters Network Sponsored Events

March 1-3
Pre-CALL Gathering
Ray Hughes, James W. Goll, Mickey Robinson and others
Fortress of Hope
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March 3 @ 10am-5pm
Purim Gathering
James W. Goll and Guests
Encounters Ministry Center
2389 Henpeck Lane
Franklin , TN 37064
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March 8 @ 7pm
Regional Intercession
James W. Goll
Encounters Ministry Center
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Franklin , TN 37064
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March 16 @ 7 pm
God Encounters –
School of the Spirit
James W. Goll and EN Team
New River Fellowship
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Franklin , TN 37064
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