URGENT UPDATE!

Our intercession for President Bush and the leaders of Israel & Arab nations will be heard by the LORD and He will move the nations! We must increase our prayers for our President during this final year in office. Let us begin by sending him to the Middle East (Jan.9 -16) as Christ's ambassador and properly applying 1 Timothy 2:1-8. Our prayers have placed George W. Bush in the White House. Our prayers will enable him to be effective in the Kingdom of God.

PSN will host a special Tuesday, 1/8, 8AM Eastern (5AM Pacific) conf. call prayer for President Bush and his trip to the Middle East. If you would like to link with intercessors across America, please contact us at prayersurgenow@gmail.com for details. We will also continue our weekly Saturday morning conference call meetings.

Please read the following PSN prayer points and Middle East travel schedule, and go to the White House links for the details of his travel and intercede for President Bush everyday:

President Bush’s Trip to Israel January 8

On January 8, President Bush makes his first Presidential trip to Israel (the last was by Bill Clinton in 1998), followed by stops on January 9-16 in Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt to promote talks launched at a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, late last month. The 44-country gathering culminated with an Israeli-Palestinian commitment to restart stalled talks with an eye on creating an independent Palestinian state by late 2008. Talks in Jerusalem with Israel’s President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olbmert will focus on the Iranian nuclear threat. In the West Bank, he will meet with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Intercessors have reason for concern in that , while in Ramallah, the President’s will be members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Fatah listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization.

The Jerusalem Prayer Team is working on 100,000 signatures to a petition opposing any support for the “Road Map to Peace”, a document created by Saudi Arabia to divide Jerusalem, take Judea and Samaria from Israel, push Israel back to the pre-1967 border and proclaim a Palestinian-Islamic State with East Jerusalem – the home to all Christian holy sites – as its capital.

PRAY FOR THE PROTECTION OF PRESIDENT BUSH AND THAT ALL DECISIONS CONCERNING CONCESSIONS BY ISRAEL BE DIRECTED BY THE LORD.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9:
PRESIDENT BUSH BEGINS MIDDLE EAST TOUR
Provided by Intercessors for America
www.ifapray.org

Intercede for spiritual statesmen and for adherence to biblical revelation and principles in the formulation and execution of foreign policy, especially toward Israel and Jerusalem. Intercede for the revelation of Jesus as Messiah in the Middle East and for "the peace of Jerusalem." (Ps 122) Intercede for our national leaders - that every decision, action or plan to pressure Israel to give up land or evacuate its people from any territory would be frustrated and abandoned. May God raise up leaders in the United States and Israel who would support His end-time purposes for the people of Israel.

THE PRESIDENT'S MIDDLE EAST ITINERARY

January 9 - President Bush arrives in Tel Aviv in the afternoon

The President changed the itinerary of his trip late this week in order to fit in a visit to Capernaum, the Christian holy site. January 9, 10 - On Wednesday and Thursday, while in Israel and the West Bank, (Judea and Samaria) the President will have meetings with Israeli President Peres and Prime Minister Olmert, and separately with Palestinian President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad.

January 11 - On Friday, the President will meet with Quartet representative Tony Blair to get an update on efforts to help build the institutions of a Palestinian state and enhance the Palestinian capacity to self-govern.

The President will also lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem before traveling to Kuwait, where he will meet with Amir Sabah.

January 12 - On Saturday, President Bush will visit with U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan (Kuwait). He will meet with Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus to get an update on the current situation in Iraq. Also, the President will have a roundtable on democracy and development with Kuwaiti women. The President will then travel to Bahrain, where he will meet with King Hamad.

January 13 - On Sunday, President Bush will visit the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet before traveling to the United Arab Emirates, where he will meet with President Khalifa. Following this meeting, President Bush will deliver a speech in Abu Dhabi. In that speech, he will talk about the progress we have seen in the Gulf, the progress of the freedom agenda in the region, emerging economic progress, and how regional security is important for both continued economic growth and for the spread of freedom.

January 14 - On Monday, President Bush will travel to Dubai, where he will be greeted by the ruler of Dubai. President Bush will then travel to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with King Abdullah.

January 15 - On Tuesday, President Bush will be in Riyadh for meetings.

January 16 - On Wednesday, President Bush will travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where he will meet with President Mubarak. The President will depart Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday January 16 in the afternoon en route to Andrews Air Force Base.

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White House links to President Bush's plans & travel to the Middle East:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080103-2.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080105.html