What does Tribe teach about prayer for israel?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on prayer for Israel is rooted in a conviction that this is not a peripheral concern but one that God himself placed on the church in this season. When Brian and the leadership team asked Jesus, as senior pastor of Tribe, where he wanted the church to go, the answer was Israel. That led to a twenty-one-day fast running alongside three weeks of teaching, with the congregation praying and fasting together as a body.
Brian's teaching draws heavily from Romans 11 and Daniel 11 to give the prayer a theological foundation. Romans 11 makes clear that God has not abandoned Israel. The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, and the mystery Paul describes, Israel in a kind of deep sleep while salvation went to the Gentiles, is not permanent. Brian held up Romans 11:15 as a verse the church should feel the full weight of: if Israel's rejection meant salvation came to the rest of the world, their acceptance will mean something even more staggering, life for those who were dead. That coming reality is part of what gives the prayer its urgency. From Daniel 11, Brian raised a harder question: when Israel faces its darkest hour, who will be the people who show up? He traced the church's failure in Europe during the Holocaust, where Christians sat in pews while Jewish neighbors were marched past, and named that as a pattern Tribe should refuse to repeat.
The posture Brian calls the congregation toward is one of genuine heartbreak and engagement, not detached intercession. He prays, "Break our hearts, Lord, for what breaks you. Wreck us for what you love and for what you care about." He also warns against putting this off: "Do not think that you have time someday down the road to make a decision whether or not you will be one of those who will stand with Israel." The twenty-one-day fast was the church's answer to that call, and the teaching frames ongoing prayer for Israel as a serious, long-term commitment for the congregation.
Taught from Romans 11:11-15 · Daniel 11:28-36 · Zechariah 13:9 · Jeremiah 30:7 · Isaiah 62
“Break our hearts, Lord, for what breaks you. Wreck us for what you love and for what you care about.”
From Making Room for Israel
The passage taught · Deuteronomy 32:9-12
9 For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
12 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- September 25, 2023 Making Room for Israel Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Romans 11, exploring God's heart for Israel during a 21-day fast and what it means for believers grafted into that story.
- September 18, 2023 A Measure of Hope for Israel Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Daniel 11 and what Scripture calls Jacob's trouble, asking who will stand with Israel when that time comes.