Isaiah 62 Prayer Campaign

Prayer Letter for April 2026

Dear Prayer Partners,

We are entering the month of Nisan, the first month of the biblical calendar. This is not simply a new month. It is the month God Himself designated as the beginning of His redemptive calendar. In Exodus 12, He declared to Israel, “This month shall be your beginning of months.” After generations of slavery, God was not just setting them free, He was resetting their identity. Their story would no longer begin with bondage. It would begin with redemption.

At the center of Nisan is Passover, and at the center of Passover is the blood. God told Israel, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” Not their prayers. Not their history. The blood. And everything about that night was pointing forward to Yeshua, the Lamb of God, whose blood was shed at Passover for the redemption of the world. This is why Nisan carries such spiritual weight. It is the month where God’s redemptive plan comes into sharpest focus.

Scripture shows us that Nisan is also a month of crossing over. In Joshua 4, on the tenth day of the first month, Israel crossed the Jordan and entered the land God had promised them. Forty years of wilderness journeying ended in Nisan. God does not bring His people out only to leave them wandering. He brings them through. There is always a crossing over. There is always a place of promise on the other side.

King Hezekiah understood this. When he ascended the throne after years of national spiritual decline, he opened the Temple doors in the first month of Nisan. He called the people back to covenant, to worship, and to God. Nisan was not just a new year for him. It was a moment of return and realignment. That remains true for us. This month invites us to ask honestly where our hearts have drifted, and to come back.

Joel 2:23 tells us that God sends both the former and the latter rain. The latter rain is what brings the harvest to fullness. God gives the rain that starts the work, and He gives the rain that completes it. We are asking for the latter rain, for the fullness of what He has been sowing in Israel and the nations, that it would come to maturity in this hour.

This is how we are praying in this season. We are standing before God on behalf of Israel, asking that the veil would lift and that the people of Israel would recognise their Passover Lamb. We are praying for the nations to align with God’s redemptive purposes. And we are asking for a fresh outpouring, for an awakening, and for the harvest God has promised. Nisan is a month to pray with expectation. God is faithful to complete what He has begun.

Blessings from Jerusalem,

Joshua Gooding
Head of Prayer Department
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem

PS: Our next day of prayer and fasting for the Isaiah 62 Prayer Campaign will be on Wednesday, 1 April 2026. Also, please join our daily Global Prayer Gathering at 4:30 PM (Israel time) to pray for the nation of Israel. So, please join us there at on.icej.org/ICEJGlobalPrayer

And let us hear from you about your needs and how God has answered your prayers! Send a short email to prayer@icej.org to let us know you are praying and fasting with us.