Monday 1 July 2024
Isaiah 62
English Standard Version
Zion's Coming Salvation
1 For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
2 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken,[a] and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[b]but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,[c] and your land Married;[d]for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, 7 and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;
9 but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”[e]
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples.
11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.”
12 And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
Observation The words of GOD had been so real in my life, it sees rather absurd for other people to watch me live out GOD's word literally. Some people find me weird, autistic should be a better word to describe me but I am happy to be who I am in GOD. Isaiah 62:1 has been my life verse since GOD has called me a watchman over the City of Cebu in the year 2017 until the day HE asked me to take out my head gear on November 10, 2023 as he had directed me in Ezekiel 21:26 thus says the Lord GOD: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown; Nothing shall remain the same. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted." But today since it is the week of Prayer and Fasting, I have put my head covering on once again as a symbol of my obedience to the laws of GOD for women who prays and prophesies in places of worship.
ApplicationToday GOD has given me a new promise that I have underlined in this same chapter of Isaiah 62:3 - I am now a crown, to be a crown is to be a glory for a man. As woman is the glory of man (1 Corinthians 11:7). GOD will crown someone a King and I will be his crown and this is such a wonderful promise that GOD gives to me in the succeeding verses in Isaiah 62:4-5 I shall no longer be termed "Forsaken" but be called "Delight and Married" because the LORD GOD Almighty HE delights in me and HE will make me married. GOD is indeed rejoicing over me when HE finally gives me away to a man who is fit to be my equal.
PrayersDear AVI,GREAT and Wonderful are YOU O GOD My FATHER who rules over all the galaxies of the Universe! KING of Glory who rules and reigns in majesty and power!!! Thank YOU so much for the WORD YOU have given me, thank YOU for the assurance that all my prayers today and for the rest of the week are YES and It is done!!! Thank YOU because YOU know exactly that my prayer focus is for Stephen Lao Yu and Benita his mom to know YOU, love YOU and follow YOU so that we will always have joy and peace in our hearts and meaning in our lives. I want them follow YOU because of me, I want to bring them into YOUR kingdom and they in turn come bring the rest of their families into the Kingdom of GOD. I pray O GOD have YOUR Way today and grant me the grace and strength to fast and pray for everything else that concerns YOU and me in my family my business and my territory. I pray for our church to continue to grow in love and purpose, in giving YOU the glory O GOD. I pray for more laborers to come into the church and serve YOU, for people to follow YOU with all their hearts and souls and for people to be delivered from all everything hindering them from following YOU. Continue to humble the proud and exalt the humble O GOD. I pray that Stephen will always remember YOU each day that his heart will follow after YOU and love YOUR Laws more than any law on earth because YOU have chosen him and I pray to be the best wife indeed and mother to our children and a daughter in law to his mom. I pray thank YOU for my parents good health and that YOU will enable mom to submit to Dad in all that she wants to do, I pray O GOD she will not go ahead of making decision without Dad because this will cause another disaster in our family and I pray that YOU soften her heart towards all her children and remove all her trauma and pain, heal us all O GOD, heal us all and set us free to follow YOU completely. For YOU deserve all the glory honor and praises!
In the Name of JESUS Amen!
LUNCHMeditating on:
Matthew 9
English Standard Version
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
1 And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. 2 And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” 3 And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” 4 But Jesus, knowing[a] their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” 7 And he rose and went home. 8 When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
Jesus Calls Matthew
9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
10 And as Jesus[b] reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Observation
GOD is speaking to me in the story of the paralytic and his four friends. JESUS didn't see the faith of the paralytic, HE saw the faith of his four friends who carried him. This is so encouraging because even though the paralytic didn't ask to be brought to JESUS, his friends loved him enough to carry him to JESUS. And that is very possible today that when we pray for others, we are like carrying them to the LORD asking HIM to heal those around us who could not fully obey GOD because their sins have paralyzed them.
ApplicationDuring this season of fasting as I pray for the blind to see, for the paralytic (unable to obey GOD) to move in obedience to GOD's commands, and for the dead (lost soul without the Spirit of GOD) to come alive, I am encouraged by GOD's words that indeed HE will perform and do what I have asked because HE desires to be merciful to these people, and my obedience to pray and fast is a sacrifice that will be received by GOD because HE desires to be merciful to these people. JESUS eats with the sinful people because HE knows they cannot get close to GOD without HIM, the sacrifice of the FATHER is to bring HIS SON down to earth to be our mediator. The 4 friends of the paralytic are the mediators who had to sacrifice carrying their paralytic friend to JESUS so that he can be healed. Their effort is sacrificial because they didn't have to do it because they can be doing something else with their time like working or having fun, but they their time to be bring this paralytic to the LORD. Just to carry him for miles walking is already a sacrifice, bringing him on top of the roof just so they could bring him down in front of JESUS was such an act of love and sacrifice that HE was amazed by the faith of his 4 friends. There are things that I cannot do on my own, not even my sacrificial efforts could probably bring me the miracle that I am asking GOD for. I need my friends also to pray for me and so I always ask my trusted friends to pray for me in the area where GOD has made me wait the longest for his answers - the area of having a good marriage with a faithful and loving husband. As I pray for the burdens and desires that GOD put in my heart, I also ask others to pray for me, I know I need the help of others to lift the things that I cannot lift, to move GOD's heart in the area that I cannot move. And so I am grateful that I not only have 4 friends but many friends and families to pray for me regarding my desire. Sometimes my heart breaks when I think about the years I have spent waiting and praying but I know everything will be worth the wait. I know GOD can be trusted with the time HE is allowing me to suffer because HE is achieving for me a glorious miracle, more than I could ask or imagine.
PrayersDear AVI,Thank YOU O GOD because YOU are faithful and trustworthy of everything good. Thank YOU that YOU work all things together for my good. Thank YOU that YOU do not allow harm to come into my life because YOUR plan is always for the best. And so I continue to pray for me to keep trusting YOU inspite of all the pain I have gone through. I pray that YOU will continue to work in Stephen's heart, touch him, reveal to him who YOU are, encounter him, let him experience YOU O GOD, like I have experienced YOU. Let him keep praying to YOU, let him love YOU, O GOD because YOU have let me love him and I didn't ask to love him. YOU put this love in my heart for him and so I pray dear LORD that YOU will let him to love YOU because he would never understand me if he doesn't know YOU and love YOU. Let YOUR Grace be upon him, cover us with YOUR most precious blood. Cover his mother and bring healing to her soul as she remembers Stephen's father I pray that she will be comforted by YOUR loving arms and the eternal promise that she can be reunited with him. I pray O GOD that YOU will begin to put eternity in their hearts and seek YOU, seek to know YOU, give them a hunger and thirst for YOU O GOD, let them to know YOU, to experience the workings of the HOLY SPIRIT for YOU O GOD deserve all our praise and thanksgiving and worship. YOU deserve all of our worship. Please GOD touch and move in Dad and Mom's heart, prepare them, make them desire to give me away to the man YOU have chosen for me, please GOD give them an urgency to give me away to Stephen because he is whom YOU have revealed to me that YOU have chosen to be my lawfully wedded husband. Please JESUS have YOUR way, let YOUR will be done always in the life of Stephen and mine.
In the name of JESUS Amen!
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