Tuesday 18 June 2024
Isaiah 48
Israel Refined for God's Glory
1 Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.
2 For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.
3 “The former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. 4 Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, 5 I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
6 “You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known.
7 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
8 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
9 “For my name's sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried[a] you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name[b] be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
The Lord's Call to Israel
12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
18 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19 your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”
20 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out.
22 “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”
12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
7 “For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
8 The lion has roared; who will not fear?The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?”
ObservationGOD declares/announces things about to happen to HIS servants to let people know, from the time it has not happened yet so that when it does happen, people will know GOD is presently and actively working in everything on earth that HE is there and HE cares for people. HE wants people to know HIM, to seek HIM and follow HIS commands because HE wants HIS created beings to live and enjoy life. HE the first and the last, HE says, HE wants to teach us how to profit how to succeed, HE wants to lead us but man is stubborn and hard headed wanting to do things our own way that will not cause us to prosper.
ApplicationI need to keep seeking the LORD, I need to keep waiting on GOD, to listen to HIS voice, to sit at HIS feet every morning so I can hear HIS voice instructing me and leading me to the way I should go. I want to prosper, I want my desires fulfilled, I want to receive everything that GOD has prepared for me but in order for me to do that I have to keep listening to HIM. When I do not want to obey HIS Commands, HIS Spirit supplies the strength, the will, the power for me to obey HIS will and follow HIM. When will I experience the tree of life? When will I taste sweetness in my soul??? Only when I continue to follow the LORD, only when I seek HIS voice, heed his instructions and obeying HIM will I ever experience prosperity, peace and wholeness in my entire being because has everything that I need and want.
PrayersDear AVI,HOLY, GREAT and AWESOME are YOU O LORD GOD of Heaven and Earth, who rules the mountains and the seas and sovereign over all in all! KING JESUS, here I am, I am listening to YOU, for you have called me, YOU are indeed the first, and the last.
YOU are the Lord, my Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “YOU are the Lord my God, who teaches me to profit, who leads me in the way I should go. Teach me LORD, because I want to be successful, lead me O GOD and fulfill every desire of my heart because YOU author all these desires within me, YOU made me want them - a husband whose love for me is wonderful, 2 children, a happy home filled with so much love. These things are easy for YOU to fulfill O GOD, have YOUR way in me. Lead me to the paths of righteousness so that I can achieve prosperity, joy and gladness and contentment. Take my hand and continue to guide me because I can never make it on my own. I need YOU always and forever! I need YOU and want to be happy in YOU, I want YOU to write my story and author my life. I cannot make it without YOU, I am lost without YOU. Enable me and my husband to walk with YOU diligently like Enoch and together we will meet YOU in the clouds when YOU come for us. I pray for Stephen that YOU keep him in perfect peace, heal all his pain in the past, remove all his traumas, make him fit to love me by loving YOU O GOD, bless him, take care of him and let his desires be YOUR will, like my desires has become YOUR will and not mine. I pray that Stephen will read YOUR WORD and seek the HOLY ONE of Israel. Let him to enter into YOUR presence and YOUR wisdom O GOD, speak to him like only YOU can. For YOU are the Great I AM and unto YOU belong all our utmost and highest devotion. YOU alone are worthy of our worship because YOU are GOD alone - KING JESUS Adonai Tzeva'ot the LORD GOD of Heavens Armies who fights for us and defends us! Take care of my family and all our workers O GOD, please give us only good workers who can be trusted who give their best in all things. Teach me to do Accounting, please send me a tutor or a teacher or let me be in a book keeping class, I want to be excellent at work. Please give me the opportunity and the time, because Stephen has inspired me to always be the best. I also want to be the best wife please help me already be a good home maker. Help me GOD to always do my best in all things. I pray that YOU heal my parents and my siblings from all their pain that we would be a family in the heart and not just business partners. But I pray that my siblings will grow in YOU and to truly walk and follow YOU, worship YOU in Spirit and in Truth. Bless Ryan and Minggay with a new house thank YOU LORD for every provision and business opportunity. Be glorified always in my heart, mind and body, YOU deserve the best of me, the best of us!IN JESUS my KING I pray and trust, Amen
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