Wow! This morning when I was headed to my study corner for my morning coffee and time of reading scripture and prayer, the Spirit prompted me to read Isaiah 54(instead of what I had planned to read). I have a little history with Isaiah 54, it was given to me during a prophetic word while we were in Tulsa. In Tulsa I didn't absorb it or let it go to my heart quite as much as it did today. What beautiful words God has given us in this chapter!
What a beautiful and intimate promise He has given me this morning. I've wondered and questioned how much of an intimate level He wants to reach with us. I will question no more, how much more intimate of a level can be reached than Husband? I have had experiences before and wondered the meaning and spoken to Lane about it, but we both were on a level of not quite grasping it all and as Lane says "put it on a shelf until it comes back again". This morning through these scriptures I have gained an understanding and a new greater joy that He has gifted me with through this whole chapter.
Words are only words until they sink into our being. While I was receiving this message this morning I wondered how I would refrain from dancing through the rest of my days in joy?! Such promises of vindication, protection and future that I am to set my heart on. This chapter is to become part of who I am, it is His promise to me, my comfort and my future promise!
Isaiah 54~
1 “Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child;
Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed;
For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the LORD. (Lane and I have been prophesied to have many spiritual children, but as yet we do not have any.)
2 “Enlarge the place of your tent;
Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not;
Lengthen your cords
And strengthen your pegs.
3 “For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.
And your descendants will possess nations
And will resettle the desolate cities.
4 “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth,
And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
5 “For your husband is your Maker,
Whose name is the LORD of hosts;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
Who is called the God of all the earth.
6 “For the LORD has called you,
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.
7 “For a brief moment I forsook you,
But with great compassion I will gather you.
8 “In an outburst of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,”
Says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 “For this is like the days of Noah to Me,
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would not flood the earth again;
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
Nor will I rebuke you.
10 “For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,”
Says the LORD who has compassion on you.
11 “O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.
12 “Moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies,
And your gates of crystal,
And your entire wall of precious stones.
13 “All your sons will be taught of the LORD;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.
14 “In righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear;
And from terror, for it will not come near you.
15 “If anyone fiercely assails you it will not be from Me.
Whoever assails you will fall because of you.
16 “Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows the fire of coals
And brings out a weapon for its work;
And I have created the destroyer to ruin.
17 “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper;
And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
Continue to walk in the Faith that the LORD will fulfill what He has begun in you! ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteYes ma'am! Continue in faith. I'm reading currently in Hebrews, Hebrews 3:19 jumped out at me "So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief". And to top it off we heard a sermon also about the same verses! Talk about confirmation that it is something to be aware of and to guard, Walk by faith and don't let any unbelief enter!
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