11-07-2018
Isaiah 62 New International Version (NIV)
Zion’s New Name
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,
till her vindication shines out like the dawn,
her salvation like a blazing torch.
2 The nations will see your vindication,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
3 You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 No longer will they call you Deserted,
or name your land Desolate.
But you will be called Hephzibah,[a]
and your land Beulah[b];
for the Lord will take delight in you,
and your land will be married.
5 As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you.
6 I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
give yourselves no rest,
7 and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise of the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain
as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
for which you have toiled;
9 but those who harvest it will eat it
and praise the Lord,
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”
10 Pass through, pass through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner for the nations.
11 The Lord has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘See, your Savior comes!
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.’”
12 They will be called the Holy People,
the Redeemed of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.
There is a trajectory--a promise that God wants to fulfil.
The ones who are praying can feel the burden lifting.
You can feel it happening as it happens.
From night to day, there is dawn. We can sense God breaking through.
Our soul and our spirit combined can feel the movement of God.
Those who are interceding can tell it's getting lighter and more free.
Those who attend prayer meeting can feel the sense of dawn.
Isaiah 62 is an invitation for us to work with God in real time as it is happening.
To be able to be people who know our God, His Spirit allows us to set our hearts--our arrows--towards Him and He will be the One guiding us.
God has given us the tip of that stick. The tip of the tongue is like that stick.
God gives us a word, a prophecy. Our heart and our spirit get sensitised.
The people and the church that are praying get transformed.
In the meantime, the Lord will make us new. God begins to take over. He takes away our lack of fire and desire.
The fire of God is the objective reality of God's presence.
Our feelings are not who we are.
Love is of God.
It means we have the Spirit of God to cause us to act for God.
If you show up, He will show up for you.
Come for prayer meeting.
If you don't, you miss out on the best opportunity for God to show up.
Prayer is not just trying to move God only.
Prayer is coming to God and allowing God to make us soft.
God wants to transform us. As transformed people, amazing things will happen through us.
God will make you a crown of beauty in His hand.
The more we pray, the more we become something in the hand of God.
We become a new name that carries authority.
Prayer doesn't make us proud. Prayer makes us softer.
We allow ourselves to be filled with love for Him.
Prayer is a relational thing towards God. (Isaiah 26)
We become more intimate with God.
Prayer makes our hearts enclosed around God.
God will be changing us and convicting us.
God holds us in His hand.
We pour our hearts to God and He guides us.
Isaiah 26:8-10 New International Version (NIV)
8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,[a]
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.
10 But when grace is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil
and do not regard the majesty of the Lord.
It is a great thing to yearn for God.
Our prayer is wanting more of Him.
He gives us that Spirit that is supernatural power. It has the ability to go places that our humanity can't go. The Spirit will touch things that we don't understand.
But our soul and our heart must be engaged with God. We set our hearts towards God.
Words of knowledge and healing will come.
Aren't you excited?!
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