Day 199
Friday, 21 January 2011
Dear God,
This is Amanda :D... Thank You, thank You, thank You for teaching me oh Holy Spirit. I am soooo amazed and excited and feel soo much Love !!! Coz You are here with us right now, this very moment belongs to Your glory. How great is Your Love towards us J.
Firstly You said “So DO NOT fear for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am Your God. I will strengthen you and help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10)
I first thought we were talking about my study :p, but I guess it does include everything :D...
The call to intercede
“and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. 11The Lord will guide you always, He will satisfy your needs... and strengthen your frame” (Isaiah 58:10-11)
ð This is Your call for me to pray & intercede with fasting. That You may work even more mightily with us.
ð Verse 8 “... righteousness go before you” (corresponds to Isaiah 52:11)
Isaiah 52
The call to purify ourselves, the vessels of the Lord, come with a clean heart. Free yourselves from sorrow and take authority (v.2 “...sit enthroned”).
“...come out from it and be pure, you who carry the vessels of the Lord. 12But you will not leave in haste or go in flight for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be you rear guard.” (Isaiah 52:11-12)
God is not in a hurry, He will prepare your way when you are ready for your calling and that is when your heart is pure. Most of us when we receive the calling, we are filled with so much enthusiasm that we just want to jump into it. But our God is patient (“Love is patient... J 1 Corinthians 13:4-7)! He will go before us and protect us that anything that was impure within us will not e our downfall when we are fulfilling our calling.
Similarly to Joseph who had a pride problem, God made him wait so many years till his calling can eventually be fulfilled to die down his pride and give everything that he has for God’s glory so that when he matures up in faith he will not die away in sin as his flesh has now submitted to the Spirit.
God knows what is ahead of us before we have the faintest idea. HE is God the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. HE knew all things before it would have happened, but He is a merciful God who is loving towards us. He wants us to be with Him, hence He doesn’t want us to fall away.
God does not share His glory with anyone, if I was to be called to prophesy now I may fall away with my pride problem because I would go around telling others that God can speak to me about this and that and that His favour is upon me because I am this or that. Notice that its all coming back to me? Its all making a mark for myself in this world in front of my friend’s eyes. They are wasting away, these things will perish in time and have no place in the Kingdom. God may then take away my gift and cast me away for I will delude myself with praises that comes out from the mouth of men.
I don’t want this for sure and He doesn’t want it too. BUT the difference is that when I am actually in it, I wouldn’t have had a single clue of what is coming and be swallowed up in my own pride. But He had gone before me (Isaiah 52:12) J. He is now preparing me for my selfishness to be done away with by putting me through circumstances in my life that will test me and causes my selfishness to either go away or let me be stuck in it. But since I know what I am chasing after and what He has prepared before me, I have chosen to move forward against all things. He knows that J, hence why He is holding up my calling and making me wait patiently simply because there are things that I need to deal with. There are things in my life and within the deepest part of my heart that needs fixing, there are areas of my life that needs to be surrendered completely into His hands. Until all of these are fixed, then my calling will come. I am an impatient girl and I am so enthusiastic about God’s Kingdom that I just want to jump straight into it. But He has gone before me and He knows how i am going to be if I was to be let into this calling now. The decision that He has made to make ma wait longer is certainly for my own benefit for everything I am and everything I have shall be only and only for His glory. I am overwhelmed by His abundance of mercy and Love in my life. Thank You Daddy J!
“for what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.”
(Isaiah 52:15)
A little note...
“Awake, Awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord!” (Isaiah 51:9)
ð Take charge, and pull yourself together vessels of God. For through you, God will do great things (you are His arm!).
Isaiah 51 – The Everlasting Salvation for Zion
Verse 11: “The ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Verse 12: you fear mortal me. But they are but grass.
Verse 13: you forget the Lord’s mighty hands because of the oppressor.
Verse 21: “Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine! :D ð Holy Spirit’s manifestation!
Verse 14: Prisoners will be set free.
Verse 21: "Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine." (the Holy Spirit's manifestation :D!)
And in your pain and anguish....
“10.Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him...makes His life a guilt offering...will see His offspring J and the will of the Lord will prosper in His hand...12.Because He poured out his LIFE unto death,... for He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:10,12)
ð Before His glory takes place there must be death of the flesh within us, that when we die to ourselves He will pour in His portion within us that He may increase and we shall decrease and that we are ready to intercede after we fasted that He is now more than us and that we are able to outpour to others. We must prepare the way for ones who just received Jesus for our war is not against the flesh and the flood but against the rulers of darkness in the spiritual realms. (Isaiah 58 talks more about true fasting, find verse of spiritual warfare in Ephesians 6:12).
Isaiah 58 – True Fasting
His promise: “11. The Lord will guide you always, He will satisfy your needs,...strengthen your frame.”
Isaiah 66 – The Judgement and Hope
“14.When you see this, your heart will rejoice,...the hand of the Lord will be made known to his foes J. 15. See, the Lord is coming with fire and His chariots are like a whirlwind; He will bring down His anger with fury; and His rebuke with flames of fire.” (Isaiah 66:14-15)
ð He will burn away our desires and selfishness with His holy fire, the Holy Spirit J.
ð He will come and minister and manifest!
ð First we must be clean vessels, purify our hearts and draw near.
ð Isaiah 66:21 “And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 1:12
“...for I am watching to see that My Word is fulfilled.” J
The call to ministry
Isaiah 54 – The Future Glory of Zion
1. “(v.2) Enlarge...your tent, don’t hold back.”
2. “(v.4) Don’t be afraid, you will not suffer shame.”
3. “(v.13)All your sons will be taught by the Lord and great will be your children’s peace J”
4. “(v.14)In righteousness, you will be established, Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.”
5. “(v.15)... whoever attacks you will surrender to you.”
God is saying do not be afraid to enlarge our ministries as according to His command for we will not suffer shame as we carefully obeyed and recognised the stillness of His voice. He will not let anyone oppress us and whoever that will try and stop us will eventually surrender to us.
God is able to do all things, let the Holy Spirit reveal yourselves more and more things. Be intimate with the Lord for He will let you know some of the mysteries that none of us can ever fathomed as His wisdom surpasses that of ours (Isaiah 55:8-9). Let God move mightily through you as we draw near and open our hearts.
***An important note:
· Zion is the heart of Jerusalem
Joel 2:32 “And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance!”
ð Deliverance = restoration of the heart (Zion)
Joel 3:17 “Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.”
ð Foreigners: things that is not of God. Evil Spirit will not enter our heart when we have been made holy.
A call for His nations
Joel 3:9
“Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack!”
=>Attack and pray for the nations those of you who has been called by the Lord to rise up !!
“Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord J (Isaiah 51:9)”
Pray for the nations:
“I have determined to do this city harm and not good declares the Lord. It will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon and he will destroy it with fire.” (Jeremiah 29:10)
ð Babylon spoke about a time of confusion. And God has been warning me about the rise of the false prophets.
ð Joel 3:3 the nations were given away because of their prostitution and drunkenness. Here prostitution may not necessarily counts as the sexually illicit behaviour, it can also mean about the way the people sells themselves to the things of this world such as idolatry and simple things that removes God’s throne from their hearts. That is also prostitution.
ð The term drunkenness here can also mean about lack of self control. As we grow in faith, we will be tested and there are things that we are still living in the flesh that needs to be done away with but the lack of self control gives us away to the enemy and thus the time of confusion itself. God is a just God as well as a loving Father, He disciplines and not spoil us. He gave us freewill but with every temptation He always provides a way out. It comes back to us, which way will we choose?
Dont be afraid to do great that God has called you for! God will make a way and put you into the spot in His time, meanwhile draw near, rise up, clothe yourself with strength, enthrone yourself with authority and shake off the dust of your past, prepare for war, fast, pray and intercede. For He will come and He will not delay, in Jesus name, AmenJ !
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