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Isa 43 - 5 verses. Then: God's destiny plans for His people

At the end of Isa 43 the Lord pronounces a heavy word of disaster upon His people for their current disobedience and the necessary and upcoming Babylonian captivity - and then begins 44 with a gloriously prophetic corporate titling of "Jeshurun". It means Upright One. God speaks to His people according to His destiny plan - declaring what He has purposed and will eventually bring about. That's so good and critical to remember - particularly in these most trying days. We are here for divine purpose, and there is a divine reward to the faithful.

Complete In The Wholeness Of God

Given the shaking and troublesome current season, I did feel led to perhaps write or record a message re our wholeness being in, and only in, our holy God. Then I remembered it was something I had spoken on a while back, but couldn't find my earlier notes for reference. Two days later a video link showed up on my computer and there it was. Thank You Lord. This podcast is the convenient audio from that church message. It is strikingly timely. In the message I point to an overhead screen you can't see on a podcast. Sorry about that. But I did locate the "elephant in the room" image.

Isaiah 42 & 43

The sovereignty of our God is our assurance of His righteous constancy. He has told us who He is and what His plans are, and the invitation is to understanding, compliance, and rest. His plans for His people are revealed, as are His plans to draw and also, as required, to drive all people to Him. And how does that happen? And what is the role of the saints on earth during tough times?

Isa 41: God's Perfection in prophecy and purpose

The overarching theme of the remaining 60+ chapters of Isaiah is the righteous and perfect accuracy of God and His revealed and yet to be revealed prophetic plans - so that praying and surrendered saints might understand and walk in the opportunity of destiny success, all the while avoiding the deception of an enemy who speaks only lies, always. In Him, we win.  

Derek Prince's excellent and now-most-timely teaching on demons

Please do not be intimidated nor turned away by the title including "demons". And in fact please listen to this podcast. It will enlighten, challenge and bless you. It can empower you to minister to others. It just might deliver you in some areas of your own life. 

Asa + Psalm 32

Bunny trail this week. Isa 41 and forward took me into the life of King Asa who made some good decisions and some bad decisions. We spent the AM looking into that early King of Judah to learn from his life. And that took us to Psalm 32 - eleven SPECTACULAR verses pointing to our great God and His mercy, relentless pursuit of His people to take us into holiness, prophetic mantle restoration for repentant David, eye-contact relationship w a great God.

NEXT TIME: Isa 41 - looking at and confirming God's supernatural and sovereign plans over all events, so that we might even more purposefully press into hearing Him, obeying Him, succeeding in Him (which is what had led me down the Asa bunny trail in the first place!)

Isaiah 38.9 to 40

Much can and ought to be learned from Hezekiah's life - his successes and also his mistakes, so that we can do better, finish well, impact the world for our great God - regardless of the season in which the world finds itself. Chapter 40 presents us with the eternal truths about God's sovereignty and His eternal promise to sustain, refresh and energize those who wait on Him. So encouraging!

Isaiah 38 sort of, and Sovereignty of God

1. The whole Hezekiah story takes us to into understanding God's sovereignty, Kingship, THE Kingdom (of God), the rulers of the earth, and the plan of God as He reveals and establishes His Kingdom rule (not without resistance and rebellion). That is our focus this session. We; as kings and priests, are specifically called to walk through these most critical days of Kingdom conflict. It's good stuff to know and to have in our spirits, so that we understand and can succeed, and that our hearts do not fail as a result of fear or ignorance of God's plans.

2. TECHNICAL NOTE: I am experimenting w a new mic that (a) works great in picking up other folks as they input, but (b) after this first week I am understanding the mic needs to be positioned closer to me than the other folks, so future weeks ought to be better yet, w my voice prioritized but others still happily hearable. 

 

 

Hezekiah - a bunny trail into a king's life, for us to succeed as kings.

Peter calls us a royal priesthood (1Pet 1:9)

John is told "...and he has made us kings and priests" (Rev 1:6)

Paul tells us we'll be judging angels (1 Cor 6:2)

There is much to learn from the stories of the kings, and we spend this week going into 2 Chron and 2 Kings to learn from Hezekiah, a great king. Not a perfect king (that's Jesus), but truly a great king.

 

 

 

 

Isaiah 36-37.5 - Sennacherib illustrates the lies of our adversary

Satan is never cited as being creative, so we can learn from the past how he operates through lies, counterfeit partial-truths, attempts at intimidation, terrorization, etc. Meanwhile Hezekiah is disclosed to us in 2 Kings and of course in Isaiah as a good king who trusted the Lord. Much is to be revealed in this discussion so that we might be successful in our walks w the Lord always, and particularly in trying times.