dailywordofdestiny

Joy In The Morning

In the recent weeks we have seen much political and social unrest throughout many nations in the world.  We have read many opinions and have  listened to personal agendas as well.  Many aspire to get to the “top position” in government and they will claw their way up and over whoever they must and by whatever means are necessary to get there.  Some use covert methods; others use “hidden ways” to undermine or remove the opponents.   I am thankful that I KNOW GOD and I have faith and trust in His ability to raise up these leaders as well as bring them down when God’s plans and purposes for that person are completed.  No matter what nation you live in; you must realize that THIS IS THE “NOW TIME” TO FAST and  PRAY for every person who is in authority over you (1 Timothy 2: 1-3; 1 Peter 2: 13-24); with a voice (prayers) that reaches the ears of our heavenly Father.

Isaiah 58: 4-14  tells us, “(The facts are that) you fast only for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness.  Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high.  Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? (Is true fasting merely mechanical?)  Is it only to bow down his head like a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him (to indicate a condition of heart that he does not have)?  Will you call this a fast and an acceptable  day to the Lord?

(Rather) is not this the fast that I have chosen:  To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every (enslaving) yoke?  Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house–when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from (the needs of) your own flesh andd blood? 

Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your relationship with God) shall go before you (conducting you to peace and prosperity), and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard (see Genesis 32: 24-26).  Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am.  If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression (wherever you find them), the finger pointed in scorn (toward the oppressed or the godly), and every form of false, harsh , unjust, and wicked speaking, and if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, THEN SHALL YOUR LIGHT RISE in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become LIKE THE NOONDAY.

And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in DROUGHT and DRY places and make strong your bones.  And you shall be like a WATERED GARDEN and like a spring whose waters fail not.  And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations (of buildings that have laid waste) for many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.  If you turn away your foot from (traveling unduly on ) the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a (spiritual) delight, the holy day of the Lord, honorable, and honor Him and it, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking with your own (idle) words, THEN will you delight yourself in the Lord, and I WILL make you to ride on the high places of  the earth, and will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father; for THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS SPOKEN IT.