AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Tuesday – May 10, 2022, Iyar 9, 5782
I WILL
Greetings precious friends and partners of this Ministry and blog. We are always ready to receive partners. A partner is one who come along side financially. I will say the same to you as the Apostle Paul said to those who were to partner with him.
Philippians 4:17 (KJV)
17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Giving is commanded of God, first the tithe (10% of all gain) and then in addition what is commonly referred to as “freewill offerings”. It is vital that you not give by coercion of any kind, or pressure of any kind, but only as the Lord leads.
As we continue moving forward, please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible. Thank you for sharing, you have a vital role in this Ministry. The featured picture today is of the State Capitol of Colorado. This is featured to remind us that we are not only commanded to submit to those in authority, but also to bless and pray for those in authority not curse them. Perhaps a moment of prayer, even repentance, is in order.
Now let’s move on to our text in Isaiah which is very fascinating but also very revealing concerning the one we call Satan, the Devil, the Old Dragon, the Serpent, and so on. Studying the fall of Lucifer is not only revealing but empowering. It is revealing about our fallen nature (flesh, carnality). Those things we don’t like in our nature, that we must crucify (sometimes daily), came from our old father, the Devil. Remember to continue reading out loud, you are reading out loud, right?
Isaiah 14:12-15 (TLB)
12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground—mighty though you were against the nations of the world.
13 For you said to yourself, “I will ascend to heaven and rule the angels. I will take the highest throne. I will preside on the Mount of Assembly far away in the north.
14 I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.”
15 But instead, you will be brought down to the pit of hell, down to its lowest depths.
Yesterday I left off talking about how Lucifer became self-deceived and that propensity is in our fallen nature as well. Notice all the “I will” in the text. This can be dangerous speech when we do not acknowledge the Lord in ALL that we do. It is easy to think we are doing it forgetting that we can do nothing of ourselves. Really hone in on the 28th verse in the following passage.
Acts 17:28-29 (KJV)
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Jesus operated as a man in the earth having laid aside what made Him God. He was an Anointed man and we are Anointed (same Anointing) men and women in the earth as well. However, like Jesus, the Master, we can do nothing of ourselves.
John 8:28-29 (KJV)
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
We see two extraordinarily important points in this passage. One is as I have been discussing which is that just as Jesus could do nothing of Himself neither can we. Lucifer got the idea it was all him, and not the One who created him. Let us, each one, guard against an inflated picture of ourselves. The second thing we see in verse twenty-nine is that Jesus operated by faith just as we must operate by faith. We see this in the phrase “I do always those things that please him”. What pleases God?
Hebrews 11:6 (KJV)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
How is our faith checkup? Our faith is only as strong as our love (agape) walk.
Galatians 5:6 (KJV)
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Lord willing, I will pick up right here tomorrow.
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Receive the blessing in Jesus’ name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (MSG)
24 GOD bless you and keep you,
25 GOD smile on you and gift you,
26 GOD look you full in the face and make you prosper.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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