AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Wednesday – June 2, 2021, Sivan 22, 5781
THE OX KNOWS HIS OWNER
Greetings precious people of God and precious people of the world. Welcome back to this empowering study of the Book of Isaiah. As we prepare to move forward in our study and in our walk with God, please take a moment to share these teachings as widely as possible. The featured picture today was provided by a wonderful brother in the Lord, Joe Getchell Jr. God is abundantly good to us all, so, let us all be abundantly good to those around us. I encourage each of us to read these studies out loud. Nowhere in Scripture does it say that faith comes by seeing. Faith comes one way and that is by hearing (Romans 10:17). We also know that it is impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).
The word meditate includes the idea of speaking. This word appears fourteen times in the KJV of the Bible. Fourteen is the number of deliverance and salvation. Therefore, declaring or speaking the Word of the Lord brings our deliverance and salvation from all the curse. Consider and meditate the follow two examples.
Joshua 1:8 (KJV)
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Who brings success into our lives? God or us? When we do the first essential step which only we can do God will then step in abundantly.
1 Timothy 4:15-16 (KJV)
15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
The ways of God are profitable to His Covenant people. Notice it says we are to give ourselves wholly to them. Are we coming up short in this area? We must be constantly examining ourselves, our thoughts, our words, and our actions. Can we see Jesus’ thinking, talking, and acting as we think, talk, and act? Glancing back to verse fifteen we see the phrase “thy profiting may appear to all”. This profiting is not just spiritual but in the natural things as well. Some of you have heard me say many times that all things have their origin in the spiritual realm, and there is no such thing as being spiritually rich and not naturally rich. I hope that all of this is of great interest to us all, not just to know as information, but to do as revelation.
The word meditate means to murmur (speaking under the breath), to ponder, imagine, mutter, roar, speak, study, talk, and utter according to Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Now, let’s move forward into the Book of Isaiah, continuing to read aloud, yes, out loud.
Isaiah 1:2-4 (KJV)
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
The Lord is lamenting through the Prophet Isaiah that He has lovingly (agape) nourished His people with the Word of God showing them the way, but they have rebelled (defied, fought against) against Him. The Lord says even the Ox and the donkey know who owns and feeds them but not His people made in the image and likeness of Himself. He says they not only have His people rejected this knowledge but they don’t even give it a thought. Can you hear the anguish of our Lord’s heart and a spark of anger and frustration? When was the last time one of us even considered much less acknowledged with understanding that we are not our own?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Jesus has paid the price for our bodies and our spirit; we do not belong to ourselves but to God. We are stewards of our spirit and physical body. Jesus paid the ultimate price for the absolute and total redemption of both. It is our responsibility to renew our minds displacing the ways of the god of the world with the ways of the Lord. Do we understand this renewing our thinking, speaking, and acting accordingly?
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.
Until our next publication, as your Bible Teacher and a Prophetic Voice in your life I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus’ name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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