The Ways of the Lord

MARCH 14, 2017

I spent the majority of the day trying to understand what He wanted for prayer. Of course I love starting out with worship and Word at the beginning of prayer because as we all know…He is worthy of it!

The thing that kept standing out to me all day was “the ways of the Lord”.

Of all the verses in the Bible, this may be the one that comes to you as well.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV) ⁸“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. ⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

I love to quote these verses! It makes me feel better when I think I miss it… which can certainly happen. After all, God is God and I am just…well, I am me and we know how “we” can look.

But as I read the whole chapter this is what I found. God is not scolding us because He is able to think WAY above us. (As God, we would expect that) The whole chapter is about how God was going to claim for His very own nations (gentiles, anyone not Jewish) for His very own people!

Can you imagine the Jewish people reading along in the Prophet Isaiah’s scroll or teaching it and BAM! There it is. I think that is why the disclaimer is put in there by God! They had to be having a real problem with that section so God throws in these verses.

Let’s read it again.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV) ⁸ “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. ⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

THIS REALLY STUCK IN MY HEART FOR PRAYER

If God could and would make a way for us…gentiles, what else is He willing to do that doesn’t even compute with us?

SO WE PRAYED OVER HIS WAYS IN DIFFERENT AREAS

It is important to know His ways.

It is important to walk in His ways.

We need to love his ways.

THIS WAS THE PART I LOVED!

We don’t stumble in the darkness. We have been given the help of the Holy Spirit. Look at this!

1 Corinthians 2:16 (NKJV) ¹⁶ For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

We prayed about KNOWING we have the mind of Christ. This tells me that we have the ability by the Holy Spirit and God’s Word to walk informed in His ways.

I hope you will pray through the Tuesday Night prayer time. Just insert your name or family or Church. You can know His ways and walk in them. You can trust God will do what He promises.

LET’S FINISH WITH THESE VERSES

Isaiah 55:10-11 (NKJV) ¹⁰“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, ¹¹So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.