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.

I NEED A CORPORATE MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Yesterday I stayed before the Lord for the day. I spent a lot of time in His Word trying to get the mind of the Holy Spirit for the evening prayer.

I have to admit. I have felt really restless. Not restless in the conventional sense that requires a movement on my part, but a restlessness that says, “I have to have a move of the Holy Spirit corporately!”

I found out last week that as we prayed breakout that two people got delivered. Last night at prayer, as the Lord gave me a word of knowledge about a healing, I heard weeping break out in the darkness. Not sure what was happening.

WHAT IS A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE?

Sometimes I refer to something that some may not be familiar with. So just in case, I’ll give a Bible answer.

1 Corinthians 12:7-11 (NKJV)
⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: ⁸ for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

So a word of knowledge is a supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit. Notice that it is not the only gift that God gives, but it is one of them.

In the above verse it is called a manifestation. A manifestation is an outward or perceptible materialization according to the dictionary. A true word of knowledge will be a piece of information not known to the individual except the Holy Spirit manifest it. He makes it materialize to the believer and they reveal the information in whatever manner the Holy Spirit wants them to.

As I was leading prayer, the Holy Spirit made known to me that there was a person He was healing in the section to my left. Someone cried out in the back after that. I don’t know the story so I can’t tell it yet.

THE PRAYER TOPIC

Back to the day of prayer. My restlessness tried to get the best of me. Sometimes I long for what I saw at the Encounter so much that it really bugs me! As I prayed I began to understand that the Lord wanted me to know that He has a strong hand and a long arm. He began to talk to me about that in verses of scriptures.

I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS ABOUT TO MANIFEST AMONG US

I kept hearing as we were praying,
“Eternity meets time and translates into glory!!”
I really think that is where we are heading.

God will show up in your sphere. He is just looking for someone that will believe Him and wait on Him. Be that person!!!

Blessings,
lisa

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