OUR FATHER IS WORTHY OF PRAISE ( FROM PSALM 71 )

I will shout for joy O Lord  

When I sing Your praise

 I will tell of what You've done for me

All of my days

I will always hope in You

And praise You more and more

For though I've seen some bitter days

I've seen Your hand restore

You who've done great things for me

And blessed me with new life

Your power and Your righteousness

Reaches to the sky.

Amen.

MAY THE KING  (FROM PSALM 72)

LONG MAY OUR GREAT KING LIVE

MAY HIS NAME ENDURE

AS PROTECTOR OF THE WEAK

DEFENDER OF THE POOR

MAY HE RULE FROM SEA TO SEA

REIGN OVER ALL THE EARTH

MAY ALL THE KINGS BOW DOWN

THE NATIONS COME TO SERVE

BLESSED BE OUR MIGHTY GOD

KING OF KINGS, RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY

MAY ALL PEOPLE PRAISE THE LORD

THE WHOLE EARTH IS FILLED WITH HIS GLORY

Amen.

OUR LORD WHOSE GREAT DAY WILL BRING RUIN TO THE KINGDOM OF SPIRITUAL BABYLON

Isaiah chapter 13 verse 7 reads as follows;

Because of this, all hands will go limp, every heart will melt with fear.

This verse captures a subtle detail among the events that are recorded in the 13th chapter of Isaiah.

As the war in the spiritual realm between spiritual Babylon and the kingdom of Zion intensifies, the fallout of this war will spill over into the natural realm. These terrifying events will become visible to the people on earth and they will be overwhelmed with fear and their hands will go limp and their hearts will melt.

When humans are suddenly exposed to occurrences  that exceed their sensory and processing capacity, they can go into a catatonic state where their limbs become inactive and they become unresponsive to the events that are unfolding around them.

Such will the day of the Lord be when God's spiritual army gathers to battle the kingdom of Babylon and bring her fraudulent claim over the earth to an end.

The earth will shake violently and the sun, moon and stars will not give their light. All of Babylon's structures and administrations will be laid waste and left as smouldering ruins.

Isaiah chapter 13 verse 20 says; "She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations;"

Babylon will fall and will never rise again. 

Amen.

OUR LORD WHO WILL PUT AN END TO THE OPPRESSIVE RULE OF THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS OVER THE EARTH

Isaiah chapter 14 verses 3 - 5 says this;

On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended! The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

This passage foretells of a day that an oppressive regime of darkness called Babylon, will have gained control over the whole earth and will have brought enslavement and destruction to the people.

 In due time, however, Babylon will be toppled by the Lord and the king of Babylon will fall.

All the oppressed people will be relieved of their harsh yokes when the king of Babylon is deposed and when all his power is destroyed.

The people will taunt the fallen regime when the ruling agents of the king of Babylon will also have had their power and authority stripped from them.

The whole world will be freed from under the foot of the oppressor by God and relief will be given to all the people of God.

Amen.

OUR FATHER WHO SENT US A DIVINE HELPER 

Ezekiel chapter 3 verse 14 says this;

The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord on me.

In the first chapter of the book of  Ezekiel, the prophet Ezekiel recorded one of the most profound visions ever witnessed.

In his vision, Ezekiel saw four winged beings each having four faces and four wings and each being beside a wheel within a wheel and lightning flashed between the four beings in a brilliant display of the  glory of God.

In chapter two, Ezekiel recorded the message that was given to him by the Son of God which foretold of the children of Israel going into captivity in a foreign land because of their rebellion against the Lord.

In this chapter, when Ezekiel saw the glory of God, he fell face down onto the ground. Spirit of God entered Ezekiel and helped him stand up while the Son of God spoke to him. 

In chapter three, the vision came to a close and Ezekiel was lifted up by the Spirit of God and taken back to the banks of the Kebar River and put back among the Israelites there. He was in anguish for seven days as the things that he saw in his vision distressed his mind.

After some days, Ezekiel saw the Lord's presence again and again he fell face down and the Spirit of God propped him up again so that he could listen to the Lord.

We see the Spirit of God, on multiple occasions,  upholding the Lord's servant when he had fallen and we see Spirit of God taking Ezekiel safely home after a terrifying encounter with spiritual beings.

The Spirit of God is the Divine Helper sent from God to help and support the Lord's servants.

Give thanks for the ministry of the wonderful counselor, the Spirit of God.

Amen.

OUR FATHER WHOSE GREAT DAY APPROACHES

Genesis chapter 3 verse 9 says this;

But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

In the garden of Eden, shortly after Adam and Eve had listened to the serpent and had eaten  the forbidden  fruit, the Lord God came to visit them in the cool of the evening and they were missing from where He usually met them and so God called to Adam, "Where are you?"

Adam and Eve had hidden themselves from God because they had eaten the fruit that they were not supposed to eat. They, after eating the fruit, became aware of their nakedness and they hid themselves from the Lord and from that moment on, lost their unfettered access to God.

After being expelled from the garden, the lot of the human race was the struggle for survival but the whole time, the Lord was asking mankind, "Where are you?" to see if anyone could be found who would turn to Him to be  saved.

Most people, caught up in the distractions of life, forgot their God and did not look to Him to save them or protect them.

As Isaiah chapter 17 verse 11 says;

You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.

Isaiah 53 verse 6 says also;

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,  each of us has turned to our own way;

However, the day approaches when all the work of redemption that the Lord has done through all the ages will culminate in the appearance of God in great glory.

Isaiah chapter 17 verse 7 says it this way;

In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

The God from whom we hid and who was hidden from our eyes will be seen and we will turn from our own ways and return to Him from whom we departed and who paid a so great a price to redeem us to Himself.

Amen.

OUR FATHER WHO CONFOUNDS THE WISE

Isaiah chapter 19 verse 11 says this;

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh,  “I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings”?

This verse highlights one of the ways that the oppressive kingdom of Egypt is defeated by the Lord. 

Egypt, in this case, represents the kingdom of darkness that has been set up to oppress and enslave the people of God.

As the kingdom of darkness tries to gain the upper hand, the Lord sends to them a spirit of dizziness that confounds its advisors and counselors.

Even though these agents portray themselves as wise and knowledgable, they give nothing but senseless advise so that the whole kingdom is led astray.

Let us give thanks to God for confounding the wise so that darkness is unable to overcome light.

Amen.