Today Isaiah 10 - Make a Peep!

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HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY !
Isaiah 10:1-34
1Destruction is certain for the unjust judges, for those who issue unfair laws. 2They deprive the poor, the widows, and the orphans of justice. Yes, they rob widows and fatherless children! 3What will you do when I send desolation upon you from a distant land? To whom will you turn for help? Where will your treasures be safe? 4I will not help you. You will stumble along as prisoners or lie among the dead. But even then the LORD's anger will not be satisfied. His fist is still poised to strike.
Judgment against Assyria
5"Destruction is certain for Assyria, the whip of my anger. Its military power is a club in my hand. 6Assyria will enslave my people, who are a godless nation. It will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet. 7But the king of Assyria will not know that it is I who sent him. He will merely think he is attacking my people as part of his plan to conquer the world. 8He will say, 'Each of my princes will soon be a king, ruling a conquered land. 9We will destroy Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath will fall before us as Arpad did. And we will destroy Samaria just as we did Damascus. 10Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were far greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria. 11So when we have defeated Samaria and her gods, we will destroy Jerusalem with hers.'"
12After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him—for he is proud and arrogant. 13He boasts, "By my own power and wisdom I have won these wars. By my own strength I have captured many lands, destroyed their kings, and carried off their treasures. 14By my greatness I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs. No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest."
15Can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? Can a whip strike unless a hand is moving it? Can a cane walk by itself?
16Listen now, king of Assyria! Because of all your evil boasting, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will send a plague among your proud troops, and a flaming fire will ignite your glory. 17The LORD, the Light of Israel and the Holy One, will be a flaming fire that will destroy them. In a single night he will burn those thorns and briers, the Assyrians. 18Assyria's vast army is like a glorious forest, yet it will be destroyed. The LORD will completely destroy Assyria's warriors, and they will waste away like sick people in a plague. 19Only a few from all that mighty army will survive—so few that a child could count them!
Hope for the LORD's People
20Then at last those left in Israel and Judah F28 will trust the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. They will no longer depend on the Assyrians, who would destroy them. 21A remnant of them will return F29 to the Mighty God. 22But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a few of them will return at that time. The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people. 23Yes, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has already decided to consume them.
24So this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "My people in Jerusalem, F30 do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they oppress you just as the Egyptians did long ago. 25It will not last very long. In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them."
26The LORD Almighty will beat them with his whip, as he did when Gideon triumphed over the Midianites at the rock of Oreb, or when the LORD's staff was raised to drown the Egyptian army in the sea. 27In that day the LORD will end the bondage of his people. He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders. F31
28Look, the mighty armies of Assyria are coming! They are now at Aiath, now at Migron. They are storing some of their equipment at Micmash. 29They are crossing the pass and are staying overnight at Geba. Fear strikes the city of Ramah. All the people of Gibeah—the city of Saul—are running for their lives. 30Well may you scream in terror, you people of Gallim! Shout out a warning to Laishah, for the mighty army comes. Poor Anathoth, what a fate is yours! 31There go the people of Madmenah, all fleeing. And the citizens of Gebim are preparing to run. 32But the enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day. He shakes his fist at Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
33But look! The Lord, the LORD Almighty, will chop down the mighty tree! He will destroy all that vast army of Assyria—officers and high officials alike. 34The Mighty One will cut down the enemy as an ax cuts down the forest trees in Lebanon.
FOOTNOTES:F28: Hebrew and the house of Jacob. F29: Hebrew Shear-jashub; see 7:3; 8:18. F30: Hebrew Zion. F31: As in Greek version; Hebrew reads The yoke will be broken, for you have grown so fat.
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~ Lena’s Journalin’ ~
Assyria is the world system, led by satan and his co-horts. It is everything that is against and plots against God and the godly. We are at war in the spirit against Assyria, have been at war w/ Assyria, whether we choose to be or not, we are. We are either with them or against them, with God or against God. There are ONLY 2 sides of this “game”, no middle road. In fact the ones who deceptively think they are in the middle will automatically be destroyed, 1st.
So, Assyria has thrown at us circumstantial evidences, has accused us, has lived our lives out for us. What can we do? Are we tired of it? Tired enough we no longer fight it? Do we succumb to its pull and ploy? We have, that’s for sure. But there is a way out, yet only one way out.
The blood of Jesus is the only exit sign, only doorway out. Yet when covered by the blood, the Assyrian armies will tell you that you are not covered and you should fear them, because they are greater and their pull on your life is stronger. The familiarity and sway and pull of the old haunts us when we do not know the truth.
Can anyone tell you your name is not your name? What if they tell you for 4 hours a day that it is not your name? What if they say it everyday for weeks and months and years? How do you know it’s your name? Who told you it was/is your name? I mean could they not be mistaken? I mean the birth certificate could be a hoax, right?
We’re talking about warfare here. Does this not sound like a tactic of warfare? The enemy will lead a person into believing lies. The enemy is a liar and the truth is not in him.
So you are covered by the blood of the Lamb? How do you know, who told you that? What is that based on? Truth, trust, godly fear, faith, hope and love are the basis of our walk with God. What is the basis of our war with evil? Lies and more lies.
The enemy has lied to us even about our circumstances, really. He’s exalted situations and led us to believe they are so big that even God could not get through for us. That is a lie. We’ve got to let God in, go open the door. Trust Him at His word and believe in it, enough to live it.
These parents were tired, were moved by situational evidences, which are based on lies and not truths. They gave up, they let the enemy have their kids because of believing lies.
Rise up parents. Your kids are children of the KING. They are destined for greatness in God’s kingdom. Do not allow the enemy to have your seed. They belong to God!
As soon as anyone gets saved the destiny of God is upon their whole family. God has set us up as a messenger, an ambassador, into that family for salvation. If you know the Lord, your family, your kids are destined to also know the Lord. It does not matter what it looks like, that is merely the lie portrayed in vision form.
Make believe vision is the picture goal you are in a store shopping for. Which do you choose for your family? Life or death, blessing or cursing? I did not say, which do you wish for and hope will happen? I said which do you choose? Which picture will you purchase? Ok the one that is called “Life” has a higher price, then you may need to go spend some time and make some sacrifices to “purchase” it. Jesus did, with His blood. It was important enough to spend life on and go get it. Are your kids important enough?
Then put that picture on your spiritual wall and tell every principality and power that this IS the picture of your family. Oh, they don’t look like this, but this is how they will look! This IS how they are destined to look. Agree with God’s word about your family and don’t let it go, no matter what seems to smoke screen itself into your view. Clear the smoke away from the picture and believe God!
Then if something happens to say otherwise, go back to God’s word and get into agreement further and do not let go of the specified promise, such as “Acts 16:31 …me and my whole house will be saved!” If an enemy comes to try to lie to you about that, or lie to your seed about that, lift your wings like a mother bird and make a loud peep, so he will flee and get away from where he does not belong. Get off of God’s and our territory!
That does not mean become contentious and controlling, It means PRAY - UNTIL - SOMETHING – DIFFERENT - HAPPENS. P.U.S.H. out the promises of God to fruition. Do not give up in the spirit until they are brought forth. That IS why you are here in the earth anyway, to be a prayer ambassador and to live as a godly example to all who need to become ambassadors to their own households.
When you pray, make sure you are praying God’s will, which can only be found inside of His word. Make sure what you are PUSH-ing for is truly based on His words.
To pray your own desires is not scriptural, unless your desires line up with God’s desires.
Here are a few key desires in the design of God for Life:
#1 To Love God with all the heart and soul and might
#2 Then to love people
#3 Then to desire, that all men would be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth.
# 4 to fulfill the Genesis mandate and the Great co-mission. [Be Fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, rule it and have dominion, Then also, Go into all the world preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, forgive, heal cleanse, set free, baptize in water and fill with the Holy Spirit.]
That’s enough to last a lifetime, forever, Amen.

Daily Repetitive Verses:

Isaiah 58:12 – in multiple translations….
The Amplified Bible
And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
The Holy Bible, New International Version®
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language
You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again.
The New King James Version
Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
GOD'S WORD
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the foundations of past generations. You will be called the Rebuilder of Broken Walls and the Restorer of Streets Where People Live.
New Life Bible
And your cities which were destroyed long ago will be built again. You will set up the stones of the bases of the old buildings. You will be called the one who builds again the broken walls, and who makes the streets on which people live like new.