Devotion 767

"If You Will Not Believe, Surely You Shall Not Be Established."

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 7

Man can only come to God through faith. Without faith, God is unable to work with men. The unbeliever has cut himself off from God which is by his own doing. God doesn't cut anybody off. It's the unbeliever that has cut himself off  the source of life.

God gave the sign to the world; The sign of redemption.

Let's read:

Isaiah 7:1-2 "And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. [2] And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind."

No conversation is hidden from the Lord. Everything said on earth, is heard by the Lord. Even the deeper things in our thoughts, in our hearts, the hidden plans, are all revealed to the Creator.
The Lord revealed their counseling to Isaiah, His prophet.

We continue our reading:

Isaiah 7:3-4 "Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; [4] And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remailer"

Fear comes from believing the threats of the devil through men and women.
The opposite of fear is believing the word of God The opposite of the spirit of fear is the spirit of love, the spirit of power, and the spirit of a sound mind. This is the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit of God, is in the Word of God.

We continue our reading:

Isaiah 7:5-14 "Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, [6] Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: [7] Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. [8] For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. [9] And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. [10] Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, [11] Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. [12] But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. [13] And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? [14] Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."

This is the sign of God. This sign was given about 800 years before the sign became a reality. A virgin conceived and gave birth to Emmanuel, the blood of God becoming the new Adam. The second Adam, taking the place of the first Adam.

We conclude our reading:

Isaiah 7:15-25 "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. [16] For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. [17] The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. [18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. [19] And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. [20] In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. [21] And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; [22] And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. [23] And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. [24] With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. [25] And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle."

The counsel is revealed unto Isaiah by the Lord, and the solution is provided by the Lord. If an individual will walk with God in unity, in oneness, God will fight every battle, reveal every counsel of the enemy, and that believer will live in constant victory over every power, dominion, or principality.

Unite with God through the blood of the second Adam, believing and confessing Christ, the second Adam, as we've revealed Him from the first Adam. Nothing is hidden from God, in Christ!



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