In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength
(Isaiah 30:15)
Isaiah 30 is always a good place to come to when we are bothered perhaps by things within or the external circumstances of our life without. Quiet men and women of prayer are needed more than ever in this day. He is looking for those who quietly put their trust in Him, and walk by the Spirit.
When we can learn to sit in the fire of who we are and be still we will have accomplished much. To trust Him in that furnace shows Him great love. You are not perfected yet? Good, neither am I, let us trust Him together. Let us trust Him to do in us what we cannot do in ourselves. And let us trust the processes He uses to bring us there. He seems slow because He is thorough. He is ever perfecting us into the image of Christ. He knows what He is doing. He knows the Way to get us there. Just do the next thing He tells you to do. I will tell you no more. The safest place we can be are in His arms. There is no more capable place we can be than that. He knows the way we take. And when He has tried us we shall come forth as gold.
Are you anxious about the external things without? Do not seek the strength of Pharaoh or trust in the shadow of Egypt. The strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame and trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be your humiliation (Isaiah 30:3). God knows where His people are. What is He waiting for? He is waiting for you. Therefore the Lord will wait that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you... Blessed are those who wait for Him (Isaiah 30:18).
The world is what is. But Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in Him, for he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaf will be green. And will not be anxious in the year of drought Nor will cease from yielding fruit (Jeremiah 17:7-8).
Let us then be quiet and trustful. Prayer in the Spirit has the means of touching the ends of the earth and moving the heavenlies. Men will be Men. But the meek shall inherit the earth.
So let us pray.
(Isaiah 30:15)
Isaiah 30 is always a good place to come to when we are bothered perhaps by things within or the external circumstances of our life without. Quiet men and women of prayer are needed more than ever in this day. He is looking for those who quietly put their trust in Him, and walk by the Spirit.
When we can learn to sit in the fire of who we are and be still we will have accomplished much. To trust Him in that furnace shows Him great love. You are not perfected yet? Good, neither am I, let us trust Him together. Let us trust Him to do in us what we cannot do in ourselves. And let us trust the processes He uses to bring us there. He seems slow because He is thorough. He is ever perfecting us into the image of Christ. He knows what He is doing. He knows the Way to get us there. Just do the next thing He tells you to do. I will tell you no more. The safest place we can be are in His arms. There is no more capable place we can be than that. He knows the way we take. And when He has tried us we shall come forth as gold.
Are you anxious about the external things without? Do not seek the strength of Pharaoh or trust in the shadow of Egypt. The strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame and trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be your humiliation (Isaiah 30:3). God knows where His people are. What is He waiting for? He is waiting for you. Therefore the Lord will wait that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you... Blessed are those who wait for Him (Isaiah 30:18).
The world is what is. But Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in Him, for he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaf will be green. And will not be anxious in the year of drought Nor will cease from yielding fruit (Jeremiah 17:7-8).
Let us then be quiet and trustful. Prayer in the Spirit has the means of touching the ends of the earth and moving the heavenlies. Men will be Men. But the meek shall inherit the earth.
So let us pray.