Thurs.’s Devo - Commanding God’s Promises

Read: Is. 45:11-48:11; Eph. 4:1-16; Ps. 68:19-35; Pr. 24:3-4 When I read today’s reading I was made aware of the many times God used the word “commanded” or “declared”. He tells us to ask of Him things concerning the future and his church. We are to command Him concerning His doings. In other words… we read the promises and command them to happen. God has promised to raise up the righteous and direct all his ways. When we don’t see this happening we can call God on it (not disrespectfully). We have a part in making God’s promises come to pass. We need to agree with heaven to bring those promises down. In Is. 46:10 and in Is. 48:3 it says that God declares the end from the beginning. God declares the way a person or happening will end at the moment of its conception. How the middle goes is up to our agreement. We can do life the hard way and enter a life of discipline and hard knocks or we can do it God’s way and the path will be made smooth. I’m not saying their won’t be trials because there will be, but we will see the big picture and never lose our joy, peace and hope. In Ephesians we read that when Jesus rose from the dead he was rising from the lower parts of Sheol where all the people went who died before He came. He preached freedom to them and those who believed rose with Him when He rose. When Jesus rose he appointed ambassadors to carry out His work on earth. He gave them the grace to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to edify the body of Christ. Lord, thank you for Your promises. Help us to command them by Your Spirit to bring heaven to earth.