Wed.’s Devo - Speaking God’s Word

Read: Is. 6:1-7:25; 2 Co. 11:16-33; Ps. 54; Pr. 23:19-21 Isaiah was a prophet to the kings. When Uzziah died, Isaiah was given a vision of heaven. In this vision, God cleansed Isaiah of his sins and purified his mouth. Then God sent him with a message for the people. He was to tell them that they were so far from Him that they couldn’t hear, see, or perceive God. Because of their hard hearts, God was going to send them out of the land, but a tenth would come back. Uzziahs son, Ahaz reigned and the king of Syria and Isarel came up against Judah. Isaiah was sent to Ahaz to tell him God was going to give him victory and he was to ask God for a sign. Ahaz told Isaiah he would never bother God by asking for a sign. This made God mad but he gave him a sign anyway. He told him that a virgin would have a child and his name would be Emanuel. I’m sure King Ahaz didn’t understand his sign and it didn’t come true for many hundreds of years but God wanted it spoken, then. Some times God gives us a promise that we will never see in our lifetime. He does that so that we will speak them out in the atmosphere and pray them in. If we do that, then when we die we get to become part of the crowd of witnesses in Hebrews 12 watching and waiting to see our promise come true. If we ever get tempted to feel sorry for ourselves we can read today’s reading in 2 Corinthians. Lord, thank you for sending our Emanuel to Mary. Thank you for prophets.