Today’s Reading:
Proverbs 17
Isaiah 59
3 For your hands are defiled with blood
Isaiah 59:3-4
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly.
They trust in confusion and speak lies;
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
The Spirit of the Lord says,
My holy fire is burning. Today is the day of the roaring fire. Today is the day of eternal burning. Today is the day of wildfires spreading, truth wildfires spreading. Today is the day of the truth escaping and running uncontrolled like a wildfire. The tinderbox has been set alight, and it is off and burning. Truth they never wanted to get out is running amuck. Lies they meant to cover over situations like peanut butter will be found to have maggots in them. All of their rotten and infected moves will be seen. The death and decay that they carry with words of hate and lies of distaste will be spread by themselves and served for all to see. They spread it like thick covering peanut butter, but the maggots are visible. What has worked in the past is hatching too prematurely.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
Isaiah 59:5-8
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.
6 Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And an act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
8 They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
Whoever treads on them does not know peace.
Within the lies, the evidence of death and decay that they thought were well hidden are hatching very prematurely, almost as soon as they are spread for consumption. And the people will not accept it. The people will not accept it. The people will rise up and say, what is this revolting thing you are trying to serve us? Why are you trying to cover over your service with thick lies meant to be sweet but which are only filled with death and decay? No, the death and decay that you serve so readily, so easily to the people will swarm you, will turn on you, will hatch in your very hand as you extend it to serve others. The maggots of lies, death and decay that you are attempting to cover over, that you are attempting to hide as if covered or laying dormant in peanut butter spread on a slice of fresh bread will manifest, will emerge, will make themselves visible and known before it even leaves your hand.
18 According to their deeds, so He will repay,
Isaiah 59:18-19
Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies;
To the coastlands He will make recompense.
19 So they will fear the name of the Lord from the west
And His glory from the rising of the sun,
For He will come like a rushing stream
Which the wind of the Lord drives.
Listen up reckless politicians. Listen up ones bent on self-promotion, self-preservation and pride. Your service is rejected. What you are serving is disgusting in the sight of the people. It is finally visible to the people even though you have been serving it all along. Your service is rejected, and you will be left alone with this disgusting offering you called service. Your pride does not please me. Your pride has caused an acceleration in your exposure. It’s better for you to slink off into obscurity than to try to cling on to power. Mark My words — if you try to cling on to power, your fingers will slip, and you will fall.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord, expose the lies and bring truth to the surface for us to see. Help us to judge correctly, to be men and women of the Spirit, of discernment who judge the character and actions of our elected representatives and officials correctly. Help us to make wise choices and to send men and women of honor who fear You and truly desire to serve the people.
- Declare, the Lord is exposing the corrupt and deceitful deeds of politicians who claim to serve honorably but do not. The Lord will cause their efforts to fail and their service to be rejected.
- Decree, wicked, deceitful, prideful and unjust politicians will not be permitted to stay in office. The truth will emerge, and the people will reject their disgusting offering of service. The people will call upon trustworthy, humble ones who fear the Lord to serve in their place.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in 2022: The Best Is Yet To Come
And in 2021: God of the Impossible
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