Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 64
Isaiah 65
“Day after day I have graciously outstretched my hands to a people who turned their backs to me, whose way of life is corrupt, who insist on going their own way. They are a people who continually insult me to my face. They openly and defiantly offer sacrifices to their gods in their sacred groves and burn incense on pagan altars. They sit inside tombs and spend the night in secret caves. They eat pork and their pots are polluted with the broth of unclean meat. They tell others, ‘Stay away! Don’t come near; I’m too holy for you to touch.’ These people are like a stench in my nostrils, a smoldering fire that doesn’t go out! Their verdict is determined before me, and I will not keep silent: ‘I will repay them for what they have done; I will pay them back for what their sins deserve, for both their sins and the sins of their fathers. Because they burned incense on the high places and blasphemed me on the hills, I will punish them severely, as their actions deserve,’ ” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 65:2-10 TPT
Here is what Yahweh says: “As new wine is found in the cluster, and someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ that’s what I will do for my servants’ sake. I will not destroy them all. I will raise up offspring from Jacob and from my chosen ones of Judah to possess my mountains, and my servants will settle there. For my people who seek me, I will make the Plain of Sharon a pasture for flocks in the east, and in the west, the Valley of Trouble will be a resting place for cattle, for my people who seek me and no other god.”
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Tough roles are coming. Hard assignments are coming. Hard work is coming. It’s to save a nation. It’s to restore a generation. Very heavy mantles are coming to enable work that would be impossible without My covering, My commissioning and My anointing.
Those who delight in doing what is right— you go out to meet them with kindness. They remember you and cherish your ways. You showed your anger when we sinned again and again, yet we can be saved. We have all become contaminated with sin, and you see our self-righteousness as nothing better than a menstrual rag. We are all like fallen leaves, and our sins sweep us away like the wind. No one calls on your name or presses in to lay hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our own sins.
Isaiah 64:5-7 TPT
Wickedness unimaginable is being brought to light. Pervasive and systematic, purposeful evil is being dredged up to the surface for all to see. The true horrors of what has been fueling this evil will be uncovered, and you will see the root of the mistress Babylon — that harlot — in open shame that horrifies nations. Greater repentance is required. Deeper repentance is required. Extreme humility is required to deal in this delicate place once the evils and great horrors that have fueled Babylon the Great have been uncovered. This is not surface level work. This is not administrative and bureaucratic work. This is deep spiritual work for which hearts of flesh are required to feel the magnitude of what has been uncovered, for which abject sorrow, mourning and repentance in deep desperation are required.
Yet still, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are like clay and you are our Potter. Each one of us is the creative, artistic work of your hands. Yahweh, don’t be angry with us! Don’t remember our sins again forever! Please look at us; we are your people.
Isaiah 64:8-9 TPT
The work of healing from this occultic evil is delicate, deep work that requires you to go extremely low. Face down on the ground is the way forward from this place. It will be a very heavy, very messy, shocking time, but your way forward is with your heart of flesh, with sorrow, with open hands and going as low as low can get. This is a time that calls for great reverence, great wisdom and no rash moves. Get extremely low before me, and I will show you the way forward.
How to Respond
- Pray, Holy Spirit I come humbly before You, and I repent and renounce the occultic works of evil in this nation that have harmed, maimed, abused and destroyed children. These evils have been committed by those in pursuit of power, fame and wealth. Lord, as horrible as it will be to see, I ask that You uncover it all, so we can rescue those in bondage, bind up the broken and properly repent for what has been happening on our watch and on our soil. Raise up the rescuers. Raise up the safe homes. Raise up every resource required to bring healing and justice. Help us to fully feel and repent for all of the evil that has been permitted to take place and the unimaginable harm done to Your little ones.
- Declare, greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world. Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. We are each made in the image of God, and He crafted each one of us with a purpose and a destiny. His plans for each one of us are for our good, to give us a future and a hope.
- Decree, I will not put my head in the sand. I will be one who confronts evil, who seeks the Lord for my part in this national exposure and restoration and who deeply and extremely humbly repents for allowing these abominable abuses to be committed in America.
- Pray, Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be your Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever amen.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: The Truth Will Bring the Turnaround
2022: The Lord Is the Ultimate and Supreme Stable Genius
2021: Live in Great Anticipation and Joy
