Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 43-44
15 “I am the Lord, your Holy One,
Isaiah 43:15-18
The Creator of Israel, your King.”
16 Thus says the Lord,
Who makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,
17 Who brings forth the chariot and the horse,
The army and the mighty man
(They will lie down together and not rise again;
They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick):
18 “Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
The Spirit of the Lord says,
Resurrection — resurrected hearts, resurrected thoughts, resurrected dreams. I Am resurrecting dreams. I Am resurrecting life-giving audacious dreams, and I will breathe on them so they move from dream to real life, to reality. I Am resurrecting business dreams, church dreams, home dreams, school dreams and children dreams. I Am resurrecting dreams that were born before their time, and I Am bringing them back to life in the moment they were made to live, grow and be. I Am bringing dead dreams back to life, and I Am bringing them forward. I Am bringing them into their moment, because they are needed.
The world needs new models. The world needs new templates. The world needs a new way to see things, new ways to operate, build and behave.
19 “Behold, I will do something new,
Isaiah 43:19-21
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
20 “The beasts of the field will glorify Me,
The jackals and the ostriches,
Because I have given waters in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My chosen people.
21 “The people whom I formed for Myself
Will declare My praise.
The world needs a new approach to family life. I Am breathing on dreams for those who will build families and do family life from Kingdom — from a Kingdom perspective and with an ongoing Kingdom revelation of how to do family life. I Am doing the same for business. Businesses that failed, ones that never really got off the ground, I Am breathing fresh wind into their sails for such a time as this — for a time where win-win-win models are needed desperately, for a time where solutions are not one-sided, but serve all parties. I Am not interested in nameless faceless businesses. I Am building businesses and breathing on businesses for which relationships are central, core and the lifeblood.
I Am breathing resurrection life on dreams for a new way to be and to do church life. It is built on strong, very strong connections between hearts and hands. It is built from unity and fighting to retain strong unity. I Am raising up a new breed of churches who will do church life totally differently, who will flow with the Spirit and will grow and build organically, because they will be known by their love for one another. The peace that they carry and their love for one another — never a cross word about another on their lips — will draw hearts and families and seeking ones in to see and experience and be part of this beautiful thing they are building.
I Am raising up the arts. Art has been presumed dead for some time now, but I have been raising up true art and true artists for some time now. I will continue to do so. I will cause art to spring up in unexpected places and unexpected ways. Beauty is important to Me. True beauty is holy. True beauty has a reverence and purity to it. This is what I Am stirring in the hearts of artists. This is what I Am raising up from the very ground. Art will become very moving again. You won’t have to look at the old great art of the artists of the past to be touched by the beauty of Heaven and the divine in art any longer. You will be able to see it in your local coffee shop. You will see it in a nearby gallery. You may see it in your very own home. I Am causing beauty to rise up from the ground, and I Am causing it to rise up in the hearts of many. I put art and beauty in the hearts of all. The form and shape of the mediums vary greatly, but I have have put art and beauty in the hearts of all.
I Am raising up schools to be pure and honest and true again. I Am raising up schools where children are the center, and education, morality and character are the focus. I Am raising up teachers whose moral code and spiritual backbone are very strong, whose eyes see and perceive the needs of the children and whose minds are sharp. I Am raising up lion-hearted teachers who will not stand for harm of any kind to approach the children in their care, on their watch. And they will teach the children and provoke the imaginations and the ingenuity of the children in a way that sets the stage for a new generation of inventors, mathematicians, artists, writers, poets, skilled builders, tradesmen and parents. Schools will be breeding grounds for healthy imagination and true academic exploration. It will be pure and solid and true.
44 “But now listen, O Jacob, My servant,
Isaiah 44:1-5
And Israel, whom I have chosen:
2 Thus says the Lord who made you
And formed you from the womb, who will help you,
‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant;
And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
3 ‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land
And streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring
And My blessing on your descendants;
4 And they will spring up among the grass
Like poplars by streams of water.’
5 “This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;
And that one will call on the name of Jacob;
And another will write on his hand, ‘Belonging to the Lord,’
And will name Israel’s name with honor.
Be willing to live differently. Be willing to walk the road I have put in front of you. Take hold of that resurrected dream. It has come into its time. The world needs you to live it, to do it, to build it, to be it now. It is in its time.
How to Respond
- Trust in the Lord and the words and promptings you get from Him. Ask Him to show you what He is stirring in your life and heart. Ask Him to show you what dreams of yours He is resurrecting and bringing into its time.
- Pray, Lord, help me to be in lock step with You. Help me to dream with You afresh and get a new vision for my purpose and the people with whom you mean for me to build. Give me the courage to grasp it and begin to build with You.
- Declare, the Lord is resurrecting many dead dreams and breathing new life on them. He is bringing them into their time.
- Decree, I will be one who builds with the Lord. I will be part of building something new that the world needs. We will see and be part of new models, new ways, new frameworks and new approaches to all sectors of life. The Lord is building with us, and we will succeed.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in 2022: Nothing Will Remain the Same
And in 2021: Reinventing Justice
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