Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 45
3 “I will give you the treasures of darkness
Isaiah 45:3-8
And hidden wealth of secret places,
So that you may know that it is I,
The Lord, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.
4 “For the sake of Jacob My servant,
And Israel My chosen one,
I have also called you by your name;
I have given you a title of honor
Though you have not known Me.
5 “I am the Lord, and there is no other;
Besides Me there is no God.
I will gird you, though you have not known Me;
6 That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
That there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other,
7 The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.
8 “Drip down, O heavens, from above,
And let the clouds pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit,
And righteousness spring up with it.
I, the Lord, have created it.
The Spirit of the Lord says,
Treasures hidden in darkness are being revealed, treasures that have been hidden until this time for My purposes. The treasures are for My glory, to release My glory. These treasures I will use to release My glory in the Earth. My glory will come in like a thick perfume, like a fragrance that cannot be made by man’s hands. My glory is coming for a cleansing of hearts and as an invitation to walk with Me, to submit your life to Me, to choose repentance, humility, My grace and to choose partnership with Me. This is the release. My glory is being released as if from a costly perfume jar. Like a broken and spilled out perfume jar, there is no putting My glory back. It is being released in the Earth, and it is carrying the fragrance and the signature of Me.
22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
Isaiah 45:22-23
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 “I have sworn by Myself,
The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.
My glory, My Manifest Presence is being released in the Earth. For those the glory touches, for those who encounter it, it will seem like the world has slowed down. It will seem as if time is standing still. Time and events and happenings won’t matter in the glory. Worship, communion and soaking it in, experiencing and living and breathing in the glory will be all that matters. People will spend hours and hours in the glory and not realize the passage of time. I will do deep, deep believed to be impossible transformations in the glory.
24 “They will say of Me, ‘Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength.’
Isaiah 45:24-25
Men will come to Him,
And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.
25 “In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
Will be justified and will glory.”
My glory will not be confined or directed by man. My glory will go where it is welcome and where it is unexpected. It is coming to restore, to transform, to renew and to set many lives on brand new paths. It’s coming to turn families around. It’s coming to return hearts to flesh and to restore spiritual sight. It is coming for the indwelling of many. It is coming for cultural whiplash. Where the culture has been storming full-speed in the direction of gross immorality, perversion, confusion, hate, rancor and total loss of identity, My glory will cause a great whiplash. It will reign that in. It will stop that wrong-headed train of cultural decline and dysfunction, and it will transform many, many who were on that train, and even driving that train. The glory will cause cultural whiplash, will cause an abrupt and unexpected screeching halt. My glory will restore identity, original design and original intent. My glory will repair those hearts and minds and even bodies warped and twisted by the enemy’s sick and twisted work. Nothing is impossible for Me. Step into the glory.
How to Respond
- Live with a desire for the Lord’s Presence and for a greater awareness of His Presence.
- Pray, Holy Spirit come. Thank You that Your glory is hidden in treasures in darkness, and that You are releasing it into the Earth even now. Let me and my family, my community be ones who enter Your glory, whose lives are forever changed by an encounter with Your glory. Let it not be just a singular event. Let it be a place that we can return to Lord. Cause Your glory to linger, to hover and to remain available to us. We need so much change Lord. We need changed hearts, changed minds, changed understanding and repairs to our identity. Come with your great stopping and whiplash for the culture Lord. Bring us back to original design and original intent. I long to sit and dwell in Your Presence Lord. Don’t let your glory pass me by.
- Declare, the Lord is holy and worthy of praise. The manifest presence of the Lord, the glory is being released into the Earth even now. What has been stored up as a treasure in darkness, the Lord is releasing for encounter, for personal and corporate transformation, for renewed identity and with an invitation for hand-in-hand partnership with Him.
- Decree, I will see and experience the glory of the Lord. I and my household, my community, America and the nations will be transformed by a powerful, unparalleled encounter with the Lord in His glory.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day one year ago: Sing to Break the Darkness.
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