Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 49
Isaiah 54
But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me. Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.”
Isaiah 49:14-17 NASB1995
I heard the Spirit of the Living Loving God say,
Interest is compounding on the debt the enemy owes you. The delay is ultimately for his demise. The delay and disruption and outright theft, the desolation that the enemy has wrought is not for your long-term pain. It is to maximize your return. What a debt he owes. And the interest has been compounding all this time, all these years, all these months. Every delay, every dollar, every disruption is accounted for in My books. And he will pay. This is the time of the great distribution. I Am requiring he distributes, repays and adds interest to all that has been wrought, held back, stolen and destroyed. This is repayment time.
Trust Me for your full repayment. It will be overwhelming and overflowing. This is a stretch out your tent cords time. This is a strengthen your tent pegs time. Because even what the enemy is repaying, I will add to it. I will add to it in My great grace, in My abundant love. Your storehouses will overflow.
Lift up your eyes and look around; All of them gather together, they come to you. As I live,” declares the Lord, “You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride. For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away. The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, ‘The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.’ Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?’ ”
Isaiah 49:18-21 NASB1995
I will astonish you with My goodness. I will astonish you with My faithfulness. I will astonish you with repayment, delivery and abundance. Great is My faithfulness. I have allowed the enemy to play out his hand this far. I have allowed it to go much farther than you would have liked. I have allowed it to go so far, so his arrogance has overtaken him and he believes he is near to crushing your spirit. He believes he can separate your love from Me. But he has not. He has failed. And on top of his great failure will be heaped a vast, vast mountain of debt that he must repay.
“Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords And strengthen your pegs. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities. “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the Lord of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth. For the Lord has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” Says your God. “For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great compassion I will gather you.”
Isaiah 54:1-7 NASB1995
The enemy has not won. You have overcome, by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. You have overcome My dear one. The days of this testing and stripping away and refining in the wilderness have closed. It is now the time of the slingshot, because the enemy has pulled you back so far. Now I will not only ensure that he repays with maximum interest. Not only will I add to it, but I will launch you out from this place. Just as I launched Moses from the backside of the desert into the courts of Pharaoh, so will you go.
How to Respond
- Trust the Lord. Worship Him in great thanksgiving.
- Pray, Lord thank You that You are the God who sees. Thank You that You have seen and accounted for all the enemy has held back, stolen, disrupted and destroyed in my life. Thank You that You are using his arrogance for his demise and my great benefit. Thank You for the promise that he will repay with compounded interest, and that You in Your great faithfulness and love will even add to it. Help me to go forward in humility and bold confidence in the assignment You have prepared for me.
- Declare, great is thy faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I hath needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.
- Declare, what the enemy meant for evil, God has used for good.
- Decree, the days of testing and refining in the wilderness have come to a close. The enemy will release all that he has delayed, and he will repay with compounded interest all that he has stolen, disrupted and destroyed. The Lord will even add to that, and He will launch me into a new assignment that He has been preparing me for all this time.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: The Narrow Path Is the Glorious Place
2022: Freedom and Grace to Move Are Being Released
2021: Allow Yourself to Be Driven By the Winds of Change
