When ‘The Spirit Is Poured Upon Us From On High... The Wilderness Becomes A Fruitful Field.’

Isaiah 32:1-20
‘Abandoned... deserted... a wasteland...’(14). Can such a desperate situation be turned around? Yes! When ‘the Spirit is poured upon us from on high... the wilderness becomes a fruitful field’(15). We must not lose heart. We must keep on calling upon the Lord. We must believe that God is able to turn things around. When the situation seems hopeless, we must put our trust in ‘the God of hope’. We must pray that God will send His blessing: ‘May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope’(Romans 15:13). ‘Restore, O Lord, the honour of Your Name! In works of sovereign power, come, shake the earth again... Restore, O Lord, in all the earth Your fame, and in our time revive the Church that bears Your Name’(Mission Praise, 579).

Isaiah 33:1-24
‘O Lord...Be our strength every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble’(2). We are not to pray to the Lord only ‘in the time of trouble’. We are to pray to Him ‘every morning’. We are not to keep God at a distance, calling on Him only when things are going badly. When we keep God at a distance, our life tells its own sad story - ‘O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear - all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer’. When we draw near to God, He draws near to us, and everything becomes very different - ‘What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!’(James 4:8; Mission Praise, 746). Let God’s ‘love’ come to you ‘new every morning’- ‘fresh as the morning , as sure as the sunrise’(Lamentations 3:22-23).
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