Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Isaiah chapters 42-44.  The imagery early in this passage includes the Lord clearing a way through a rough, dry landscape for weary travelers to pass through.  It is reminiscent of the time they spent in the wilderness where the Lord not only lead and provided for the Israelites, but He also shaped and formed and taught them to be a nation following the dictates of His heart.  On Sunday I prayed for a woman at church and while I prayed for her I saw this same imagery in a vision.  Naturally, at the time I thought it was for her personally, but now I realize that it was a corporate vision--God is clearing out our paths and leading us into our "Promised Lands", so to speak.  But to truly understand the word for today, you have to read those chapters together, then you will realize that this passage talks about a nation that has become "blind"...

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Jeremiah 28-29.  Both of those chapters have Jeremiah confronting the false prophetic voices of his day, the ones who were preaching "peace and prosperity" instead of facing the true moral decline of the leaders and people at that time--and who would not acknowledge the eminent danger of the approaching Babylonians as a result of their sins.  These were men who were not consulting the Lord in any way, shape, or form, but rather, tenaciously holding onto the status quo--because they were favored in this system; pure selfishness for their motives.  So they preached lies with all their might to persuade and deceive the people and tried to come against Jeremiah to silence him....to no avail.  Babylon came and the word of the Lord was fulfilled. You know, the challenging and oft interesting thing about being a prophetic voice of any era is the resistance that will sometimes rise up against the word ...