Lord, Rise Up and Show Your Sovereignty
Greetings in the Lord~ Today in my prayer time, I received Psalm 83. That psalm is like so many others, in that, the psalmist is crying out to the Lord for protection from their enemies. However, this psalm is different in that it specifically talks about an evil alliance being made to come against God's people in a united front--a unanimous decision amongst the several different people groups / nations that poise themselves as enemies of God, to come against His people -- and Israel ultimately, to take their inheritance away from them and have it for themselves. Well, the rest of Psalm 83 is a petition to God to rise up as in the days of Sisera and Jabin, to scatter this evil alliance, to disgrace them in such a way that it ends up being a testimony to God's Sovereignty. As I prayed about who this psalm was referring to, I was reminded of a blog post I wrote back in May of 2014. It was regarding a profound vision and prophetic word I had in February, 2014 of Vla...