You heard correctly. You heard what the Lord says, "It's coming to pass."
In Isaiah 46, the Lord was basically saying, you got to check My credentials. You have to really check the fact sheet on Me. It's important that we need to know. He's like, "Who do you think I am? I'm no one to compare to. You can't compare Me to anyone."
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
What the Lord was saying is that the things that He speaks, they shall stand. He said, it's coming to pass.
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
It's important for us to know who God is, to remember who the Lord is. This portion of Isaiah 46 is really about the Lord talking about the people who began to go astray, they lost their perspective of God, and when they began to lost their perspective of God, they began to transgress. So the Lord's like, "Check my fact sheet. Remember who I am."
"There is no one like Me." There is no one you can compare God to. Because when you start to forget, and start placing your faith in something else, someone else or other things, you have just begun to transgress.
Sometimes we can go through the process and we forget sometimes how invested God is. It's important to understand how invested God is in our life.
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
The commitment that God has towards you is lifelong. This portion of Scripture, He's bringing those in covenant to remembrance of Him again. Not only His commitment, but the soundness of the Word that He speaks. He doesn't give you a word without careful consideration of His ability to bring it to pass. It's also important to know, the kingdom timeframe does not work on the same timeframe as men or the world's timeframe. The kingdom timeframe is not limited by what's going on in the kingdom of men. The Lord uses all things for His glory. But the lesser cannot impact or influence the greater.
What a blessed time it is to be kingdom. And it is not for you being able to look around and limiting God by what you see, because what you see in the land doesn't limit God. For those of you who actually read your Word, who study your Word, what you'll find is the greatest moves of God happen in times like this. So what a great time it is to be kingdom. And the Lord is saying "Real quick, that is coming to pass."
I'm speaking to people who have a Word from God. I'm speaking to people who are in relationship with God, who are in covenanted, Kingdom people. If you've taken the time and spent the time and invested, made the sacrifices to seek and to hear from God, or if God is gracious and just spoke to you like, "Hey look this one I'll do for you." You heard from the Lord, the Lord spoke to you, this word is for you. Because the truth is, there are people who they don't invest no time, they don't seek the Lord, they haven't prioritize relationship. This is not about excluding anyone but there is a benefit to seeking God with all your heart, mind, and soul. He begins to speak to you from His good pleasure, out of that wealth, out of those treasures of heaven. He'll share those things. And this is not to strict or to limit, but there's such a benefit. Seeking the Lord is not really hard, because He hasn't made it hard. What it does is that the sacrifices it takes to seek the Lord is denying yourself, and to really go against your feelings, and to exalt the Word of God. Some people think that seeking the Lord is just a time investment but in the same token, they're seeking the Lord but they have tradition or religion backing their pursuit and then the things that God speaks to them, they don't highlight. You want an awesome word from God then you got to lift the awesome Word of God. You got to know that what He did for Abraham and Sarah, He will do for you. If you want to find God, you got to find Him in His word, because if not, you will be seeking and you can find him in anyone speaking all kind of fallacies and all kind of erroneous things that go against the heart of God. But you wanna see majesty, miracles then you got to get it in the Word and you got to know that about Him. Because the Lord hasn't made it difficult for you, but you got to come in spirit and in truth, not in feelings and emotions.
If you want to find God you got to find Him in spirit and truth and His Word is truth. And how do you find that accepted, through the blood of Jesus Christ. Once you believe in your heart that He died and rose again, and confessed Him, the Bible says for what the heart the man believes unto righteousness and the mouth is confessing unto salvation, so once you go through that process then you're born again. You got to believe Jesus' blood is sufficient for you. But people start to put a lot of additives and they wonder like why is my relationship with God not flourishing. You got additives in there that is steering you astray that are kind of affecting you so allow the Word of God to purify your disposition because He says, "Come unto me." So He's not hard to find but you got to go pass your emotions and how you feel. "I feel unworthy" go anyway because the blood of Jesus will give you access. Go beyond yourself, that's the kind of strength, the kind of faith that you need to go in and find the kind of salvation, love, intimacy because God will never have intimacy with you based upon lies. Because the Holy Spirit is a spirit of truth, so you got to come in truth and God's word is truth. "Okay Lord, I'm coming to you based upon what You said not based upon how I feel." It can be a challenge for some people because they don't feel like they're worthy to go in. Well, your worthiness never brought you to the table in the first place and your worthiness couldn't qualify you, it was the blood of Jesus. Jesus said, "I'm going to prepare a place for you. Which means when I speak sprinkle this blood, My blood is worthy, now you get to come through the doorway which is Jesus Christ.
If you don't have a personal word from God, the Lord says, "I know the thoughts I have for you." The key is to get the thoughts that God has. Because God knows the thoughts, don't mean you automatically know the thoughts. Don't you know how many people are walking around and don't know the good thoughts, the plans that God has for them? You got to get in there, "Lord I wanna know the good thoughts that You have in Your mind." Because the revealed thoughts from God is a revealed purpose, a revealed plan, that's why He don't share, you got to seek Him, it's not just automatic. He said, "I know." The question is: Do you? Will you?
A lot of what we do here is preparing people for the acceptance, when the Lord is making that great separation or when He says, either "Come in" or "Depart from Me because I never knew you." Sometimes a lot of the word that we release they have to do with intimacy, not just telling you to have a relationship, but the Lord releases word to bring you into it. So that what you're gonna find is not only will you be blessed in this life, but you will be accepted in the one to come because your title alone ain't gonna help you make the transition. There's gonna many people who say, "Lord did we not prophecy? Did we not do this? Did we not do that?" But the Lord is gonna say this, "But did I know you?" I put such an onus on knowing God because that is going to secure you. Some people run around looking for, "Lord I just wanna do this in Your name." Well, that's not as important as knowing Him. You want to be about your Father's business, that's great. But the first order of business has got to be relationship because Jesus went out as a Son beloved of the Father. His relationship before He started anything, "This is My beloved Son and who I am well pleased." And even before that when He was a kid, when He told Mary when He was about 12 years old, and He stayed behind, and they were like, "Where have you been? You caused us to worry." "Don't you know I got to be about My Father's business?" It's like but at one time yet you know the one thing that will never fail you is your relationship. You want to be known of God. You want to know God and be known of God. It's relationship, that trumps what you think you're gonna be doing for Him. That is the first high calling: Do I know Jesus and do He know me? What benefit would it be if we preached up a storm, saved many people alive, did all this thing, to come to the end and the Lord's like, "Yeah you did a fantastic job doing all that stuff but who are you? Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity." Relationship is the most important. It should be terrifying. A lot of people are not scared enough, because these things, they are not talked about like they should. If you never preach another word, if you never prophesied another again to nobody else, do you know Jesus? Because at the end of the day, where you spend eternity is more important than where you spend the temporary. It's not about works, it's about relationship. Relationship is the high priority of God. Jesus came to start a family: joint-heirs.
The quickest way to see God is through truth, His Word is true. And you got to go to the heart of God. If you want to get right to the heart of God and kind of jump that line, then you want to prioritize love.
Foolish empty pursuits, they fail you. It's an illusion, they will win in this lifetime but they will fail in the one to come. It's an illusion. Why will I settle for that when I can win in both. If I can be just as blessed in this lifetime as anybody else but still in the one to come, inherit eternal life, why will I settle that I may have things but things are nothing. Soon you will find just how empty things are if God is not at the center of your life . Houses are big but they are barren if the Holy Spirit is not indwelling them. That's why you see people who have things, they need either more things or they start getting drunk on power or they need drugs or they need to supplement, that barrenness they need to hide it. They want to tell you they are living their best life but why can't you be happy with one person, then why are you running to different people? Why? If you are happy where is the reflection of it? Why are you destroying yourself? The only thing that gives value to anything is whether or not you're in relationship with God, then it feels good to be blessed by your Father. A thing is just a thing and time will rest on that thing and expose that, it's just that. Like, I'm in when that car was brand new, five years later, you don't feel that same about it, but it's just a thing. Time will expose everything that you think you love or you think you need, and it won't stand up to the test of time or rest upon and then expose that it's inferior, that are beginning to rust, begin to fade away. Why you think homes need to constantly be remodeled? Some people are mad at God for a house. They turn their back on the Lord for a thing that perish, that's foolish. But by the Lord's grace He will supply all your needs including a place to dwell, He has no problem blessing you. Some people are mad at God over things that perish. Because the thing should not be more important than the Lord.
He's not hard to find. The Lord wants to be found of you more than you want to find Him. There's a deep desire of God to have what you want, but it's more than what you want. He's not hard to find. You couldn't even want to find God if He didn't give you that desire.
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