WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.200 Hey, Taste and See Freedom, Hilary here. 2 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:18.440 Past the midnight hour this time, sorry so late, we lost our Wi-Fi and our internet and 3 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:29.680 so let me just jump right into our Day 4 praying for Jerusalem, for Israel, and for the Jews 4 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:34.160 in the and to the uttermost parts of the earth. 5 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:42.560 The Lord put Isaiah 43 even into a little bit of Isaiah 44 on my heart. 6 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:52.120 So I've got the Passion Translation of Isaiah here and let's walk through this and make 7 00:00:52.120 --> 00:01:02.020 it a prayer to hear the words that the Lord has spoken thousands of years ago, which we 8 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:07.640 can call upon today for today. 9 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:09.640 It's miraculous, isn't it? 10 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:11.740 It's miraculous. 11 00:01:11.740 --> 00:01:23.740 It's kind of like how Paul said, I know whom I have believed and I am fully persuaded that 12 00:01:23.740 --> 00:01:31.180 he is well able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. 13 00:01:31.180 --> 00:01:35.180 So we are in Isaiah 43. 14 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:43.420 Now this is what Yahweh says, listen, Jacob, listen to the one who created you. 15 00:01:43.420 --> 00:01:48.300 Israel, listen to the one who shaped you. 16 00:01:48.300 --> 00:01:50.140 Do not fear. 17 00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:56.260 So Jacob was created, Israel was formed. 18 00:01:56.260 --> 00:02:00.460 He was transformed into Israel. 19 00:02:00.460 --> 00:02:05.900 For I, your kinsman redeemer, will rescue you. 20 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:11.300 God considers himself a kinsman to Israel. 21 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:16.340 I have called you by name and you are mine. 22 00:02:16.340 --> 00:02:19.460 Indeed, he named him Israel. 23 00:02:19.460 --> 00:02:22.220 Indeed, he is his. 24 00:02:22.220 --> 00:02:28.140 And indeed, we shall see even Israel is in his name, right? 25 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:29.860 The God of Israel. 26 00:02:29.860 --> 00:02:36.360 When you pass through the deep stormy sea, you can count on me to be there with you. 27 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:41.200 When you pass through the raging rivers, you will not drown. 28 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:47.800 When you walk through the persecution like fiery flames, you will not be burned. 29 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:53.820 The flames will not harm you. 30 00:02:53.820 --> 00:02:55.820 So we will walk through things. 31 00:02:55.820 --> 00:02:57.940 We will undergo things. 32 00:02:57.940 --> 00:03:04.700 We will feel overwhelmed by things, but none of this will harm us. 33 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:10.720 Actually, these difficult things bring us through a process to know him. 34 00:03:10.720 --> 00:03:18.760 To know that when we place our faith in him, his redemption of us is far more powerful 35 00:03:18.760 --> 00:03:23.620 than the perception of the threat coming against us. 36 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:32.100 For I am your savior, Yahweh, your mighty God, the holy one of Israel. 37 00:03:32.100 --> 00:03:39.220 Israel is so precious to God that he put Israel in his name. 38 00:03:39.220 --> 00:03:45.660 I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 39 00:03:45.660 --> 00:03:49.300 I am the holy one of Israel. 40 00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:54.100 He has spoken this for thousands of years. 41 00:03:54.100 --> 00:04:00.260 He has never introduced himself to someone else as the God of Hillary, yet he is my God. 42 00:04:00.260 --> 00:04:01.260 Hallelujah. 43 00:04:01.260 --> 00:04:03.580 And I am his. 44 00:04:03.580 --> 00:04:11.980 But this is quite special, and it is definitely a relationship that we must honor, that we 45 00:04:11.980 --> 00:04:14.300 get to honor. 46 00:04:14.300 --> 00:04:15.420 Listen to this. 47 00:04:15.420 --> 00:04:17.019 I'm in verse three. 48 00:04:17.019 --> 00:04:28.060 I give Egypt as the price to set you free, Cush and Seba in exchange to bring you back. 49 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:35.100 Since you are cherished and precious in my eyes, and because I love you dearly and want 50 00:04:35.100 --> 00:04:44.260 to honor you, I willingly give up nations in exchange for you. 51 00:04:44.260 --> 00:04:53.180 I give a man to save your life. 52 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:55.460 I am with you now. 53 00:04:55.460 --> 00:04:58.700 I am even close to you. 54 00:04:58.700 --> 00:04:59.660 Never yield. 55 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.160 to fear. Don't fear. Don't fear because I love you. Don't fear because you're precious to me. 56 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:15.680 Don't fear because I desire to honor you. Don't fear because I redeem you. I will bring your 57 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:22.320 children from the east, from the west. I will gather them. I will say to the north, 58 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:30.320 hand them over and to the south, do not hold them back. Bring me my sons from far away. So he says 59 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:38.000 to Israel, I will gather your children. And then when he calls the men, when he says, 60 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:45.680 let my people go, he says, give me my sons back from far away. Give me my daughters 61 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:54.480 from the ends of the earth. Bring me everyone who is called by my name. The ones I created 62 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:04.720 to experience my glory. I myself formed them to be who they are. I made them for my glory. 63 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:15.120 Lead out those who have eyes but are blind. Bring those who have ears but are deaf. 64 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:23.920 Let all the nations gather together and the people assemble. For who has prophesied this? 65 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:30.960 Which of them has foretold that this is about to happen? Let them bring out their witnesses 66 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:38.640 and make their case. Let them take a stand and testify. For this is true. Yahweh says, 67 00:06:39.200 --> 00:06:47.360 you are my witnesses. You are my chosen servants. I chose you in order that you would know me 68 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:57.840 intimately, to believe me always and fully understand that I am the only God. There was 69 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:07.760 no God before me and there will be no God after me. Here Israel is witness to this. Israel carried 70 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:19.840 the word. Shema Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord is one. I, only I, am Yahweh and there is 71 00:07:19.840 --> 00:07:29.840 no savior God but me. I am the only one who revealed this to you. I saved you. I foretold 72 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:38.880 the future. I brought it to pass. It was not some foreign God who did this. What nation has this 73 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:48.880 as a legacy that they were brought forth as a miracle birth, foretold for years, well from the 74 00:07:48.880 --> 00:07:58.000 beginning essentially and then for years and then brought forth as a seed of Abraham. 75 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.640 The nation started this way and what was spoken over them. I'm the only one who revealed this to 76 00:08:06.640 --> 00:08:15.440 you. I saved you. I foretold the future. I brought it to pass. It was not some foreign God who did 77 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:26.960 this. You are my witnesses that I am God. You are my witnesses declares Yahweh. This is relationship 78 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:38.159 that goes back. How God, if God desires that even the wicked should turn from their ways and be 79 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:48.240 saved. How much does he desire that Jerusalem, that Judea, that Israel, that the Jews in the 80 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:58.640 innermost parts of the earth shall be saved. From the very beginning I am the only God. 81 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:06.400 No one can be snatched away from my hand when I choose to act. Who can reverse it? 82 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:15.920 I love when Jesus said that in John 10. My sheep know my voice. 83 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:30.400 My sheep know my voice and those the father has given me as a gift, none can take away from me. 84 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:40.080 None can be snatched out of my father's hand. This is so precious to him. This is what Yahweh, 85 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:48.080 your kinsman, redeemer, almighty God says this. The holy one of Israel, there it is in his name 86 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:59.840 again. Israel is in our heavenly father's name. Israel is important to our father, to our Lord. 87 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:10.720 The bright and morning star, the one that sits on the throne, for your good I will send 88 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:17.920 Babylonians, I will bring them as fugitives and turn the shouting of Chaldeans into mourning. 89 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:24.920 I am Yahweh, your Holy One and your King, the Creator of Israel. 90 00:10:24.920 --> 00:10:29.920 Yahweh is the only One who makes a way in the sea. 91 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:32.280 He made a way in the Red Sea. 92 00:10:32.280 --> 00:10:35.520 He made a way in the Jordan River. 93 00:10:35.520 --> 00:10:42.080 He made a way in the Sea of Galilee. 94 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:46.680 I am the One who makes a pathway in the mighty waters. 95 00:10:46.680 --> 00:10:53.540 Yahweh destroyed chariots and horses for all their mighty warriors. 96 00:10:53.540 --> 00:11:00.860 They fell, never to rise again, gone forever, snuffed out like a wick. 97 00:11:00.860 --> 00:11:04.980 This is what He says, stop dwelling on the past. 98 00:11:04.980 --> 00:11:08.280 Remember Egypt, that's the past. 99 00:11:08.280 --> 00:11:16.140 He brought them out of Egypt and set their minds, set them a vision of the promised land 100 00:11:16.140 --> 00:11:22.940 flowing with milk and honey, but they kept dwelling on the past. 101 00:11:22.940 --> 00:11:25.700 Don't even remember the former things. 102 00:11:25.700 --> 00:11:27.700 Don't reconnect. 103 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:29.900 Remember yourself to the former things. 104 00:11:29.900 --> 00:11:31.740 Bring me to your remembrance. 105 00:11:31.740 --> 00:11:38.100 Let me tell you about the land flowing with milk and honey, the promised land. 106 00:11:38.100 --> 00:11:45.180 I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. 107 00:11:45.180 --> 00:11:50.100 Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. 108 00:11:50.100 --> 00:11:51.660 Do you perceive it? 109 00:11:51.660 --> 00:11:58.100 I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert. 110 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:06.700 Wild beasts, jackals, and owls will glorify me for I supply streams of water in the desert 111 00:12:06.700 --> 00:12:14.420 and rivers in the wilderness to satisfy the thirst of my people, my chosen ones. 112 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:22.700 This is interesting because while I was praying, this is on the previous page, I stopped every 113 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:27.180 now and then just to pray, to listen to what He was saying. 114 00:12:27.180 --> 00:12:34.620 I heard the Lord say, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. 115 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:37.940 So I said, then what do I pray, Lord? 116 00:12:37.940 --> 00:12:41.260 And He said, pray for him to thirst. 117 00:12:41.260 --> 00:12:45.740 Pray for him to thirst for the living waters. 118 00:12:45.740 --> 00:12:55.060 So here we are, we're praying that the living waters come and overtake the land of Israel. 119 00:12:55.060 --> 00:13:02.580 Just wash the land, that the waters, the washing of God's word, the washing of the Holy Spirit, 120 00:13:02.580 --> 00:13:10.100 the washing of His love, that the waters would come, living waters, rivers of life 121 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:16.020 would come, and that the people would have a thirst for living waters. 122 00:13:16.020 --> 00:13:24.780 He said to pray that, so we can pray that, Lord, let them thirst for living waters. 123 00:13:24.780 --> 00:13:33.560 So that you, whom I have shaped and formed for myself, Israel is formed for himself, 124 00:13:33.560 --> 00:13:37.180 so that you will proclaim my praise. 125 00:13:37.180 --> 00:13:44.880 Yet you did not call out to me, O Jacob, so we can pray, Lord, let them call out to you. 126 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:47.420 Are you so weary of me, Israel? 127 00:13:47.420 --> 00:13:54.940 Have you not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices? 128 00:13:54.940 --> 00:14:01.500 I have not burdened you by requiring many grain offerings, or wearied you with demands 129 00:14:01.500 --> 00:14:02.500 of frankincense. 130 00:14:02.500 --> 00:14:06.620 So they knew how to sacrifice to other gods. 131 00:14:06.620 --> 00:14:09.780 They knew how to sacrifice for other things. 132 00:14:09.780 --> 00:14:13.100 They knew how to sacrifice for other nations. 133 00:14:13.100 --> 00:14:16.420 They knew how to bow before other leaders. 134 00:14:16.420 --> 00:14:25.500 Yet they did not know how to come, sacrifice from their heart, and bow before God, so that 135 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:32.580 they could express their need for Him, and He could love them. 136 00:14:32.580 --> 00:14:39.740 You did not buy me fragrant calamus reeds, or lavish me with the fat of your sacrifices. 137 00:14:39.740 --> 00:14:44.260 Instead you burdened me with your many sins. 138 00:14:44.260 --> 00:14:47.820 That's what you gave me, He says. 139 00:14:47.820 --> 00:14:49.620 You wearied me with your evil deeds. 140 00:14:49.620 --> 00:15:00.060 I, yes I, I am the one and the only who completely erases your sins, never to be seen. 141 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.680 seen again. In Amos 3.7, God says, 142 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:14.560 the Lord does nothing unless he first reveals his plans to his prophets. 143 00:15:14.560 --> 00:15:17.840 So he speaks all these things as he has spoken 144 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:22.400 everything so that he may do it. So that's what we do. He fills our mouth. 145 00:15:22.400 --> 00:15:26.800 We are praying his word. I will not remember 146 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:34.080 your sins again. Freely I do this because of who I am. 147 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:41.120 Help me remember the past. Let's debate. Bring me your version 148 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:45.280 to prove your innocence. Your earlier ancestors 149 00:15:45.280 --> 00:15:52.000 sinned and your spokesmen rebelled against me. So I brought disgrace 150 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.320 as the holy priests of the holy sanctuary. 151 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.360 Sorry, I brought disgrace on the holy priests. 152 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:05.440 His holy priests of the holy sanctuary. His holy sanctuary. And brought 153 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:09.680 destruction to Jacob. His Jacob. 154 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:17.760 And humiliation and scorn to Israel. His Israel. He suffered. 155 00:16:17.760 --> 00:16:26.480 He has suffered it all. Now listen to me, my servant Jacob. Israel, my chosen one. 156 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:34.000 I am Yahweh, your creator, who shaped you in my own womb. 157 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:38.240 Hear what I have to say to you. Do not fear. 158 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:43.120 I will help you. O Jacob, my servant, do not fear 159 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:50.160 my pleasing one. O Israel, I will pour refreshing water on the thirsty 160 00:16:50.160 --> 00:16:55.840 and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your children. 161 00:16:55.840 --> 00:17:00.480 My blessing upon your descendants. They will spring up like 162 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:05.440 grass blanketing a meadow. Like poplars growing 163 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:10.880 by gushing streams. He said, pray they thirst. 164 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:15.680 Pray they thirst. One will say, I belong to Yahweh. 165 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.599 Another will be called Jacob. Yet another will write on his hand, 166 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:27.119 property of Yahweh. Another will adopt the name of Israel. 167 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:32.160 Of course it goes on. But Father, we thank you so much. 168 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:37.200 We thank you for your love for this people that shows us your love for us. 169 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.760 Your love and your plan to bring forth a people that you spoke 170 00:17:41.760 --> 00:17:46.000 at the beginning. You spoke about this seed 171 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.360 and you brought forth this seed. You brought 172 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:55.680 forth through the word. You spoke to Abram the seed that was in him. The 173 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.520 nations that were in him and the nations that would be 174 00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:04.960 blessed by him. You spoke it and you spoke it and you spoke it for 175 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:10.800 years until indeed Isaac came forth. 176 00:18:10.800 --> 00:18:19.200 And Lord, you brought out of Isaac, Jacob. And you brought out of Jacob, Israel 177 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:26.080 and the tribes and the multitudes. And you brought out of the tribe of 178 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:32.800 Judah, out of many generations. You brought forth Jesus Christ the 179 00:18:32.800 --> 00:18:37.520 Messiah. Lord, we pray that you would bless 180 00:18:37.520 --> 00:18:43.040 Jerusalem with salvation. Bless Israel 181 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:51.520 with salvation. Bless the Jews throughout the earth with salvation. 182 00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:54.960 We pray that you give the people a thirst. 183 00:18:54.960 --> 00:19:02.160 We pray that the people of Jerusalem would thirst for your living waters. 184 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:11.200 Would hunger for your righteousness. Lord, satisfy your namesake. 185 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.840 You are the holy one of Israel. Satisfy your desire 186 00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:21.840 to be the kinsman redeemer of Israel and bring salvation. Bring peace to 187 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:26.160 Jerusalem. Bring salvation to the people. Bring a 188 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.400 thirst in them. Develop a thirst in them 189 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:34.800 to seek you, to seek your face, to cry out for you. 190 00:19:34.800 --> 00:19:38.800 We love you so much, Lord. We're so privileged to learn how to pray 191 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:43.360 for Israel, to learn how to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, 192 00:19:43.360 --> 00:19:47.520 to learn how to pray for the Jews throughout the earth, 193 00:19:47.520 --> 00:19:54.640 to pray for what we know pleases you 194 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:58.400 and to receive your blessing in the process. 195 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:01.840 We thank you, God. 196 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.800 We thank you for all the people, bless all the people coming together to fast and pray at this time. 197 00:20:06.800 --> 00:20:12.600 We so love you, Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen. Be blessed, y'all.