Hey, Taste and See Freedom, Hilary here.
Past the midnight hour this time, sorry so late, we lost our Wi-Fi and our internet and
so let me just jump right into our Day 4 praying for Jerusalem, for Israel, and for the Jews
in the and to the uttermost parts of the earth.
The Lord put Isaiah 43 even into a little bit of Isaiah 44 on my heart.
So I've got the Passion Translation of Isaiah here and let's walk through this and make
it a prayer to hear the words that the Lord has spoken thousands of years ago, which we
can call upon today for today.
It's miraculous, isn't it?
It's miraculous.
It's kind of like how Paul said, I know whom I have believed and I am fully persuaded that
he is well able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
So we are in Isaiah 43.
Now this is what Yahweh says, listen, Jacob, listen to the one who created you.
Israel, listen to the one who shaped you.
Do not fear.
So Jacob was created, Israel was formed.
He was transformed into Israel.
For I, your kinsman redeemer, will rescue you.
God considers himself a kinsman to Israel.
I have called you by name and you are mine.
Indeed, he named him Israel.
Indeed, he is his.
And indeed, we shall see even Israel is in his name, right?
The God of Israel.
When you pass through the deep stormy sea, you can count on me to be there with you.
When you pass through the raging rivers, you will not drown.
When you walk through the persecution like fiery flames, you will not be burned.
The flames will not harm you.
So we will walk through things.
We will undergo things.
We will feel overwhelmed by things, but none of this will harm us.
Actually, these difficult things bring us through a process to know him.
To know that when we place our faith in him, his redemption of us is far more powerful
than the perception of the threat coming against us.
For I am your savior, Yahweh, your mighty God, the holy one of Israel.
Israel is so precious to God that he put Israel in his name.
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
I am the holy one of Israel.
He has spoken this for thousands of years.
He has never introduced himself to someone else as the God of Hillary, yet he is my God.
Hallelujah.
And I am his.
But this is quite special, and it is definitely a relationship that we must honor, that we
get to honor.
Listen to this.
I'm in verse three.
I give Egypt as the price to set you free, Cush and Seba in exchange to bring you back.
Since you are cherished and precious in my eyes, and because I love you dearly and want
to honor you, I willingly give up nations in exchange for you.
I give a man to save your life.
I am with you now.
I am even close to you.
Never yield.
to fear. Don't fear. Don't fear because I love you. Don't fear because you're precious to me.
Don't fear because I desire to honor you. Don't fear because I redeem you. I will bring your
children from the east, from the west. I will gather them. I will say to the north,
hand them over and to the south, do not hold them back. Bring me my sons from far away. So he says
to Israel, I will gather your children. And then when he calls the men, when he says,
let my people go, he says, give me my sons back from far away. Give me my daughters
from the ends of the earth. Bring me everyone who is called by my name. The ones I created
to experience my glory. I myself formed them to be who they are. I made them for my glory.
Lead out those who have eyes but are blind. Bring those who have ears but are deaf.
Let all the nations gather together and the people assemble. For who has prophesied this?
Which of them has foretold that this is about to happen? Let them bring out their witnesses
and make their case. Let them take a stand and testify. For this is true. Yahweh says,
you are my witnesses. You are my chosen servants. I chose you in order that you would know me
intimately, to believe me always and fully understand that I am the only God. There was
no God before me and there will be no God after me. Here Israel is witness to this. Israel carried
the word. Shema Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord is one. I, only I, am Yahweh and there is
no savior God but me. I am the only one who revealed this to you. I saved you. I foretold
the future. I brought it to pass. It was not some foreign God who did this. What nation has this
as a legacy that they were brought forth as a miracle birth, foretold for years, well from the
beginning essentially and then for years and then brought forth as a seed of Abraham.
The nation started this way and what was spoken over them. I'm the only one who revealed this to
you. I saved you. I foretold the future. I brought it to pass. It was not some foreign God who did
this. You are my witnesses that I am God. You are my witnesses declares Yahweh. This is relationship
that goes back. How God, if God desires that even the wicked should turn from their ways and be
saved. How much does he desire that Jerusalem, that Judea, that Israel, that the Jews in the
innermost parts of the earth shall be saved. From the very beginning I am the only God.
No one can be snatched away from my hand when I choose to act. Who can reverse it?
I love when Jesus said that in John 10. My sheep know my voice.
My sheep know my voice and those the father has given me as a gift, none can take away from me.
None can be snatched out of my father's hand. This is so precious to him. This is what Yahweh,
your kinsman, redeemer, almighty God says this. The holy one of Israel, there it is in his name
again. Israel is in our heavenly father's name. Israel is important to our father, to our Lord.
The bright and morning star, the one that sits on the throne, for your good I will send
Babylonians, I will bring them as fugitives and turn the shouting of Chaldeans into mourning.
I am Yahweh, your Holy One and your King, the Creator of Israel.
Yahweh is the only One who makes a way in the sea.
He made a way in the Red Sea.
He made a way in the Jordan River.
He made a way in the Sea of Galilee.
I am the One who makes a pathway in the mighty waters.
Yahweh destroyed chariots and horses for all their mighty warriors.
They fell, never to rise again, gone forever, snuffed out like a wick.
This is what He says, stop dwelling on the past.
Remember Egypt, that's the past.
He brought them out of Egypt and set their minds, set them a vision of the promised land
flowing with milk and honey, but they kept dwelling on the past.
Don't even remember the former things.
Don't reconnect.
Remember yourself to the former things.
Bring me to your remembrance.
Let me tell you about the land flowing with milk and honey, the promised land.
I am doing something brand new, something unheard of.
Even now it sprouts and grows and matures.
Do you perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert.
Wild beasts, jackals, and owls will glorify me for I supply streams of water in the desert
and rivers in the wilderness to satisfy the thirst of my people, my chosen ones.
This is interesting because while I was praying, this is on the previous page, I stopped every
now and then just to pray, to listen to what He was saying.
I heard the Lord say, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
So I said, then what do I pray, Lord?
And He said, pray for him to thirst.
Pray for him to thirst for the living waters.
So here we are, we're praying that the living waters come and overtake the land of Israel.
Just wash the land, that the waters, the washing of God's word, the washing of the Holy Spirit,
the washing of His love, that the waters would come, living waters, rivers of life
would come, and that the people would have a thirst for living waters.
He said to pray that, so we can pray that, Lord, let them thirst for living waters.
So that you, whom I have shaped and formed for myself, Israel is formed for himself,
so that you will proclaim my praise.
Yet you did not call out to me, O Jacob, so we can pray, Lord, let them call out to you.
Are you so weary of me, Israel?
Have you not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices?
I have not burdened you by requiring many grain offerings, or wearied you with demands
of frankincense.
So they knew how to sacrifice to other gods.
They knew how to sacrifice for other things.
They knew how to sacrifice for other nations.
They knew how to bow before other leaders.
Yet they did not know how to come, sacrifice from their heart, and bow before God, so that
they could express their need for Him, and He could love them.
You did not buy me fragrant calamus reeds, or lavish me with the fat of your sacrifices.
Instead you burdened me with your many sins.
That's what you gave me, He says.
You wearied me with your evil deeds.
I, yes I, I am the one and the only who completely erases your sins, never to be seen.
seen again. In Amos 3.7, God says,
the Lord does nothing unless he first reveals his plans to his prophets.
So he speaks all these things as he has spoken
everything so that he may do it. So that's what we do. He fills our mouth.
We are praying his word. I will not remember
your sins again. Freely I do this because of who I am.
Help me remember the past. Let's debate. Bring me your version
to prove your innocence. Your earlier ancestors
sinned and your spokesmen rebelled against me. So I brought disgrace
as the holy priests of the holy sanctuary.
Sorry, I brought disgrace on the holy priests.
His holy priests of the holy sanctuary. His holy sanctuary. And brought
destruction to Jacob. His Jacob.
And humiliation and scorn to Israel. His Israel. He suffered.
He has suffered it all. Now listen to me, my servant Jacob. Israel, my chosen one.
I am Yahweh, your creator, who shaped you in my own womb.
Hear what I have to say to you. Do not fear.
I will help you. O Jacob, my servant, do not fear
my pleasing one. O Israel, I will pour refreshing water on the thirsty
and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your children.
My blessing upon your descendants. They will spring up like
grass blanketing a meadow. Like poplars growing
by gushing streams. He said, pray they thirst.
Pray they thirst. One will say, I belong to Yahweh.
Another will be called Jacob. Yet another will write on his hand,
property of Yahweh. Another will adopt the name of Israel.
Of course it goes on. But Father, we thank you so much.
We thank you for your love for this people that shows us your love for us.
Your love and your plan to bring forth a people that you spoke
at the beginning. You spoke about this seed
and you brought forth this seed. You brought
forth through the word. You spoke to Abram the seed that was in him. The
nations that were in him and the nations that would be
blessed by him. You spoke it and you spoke it and you spoke it for
years until indeed Isaac came forth.
And Lord, you brought out of Isaac, Jacob. And you brought out of Jacob, Israel
and the tribes and the multitudes. And you brought out of the tribe of
Judah, out of many generations. You brought forth Jesus Christ the
Messiah. Lord, we pray that you would bless
Jerusalem with salvation. Bless Israel
with salvation. Bless the Jews throughout the earth with salvation.
We pray that you give the people a thirst.
We pray that the people of Jerusalem would thirst for your living waters.
Would hunger for your righteousness. Lord, satisfy your namesake.
You are the holy one of Israel. Satisfy your desire
to be the kinsman redeemer of Israel and bring salvation. Bring peace to
Jerusalem. Bring salvation to the people. Bring a
thirst in them. Develop a thirst in them
to seek you, to seek your face, to cry out for you.
We love you so much, Lord. We're so privileged to learn how to pray
for Israel, to learn how to pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
to learn how to pray for the Jews throughout the earth,
to pray for what we know pleases you
and to receive your blessing in the process.
We thank you, God.
We thank you for all the people, bless all the people coming together to fast and pray at this time.
We so love you, Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen. Be blessed, y'all.