Isaiah 33:10 KJV
Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
John Gill assigns this passage as at the end of the Tribulation and says, "...At the last extremity, when things are come to a crisis; his interest at the lowest, and the kingdom of antichrist at its highest pitch; the whore of Rome triumphing over the slain witnesses, and boasting she was a queen, and knew no sorrow: this will be God's fit time to exert himself, and get him honour and glory..."[1]
Though the primary application is for a time to come, yet this is a proper passage to claim in prayer.
When things in our lives have come to "the last extremity," when we think we are at the crisis; when we think all hope to be saved is gone; that is when we may claim a passage like this and pray,
Now, Lord, rise
Lord appear. Make Your presence known in the time when it seems You are the farthest away.
Now Lord, be exaltedDon't just show us You exist, make it know that You are higher, holier and loftier than anything this world can imagine.
Now Lord lift up YourselfLord, act. Not so much that we ask that You act on our behalf, but that You act to accomplish Your perfect will.
In order for me to pray this honestly, I have to come to the place where the thing that matters is that Christ is exalted and not that my plans be blessed. We have to come to the place where we see that the very best for us is that God's will be done and not what we believe to be God's will.
They are seldom the same thing. When we resign ourselves to the will of God we will find His will to be a delight to us.
Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
John Gill assigns this passage as at the end of the Tribulation and says, "...At the last extremity, when things are come to a crisis; his interest at the lowest, and the kingdom of antichrist at its highest pitch; the whore of Rome triumphing over the slain witnesses, and boasting she was a queen, and knew no sorrow: this will be God's fit time to exert himself, and get him honour and glory..."[1]
Though the primary application is for a time to come, yet this is a proper passage to claim in prayer.
When things in our lives have come to "the last extremity," when we think we are at the crisis; when we think all hope to be saved is gone; that is when we may claim a passage like this and pray,
Now, Lord, rise
Lord appear. Make Your presence known in the time when it seems You are the farthest away.
Now Lord, be exaltedDon't just show us You exist, make it know that You are higher, holier and loftier than anything this world can imagine.
Now Lord lift up YourselfLord, act. Not so much that we ask that You act on our behalf, but that You act to accomplish Your perfect will.
In order for me to pray this honestly, I have to come to the place where the thing that matters is that Christ is exalted and not that my plans be blessed. We have to come to the place where we see that the very best for us is that God's will be done and not what we believe to be God's will.
They are seldom the same thing. When we resign ourselves to the will of God we will find His will to be a delight to us.
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