Gritty For Glory (A Heart of Mercy)
Summer Series 2022
As Jeremiah reminds us,
and because we know this wonderful truth, we celebrate grace and life.
"BEFORE I formed you within your mother's womb I KNEW you; and BEFORE you breathed your first breath out of the womb I SANCTIFIED you, and I ORDAINED, yes, APPOINTED you to be one of My messenger to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)
Glory be, we can also say this...
"Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book [they] all were written, the [days] fashioned for me, when at the time there were none of [them]..," (Psalm 139)
A divinely delivered, divinely decreed, divinely directed, divinely defined and divinely defended calling… all the right ingredients needed for enduring the highs and hardships of the mission, ministry and message of the sent servant of God.
Jesus is said, "He has hidden Me and made Me a polished shaft, an arrow, in His quiver He has hidden Me. And what an image that we see in this, that the Lord shaped Him.
Now, He's going to tell us in chapter 50 how He (that is, the Father) shaped Him, from day to day. He's gonna open that to us in Isaiah 50:4 Look in 50:4, "The Lord has given Me (this is Jesus, prophetically speaking) the tongue of the learned. So, the tongue of learned is saying that God gave Him this tongue. Meaning, He shaped His tongue. The Scriptures refer to our tongues like a bow. And we're either using our tongues to shoot lies are we shooting truth. So, the tongue of the learned. Then He says, "For what reason or Why did He do this?" That I should know HOW to speak a word in season to him who is weary. Notice, not just WHAT to say BUT HOW to say it. Now, that's extremel |
