LORD, ANSWER YOUR NAME - 1

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For WEDNESDAY, 15TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: GOD! ANSWER YOUR NAME – PART 1

MEMORIZE: “Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.” Psalm 132:8.

SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 51:9-10

“Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?”

EXPOSITION:

Awake, awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Isaiah 51:9. 

The arm of the Lord is Christ, or it is put for God himself, as Ps 44:23 reads Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. But in reality, He that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps Psalm 121:3,4. When we pray that he would awake, we mean that he would make it to appear that he watches over his people and is always awake to do them good. The arm of the Lord is said to awake when the power of God exerts itself with more than ordinary vigour on his people's behalf. When a hand or arm is benumbed we say, It is asleep; when it is stretched forth for action, It awakes. God needs not to be reminded nor excited by us, but he gives us leave thus to be humbly earnest with him for such appearances of his power as will be for his own praise. 

"Put on strength," that is, "put forth strength: appear in thy strength, as we appear in the clothes we put on," Isaiah 51:9.

“Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength! We will sing and praise Your power.” Ps 21:13. 

The church sees her case bad, her enemies many and mighty, her friends few and feeble; and therefore she depends purely upon the strength of God's arm for her relief. 

"Awake, as in the ancient days," that is, "do for us now as thou didst for our fathers formerly, repeat the wonders they told us of," 

“Gideon said to Him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” Judges 6:13. 

 

THE PLEAS TO ENFORCE THIS PRAYER. 

They plead examples, the experiences of their ancestors, and the great things God had done for them. "Let the arm of the Lord be made bare on our behalf; for it has done great things formerly in defence of the same cause, and we are sure it is neither shortened nor weakened. It did wonders against the Egyptians, who enslaved and oppressed God's son, his first-born; it cut Rahab to pieces with one direful plague after another, and wounded Pharaoh, the dragon, the Leviathan (as he is called, Psalm 74:13-14); it gave him his death's wound. It did wonders for Israel. It dried up the sea, even the waters of the great deep, as far as was requisite to open a way through the sea for the ransomed to pass over," 

 “Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?” Isaiah 51:10. God is never at a loss for a way to accomplish his purposes concerning his people, but will either find one or make one.

Past experiences are great supports to faith and hope, so they are good pleas in prayer. Thou hast; wilt thou not?

ACTION POINT: Make your heart desire known to God for divine intervention and believe Him for answer.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Samuel 1-3.

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