Prayer: Father, sin is a sickness of my nation. May I learn from Your Word and Your prophet what Your solution is to my proclivity to sin. Amen.
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Reading: Isaiah 1 key vs. 4-7 “Oy, a sinful nation, a people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons dealing corruptly! They have abandoned Adonai. They have despised Israel’s Holy One. They have turned backwards. Where will you be struck again, as you stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint. From the foot to the head there is no soundness. Wounds, bruises and raw sores: not pressed, nor bandaged, nor softened with oil. Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your fields, strangers devour it in your presence—a desolation, overthrown by strangers. So the Daughter of Zion is left as a sukkah in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Unless Adonai-Tzva’ot had left us a small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, we would have been as Gomorrah. Hear the word of Adonai, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the Torah of our God, you people of Gomorrah!” TLV
Attention: While we can make comparisons with the nation of Israel and America, we must understand that the nation of Israel’s relationship with Adonai was a lifestyle. Adonai was the Law and had given the Law to the nation through Moses. God was the government (law) and covenant relationship all wrapped in Him. There was no separation of government and faith. Adonai (God) was the Law and government and continued as such with the establishment of kings. The Law of God never ended and continued during the kings of Israel Yet, they left Him and pursued other gods from foreign lands. The sin of the nation in rebelling against God was leading them down the same path as Sodom and Gomorrah.
The similarities between America and the nation of Israel are vast. The common root is sin. Just as Israel had turned away from Adonai, so has America. America may have been founded on biblical principles. However, biblical principles are vastly different than having a covenant relationship with Adonai. We cannot survive with principles in our head and not in our heart. We cannot legislate morality to a people who do not know or embrace the God who gave us scripture and His Son.
America needs those who know Adonai, to be Adonai to them. God needs his followers to arise and testify of His power to heal, deliver, and save. He is the only One who can forgive sin. He is the only One who can deliver. He is the only One who can save us.
The problem we have is the same as Israel. We have forsaken Adonai. We must return to Adonai. We must acknowledge the Messiah, God’s solution for mankind.
Action: I choose to forsake sin and embrace the Messiah, God’s answer for all men.
Yield: I choose to yield to God’s solution for the world.
Engage: I choose to engage with the Holy Spirit in healing and transforming my heart.
Relationship: I choose to live in intimate relationship with Adonai.
Prayer: Father, my nation is sick with sin. I acknowledge Messiah as the solution to my sin, my healing, and the healing of America. May the healing of my nation begin with me. May I be as overt about Your message as the world is about their message. Amen.
Memory Verse: Isaiah 1:18-20 ““Come now, let us reason together,” says Adonai. “Though your sins be like scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they will become like wool. If you are willing and obey, you will eat the good of the land. But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword.” For the mouth of Adonai has spoken.” TLV
Music Video: Ken Medema—Come Let Us Reason https://youtu.be/-9tmsuzoWJg?si=lQq_MN3BLSuWWQKj
Remember: “Abide in Yeshua, today!”