Prayer: Father, Your servant is listening. Teach me today. Amen.
Reading: Lamentations 2 key: vs. 13-14 “How can I admonish you? To what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, so that I might console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea! Who can heal you? Your prophets have seen for you false and worthless visions. They did not expose your iniquity, so as to restore your captivity. Rather, they have seen for you false and worthless oracles.”
Attention: If you are concerned for the moral decay of our nation like I am, it begins when our spiritual leadership is not representing God. When our spiritual leadership is not preaching, teaching, and prophesying what the Holy Spirit is showing them, then they are teaching “false and worthless’ visions, and “false and worthless” oracles.
What is an “oracle?” A true oracle of God (Adonai) is a representative mouthpiece through whom God (Adonai) speaks. The God prophets of past, spoke only what God told them. False prophets or false oracles, either spoke for the satan or they spoke from their own wisdom, but they did not represent God, when they spoke anything contrary to the word of God. The same is true today.
Just because a pastor, prophet, or priest has the title and position within an institutional church, ward, or temple, does not quality them as a mouthpiece of Adonai’s either in the Old Testament or today.
When God’s leaders fail to be His mouthpiece, then the moral depravity of a nation erodes to the unspeakable, which is “exposed” in the verses following 13-14, our focus today. Our nation is at that tipping point today because our spiritual leadership has our nation astray. These leaders are revealed by Paul as “Though they know God’s righteous decree—that those who practice such things deserve death—they not only do them but also approve of others who practice the same (Romans 1:32).”
Pray today for Adonai’s prophets, pastors, and oracles, who teach, preach, and prophesy for Adonai. May they have the courage to allow God to speak through them. May they be the conduit of the Ruach Adonai.
Action: I choose to pray for God’s spiritual leadership to arise and speak for Him.
Yield: I choose to submit to the authority of scripture and to the supremacy of God.
Engage: I choose to engage with the Holy Spirit in praying for the true oracles of God to arise.
Relationship: I choose to live in holy relationship with Adonai.
Prayer: Father, I ask that Your representatives and mouthpieces arise today in declaring Your message. I ask that You turn America around and toward You. Amen.
Memory Verse: 1 Peter 4:11 “Whoever speaks, let it be as one speaking the utterances of God. Whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies. So in all things may God be glorified through Messiah Yeshua—all glory and power to Him forever and ever! Amen.”
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Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”