Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 26
A day is coming when this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “The city is a stronghold for us! The Lord’s salvation, like inner and outer walls, makes it secure. Open the gates and let a righteous, faith-filled people enter in. Perfect, absolute peace surrounds those whose imaginations are consumed with you; they confidently trust in you.
Isaiah 26:1-3 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Truth in chaos. Do you want to know how to identify truth in the midst of chaos? Step back. Look at the swirl. What is sitting solidly, squarely, undisturbed and unbothered in the midst of it all? That is your starting point for truth.
They squawk and scream, and it gets louder and messier. But if you turn the volume down. If you back away from it all and look at the scene, you will find My peace is there. You will find the truth sitting right there in the midst of it all. No explanation. No excuses, no interpretation. Just sitting there. Pick up on that thread. That’s the one to run with. It’s also a picture of how you are to live your life. Don’t participate in the screaming, the shouting, the attention seeking or the casting of blame. Live a quiet and peaceable life, and simply point out the truth. Make the point around which you orbit be the truth — not the narrative being dictated from those who have set themselves on high.
Yes, trust in the Lord Yahweh forever and ever! For Yah, the Lord God, is your Rock of Ages! He knocks down the high and mighty, and the lofty city he humbles and levels down to the dust, to be trampled down by the feet of the poor and exploited.”
Isaiah 26:4-6 TPT
Stay in peace. Stay in settled, unbroken, undisturbed connection to Me. You march to the beat of a different drummer. Your tune is one that should align with Me. Do you need to answer the questions being asked by those who have set themselves on high? No. They are fabricated. They are distractions. They are rabbit trails. Look to the rock from which you were hewn. Look to the One who gives you perfect peace. And take your marching orders and your discussion points from Me. They need neither dictate what you see nor what you say. Remain in Me, and the truth will always be near.
The path of the righteous is smooth and level; God, the Just One, you make a clear path for them. Yes, we will follow your ways, Lord Yahweh, and entwine our hearts with yours, for the fame of your name is all that we desire. At night I yearn for you with all my heart; in the morning my spirit reaches out to you. When you display your judgments on the earth, people learn the ways of righteousness.
Isaiah 26:7-9 TPT
What you are watching is chaos farming. They are sowing chaos with the express intent of reaping chaos. No peace can be found in it, because no peace was sown in their planting. Sow peace. Sow truth, and you will reap a beautiful reward that can feed many, that will feed many. I’m your North Star, your guide and the truth. Follow Me. Remain in Me. In Me, the truth is never far. It’s never out of reach.
How to Respond
- Ask the Lord to show you what in your life you are allowing in that is bringing or stirring chaos, unrest, anxiety or stress. Then ask Him how to best address each of those.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You for being the One who leads me into all truth. Thank You for Your eternal kingdom principle of sowing and reaping. Help me to be one who remains connected to You and who continually sows peace, love, kindness, joy and truth. I want nothing to do with those who stir up chaos, stress and strife. Thank You for making Your perfect peace available, and thank You that in You, the truth is always within reach.
- Declare, Lord Yahweh, you will establish peace and prosperity for us, for all we have accomplished is the result of what you work through us. Lord Yahweh, our God, other Lords have ruled over us, but we praise your name alone.
— Isaiah 26:12-13 TPT - Decree, The authority in my life is the Lord Jesus Christ. No man or woman comes before Him, and no man or woman will dictate my view of the world — how I see it, hear it or what I speak about it. I am hidden in Christ, and I will remain in Him. As I do, perfect peace is mine. As I do, the truth remains at hand. I am one who sows peace, love, kindness, patience, joy and truth. I will continue to sow these seeds of light, and I will continually reap a beautiful reward that can feed many.
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