“But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.”
Sometimes in life we come to that place where we have prayed and prayed and wonder what is going on with God. Has He forgotten to hear us? Is He trying to not answer our prayer? Did we do something so terrible that God will not forgive us and will not answer us? Is God still God? Is the bible actually true? Should we stop praying and just assume that it’s the will of God? All kinds of questions bombard our minds during such times, but the truth is that God is still seated on the same throne and cannot forget us. His word cannot and will never change nor lie. The problem most times is to put this reality of His word into action, believe, and hold on to it. That is where most often we struggle. Haggai 2:23 says “On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts." We are chosen and God has made us like a signet ring to Himself; a reliable seal of validity; God validates His relationship with us with the ring.
Exodus 2:23-25 “Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.”
Pray that God will take notice of your suffering and deliver you. 2020 will be a years of deliverance, no more bondage, enough of enslavement, enough of no achievements, enough of suffering as if God is not God, as if Jesus did not die and resurrected to bring life in abundance. Declare that you must walk in total freedom that Jesus gave.
Luke 1:69-73 “He has raised up a horn[a] of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father Abraham.”
Isaiah 60: 17-19 “Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler. No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.”
Declare this word over your life as your life from this day forward into 2020. Violence will not be heard in your land.
2 Samuel 7:10 “And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning.”
Declare that oppression shall come to at end, no longer will wickedness find you.
Isaiah 54:14 “In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear, and removed from terror, for it will not come near you.”
Pray that the Lord establishes you in His righteousness far from oppression, fear and terrors of the enemy.
Isaiah 60:11 “Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.”
Declare that your gates will stand open and never be shot so the wealth of the nations will locate you.
Isaiah 62:4 “No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.”
You may have been called names that don’t align with the word of God, today declare this word over your life, every name/identity that is not of God be destroyed by His fire,
Zechariah 2:5 “For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.'"
Pray that the Lord will become a wall around you and the glory within.
Zechariah 9:8 “But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.”
Pray that the Lord Himself will camp around you and every thing that concerns you, so that your oppressors will never locate you in Jesus’ mighty name.
Isaiah 11:9 “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”
There is security in the mountain of the Lord. Pray that God will grant you grace to dwell at His mountain so that you are protected as you dwell there.
Psalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.”
Pray for the grace to walk with integrity so that when you ask He cannot withhold any good thing from you.
Isaiah 51:11 “So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with unending joy. Joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.”
Declare that your life will be filled with singing and unending joy and gladness. No more sorrow.
Ennette Heaggans