God, your words are beautiful.

The burden of your heart that weighs heavy for the injustice, the oppressed, the fallen, the broken…

Sometimes I wonder if we truly grasp the magnificence that God is. I know how tired we are, and how exhausted. Yet God reminded me today, during this very much needed prayer time, that He heals, revives, and restores.

In response, I will not sit quiet and wallow in my own self pity.

“Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself?” Isaiah 58:5

No, God challenges us to seek after His own heart…

“Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6

I was listening to None Like Jesus today, by Hillsong, and these words seemed to be speaking out to me for their similarity to the words in Isaiah 58 (the chapter I was reading):

“When you call, I won’t refuse.

Each new day again I’ll choose…”

It seems like a wonderful thing, to have God call on us even though we are mere humans, fragile, unreliable, breakable…to do His will. Yet it’s a bit overwhelming, no?

But God again answers, reminding me,

“Here am I.”

Those words are simple yet also very powerful at the same time. They comfort me.

“Then, you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.” Isaiah 58:9

I hope you all are as encouraged and uplifted by God’s word and your prayer time today as I was.

–Charmaine