Isaiah 17 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read Isaiah 17.

Meditate on verses 10 and 11.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation

and have not remembered the rock of your refuge.

Therefore you plant delightful plants

and set them with vine slips of a strange god.

In that day that you plant it, you carefully fence it in,

and in the morning, you bring your seed to blossom;

but the harvest will be a heap

in a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

God told of the burden (oracle) He had for Damascus, Syria in Isaiah 17. He also reiterated a theme of Isaiah that idol worship is futile.

God will not put up with idols in your life. What are you planting in your life that is more important to you than your relationship with God? What are you carefully tending and caring for that is not pleasing to your LORD? Be honest with God. Listen to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to show you things in your life that are going to end up in a heap unless you uproot them now.

Pray Isaiah 17:7-8 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, let _________ and me have regard for You as our Maker.

May our eyes look to You, the Holy One of Israel.

May we stop having regard for the altars, the work of our hands.

Let us not look to that which our fingers have made.

May we only have eyes for You, LORD.

In Your name, Jesus~”