No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper: evil tongues be judged and condemned.
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,”
says the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17
EXPOSITION:
Today’s topic is an excerpt from Isaiah 54:17 which fully reads: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.”
The pronouncement in this text is meant for you, yes you, who is reading this devotional and me too, as long as we know, and can sincerely say that we are servants of the LORD, His ambassadors on earth.
The word heritage in the text calls for attention. A heritage is a birthright; for example, God’s love and His promises as presented in the Bible are our heritage as His children and co-heirs with Jesus, His only begotten Son. To erase any doubt in you and me that we are children of God and co-heirs with Jesus, Paul attested to this in Romans 8:16&17: “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ…”
Beloved in the Lord, it is your birthright, it is my birthright to boldly declare at all times that any evil, diabolic weapon of the enemy designed and assigned against us shall fail in their mission. It is our birthright also to condemn evil tongue that speaks ills into our lives. The word of God says it thus in Isaiah 8:10 – “Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak the word it will not stand. For the LORD is with us.” Do you hear that? ‘THE LORD IS WITH US!’
Rhetorically, the question is asked in Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” To which we can answer that if God is for/with us, no human or nonhuman evil power can be against us, and no evil tongue can bring a charge against us because we are God’s elect (Romans 8:32).
I pray our faith in today’s topic and the power in the textual sources being cited here will work for us; by these declarations forces of evil are rendered senile and their weapons rendered impotent against us in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. God bless you. SHALOM. Pastor Jide Siwoku
Prayer Points:
1. O Lord, we thank You for Your guidance, strength and power to prevail against every power of darkness in Jesus’ name. (1 Samuel 2:9).
2. Father, we thank You for sending Your Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to redeem us from sin, and we have victory through him in Jesus’ name. (Romans 8:3).
3. O Lord, lay Your hands upon me, power of the Holy Spirit, fall on me,
empower me, with tongues and prophecy in Jesus’ name. (Acts 19:6).
4. I decree and declare, I pull down the stronghold of evil strangers in every area of my life and family, in Jesus’ name. (2 Corinthians 10:4).
5. O God of my righteousness and strength, to You men shall come, please let all those who are angry against me, and my family be ashamed in Jesus’ name. (Isaiah 47:24).
6. Our Great Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts is Your name. Please thoroughly plead our case against sickness, failure, stagnation, bareness, unbelief and give us rest in all realms in Jesus’ name. (Jeremiah 50:34).
7. O Lord, frustrate the devices of the crafty, over the lives of all our children. Please do not allow the hands of the evil one to carry out their plans against their future in Jesus’ name. (Job 5:12).
8. O Lord our God, release Your fire upon and consume them every conspiracy of the wicked banded together under an oath to stop the progress of our church and family, in Jesus’ name. (Acts 23:2-14).
9. Father, I receive the power and authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt me in the name of Jesus. (Luke 10:19).
10. O Lord, send Your axe of fire to the foundation of my life and destroy every giant attacking the success of my family in Jesus’ name.
11. O Lord, fight every Sanballat and Tobiah roaring against the progress and the expansion of CAC Nigeria and Overseas in Jesus’ name. (Nehemiah 4:17-20).
12. Our great and Almighty God, please build CAC SDCC withYour power, strength, stability, fresh fire, and Your presence in all of our gatherings in Jesus’ name. (Matthew 16:18).
13. Father, we thank You that You have delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the Kingdom of Your dear Son in Jesus’ name. (Colossians 1:13).
14. Father, we thank You that You have given us the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever we lose on earth will be loosed in Heaven in Jesus’ name. (Matthew 16:19).
15. O Lord, we thank You that we have risen and will shine, for our light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon us in Jesus’ name. (Isaiah 60:1).
