the FireCarrier

By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God. I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?” My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭42‬:‭8‬-‭11‬ ‭NET‬‬ Look around you. I will show you what you need to see and where you need to be going. Walk in trust. Leave fear and anxiety behind. They are tools of the enemy. Listen for me throughout your day. Know I am with you.

Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed. ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Stop rushing through your day and find your time with me. Sit still and empty yourself of those bothers, Come deeper with me. Find yourself filled with me.

After King Hezekiah’s officials delivered the king’s message to Isaiah, the prophet replied, “Say to your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech against me from the Assyrian king’s messengers. Listen! I myself will move against him, and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’ ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭37‬:‭5‬-‭7‬ ‭NLT It is time for you to turn another page. Leave behind your past failure and move forward. Find yourself in me. It is there you can grow. I see within you what I have planted. My seed of life is present and growing.

One day as Jesus was teaching the people and preaching the Good News in the Temple, the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders came up to him. They demanded, “By what authority are you doing all these things? Who gave you the right?” “Let me ask you a question first,” he replied. “Did John’s authority to baptize come from heaven, or was it merely human?” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭20‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Like points of light, I have placed you in the world where you may walk. You reflect my presence. Show my way. Grow secure in going where I guide you.

Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?” But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.” So John agreed to baptize him. After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭3‬:‭13‬-‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Listen for me and you will hear my voice. I will direct you throughout the walk in your life. Each time I will draw you closer to me. Do not be fearful, but learn to trust in me.

Then Moses called for Joshua, and as all Israel watched, he said to him, “Be strong and courageous! For you will lead these people into the land that the LORD swore to their ancestors he would give them. You are the one who will divide it among them as their grants of land. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you." ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭31‬:‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Look! I am placing a foundation stone in Jerusalem, a firm and tested stone. It is a precious cornerstone that is safe to build on. Whoever believes need never be shaken. I will test you with the measuring line of justice and the plumb line of righteousness. Since your refuge is made of lies, a hailstorm will knock it down. Since it is made of deception, a flood will sweep it away. ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭28‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Listen for me throughout your day. I am there. I am with you, protecting you in your walk. Do not become afraid, but walk in my light. I will show you the way you need go.

O God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer! From the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety, for you are my safe refuge, a fortress where my enemies cannot reach me. Let me live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings! Interlude” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭61‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Each day you've turned the page. It is empty and awaiting for what you would write in the lives of others. As you give to them you will grow in what I have for you. I can hear your prayers. Allow me to supply what you will need.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer. ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭6‬-‭9‬ ‭NET‬‬ Listen for me as I speak to you. I will give directions for your life. I will show you what I consider important. Listen as I speak. Do not ignore the simple things I will say. Follow me. I will provide all that you will need. Be believing in me.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. ‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Reach upward. Pull yourself into the light of my son. It is only there, in Him, you will find life. Release those fears and self-ambitions. Follow the way he shows you. Walk in his freedom .

Don't become lazy. Continue in the way I have for you. You can grow.

In that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭12‬:‭4‬-‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Are you where you think you should be? It's time to examine your thoughts and actions. Where am I within those things which you do? Don't be anxious. Reach out for my way to guide you.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭19‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious. In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth. ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭11‬:‭10‬-‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Days come and go unannounced. They do what they were created to do. What of you? Are you reflecting what was set before you? Does my glory reflect for the homeless and the needy? Slow your ways and seek me. Allow me to be your healer and champion.

Stop. It's time to wash away the dirt which covers and protects you. Don't hide. Come from behind the covering and sit with me.

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭9‬:‭9‬-‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Know the voices which speak to you. Does what they say align with my truth? Do not allow them to bring confusion, but walk in my truth with love. Do not be guided by fear. Show them my love.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Come further. Don't allow past roadblocks to become permanent barriers. I will be there to guide you. Now step forward and await me. Allow my peace to fill you. I am what you need. I am the way, peace and life. Now, reach out for me.

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.” ‭‭John‬ ‭9‬:‭1‬-‭7‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Read the signs. They will help guide you in the way you should go. My words are life. Learn them. Don't allow them to become darkened nor twisted. Follow me. Grow, becoming whom I see within you.

This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭2‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Listen for me. Walk where I will show to you. I will light the way for you to travel. Do not become impatient, but learn to share the love I share with you. Listen for my voi...

Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭51‬:‭9‬-‭14‬ ‭NIV Turn off those things which distract you from me. Leave them off and become renewed. Allow my Spirit to quiet you. I will supply the only power you require. Learn to sit with me. I will guide you where you need to be.