WHEN THE ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD FREE

The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,ДЄccording to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,ДЇury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies ДЄnd His glory from the rising of the sun Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him ДЄnd His own righteousness, it sustained Him.ДЇor He put on righteousness as a breastplate, (God, would you raise us up to be both true man and intercessor?) Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased HimДЄnd wondered that there was no intercessor There's also a great promise in Isaiah 59:19 below). (Note: This is a frightful but great reminder that when you turn away from evil, and confess your sins, you should expect an attack. In transgressing and lying against the LORD,Д¬onceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.ДЄnd he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. We look for light, but there is darkness!ДЇor brightness, but we walk in blackness!ДЇor our transgressions are multiplied before You, Through confession and repentance, we have not only hope for our own lives but hope for a brilliantly bright future. I have no idea why this passage in Isaiah came to me again today, on Christmas Day, other than maybe the appropriate reminder it is to each of us that without the gift of Christ, none of us would even have an ounce of hope. I've seen it so powerfully at work in my own life but also in the lives of so many others.

WHEN THE ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD FREE

It restores us to a place of worship, experience, understanding, and softness of spirit in such a way that we're once again set free in liberty. Confession prompts the heart of God to take pity on His kids and puts into practice the power of the cross. The first is that it redeems us to our Father through the forgiveness of the Son. The beauty of true confession is that it always comes with two very distinct and supernatural works.

Redemption that so quickly soaks up, like a sponge, my deep regret and heart of error. It's like the light illuminates every ounce of my darkened heart to reveal the weighty redemption of Christ. Once I'm serious about confession, though, everything changes. Sometimes - thankfully not anytime recently - it's taken the Spirit of God to viciously remind me of how far I've fallen and just how desperate my condition really is. Those times when I don't really want to deal with my sin and issues. I wonder how often we try to fool God with a quality impersonation of true repentance. First off, there's a genuineness in their confession. The Confession given by the remnant of Israel here in Isaiah 59 is all too appropriate for each one of us, esp. When we've been hit by the floods of the enemy, there's something that will cause the Spirit of the Lord to come against those floods in swift defeat.

When the enemy comes in like a flood