Devotions
WE MUST COME INTO THE FLOW
“Strengthen the weak hands, make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are fearful-hearted, ‘Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you.’ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing …” (Isaiah 35:3-6)
When are you going to face your desert in your life? It will be when we, the fearful-hearted say, “I am strong!” It will be when we strengthen our feeble knees. Knees speak of blessing God, of serving God. Hand speaks of service.
We don’t serve because we are fearful in our hearts, and fear brings torment. Many Christians are tormented in their mind and it takes away from the ability to serve Him. It takes away the ability to adore Him and to break out. There is no other way for me to break out, unless I came into a place of adoration and servitude, and only as I come into the place of adoration and servitude will God break through as He declares “Then the eyes will be opened, the ears will be unstopped…”
When our eyes are not open that means we are asleep. Many of us are not aware of the things that happen because we can’t see, and are spiritually asleep. We do not see what happens because we are blind. It doesn’t matter how we try, we cannot see.
We have ears, but we cannot hear, and we don’t know the voice of the Lord. We think we know the voice of the Lord, but the voice of the Lord is not just what He says, it’s a sound. Some of you think you know the voice of the Lord, but all He speaks to you are carnal things. We don’t know the sound of the Mulberry trees. We don’t know the sound of revival or the sound of the Spirit or the sound of what God does in our lives. We hear Him through prophecy, through preaching, through all these kind of things, but we don’t really know the sound of His voice, and we become confused with many voices. When my ears are unstopped, it doesn’t matter what people will look like because there will be a sound, which I will know. It doesn’t matter in what culture or in what environment or if I am in danger or in safety; if I am in poverty or in prosperity because there shall be a sound that I shall hear, and my ears will be unstopped.
He says, “Your tongue shall not speak, but sing.” (verse 6) You know why? Remember what David said as Michal came and humiliated him? He said, “Therefore I make music.” What happens when we make music? What is the difference between singing and speaking? When we sing, we have to come into a flow because we have to keep the tune. When you speak, it is an entirely different level. When we sing, we have to reach deep within us to come into the flow. We cannot sing separately from the note. We have to flow in tune with the note. It doesn’t matter if I know the notes or not, there is a flow in singing. And that is what the Lord says, “I’m going to give a flow with the tune of the Spirit.” A singer or musician has an ear to hear that tone. In The Church, we are speakers, but we don’t know that sound of the music of the Lord. When we come together to be a symphony of prayer or worship, we end sounding like individual instruments. We never reach the harmony of the symphony because we are not loosened to flow with the flow of God’s Spirit in our lives.
