Our God has prospered!

(Isaiah 54:17) “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.”

Do things formed against us prosper? What I mean is do we let certain habits slip? I know I am guilty as charged, but is that enough to rob me of my faith in Christ? No never, by God’s grace! Wherever our minds look to take us we must always remember to focus on the Lord Jesus Christ and His victory. He has conquered, He bled, died and it was Him who rose from the dead. The last of the enemies He destroyed was death. He had complete victory, from beginning to end and it is already finished. Mission accomplished! This is hard for us to process as we still breathe and live in the natural realm. We have yet to open our eyes on the other side of the veil. Nevertheless the “book of life” has already been penned and all whom will make it to heaven in God’s reckoning are there already. What a mind blowing thought! This is a help, it should encourage us to shake the dust from our knees if need be and to understand this, that our God and Father is in perfect control and we have proof; Jesus has risen from the dead! Just as He rose from the dead, so too will all who have His Spirit also be resurrected to eternal life.

Some history…   

“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.”

- Isa_54:17

This day is notable in English history for two great deliverances wrought by God for us. On this day the plot of the Papists to destroy our Houses of Parliament was discovered, 1605.

“While for our princes they prepare

In caverns deep a burning snare,

He shot from heaven a piercing ray,

And the dark treachery brought to day.”

And secondly-to-day is the anniversary of the landing of King William III, at Torbay, by which the hope of Popish ascendancy was quashed, and religious liberty was secured, 1688.

This day ought to be celebrated, not by the saturnalia of striplings, but by the songs of saints. Our Puritan forefathers most devoutly made it a special time of thanksgiving. There is extant a record of the annual sermons preached by Matthew Henry on this day. Our Protestant feeling, and our love of liberty, should make us regard its anniversary with holy gratitude. Let our hearts and lips exclaim, “We have heard with our ears, and our fathers have told us the wondrous things which thou didst in their day, and in the old time before them.” Thou hast made this nation the home of the gospel; and when the foe has risen against her, thou hast shielded her. Help us to offer repeated songs for repeated deliverances. Grant us more and more a hatred of Antichrist, and hasten on the day of her entire extinction. Till then and ever, we believe the promise, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” Should it not be laid upon the heart of every lover of the gospel of Jesus on this day to plead for the overturning of false doctrines and the extension of divine truth? Would it not be well to search our own hearts, and turn out any of the Popish lumber of self-righteousness which may lie concealed therein? (C.H.Spurgeon)

Help us focus on our great God and King Father as He was the One that pleased you. Less of us and more of Him!

Signing off

Tyrone