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Not all women are blessed with the ability to bear chidlren.Or are perhaps denied the prayer for a husband.
There is no need to extend the footprint of a home that has no children to fill it, no need to get the loft conversion or the rear extention. - To enalrge the pitch of your tent.
But even for you, says the Lord,
NIV“Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.
Some women are blessed with children and a good husband, but only to be widowed before the time seemed right or fair.But even for you, says the Lord,
NIV“Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
Others are not widowed, but are not treated well by sinful men, who are not prepared to lay down their lives for their wives as Christ did for his church.Dispised and rejected by men who worship themselves not their wives:
But even for you, says the Lord,
NIVThe Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit— a wife who married young, only to be rejected,” says your God. “For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer.
Of course these verses carry more meaning than for a barren woman, a widower, or an abandoned wife.They are a promise from God, to His Church!
And they carry more meaning than just holding out the hope of eternal Glory for individual distress and pain in this life.
As true and as reassuring as that has to be for those who suffer much in this life.
These verse from God to His church, to Israel to be precise, reidentify who we are, and where we find our joy, not just in the future glory, but now, right now today.
NIVno weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.
v17 is an extraordinary verse really,
But, this passage is not just of the future gloryThis is our heritage - this is real for us now!
Much like your grandmother’s precious ring while she lived is your heritage - you may not own it now, but you can see it being cared for and prepared for you.
No weapon will overcome, No carehome will drain it’s value,No tax man will divide it up into portions,
It’s the one precious jewel that Grandma has made every arrangement for it to be passed on to you and every generation after you.
You can look back over previous generations and see how it has been carefully protected at all cost.
It is your heritage, and it means everything to you.
It is, the Lord Jesus himself and his Gospel.
The salvaing work of God for his people,demonstrtaed over and oevr again throughout history, without fail,
Never will th truth of the gospel, the message of the church fail!a church may faulter and stumble - But The Church - will never loose it’s precious Gsoepl, it’s heritage?
And history confirms it...
NIV“To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
Perhaps Noah is too far removed for us to relate to.
In just this very week, in Englands own history, 4 hugely significant victories mark the heritage of God’s people.Victories of Christ, the continuance of God’s salavtion, His Gospel prebvailing at all costs.Demonstrating and the failed weapons of the enemy of Satan.
1 - Remember remember the 5th of Novemeber 1605 - was indeed a victory of God for his poeple.Guy Fawkes sought to end the Christian protastant rule in parliment by blowing it up.A popish catholic rebelion against the gospel.Yet his plot was foiled.
Of course it’s complicated,but in short - God worked through good and evil men and women to secure an eternal heritage of victories for his church. The gospel prevails!
2 - Also on the 5th Nov, but 80 years later in 1688, as King James 11, a Catholic, attempeted to reinstate popish alliegence within the national church,
But on that day, the future King, William 111 - landed at Torque. A protestant Christian Royal from the Netherlands, invited by godly, Gospel men, to overthrow King James 11. Which he achieved.
He would bring about a new era of religious freedom.And Of course it’s complicated,but in short - God worked through good and evil men and women to secure an eternal heritage of victories for his church. The gospel prevails!
3 - 11th Nov 1918 - WW1 ended.Of course it’s complicated,but in short - God worked through good and evil men and women to secure an eternal heritage of victories for his church. The gospel prevails!Freedon is maintained and the church continus to teach the gospel!
And as perhaps the darkest, most abadnoded, most barren times for the Gospel in England draws in around us the present generation,The 4th great remionder (for us atleast) that no weapon will prevail over the gospel.In this week in 2009, GCWP was planted to strengthen the presences of the gospel in WP!
Our identity is not in our children, or lack of,Our bereavenments, Our failuers, Our abandonments,Our disappointments,
Our identiy is in what is in our heritage.In the God of salavtion,who has demonstrtaed every single day throughout history,That no weapin will overcome his saving power.
Our heritage in Christ is secure.And we are literally living proof!
What praise, what glory, what honour belongs to our God.
Who takes a weak and broken people,And demonstrates ot the world, that we are His,and no weapon will prevail against us!
Pray