WORD TO PONDER:  BECAUSE YOU LAID DOWN ISAAC  12/05/06

When I gave you the promise of Issac, which would birth great joy and laughter in your life, you trusted Me for years.  Long you waited and held onto My promise, and when its fruition finally came into your hands, then you faced the seemingly bitter death of that promise.  Oh My valiant ones of great faith!!!  How mighty is the power of your yieldedness and testimony to the principalities and rulers of the air!  In spite of My Word and everything I said to confirm it... in spite of your long term passion and commitment over such, you yielded everything back to Me when I asked you to lay Issac on the alter of faith.  How great is the fall of these demonic rulers to have witnessed your testimony with their own eyes and ears!  Thank you for your sacrifices.  Thank you for your faith.  Thank you for laying down your own life to the death of the cross, because You loved Me even more than the promises I gave you.

Isaac is not lost dear ones.  I alone will pay for the sacrifice and release back to you the joy of your promise. Just as I said, you shall enjoy the privilege of the full fellowship and rewards of your promise.  For I, the LORD, love justice. I hate robbery and wrongdoing. I will faithfully reward My people for their suffering and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their progeny will be known and honored and the world will realize that they are a people whom I have blessed.

Gen 22:9-18 NKJV

Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac  his son and laid him on the altar , upon the wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" So he said, "Here I am." And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me." Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided." Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son —   blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

James 2:18-24 NKJV

But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe — and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?   Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac  his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

Rev 12:10-12 NKJV

Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death . Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!