*Text: Isa. 54: 17*
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord” (NKJV)
Believers have inheritance in Christ and that is good news indeed. Beyond the joy of getting to spend eternity in heaven with God, one of the things we look forward to in heaven, is the possession of our inheritance that awaits us there and I pray for you that yours will not be given to someone else in Jesus name.
Talking about inheritance, our text today talks to us about some of the inheritance that God as provisioned for us as His children. This particular inheritance is part of God’s protection and preservation package for His children. The passage says that no weapon formed against us shall prosper, another word for “prosper” as it is used in this passage is “prevail”. So we can paraphrase that sentence this way, “no weapon formed against you shall prevail”. No weapon means no weapon, be it physical, or demonic. A weapon is an instrument of warfare and usually it can be very deadly, its purpose is to maim, to kill or to destroy. This world is a battle field and the devil tells us that our primary foe is the devil and so our primary battle is not against flesh and blood but against the devil and his demonic agents. And in that battle the devil makes use of various weapons against us to help him gain victory over us. Our text however assures us that no weapon used by devil or his agents – whether human or demonic will prevail over us. In other words, God has committed Himself to protecting His children against any weapon of wickedness that may rise up against them at any point in time.
Secondly the passage also talks about tongues rising up against us in judgement and assures that for us as God’s children, God will rise up against these tongues to condemn them. This includes those who may rise with the intention to slander us, to speak against us in the place of judgment or in the place where we are being considered for one favor or another, to oppose us openly by being a voice of dissent against whatever position we take on any issue. We are assured from God’s word that such people will fail in their mission because God will rise up to condemn them thereby making their words or comment against us to lack credibility.
The summary of what this text is saying is that as God’s children we are unstoppable and we are indestructible, that certainly is good news. Note that it is not our righteousness that qualifies us for all these but God’s righteousness. It is not our acts of righteousness that makes us children of God, the bible says that our righteousness amounts to nothing before God, in fact it says that our righteousness is detestable, it is like filthy rags before God (Isa. 64: 6). Rather, it is God’s righteousness attained by faith in Christ Jesus that makes us children of God. This righteousness is available to all who will surrender their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ and accept Him as their Lord and Savior.
Refuse therefore to be intimidated by any person or power that is boasting of great things against you, they are only exhibiting the traits of their father the devil but they are defeated already and you need not fear them, all you need to do is to be sure of your sonship status in Christ. And you can be sure that no satanic onslaught against your life will prevail in Jesus name. Shalom.
Prayer Points
1. Father thank you for your love for me, thank you for the grace of adoption as your son and thank you for all the inheritance you have provisioned for me in Christ Jesus.
2. Thank you Father for your protection and preservation package for my life which includes protection against any weapon of wickedness fashioned against me or my family
3. Father, weapons in this case includes voices of adversaries, opposition, or acts of wickedness generally, none of them shall prevail against me in Jesus name.
4. Father it is your righteousness that secures for me access to your protection and preservation package may your righteousness never be compromised in my life in Jesus name
5. Father please grant me grace to walk in your righteousness all the days of my life so that my ultimate inheritance with you in heaven will not be lost in Jesus name.
*Rev’d Canon Oladele Odumosu*
I dedicate this article to @majamalu
