Prayer Works Morning Devotion: July 21, 2025

In The Presence Of God/The Lord

"Isaiah 6:1-3 - Woe Is Me, For I Am Undone! Because I Am a Man Of Unclean Lips"

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A very good morning to you, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful restful night and you're ready for another day and another week in the presence of God. Let us go to the Lord in prayer.  

Heavenly Father, Our Blessed Redeemer words cannot express the magnitude of who you are. We think you they should do all things well and you do all things. We that you have afforded us time in your Kingdom. 

You just put as time with your presence, for it's time to hear and to understand scriptures. So that our lives are enhanced so that we can have life and life more abundantly. Where would we be without you?  

Where would we be without your guidance without your spirit? So Father this morning, as we open up our hearts to you. We ask Lord that you continue to show us your presence because we're not in your presence there's fullness of joy and in your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.  

We know that in your presence we find peace. We know that in your presence we find wisdom, in your presence or find direction guidance and all that we saw desire. So God we come before you now.  

As we look at your word, help us to understand, broaden our minds. Change our hearts, change our spirits, change all the things that are in us that needs to be changed so that we can stand before you with holy hands, clean hands, pure hearts.  

We bless your name and we honor you in Jesus name, Amen. Brothers and sisters our God is a wonderful God. I was in North Carolina yesterday and took Daniel a track mate and I had the privilege to be asked to do a baby dedication.  

For one of Daniels grand child, new baby born that was born last week and in that baby dedication, the whole families, you know, the cousins, the nieces and nephews, they all came and we gathered in this apartment.  

And I had something planned because I knew this was happening. I was going to do that when they got North Carolina and just before I started the Lord kind of have the Holy Spirit say, scrap everything that's on your computer? Let me guide you in this here. So in doing this baby dedication, the presence of God showed up in that house. 

 As I'm holding the newborn baby and I'm dedicating this baby. You know, words just started coming out of me. By the time we know it we ended up dedicating all the kids that were in that room, 12 of them.  

The older ones, the ones that were never dedicated. Because this presence of God was so thick that even an aunt who had a kid 19 years old never been dedicated. Like, yeah, we might as well dedicate him too.  

And in that moment you know you realize what the presence of God can do and what it opens up when the Lord shows up. And it's always a learning lesson when God shows up.  

So today we are in Isaiah 6. Isaiah 6:1, in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on the throne. High and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple above its  seraphim's. Each one had 6 wings with two, you cover his face.  

With two, he covered his feet. And with two, he flew and one cried to another and said holy, holy, holy is the Lord of host. The whole earth is full of his glory and the post of the doorway, shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke.  

Isaiah response to the vision of God into the presence of God was this. So I said war is me. I am, I'm done. Because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.  

For my eyes has seen the king the Lord of host. The first question we need to ask ourselves. Is why was this moment of Isaiah experiencing the presence of God tied to King Uzziah’s death. King Uzziah was the king of Judah.  

He reigned for 52 years in Judah. He was well respected and people loved him. And the whole nation of Judah were mourning for his loss and feeling of being left without what this man meant to the nation of Judah.  

So you, Isaiah had reverence for him too. For this man reigned for 52 years and his death became and lost for the nation of Judah. Now things were not going well in the nation of Judah and the Nation of Israel.  

Because in chapter 1 Isaiah gives a prophetic wedge and a warning, in 2 the same thing 3 the same thing. So Isaiah, at this point in time, his ministry had already started where he is being given prophetic words by God to give to the nation.  

So when King Uzziah died, the sense of loss grieved the nation and it also grieved Isaiah. So in that year the king is Uzziah. Isaiah, even though he was already a prophet and who has already given prophetic words to the nations.  

God indulged him and opened up his eyes and saw him in a vision. God's taking his place, His authority in the heavens, when he sees this vision and when he experiences God's presence his response to all that was taking place was. Oh my God, war is me, I am undone.  

Because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell among the people who are unclean. So he asked the Lord, after he sees this, after he experienced his presence, he asks the Lord. Will you please clean me?  

The presence of God is so powerful that when you experience it, as much as you will enjoy it, you can't help but to realize that surely I am an uncleaned person. My thoughts are weird at the most.  

The things that I do are not consistent at the most. Even though I love the Lord, even though my heart is for him, alone I cannot do it. Even though Isaiah gave true prophetic words in 123.  

He still realized how unclean he was. His response when he experiences was Lord help me. I can't imagine what this would be like for anyone of us, if the Lord was to open your eyes and you see him high exhorted, seated on his throne and the train of his robe filling the temple.  

Now when you see robe and the throne in the scriptures, it is judgment time. So king Uzziah probably died after a court procession in heaven when judgement was rained on the nation of Judah by God.  

So that same year God opens Isaiah's eyes to see him proclaiming judgments and when he sees this, he scares him and realized I too I am a man on of unclean lips. There's a judgment that God has just executed on the nation of Judah.  

Because prior to this, the same man, Isaiah, God gives him prophetic words to warn the nation. So in a way, Isaiah is an idea of the impending doom that's coming. But then God takes it further and opens his eyes to see the execution of the prophetic word that was given to him in chapter 1-2 and three and King Uzziah dies. 

God says I want to open your eyes so you can see. So in his presence God opens Isaiah's eyes to see. Instead of celebrating, instead of saying yeah, you see, I told the king. Instead of saying yeah, I told the nation.  

He turned his finger and pointed at himself and says surely I am a man of unclean lips. And he asked the Lord clean me. The presence of God is an incredible privilege where God indulges us mere mortals. With all our filthiness, he chooses to show up and it becomes a mirror to our hearts, to our souls, to our mind.  

And instead of saying you see I told the nation. He looked at himself and said war is me. I am a man of unclean lips. Yesterday, after the powerful baby dedication the Lord gave me words for this family.  

Because in that moment, brothers and sisters knowing what pretty much everybody has experienced in this family. A lot of children born out of wedlock in this family. A lot of mistakes that have been made for generations in this family and in that moment yesterday, the Lord shows up and the Holy Spirit start speaking. 

When I left and got into the car to drive back to Birmingham. The entire ride I found myself worshipping. Praising the name of Jesus. Realizing that, surely I'm not worthy to be used by God.  

And it's a privilege and honor and the only thing you can do, as I was thinking about this morning is Lord surely war is me for I am a man of unclean lips. My thoughts at my best are not pure.  

I have weaknesses because I am a man and the presence of God can only as much as he does all the things. Ultimately it becomes a mirror to look at thyself and say, surely, like Isaiah, I am a man of unclean lips. I'll dwell among unclean people.  

So Lord help me, help me. Now brothers and sisters when you experience the presence of God, it leaves you somewhere. Because if we are to Fast forward, I know this is not part of our teaching today, but if we are to Fast forward to Isaiah all the way down 55 somewhere there.  

Where God now, in response to what Isaiah had been through and gone through, God then comes back and he says Isaiah, I have put my words in your mouth so that you can plant the heavens.  

From I am a man of unclean lips to now God saying Isaiah, I have now put my words in your mouth so that you can plant the heavens. Isaiah is responsible of writing. 66 books which is the eye of the scriptures.  

He gives the prophetic words. He becomes the man most courted by Jesus in his writings. The Mesiah when he comes, he opens the book of Isaiah. And he says I am anointed to preach the gospel, to bring good tidings to the poor.  

So the death may hear ,the lame will walk, the blind will see. Prisoners who get out of jail and those who were under captivity will be loosed. But it all started on the same year that King Uziah dies in God's presence is opened up to Isaiah to experience.  

In his presence, there is fullness of joy, and there are pleasures forevermore. Brothers and sisters, his presence will cost us purity. His presence is a mirror to our souls and to our hearts.  

So just like Isaiah can say war and to me, I am undone. For I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell among people, dwell among people who are unclean. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty.  

Oh, my God beautiful scripture. Isaiah saw the Lord. High lifted up. His presence is a vehicle brothers and sisters to lead us to purity, holiness. Whereas we rarely hear now purity and holiness. Let us pray.  

Heavenly Father, our blessed Redeemer, we thank you for the magnificent opportunities to experience your presence even mornings like this. We are grateful we don't take it for granted that you open up our eyes, our spirits, to indulge in the very presence of the one who's sitting on the throne.  

Our eyes have seen the Lord, our eyes have experienced your presence and we are undone, war is us, we are people of unclean lips. We dwell amongst unclean people. So we gladly repent for our uncleanness, knowing that we don't deserve your presence.  

But it's through your grace that you have afforded us opportunity after opportunity to feel you, to touch you, to experience you. Help us in our quest to be the very true essence of who you have called us to be.  

The word says offer your body as a living sacrifice. Holy and acceptable unto you. It is our reasonable form of worship. So Father we desire to be holy and acceptable. So Jesus work in us, that which is right and true.  

So we can be and we will be the righteousness of Christ. Thank you for the love, the depth of your love we can't quantify. The depth of your spirit we can't figure it out. So, Father, as we raise our hands, our hearts, our minds, our eyes towards heaven.  

We consider it a privilege for you to indulge us with your presence. So we lean on you, God and we speak Jesus to every dark thought, to every unclean lips, pray hope and freedom in our hearts.  

So we can carry this gospel in its right way. Because your name is power, your name is healing, your name is life. Break every stronghold, shine through the shadows and scorch the unclean places in us. Break every fear, every anxiety.  

Every soul that has helped captive freedom, we call on you. Your name is power, your name is healing, your name is life. Every stronghold we break it, in every shadow we expose it to your light. We thank you God.  

We thank you God for showing us, us. We thank you, Lord, for your presence being a mirror to our souls. So now we give you glory. We surrender to you and we ask you that through your divine purpose. Help us in our quest to be wholly and pure in your presence.  

We thank you for every struggle, grow us through it. Thank you for every challenge strengthen us through it. For every heartbreak we know that you get closer to us. So we thank you for your presence, we bless you, Lord.  

Now, as we go throughout this week, throughout this day, stay with us open our eyes with us, experience the fullness of your joy. As we interact with others, let them feel the God in us. Every crooked place made straight.  

Bless every child, we bless every man, every woman, every family. We bless every idea in the name of Jesus. We bless Lord that as we reach out make things straight and we bless your works in us.  

We pray, Lord, that the opportunities that we see, may we by your spirit work through them what is pleasing to you. So as we go throughout this day, guide us, walk with us, open our eyes.  

Now lead us not into temptation but deliver us, deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever, and ever, Amen.  

Brothers and sisters in his presence look in the mirror, look in the mirror and surrender. May the Lord bless you. May we all have an incredible phenomenal day in his presence and we will see you tomorrow in Jesus name, Amen.