Prayer Works Morning Devotion: October 6, 2025

Thus Says The Lord-Who God Says He Is, His Commandments and Promises

Isaiah 48:20-22: "Go Forth From Babylon! Flee From The Chaldeans! With A Voice Of Singing, There Is No Peace, Says The Lord, For The Wicked"

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A very good morning, a very good morning to you, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful night. You're well rested, ready for another week, another day, and excited to see what the Lord has in store for every single one of us.  

I think as believers, we should always wake up excited knowing that every day God has an agenda. Things that He wants to accomplish through His children and through those who believe.  

And knowing that He has a plan for every single one of us and things to do, I think should always bring excitement for every morning. And then above all that, to know that every morning there is new mercy for me to take me through the day.  

So we should be excited for every day because it's an opportunity to see God move. It's an opportunity for God to do something through you or with you and that is exciting. Let us go to the Lord in prayer.  

Father, we glory in you. We come before you, for you are sovereign and we are your children. We thank you Lord for all that you have done in our lives. The many blessings that you have poured out to us. The many things that you have given us.  

The statutes and values you have bestowed on us in order to walk this journey the right way. We thank you for salvation which has allowed us to enter in. And we thank you, Lord, for strength that is given to us to execute this journey of salvation.  

I don't know where we will be without you. I don't know what we will be able to do or accomplish without your guidance, without your spirit, without your authority, and without your angels that are sent to minister to us.  

So, Father, we are grateful that in the midst of all these worldly, chaotic scenes that have taken place since the beginning of times to now, you have sustained those who believe. So, we thank you for sustenance.  

We thank you for providing. We thank you, Lord, for giving us things that we need when we need them for every season. So today, as we gather to fellowship with one another, as we gather to pray, and as we gather to commune with the Holy Spirit. 

We have a clear understanding that your heavenly ears are attentive to us. And that you desire for us. You desire to hear from us. So, Lord, as we petition, as we pray, as we submit, as we ask. 

May you be quick to help us and to do so that the things that we either are struggling with or the things that we want to see, we will experience them without strife, but rather with faith in execution.  

So, we thank you for your goodness and your mercy towards us. We bless you. for this particular day that you have set aside for us to enjoy and to hear your words. And bless us as we look at the scriptures. 

As we seek understanding, as we seek knowledge and wisdom to be better human beings, better Christians, better brothers, better mothers, better fathers, better uncles and cousins and nephews. We thank you for your grace in Jesus' name, Amen.  

Today we are in Isaiah 48:20-22. We've been in 48, and you can see how God has been reiterating the theme that I'm sovereign. I have proclaimed things, I have done things, and I do things.  

I announce them before they happen. I'm the first, I'm the last. I am pushing every agenda. It is because of me that we exist. I brought you out of Egypt, and I have redeemed you. I've bought you with a price.  

This is the Lord speaking to us and this is in 48 where he just reiterates over and over his sovereign authority. So in 20 this is what he says. He says, Go forth from Babylon. Flee from the Chaldeans with the voice of singing.  

How do you flee? With the voice of singing. Declare, proclaim, this. Utter it to the end of the earth. What are we to say? The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob. And they did not thirst when He led them through the desert.  

He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them. He also split the rock and the water gushed out. There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked. There's a lot of nice thoughts in here.  

Comforting, the first thing that we can just kind of look at and that is possibly comforting or answers one of the questions that we always sometimes present that why? Why do the wicked seems like they are prospering?  

Well, they are not because there is the answer there. Says there is no peace for people who are deliberately wicked. So, there is, this is why even when you think about our prosperity it says prosper as your soul prospers but for the wicked, it's the opposite.  

There's no prosperity and there is no source prospering. So that answers that if anybody ever asks you, why is God seems like He is blessing wicked people? You know, why is the wicked seems like they're having a good time? They're not.  

Because the scripture says that there is no peace for the people who are wicked. And then for us, He says flee from the Chaldeans and Babylon. With what? With the voice of singing. I want to talk a little bit about singing. Singing to the Lord.  

The scripture says sing to the Lord a new song. The scripture says God sings to us. Zephaniah 3:17, The Lord is in our midst. He is mighty to serve. He will quiet you with his voice. He will sing over you.  

So now the speaker is saying, sing. Sing as you flee. He says, flee from the Chaldeans and the Babylonians with a voice of singing. In other words, you can get out of trouble with singing. 

It's unbelievable when you ever listen to people who sing that they hit certain knots that are so impossible to the ordinary ear to execute and there is no amount of training you could get to hit certain notes that other people hit.  

It is just a gift that is in them to execute and to touch notes that pretty much comes straight from the heart of God. But then there is all of us who don't have those qualities but are given an ear to sing things that we might not be actually able to sing under normal circumstances.  

Because we are going to hear the Lord sing and then we are going to execute what we just heard and sing. This is why sometimes you wake up one particular day and you just have a song in your heart.  

That you've either heard years ago or you just pop that in your head and you just can't seem to leave you. I believe God gives us songs and music, like the scripture says, to use as a weapon to flee from the challenges of this world.  

It's amazing how if you're going through something that you start worshiping, things start dissipating. It says, put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. So, in other words, when you feel you are heavy in spirit, this Bible says, put on the garment of praise.  

In other words, sing unto the Lord a new song because it takes the spirit of heaviness away from you hence I've always said every single one of us should have a worship playlist that touches your heart and you know it invokes something in you. 

And it reaches the mind and spirit of God and use that as a way to flee from Babylon and the Chaldeans. In this case, Babylon or Chaldeans is the world, is the spirit that governs this world.  

It says the best way to do it is to flee with singing. You see it in scriptures numerous times where God used fingers to either destroy a nation in battle or to draw near. God loves worship.  

That's the only thing that you and I can give God that He thoroughly adores. And when you sing, the scripture says the Lord draws near to you. And then it also says in Zephaniah, I just mentioned a little bit here, that he will sing over you.  

And when that happens, you can use that to flee from Babylon and the Chaldeans with singing. There's nothing like hearing a good choir in harmony singing to the Lord. It does something to the soul. It kills the spirit of heaviness.  

So, the scriptures are saying in Isaiah 3, from Babylon, from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing. There's a voice of shouting, there's a voice of argument, there's a voice of joy, there's a voice of praise.  

Then with a voice of singing not singing voice or singing, it says flee with a voice of singing a deliberate thought of singing in the process of fleeing. This is where you realize the scriptures has given us so many spiritual weapons to deal with the enemy.  

The challenge is that we just sometimes don't utilize them. So, we need to sing. We need to sing and allow God to sing over us so we can hear what it is that he is singing. I always believe in order to write a good song you have to hear it first. 

Which means you have to be in tune with the spirit. Human beings as it relates to God when once we get saved. There is a heavy rely. We have to rely heavily on hearing and listening in order to live successful Christian life.  

When you end the world, you don't have to. But once you get saved, your hearing is enhanced. Because God desires to communicate every day, every moment. He says, I'll never leave or forsake you.  

In other words, I will be a constant voice in your ear. And this ability of hearing, this gift of hearing, is in line or in tune with singing. There's nothing like singing a song that the Lord has given you to sing. In other words, the Lord usually tell you, this is what I want to hear.  

There are seasons in our world where a song rises up that people will sing all over the world. You can really look at it, you probably see the simplicity of it and then you'll probably be like, man, this song, you know, is a song for this season.  

And surely when the season turns, the song almost kind of disappears. My brother-in-law wrote a song a few years ago, this is my worship. A few years ago, during the pandemic, it seemed like it was a worldly anthem that everybody was singing everywhere.  

Then, after that, there was a song that was written in South Africa, Jerusalem, my home. And people all over the world were singing it. Because God is always quick to give us a song for the season to enable us to flee from using that song.  

I mean, you can look out throughout human history. You realize every challenge and every era and every dark season, God gave and released a song to give us a weapon to flee with. So, we gotta sing.  

I know there's some people like, man, I can't hit the notes. It's fine, but we have to sing. because it is a spiritual weapon that we can use to flee from and put on the garment of grace for the spirit of happiness.  

If you feel happy, sing. If you feel like you're in a gem, sing. Worship the Lord. If you feel like there's chaos around you, sing. If you don't know what to do, sing. Because it is an incredible phenomenal spiritual weapon.  

So, with that in mind, let's read this passage of scripture again and see what we can actually thoroughly get out of it. It says, Go from Babylon. Go forth from Babylon. Flee from the Chaldeans with a voice of singing, declare and proclaim this, utter it to the end of the earth, say the Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.  

And they did not thirst when he led them through the desert. He caused the waters to flow from the rock of them, He also split the rock and waters gushed up. There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.  

So, in other words, the wicked can't sing because they are not given a song. The righteousness saved, we are given a song to use as a spiritual weapon to flee. So, homework assignment.  

Find your songs for this season. This season we are in right now. Find your songs. Put together a nice playlist of worship songs that God will use through you to flee from Babylon and the Chaldeans.  

For us, we gotta flee from the chaos of this world and the challenges and the things that we are being bombarded with. And the best way to do it is to sing, and the best way to do it is to hear the Lord say, sing this song to me because it is the song for the season.  

As believers, I think we should all know what is the song for the season. Because there's always going to be the song for the season. There's always going to be a song for the season that God used to remind and to give us a weapon to flee from.  

A few years ago it was the Alpha and Omega. Early 2000, it was a shout to the Lord. A few years before that it was, Lord, I give you my heart. So, you can track back and you literally can see how God is giving songs for every season for humanity to use as a weapon to flee from the Babylonian system and the Chaldeans.  

In other words, that song is the song that God would have given for the season and it allows us to enter into and it draws God near because He released it. And why is He releasing it? For us to sing to Him. 

And when we do, He draws near. When He draws near, the devil has no chance. He flees from because wherever the Spirit of God is, the devil is not staying. So, let's have our songs for the season, especially this one year. We've got to find them, Amen. Let us pray.  

Heavenly Father, we are grateful for being an incredible, phenomenal, strategic God who just does things that are beyond our human comprehension. We lay together plans and things in place to give us always a door to use to flee from or to get away from. 

We thank you Lord for the ability to hear, thou says the Lord, and the ability to sing. So, Father, as we go through today, we ask that you open our ears to hear the song for the season, for our lives, and that we can use as a weapon to flee from.  

We are blessing you, Lord, and we are asking that as we open our hearts to proclaim and to sing, let the spirit of heaviness depart away from us. Thank you for the gift of singing and thank you, Lord, for those you have blessed with quality voices to lead us in worship.  

I pray, Lord, even now, for those you use uniquely in singing. Give them songs. Spiritual songs for the season. Open their ears to hear songs for the season that you are releasing in the earth because you desire to hear us sing to you.  

Bless Veronica in April with incredible singing talents that God you release a song in them that will lead your people into triumphant position. Help us as your children to find our singing voice, to use as a way to flee from.  

We bless you, that you always open doors for us. Now as we go into today bless our families, our children, our ideas, our jobs, the things that we put our hands on open doors that no man would shut. 

Give us the spirit to execute that which you have called us to execute and may you by your spirit allow us to be victorious in the things that challenges us. May we grow in the quality of faith and salvation that we possess. May we remain the lights, the salts, the change agent in our world.  

We ask you now, Lord, that you help us to do your will, and to lead us not into temptation, but to continue delivering us from the evil one. Because yours is the kingdom forever. And we bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray, Amen.  

Brothers and sisters, sing, sing, sing to the Lord a new song. Hear it, sing it, use it as a way to flee from. And let's find our songs for the season. May the Lord bless you. May the Lord bless your families.  

May the Lord bless your hands. May you build, may you strengthen others. May you inspire and we will see you tomorrow morning.