Prayer Works Morning Devotion: September 24, 2025

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

Isaiah 44:24-28: "Thus Says The Lord, Your Redeemer, And He Who Formed You From The Womb: I Am The Lord, Who Makes All Things"

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Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful, restful night and you’re well rested, ready for another day, and another day of expectations, another day to walk with the Lord, another day to hear Him speak, and another day to be part of His kingdom. Let us go to the Lord in prayer.  

Heavenly Father, we thank You so much for Your goodness and Your mercy towards us. We thank You, Lord, for all that You have done and what You are still going to do.  

We thank You, Lord, that Your hands are a constant guide in our lives, always moving us from one place to the next, and Your Spirit is counselling us on our interactions with different ones.  

And we pray, Lord, that as we continue to devote our mornings and our times to the study of scripture, to the communion with the Holy Spirit, to the meeting of minds, I pray, Lord, that you continue to reveal yourself to us in a very strong way. 

So that our knowledge of you is enhanced, but above all else so that we can walk in this kingdom and be a light in dark and be salt in the earth. So that somebody somewhere gets to believe in you.  

And we thank you for this opportunity to come together in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we pray, Amen. We are back in Isaiah chapter number 44 and we're going to 24 and 28.  

Brothers and sisters, you know, I was just thinking earlier on that we are part of this invisible kingdom that is so massive. It cannot be seen with natural eyes, but its influence is unbelievably great that God in his infinite wisdom is intricately doing things, and saying things, and shifting things, and moving things, unbeknown to the natural eye.  

So, when you hear, thus sayeth the Lord, I think there are things that we take for granted, or when we actually see them happen. We just probably don't think of anything, until we really kind of ponder and wonder why it is.  

So when I was reading this passage of scripture here, let me just read all of it, but you know, what's really stopped me today, it says, and I will dry up your rivers. I will dry up your rivers, and that's in verse 27, but let me start from 24, we go to 28, but we'll focus on I'll dry up your rivers. 

Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, verse 24. And he who formed you from the womb. I am the Lord who makes all things. All things, not some, all things, everything that you see He makes it.  

Whether he is using a person, whether it is naturally happening, he makes it. I mean, think about, if we stop driving on the highway for a year, I can guarantee you, on those highways, you see in the middle of the highway a tree growing in spite of what has been done to that road to make sure nothing like that happens but you will see a tree grow.  

So he is reminding us, he says, I am the Lord who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by myself. I don't need anybody by myself.  

Who frustrates the signs of the bubblers, and drives diviners mad, who turns wise men backwards, and makes their knowledge foolishness, who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of the messengers. 

Who says to Jerusalem you shall be inhabited, to the cities of Judah you shall be built, and I will raise up her waste places, who says to the deep, be dry, and I will dry up your rivers. Who says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasures.  

Saying to Jerusalem you shall be built and to the temple your foundation shall be laid. So when I read this passage of scripture, drying up your rivers kind of stopped me in my tracks. I was in Zimbabwe recently and I passed, We went to a place called Mutoko, which is three hours from the capital city.  

On the way to Mutoko, you pass this river. It used to be one of the greatest and mightiest rivers in Zimbabwe and in Southern Africa, and it's called Save River. Save River was probably in some areas two miles wide, two miles wide.  

It was a massive river and but when I, when we went to Mutoko this past time, I was looking through the bridge that you crossed, that used to cross Save River. And as you look down this bridge, it's just dried up.  

Like it's a beach, there's no sign of water anywhere. And this river, and I'm talking about 20, 20, 25, 30 years ago, where this river was so massive, but now it's dried up. And again, you know, we can speculate of what happened. Global warming?  

Nope, I don't know but when I read this scripture, I don't know, my mind just went to the river. I was like, what if God dried it up? What if he decided one day that I'm going to dry up Save River for whatever reason?  

And what I was thinking about this is that we will never know. But the thing I'm trying to get to is that If God did dry up the Save river, how powerful is that, that this God we serve, that He can just decide that what was there should no longer be there.  

That there was a mountain over here, we're going to erode it. Oh there was a river here, and we're just going to dry it all up, and forever not to be seen again, whether by drought or whatever it is, whatever. 

I mean, just the idea, just to think of what Save River used to mean to Zimbabwe. To now where it is dried up, and it looks like just sand, a beach. Like there's no sign whatsoever of what things used to be like.  

And I'm just thinking, this is the God we serve. What if he dried it up for whatever reason? It's a mystery. So, when you read Isaiah 44, you keep seeing this, I am the Lord, your redeemer.  

I formed you from your womb. I took you out of Egypt. Over and over he's expressing his authority over pretty much everything. That I can do all these things by myself. I don't need your counsel.  

And this is the God that we serve. This is the God that we ascribe to. This is our Father who art in heaven, that's him. So, when He says these things, Thou sayeth the Lord, He is giving us an insight to who He is, so that we can believe what He says He is going to do about us.  

Because if He drives up rivers, like Save, Save River, and then He says, yes, you shall be built. That means that should automatically enhance the level of faith in us. But if he can do that, and then when he says I can do that for you or to you, there should be no any doubt in us because he is telling us what he can do.  

And in some cases, we probably have all experienced what he can do and see what he can do. And again, just to think about what Save River used to look like, and what it used to mean, to where it is now, and then read this scripture that says, I dry up your rivers.  

And I just thought this morning, I was like, what if, what if the Lord did dry up Save River? But again, He is trying to show us that this is how massive my sovereign authority is. And then in 24, he says, I'm the Lord who makes all things.  

All things, I make them. Who spreads abroad the earth by myself. That nobody came to help me on this, I just did it. This is the God who created you and I, and He sits on the throne and is making Himself known and revealing Himself to you and I.  

So that our faith, our faith is enhanced because when you think about the overall theme of the book Isaiah, Isaiah is encouraging a nation, is encouraging a nation on things that needs, that are coming, and make sure that their belief is whole steadfast by knowing who God is and what he's capable of doing.  

Just as you and I are being encouraged. And over and over he is just telling, I created everything. And then you hear also the theme, do not fear. Do not worry, I got it. Because if I can dry up rivers, I can fix anything.  

If I can dry up Save River, then your needs I don't think are that much bigger for me. So from this passage of scripture today, I want us to, what I want us to get is an understanding of how massive God is.  

And then, in turn, increases our level of faith, knowing that he is able to do exceedingly, abundantly more than you and I can ever imagine. And that's our devotion for today. That this God is more than capable and he's never late.  

He can do anything today. Today he can fix anything that needs to be fixed. He can change things that needs to be changed today, not tomorrow or next week. He doesn't need to plan around it.  

He doesn't need to schedule it on his calendar and say, well, when we get to it, we get to it. He can just do it today if he decides to do it. Because if he can dry up rivers that used to be incredibly massive, to now they are just dry.  

Then surely He's trying to tell you and I that He can do absolutely anything. So brothers and sisters, as we go into today, let us go with the understanding that we are part of a kingdom that is so massive.  

And seated at the head of this kingdom is this God who created this vastness that we see. And he is not controlled by anything or by anybody. He relies in his own counsel and his divine wisdom and understanding.  

And he sets up kings and he sets up things according to what he needs to do and what is coming. God makes plans for us today that aligns with what he's doing 50 years from now.  

And he shall perform all my pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, you shall be built, and to the temple, your foundation shall be laid. Let us pray.  

Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you with sincere heart and with a clear understanding of what your authority is and how massive it is that we can't even comprehend it.  

You have shown over and over and over again who you are to mankind. So as we stand here in 2025, we are standing with expectation that the things that we see, the challenges that we face, the joys that we experience, that you and you alone are more than capable of ordering our steps and aligning everything that we are doing in spite of what we see. 

The challenges we face, the victories that we have. I thank you, Lord, that your hand is a constant guide to our lives. You're concerned about our needs and that you're constantly counseling and shepherding us towards the way that you desire us to go.  

I pray for this morning devotion group, that God, as we continue to seek and thirsty and hunger after you, may you continue to fill our hearts and our minds with words that encourage, that inspires us to be great, phenomenal Christians who hold and stand steadfast to your statutes and to your commands, to do what is right in your eyes.  

Father, I pray a special blessing to everybody, that God, may you encourage us in our journeys and may you strengthen us in our causes. Pray for families, fathers loving families, mothers loving families, children respecting and honoring parents as they go back and forth to school.  

We pray, Lord, that may they be anchored in scriptures and in who you are. Help our children to continue matriculating the right way with wisdom and perseverance.  

Father, I pray that you are blessing us today, that we are going to walk with great expectation and activate our faith, knowing, Lord, that you are doing something in the earth. 

So now, let your will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, Amen.  

Brothers and sisters, may the Lord bless you. May the Lord equip you, strengthen you, inspire you, and give you wisdom so that you can be an incredible, phenomenal child of God doing His will. May we all have an incredible, phenomenal day, and we'll see you tomorrow morning.