I woke up this morning with text from Isaiah 2 on my heart and this challenge from the Lord: “Will you dare to pray differently?”
This is what Isaiah saw. With the doom and gloom of Isaiah 1, he still saw something different (2:1).
The Lord has challenged me over the past few months to ask HIM for my prayers. I have tried to pray what HE asks me to pray. It’s led to some pretty ridiculous prayers… and some fairly ridiculous answers.
Isaiah was asked to see something different:
4 God will judge between the nations,
and settle disputes of mighty nations.
Then they will beat their swords into iron plows
and their spears into pruning tools.
Nation will not take up sword against nation;
they will no longer learn how to make war.
5 Come, house of Jacob,
let’s walk by the Lord’s light. (Isa. 2:4-5, NIV)
When war, judgment, and destruction were all around him, God invites Isaiah to see something very different. The invitation is to see the day when war will not be necessary any more.
Most mornings will consist of some battle of some kind over finances. I have to break through in my prayers and my thinking about finances. This morning, the challenge from the Spirit was immediate, strong, and joyful: “Pray differently. Pray blessing. Pray abundance.”
The temptation is to see the doom and gloom and think it’s just more of the same. Today, the challenge is to see through the eyes of the Spirit into something more possible.
“…let us walk in the light of the Lord.”
Apprentice 2 Jesus 
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