HOW THE DEVIL ENSLAVES GOD’S PEOPLE
“But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.” ISAIAH 42:22
God cries out in Isaiah 42:22 because Israel is loosing Direction, but he is not just lamenting but does so to expose how the enemy operates. So for maximum impact and for us to understand this piece of scripture perfectly, lets read between the lines.
A people was robbed and spoiled; The devil as explained in John 10: 10 is the Master Thief, he is always devising a heist, to destroy he first has to steal and spoil. Oh boy, Jesus was outright Prophetic coming to fulfill the scriptures. Who thought what he said in John 10 was a manifestation of the words said by Isaiah in Chapter 42? So the devil has to put you in a spot, by stealing your happiness, job, relationship so that you lose security and get lost. David picked this when he asked a question in the book of Psalms 11:3: “IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKEN, WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO? Once your foundations are shaken and all hope seems lost, the enemy leaves you to scrape by—wandering from meal to meal, relationship to relationship, job to job, and problem to problem. This is exactly where he wants you: trapped in depravity born out of desperation, until you feel you have no choice in the issue.“
However, we look to the prophet Jeremiah, who defiantly bought a field while incarcerated, performing a prophetic act to declare that his current captivity could not permanently cancel his future ownership rights.
“They are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses.”
It is funny how, when our backs are against the ropes, we pick up new hobbies just to occupy our minds. This is not just a biblical truth, but a proven scientific concept called Displacement Activity. When an animal is faced with two conflicting urges such as “Fight” versus “Flee” and can do neither because it is trapped, it will often do something completely irrelevant, like grooming itself or pecking at the ground. Similarly, when you are “against the ropes” unable to fight the debt and unable to flee the situation the tension rises so high that your brain forces you to pick up a “new hobby” (an irrelevant activity) to discharge the nervous energy. It acts as a safety valve to prevent a breakdown. But be warned: this “new hobby” becomes your ideal PRISON HOUSE. The Enemy drives you into this distraction because he knows that prisoners are stripped of their property rights and rendered unable to be gainfully employed. This traps you in a restrictive tight spot where sinful options—like gambling or cheating—seem like the only way to survive, even though you know fully well that you will end up alone, broke, sick, invisible, and untrustworthy.
Once in this dungeon, stripped of your capacity to earn or own, you are written off by society as “prey” and left isolated, with no one willing to fight for your restoration. Wakamboita hama here inosiiwa nedzinza rese ichinzi uyu haabatsirike; no one can give you a job because you end up damaging when you are supposed to build. Kusiirwa vana chaivo vanosvika manyama amire nerongo and your only explanation is ZVAZONGOITIKAWO- It just HAPPENED. You cant really explain anything and if you find yourself in this spot….kkk Not paDJ Ollah; Just know you have been left for Prey and No One can stand for you or do anything for you because you are in a prison house. You do things you do not want, when you do not want and it all comes back to haunt you.
Now we have found out how the devil operates, we can now come up with a solution of how to get ourselves in this situation. This is not the time for going back to factory settings; to quit, give up on life and go to ruin. This is the time to keep your trust on the Lord; This is the time to wait upon Him, For definitely you shall receive new STRENGTH. This is the time to receive to exercise faith…which is not blind devotion but a solid conviction and trust to the voice you know but cannot see. Keep praying when no answer is coming; keep believing when all things are against you.
Jeremiah in the 32nd Chapter, did a very extra-ordinary thing, he also because of GOD’s WORD was imprisoned. HE WAS IN JAIL BUT DID NOT LET JAIL OPERATE INSIDE IN HIM. He began operating like a true prophet; he was busy buying LAND; while inside the PRISON. That’s now a BOLD STATEMENT; that we will get outside of prison; we are not meant to stay in trouble. You Prophesy your release and this sole responsibility and no one is coming to do it for you. David did this in a very remarkable way when he began to “STRENGTHEN HIMSELF IN THE LORD (1 Samuel 30)“—no one was coming for HIM; he wanted to commit suicide, the people wanted to stone HIM; even those he rescued from their adverse situations. This is a blue-print for getting out of the Devil’s mechanisms and scheming we resist him until he flees. Remember no matter what weapon he brings to a bare hands battle; it was prophesied in Isaiah 54:17, that it cannot prosper. So when they are laughing at you in this moment, strengthen yourself in the Lord. Begin to tell them of your grand vision you will implement soon when you get out pf your situation. Tell them, write the vision plainly so that he will run, he that readeth it.
Today, I prophesy your release and mine, declaring that just as Jeremiah held a title deed inside a prison cell, we are breaking out of this confinement to repossess every right, resource, and employment opportunity the enemy stole from you. The Lord is going to do a new thing in your life; You have now one Job—-ARISE & SHINE; Do not just get out your situation, NO NO; do it in style so that people will WONDER—Rombe rabuda seiko Muguruva Iri?? Puzzle them, all for GOD’s glory. Perplex and Confuse them by your Faith. I prophesy your life story will make people reform, they will repent just by hearing your story. There shall be cedar trees in the desert, streams will flow in the desert; that shoot will get out of dry ground. Until next time DARRYL THE RABBI IS OUT