Praying with Isaiah
Isaiah lived in a time desperately in need of the hope,
comfort, assurance and revelation that can only come from a prayer relationship
with God. (Circa - 700 B.C.)
While David’s prayer relationship
led him to know the loving-kindness and mercies of the Lord that were new every
day,
Isaiah’s prayer relationship with God led him to know the Holiness of God and
the coming of the future King of kings and Lord of lords… Wonderful, Counselor,
The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah's prayer relationship was one of continuing revelation. We need to understand that concept of God's revelation, whether to Isaiah or to John - that of the 'apokalupsis.' God 'pulls back the curtain,' 'to reveal,' 'to lift the veil,' in stages.
(Looking at the ‘apocalypse’ we find most people viewing the word as describing the cataclysmic end of the world. However, the term actually comes from “APOKALUPSIS” and means ‘pulling back the curtain,’ ‘to reveal,’ ‘to lift the veil.’)
If we will enter an ongoing relationship with God in prayer, He will gradually pull back the curtain revealing Himself to us...little by little - as the Apostle Paul described in the first chapter of Romans, "...from crisis to crisis" or as the King James says, "...from faith to faith."
In Isaiah’s prayer relationship with
God he saw the Glory of the Lord in a glimpse of the future coming of the Prince
of Peace.