“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.
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… And it happened because of despising worship. Now look at Isaiah 54 passage, because this is almost like the antidote. In fact, it is the antidote to that particular concept. Isaiah 54, verse 1. Sing, O barren, you who have not born. Break forth into singing, cry aloud, you who have not labored with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman. What is the concept here in Isaiah 54? In 2 Samuel, it was despising, extravagant worship brought barrenness. Isaiah 54, you already have someone who's barren. And this person is to give shouts of joy while they are barren. And they get plugged into a supernatural process of reproducing where they actually bypass those who have been having children every year. They bypass them and end up having more children than the ones who've been having children all along. And what was the thing that brought the breakthrough? It was the shout of joy in the middle of barrenness. Are you following? Here's what it comes down to. The presence of the Lord is to become the womb out of which dreams are birthed. The presence of the Lord is to become the atmosphere out of which that which has been impossible becomes released into the earth. That what God has called you and me to become would become manifest through this engagement of the presence. …
… it's foretold in the very next chapter of Isaiah Isaiah 54 verse 1 says sing O barren one who did not bear break forth into singing and cry aloud you have not been in labor for the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of who is married, says the Lord. There's actually more children promised here to the barren one who trusts in God and leads others to life in God than the one who's in labor, has physical children. You get two chapters over, Isaiah 56, verse 3, let not the foreigner who has joined himself to The Lord said, the Lord will surely separate me from his people. And let not the eunuch say, behold, I'm a dry tree. For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant. I will give in my house, within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters. I'll give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. …
… In fact, it is the antidote to that particular concept. Isaiah 54 verse one, Sing, O barren, you who have not born, break forth into singing, cry aloud, you who have not labored with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman. What is the concept here in Isaiah 54? In 2 Samuel, it was despising, extravagant worship brought barrenness. Isaiah 54, you already have someone who's barren. And this person is to give shouts of joy while they are barren. And they get plugged into a supernatural process of reproducing where they actually bypass those who have been having children every year. They bypass them and end up having more children than the ones who've been having children all along. And what was the thing that brought the breakthrough? It was the shout of joy in the middle of barrenness. Are you following? Are you following? Here's what it comes down to. The presence of the Lord is to become the womb out of which dreams are birthed. …