Ezra 1-2, Isaiah 29, 2 Corinthians 10
What God said to me – People look around at all that is going on in the world and wonder where “I AM” or if I actually exist. They can’t imagine that in all of the upheaval and turmoil that “I AM” in control, and yet “I AM”. Sin has brought about all of the disaster and chaos you see, but “I AM” at work in spite of it – “I AM” at work in the midst of it – “I AM” at work because of it so I can save My people and bring them safely home to Me. Look at King Cyrus of Persia. My people had been in captivity of Babylon for seventy long years as punishment and judgment for turning away from Me. Just as the seventy years that were prophesied as My plan were coming to an end, the Med-Persians defeated Babylon. I stirred up within Cyrus’s spirit the desire to rebuild My temple in Jerusalem, so he let My people return for that purpose and even gave them the supplies to do it. You should be encouraged by this story as you look at what is going on globally because “I AM” still at work moving in the lives of world leaders so they fulfill My long-established plans. “I AM” sovereign.