LIGHT THAT BREAKS FORTH

“Then your LIGHT shall BREAK FORTH like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily...” – Isaiah 58:8a

God promises as many as believe, the LIGHT THAT BREAKS FORTH: “Then YOUR LIGHT shall BREAK FORTH like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard” (Isa.58:8). God’s powerful prophetic Word for His children is that OUR LIGHT shall break forth like the morning, and our HEALING shall spring forth speedily. Darkness comes daily at night, but so does the light at dawn. No matter how long the night lasts, morning comes; no matter how long the darkness stays, light breaks forth in at dawn, with the promise of a new beginning of Joy, Peace, Success, Healing, and Victory.

These prophecies are conditioned on fulfilling certain prerequisites stated in verses 2-9.

Come with a humble heart that acknowledges and repents from sins: “Tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (v.1b). Psalm 66:18 says, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:” 1 John 1: 8-9 says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Seek the Lord daily in Worship, Prayers, and the Word: “Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways” (v.2a). We cannot however boast in these as self-righteous qualifications. Rather, we’re to trust in God’s Mercy: “Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry to You DAILY” (Psa.86:3). Proverbs 8:34 says, “Blessed is the man that hears Me, watching DAILY at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors.”

Delight in approaching God: “They take delight in approaching God” (v.2b): Psalm 37:4 says “Delight yourself also in the LORD; and He will give you the desires of your heart.” The blessed person delights and meditates in the Word of the LORD, day and night (Psa.1:2).

Offer acceptable sacrifices of Fasting and other spiritual services. God weighs human motives. Our underlying motives for praying, fasting, worship, giving or offering any form of service in God’s Kingdom must align with His Will, Verses 3-4 describe wrong kinds of and motives for fasting, namely: pleasure-seeking, exploitation, strive, conflict, and cruelty. God’s desired and acceptable attitudes in fasting are: humility, remorse, repentance, showing forgiveness, liberating the oppressed, caring for the needy, showing kindness to the vulnerable, avoiding false accusation, and uplifting, positive communication (vv.5-10). Verse 10a affirms: “Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday.”

God’s Grace is available and sufficient to make us willing and ready to fulfil all conditions for our light to break forth like the morning, dispelling every darkness of sadness, perplexity, failure, and shame, our Healing to spring forth speedily, and God’s Glory be our portion.