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Isaiah chapter 62 verses 6 and 7.

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen all the day and all the night they shall never be silent

You who put the Lord in remembrance take no rest and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem

and makes it a praise in the earth. These verses use this watchman imagery to call us to pray. So think about this. God says,

I've put watchman on your walls. What does a watchman do? Heman on your wall. So what does a Watchman do?

He stands on the wall at his post

day in and day out and keeps watch,

like is looking out from the city or what's happening around the city and never

takes his eyes off of that. So the whole picture here is God all throughout Isaiah has given promises

of his restoration to come, the redemption he's going to bring.

And God says, I've put Watchman on your walls of Jerusalem to look forward to that, to keep pointing us to that. And then he gets down to

verse 7, he says, now you who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest and give him no

rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

So in other words, those watchmen on the walls don't rest until it happens.

Until Jerusalem is restored, until the people of God are re-established and God's name is

praised among them until these promises become a reality. Keep watching

don't rest and then it says give him no rest so the whole picture is keep watching and

praying and pleading until God brings this about Like don't give God any rest from your watching and praying and pleading.

Like I think about when my kids were newborn,

they gave us no rest right that's what newborns do I'm

guessing somebody's listening to this right now is it's probably there right now

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