In Isaiah 62, God talks about a commissioning that He gives to the watchmen.
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves;
And give Him no rest until He establishes
And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
(Isaiah 62:6–7)[1]
This chapter continues with how God will bless Israel. They will be called, “The holy people, the redeemed of the LORD; … a city not forsaken” (Isaiah 62:12).
When God talks about these watchmen, He is talking about intercessors who cry out to the Lord until He blesses and fulfills His Word over Israel. You can start by proclaiming Isaiah 62 or Jeremiah 31 to see how God will turn their mourning into great joy, and He will never forsake them. Obviously, the Scriptures recount a lot of the discipline that God brought on Israel for their rebellion, but the prophecies always end with the blessing, release, and restoration that God is going to bring to His people Israel.
God has been speaking a Word over Israel for a long time. So when you become a watchman, you start by repeating what God has already said. You do not keep silent; you remind the Lord of His Word. God has already spoken so many things that are to take place. So the watchman stands up on the wall in a high place and cries out to God. In other words, you get in God’s face, and you remind Him, “This is what You said!”
It is important for us to realize that we are reminding God of the Word that has already come out of His mouth. As we do this, it begins to weld the Word of God to our own hearts, and we become committed to what He has spoken in the Scriptures. With determination a watchman proclaims, “What You promised in blessing and fulfillment is going to happen!” Day and night you do not keep silent until that Word is fulfilled.
When you come into a covenant with the Word of God, you will speak that Word out of the covenant in your heart, out of your commitment to His Word, your love for His Word, and your drive that every Word He has spoken is going to have its manifestation. It will have its fulfillment. And we live our lives in a dedication for that fulfillment to happen in whatever it is that God has spoken.
Let us look at another Scripture in Isaiah.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”
(Isaiah 55:10–11)
God will fulfill every Word He has ever voiced. It will succeed in the matter for which He sent it. It does not matter to God how long it seems to take; it will happen. So find the prophecies and declare them again. I always read the Scriptures out loud; I never read them silently. When you read the Bible out loud, you feel the power of the Word, and you move into this anointing of being one of God’s watchmen.
[1] All Scripture references are from the New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995).
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