The Holy Spirit strongly impressed upon me in my communion time to minister healing and encouragement to those who are broken hearted that is those who have experienced continual betrayal, loss, disappointment, and deep anguish despite faithfully serving the Lord and sacrificing much for His Kingdom. It appears like your obedience to the Lord has seemed to bring you additional pain rather than the reward you have expected of the Lord. The Lord is declaring to you today how much He desires to reveal the true spiritual reality of your situation, by healing every wound in you have suffered and restoring your hearts with greater strength and steadfastness.

The foundation of this word is found in Isaiah 49:14–18, where Zion cries, “The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.” The Lord immediately answers this accusation with His unchanging truth. He declares that although human relationships may fail, He will never forget His people. Even if a nursing mother reaches the point to where she forgets her child, the Lord’s covenant love always remains steadfast.

The first truth the Holy Spirit emphasised is that the Lord has not forsaken you. So regardless of what people have done to you or how deeply you have been wounded, the Lord has never abandoned you, not even for a second. As followers of Jesus we are exhorted to lift our eyes away from the hurt caused by men and refocus all our attention upon the Lord, who has promised, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).

Secondly, the Lord has not forgotten you. Through Isaiah 49:16, He declares, “See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands.” The Holy Spirit highlighted the profound significance of this statement because being inscribed upon the Lord’s hands means that every movement of His hand constantly works on behalf of those He has engraved there. No one can prevent the hand of the Lord from accomplishing His purposes, performing miracles, or fulfilling His ancient plans towards us. This truth aligns with the certainty expressed in Job 42:1–2, where we are told that no purpose of the Lord can be withheld or frustrated.

The Holy Spirit then instructed me to examine the meaning of the word “inscribed.” Rather than relying on my assumption of its true meaning, we are encouraged to seek the true meaning of the Lord’s words, as the Holy Spirit faithfully reveals their deeper significance and import concerning our lives. The dictionary definition means “to print as a lasting record”which brings fresh understanding.

The Lord has permanently recorded His people upon the palms of His hands as an enduring testimony of His covenant commitment. This signifies that everything necessary to establish His purposes in our lives will be supplied and performed for us by His mighty hand, resulting in miracles, signs, wonders, restoration, and the fulfilment of every promise He has spoken over us.

In light of this revelation, we as Jesus’s followers are called to reject every lie of the enemy suggesting that the Lord has forgotten or abandoned us. Such thoughts directly contradict the Lord’s own testimony.

Instead, we are to embrace the Father’s thoughts toward us, which are thoughts of love, restoration, recovery, and divine purpose. The Lord further reinforced His faithfulness by comparing Himself to a nursing mother. While even human mothers may occasionally fail through weakness or exhaustion, the Lord never slumbers nor sleeps.

He continually watches over His children and preserves them from evil, as declared in Psalm 121:4. These are the true spiritual realities that must take precedence over all painful emotions or outward circumstances troubling us. As an act of faith and obedience, we as followers of Jesus are encouraged to deliberately cast off every lie of abandonment and receive the truth of the Lord’s abiding presence.

We are to lift our eyes to the Lord with expectancy, thanksgiving, by embracing His overflowing love, and laying hold once again of every promise the Lord has spoken concerning our lives. We are are reminded that His plans remain plans of hope and a future according to Jeremiah 29:11.

Finally, the Holy Spirit is calling us as the followers of Jesus to determine that we will walk fully in the Lord’s promises by yielding ourselves completely to obeying His guidance. As we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us, we will experience the miraculous working of the Lord’s hand in every area of our lives. This word concludes by encouraging us to continually meditate on Isaiah 49, thus allowing its truths and facts to become firmly established in our hearts until they transform our daily lives and become our lived reality.

In the name of Jesus, may every lie the enemy has concocted saying you have been forgotten, abandoned, or overlooked by the Lord be broken from your heart today. May the Holy Spirit heal every wound in your heart caused by betrayal, disappointment, delay, and loss. May the revelation of Isaiah 49:14–18 become firmly established within you, and may you know with unwavering confidence that you are permanently inscribed upon the palms of the Lord’s hands.

According to Hebrews 13:5, may you continually experience His abiding presence, and according to Job 42:1–2, may every purpose He has ordained for your life come to full completion without hindrance. May the Lord who neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4) watch over you continually, by preserving you from every evil, and restoring all that has been lost.

May the hope and future the Lord has promised in Jeremiah 29:11 unfold before your eyes as the Holy Spirit leads you into the fullness of your inheritance. May the mighty hand of the Lord perform miracles, signs, wonders, restoration, and fulfilment in your life, and may your testimony proclaim His unfailing faithfulness all your days in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.