CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. —Isaiah 59:1-3             Have you known sin in your life right now?  Confess it to the Lord!  Agree with Him that you have sinned against Him.  “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and…

HE WORKS THE WAYS OF HIS WORD For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. —Isaiah 55:10-11 The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. —Psalm 119:139 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. —Psalm…

BEAUTIFUL FEET! ” How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” —Isaiah 52:7 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? —Isaiah 53:1 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity…

LISTEN, OBEY, SERVE The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. —Isaiah 50:4-5             It is the Lord that enables us to speak according to His desires.  He does this so we can encourage those who are weary.  Who is it today that our Lord desires you to encourage?  To be ready to encourage someone we need to spend time…

PEACE ONLY COMES THROUGH OUR CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF ALL! I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things. —Isaiah 45:7  I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.  —Isaiah 45:12  For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the LORD, and there is no other. —Isaiah 45:18  Turn to me and be saved, all…

LISTEN TO HIM! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. —Psalm 119:11             When we first called on our Lord to be saved (Romans 10:13, we were “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good” (I Peter 2:2-3).  But we do not want to stay as newborn babies!  Unfortunately, “though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on…

HE IS MY CREATOR AND SUSTAINER A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. —Isaiah 40:6-8 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust… All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less…

TRUST THE GIVER AND TAKER OF LIFE— NOT MAN And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. —Isaiah 37:36 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. —Isaiah 38:4-5 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge…

ONLY HE KNOWS OUR LIFE SPAN O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. —Isaiah 33:2 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!” Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest;…

WORSHIPPING OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY OR SOMETHING ELSE Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?” You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? —Isaiah 29:15-16 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Our God is in…