PRAY FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW JESUS! I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. —Isaiah 65:1             I did not ask for the Lord but He was ready for me to seek Him.  I was not seeking after the Lord, but He was ready for me to find Him.  How did I come to the point of being ready to seek Him?  It was He who made me ready— “”No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up…

WAIT!  BE SHAPED! From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. —Isaiah 64:4 But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. —Isaiah 64:8 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. —I Thessalonians 5:11 Do not quench the Spirit. —I Thessalonians 5:19             We have an awesome God who is utterly amazing.  Who could even imagine His goodness, His greatness, His genuineness and His immense grace toward us. …

Generational Disciple-Making “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.” —Isaiah 59:21             Generational disciple-making is seen in the verse above— 1- The Lord 2- puts words in our mouth.  3- The words are not to depart from our children.  4- The words are not to depart from our children’s children and this is to continue…

HAVING PEACE “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” —Isaiah 57:21             Satan’s lie is we can be fulfilled by not following God.  But this is obviously not true.  There are so many that are seeking peace in their lives, but they are seeking in all the wrong places.  Peace with God only comes through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1-2).              The wicked are at odds with God.  As a matter of fact, for all those who do not know our Lord Jesus Christ, they are “enemies of God” (Romans 5:10).  God knows all people and He knows that “there is no peace for the wicked.”…

UNDERSTANDING THE LAMB OF GOD He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 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 of us all. —Isaiah…

BE COMFORTED AND FEARLESS! I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? —Isaiah 51:12-13             Do we go to the One who desires to comfort us?  Or… do we seek to self-comfort by other means?  Those who do not want to trust in Jesus…

HE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU! Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. —Isaiah 49:15-16                “Can a woman forget her nursing child?”  You would think not, but if a woman is calloused, irresponsible and outright wicked then she could “have no compassion on the son of her womb?”  There are those women who neglect their child and want to forget they had them.  They do not want to care for them.  They…

FOLLOWERS OF JESUS ARE IN PROCESS If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But…

OUR LORD MAKES THE DEAD LIVE! I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. —Isaiah 43:25 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. —Colossians 2:13-14 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the…

GOD IS CONTROL! The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. —Colossians 1:15-18             Jesus is— The Son of God The image of the invisible God The firstborn over all creation…