BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER! …for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. —Isaiah 56:7 “It is written,” he said to them, “’My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” —Matthew 21:13 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” —Mark 11:17             The temple in Jerusalem was always meant to be “called a house of prayer for all nations.”  Today, the western wall of the last temple, the temple in…

HIS WORD WILL ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSES 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 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had…

A DISCIPLE OF JESUS! The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. —Isaiah 50:4             Disciples of Jesus, that is what we are called to be.  Too many times people turn out to be a disciple of this personality or that personality or of this denomination or that denomination or of this local church or that local church.  We need to make sure that we are a disciple of Jesus and listening and learning from what He has to say to us.  Is my faith in…

JESUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN, WILL ALWAYS BE AND IS CALLING YOU! Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. —Isaiah 48:16-17             Jesus did not just appear and start His existence 2000 years ago as a babe in Bethlehem.  No, Jesus— “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…

HE IS LORD AND THERE IS NO OTHER! 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 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 the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.  —Isaiah 45:22 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things…

YES!  WE CAN FULLY TRUST OUR REDEEMER KING AND LORD! Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior… Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?” —Isaiah 43:10-11, 13 Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god… Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses!…

WOW!  THE MYSTERY REVEALED!   He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And 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, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.…

GOD’S WORD ENDURES FOREVER! All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them.  Surely the people are grass.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. —Isaiah 40:6-8 “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” —I Peter 1:24-25             We look at all that is happening in our world today and wonder where it will all go.  Well,…

KEEP FIXED ON JESUS AND DON’T BE DISTRACTED! But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. —Philippians 3:13-25 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. —Philippians 3:20-21            …

JUDGMENT WILL COME! For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. —Isaiah 34:8             This has been true in the past and has not changed.  There are those who think God is done with the nation of Israel.  As I read the Word of God, and not filtering it through some man-made theological system, I cannot agree with that idea.  It surely looks plain to me that our Lord will be working in and through that nation still.             Be sure of this, there is a day coming when our Lord will carry out His vengeance as He has told us—…