YOU NEED HELP— LIFT UP YOUR EYES! I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. —Psalm 123:1             To whom else is there but He who sits “enthroned in heaven?”  There is no other— “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me” (Isaiah 46:9). “I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.  He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. …

GOD SAYS OF THE FOOL…                    They exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. —Hosea 4:7 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles…. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. —Romans 1:22-23, 25             Man has this propensity to “exchange the truth of God for something disgraceful.”  It can only lead to “something disgraceful” when one turns away from God and replaces Him with something else.  When people…

HE SOUGHT ME, SAVED ME AND IS MY STRENGTH! I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. —Isaiah 65:1 This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.  Where is the house you will build for me?  Where will my resting place be?  Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”  declares the Lord. —Isaiah 66:1-2 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2 The Lord will keep you…

I AM FREE! The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. —Isaiah 61:1-2 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” —Luke 4:18-19             Jesus came to— Proclaim good…

OH, TO BE PERFECT! I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands. —Psalm 119:176             Have you strayed?  Are you straying?  Oh, our Lord seeks us to restore us.  We are still His servants, we just need to get back on track.  We have not forgotten His commands; we just need to be obedient to them.  Indeed, “Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.  Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me; Then I will be blameless, And I shall be acquitted of great transgression” (Psalm 19:12).             Watch out, if, as a follower of Jesus,…

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. —Isaiah 55:10-11             Whose word can you depend on 100% of the time?  Whose word do you know will fulfill what was spoken 100% of the time.  Surely, every person will fail us and we will fail others with…

SERVE THE KING AND INVITE OTHERS INTO HIS KINGDOM! How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” —Isaiah 52:7 See, my servant will act wisely;  he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.  Just as there were many who were appalled at him— his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness— Isaiah 52:13-15 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. …

HE FORMED US, LOVES US AND WILL NOT FORGET US! Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?  Though she may forget, I will not forget you!  See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. —Isaiah 49:15-16 Your hands made me and formed me. —Psalm 119:73             Listen, “Your hands made me and formed me.”  You are God’s creation and He does not make any mistakes.  We live in a fallen, sinful and corrupt world and that is why “bad things” happen.  Our bodies are affected by sin as well…

OUR LORD WORKS THROUGH WHOEVER HE DESIRES TO! This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.  I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.  For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my…

ONLY ONE KING, REDEEMER AND SAVIOR… ONLY ONE I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. —Isaiah 43:11 This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God… Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it… You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me?  No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” —Isaiah 44:6-8             There is only one Savior and that is Jesus who said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”…