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WHOREDOM… BUT HOPE!  …for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD. —Hosea 1:2  And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD. —Hosea 2:13   There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;  there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. —Hosea 4:2  Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know…

MY LORD HELPS ME!  I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?  My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2              “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).  Such a brief statement, but for those who take His Word for what it is— His Word — this is a profound statement. Our mind cannot fathom His greatness. We cannot even fathom the vastness of the universe.   How could we ever understand the enormity of who God is? All that we understand of Him He has revealed to us in His Word. The heavens…

HE IS SHAPING ME ACCORDING TO HIS DESIRES  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              The potter’s hands move with precision to form the vessel as he desires it to be. So too our Lord forms us. We are raw clay that He is forming according to His desires into a vessel that will accomplish His will. He presses on the clay of our lives and at times the pressure feels like it is more than we can take… but He is forming us, developing us, maturing us for…

SERVE THE NEEDY  Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself…

TRUST GOD’S WORD OVER MAN’S!  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 rain and snow comes down, but does not go back up the way it came down. No, instead it waters the earth. Springtime snow melts and the rains…

OUR SIN IS GONE, BLOTTED OUT, CAST AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST!  I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. —Isaiah 43:25  I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you, —Isaiah 44:22            Do you remember that playground incident that caused you pain? How about in elementary school— remember any negative incidents that took place there? You probably haven’t thought about those for decades until I just stirred up those memories. It is interesting how negative events can come back…

DON’T PUT YOUR TRUST IN PUNY MAN AS FIRST PRIORITY  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. —Isaiah 40:15  All the nations are as nothing before him, they…

TAKE COMFORT AND REJOICE IN HIS PLANS!  Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass… —Isaiah 37:26             What our Lord has determined will come to pass.   Nothing and nobody can alter what He desires. He has plans that will be brought to pass! So, my brother and sister, His plans He has determined for you will come to pass today… THEY WILL COME TO PASS! We can trust Him fully for that.             Let us understand what He is doing, run the race He has marked out for us, be filled with joy as…

DEATH…  Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. —Psalm 116:15              Why is the death of His saints precious in His sight? It is because after death they will be in glory with Him! The redemption will be fully complete. The hope will be fully known. The temporal will have been put down and the eternal, perfect state would now have begun.             Brother and sister, this is what is ahead for us. So keep running the race with perseverance and keep your eyes fixed on Jesus (Hebrews 12:1-2). One day that race will be over. One day we will be with Jesus and…

A REBELLIOUS HUMAN RACE  For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” —Isaiah 30:9-11              When people are in rebellion against our Lord they: Are liars Unwilling to hear God’s Word Don’t want God’s spokesmen to communicate Want to hear “smooth things” Want to hear about illusions Leave the way Turn aside from the path Don’t want…