Category: Isaiah
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Inner Peace
Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” One of the great benefits of the Bible is that it exposes what’s going on inside of us. We have mirrors which enable us to look at our outsides, and while the look on our face…
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Will the Trouble Never End?
Isaiah 40:25-31 “Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God’? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is…
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For the Glory of God
Isaiah 6:3 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” Typically, when I read the verse above, my mind goes to the Creation. How can anyone look around them at the mountains of Pennsylvania in the fall of year and not see the glorious brush strokes of our awesome…
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The Unshakeable Fortress
Isaiah 49:16 “. . . your walls are continually before me.” Psalm 62:2 “He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.” In ancient cities, people relied on great walls for protection. They trusted in them. They served as a fortress. People believed they were safe as long…
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Your Walls
Isaiah 49:16 “. . . your walls are continually before me.” Have you ever felt all alone? Have you ever gone through something that, although there may have people around you, you were certain that none of them could understand what you were going through, and any attempt to explain it to them seemed futile?…
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For Those Who Wait
Isaiah 40:29-31 “He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall…
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Of Fires and Floods
Isaiah 43:2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.” One of the things to keep in mind as we read God’s Word is that it is…
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The Hand and Ear of God
Isaiah 59:1 “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear.” Such beautiful assurance is found in the words of Isaiah 59:1. It is a description of God’s abilities put in human terms. You see, God is a spirit, and although the words above talk about God’s…
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The Future
Isaiah 46:8-10 “Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and…
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Joy in the Trials of Life
Isaiah 49:13 “Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.” Joy: it’s one of the most wonderful aspects of the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5). If we are God’s children, we have joy because God…
To Encourage You 