Category: Isaiah

• Hope’s Foundation

  Isaiah 61:1-3  “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor;  he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance…

  lejaneyoung

  December 17, 2023

  Isaiah, Isaiah 61

  belief, faith, hope, joy, Peace, Word of God

• More Than Meets the Eye

  Isaiah 53:2-3 “He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 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.” Colossians 1:27 “Christ in you . . .” The…

  lejaneyoung

  November 26, 2023

  Colossians, Colossians 1, Isaiah, Isaiah 53

  seeing on the inside, spiritual blindness, spiritual sight, supernatural sight

• Tragic Tradeoffs

  Isaiah 55:1-2 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?  Listen diligently to me,…

  lejaneyoung

  November 14, 2023

  Isaiah, Isaiah 55

  choices, eternity, temporal or eternal, the gift of God, tradeoffs

• Barabbas

  John 18:38-40 “After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, ’I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?’ They cried out again, ‘Not this man,…

  lejaneyoung

  July 31, 2023

  Isaiah, Isaiah 53, John, John 18

  Barabbas, eternal life, forgiveness, freedom, guilt, iniquity, Jesus’ trial, Lamb of God

• The Greatness of God

  1 John 4:8 “God is love” Isaiah 6:3 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty” Psalm 25:8 “Good and upright is the Lord.” Exodus 34:6 “The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.” All of the statements above about God’s nature could be considered massive understatements, primarily…

  lejaneyoung

  July 22, 2023

  1 John, 1 John 4, Exodus, Exodus 34, Isaiah, Isaiah 6, Psalm 25, Psalms

  glory of God, goodness of God, grace, greatness of God, infinitude, love of God, mercy, patience

• To Those Who Seek a Sign

  Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Mark 8:11-12 “The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, ’Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say…

  lejaneyoung

  June 30, 2023

  Isaiah, Isaiah 7, Mark, Mark 8

  faith, miracles, Salvation, signs and wonders, unbelief, virgin birth

• Look!

  Isaiah 45:22 “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth.” Recently I heard an account of how Charles Spurgeon became a Christian.  Charles Spurgeon, who lived in the late 1800’s, was one of the greatest preachers of the gospel that the world has ever known.  As a young man, Charles heard…

  lejaneyoung

  May 2, 2023

  Isaiah, Isaiah 45

  Charles Spurgeon, faith, forgiveness, Salvation

• Have you seen the glory?

  Isaiah 6:3 “The whole earth is full of his glory.” What is glory?  One definition I’ve heard that has helped me to understand the term is that “glory” is “a manifestation of the greatness of God.”  The Seraphim that Isaiah saw and spoke of in Isaiah 6 said that the whole earth is full of…

  lejaneyoung

  April 18, 2023

  Isaiah, Isaiah 6

  eternal life, glory of God, Salvation, spiritual sight, The Great Physician