SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 37 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard–those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. [Isaiah 37:6] Do not be afraid… how many times are these words repeated in the bible, to inspire…
boosting my confidence!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 36 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, until I come and take you to a land like your own–a land of…
the Jesus way
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 35 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it. [Isaiah 35:8] A path through the wilderness, where food and drink are miraculously provided…
judgment warnings
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 34 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter. [Isaiah 34:2] The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat– the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of…
question of the week
So here is the question of the week: How has the bible helped you? (Check out previous questions here)
the key to this treasure
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 33 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. [Isaiah 33:2] He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure. [Isaiah 33:6]…
a vision to strive for!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 32 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who…
don’t wait for tough times
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 31 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the Lord. [Isaiah 31:1] I do not look to…
repentance and rest
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found…
no more pretending
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on. Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth. [Isaiah 29:1-2] But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the…