SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 26 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. [Isaiah 26:8] What Isaiah writes here is based on his confidence that God is going to step in and make things right. He is determined to stay true to God;…
living His kingdom NOW!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 25 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall and like the heat of the desert. [Isaiah 25:4-5] Living in this world…
my heart as God sees it!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 24 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!” Terror and pit and snare await you, O people of the earth. [Isaiah 24:16-17] Isaiah hears the people enthusiastically…
rich or poor in God’s eyes?
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 23 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes. [Isaiah 23:18] Isaiah issues a warning against the prosperous sea-faring nation of Phoenicia and her…
Shebna’s dangerous philosophy
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!” [Isaiah 22:13] “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, O you mighty man….
the end is in sight
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post. Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie…
no more shame
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared–to Egypt’s shame. [Isaiah 20:3-4]…
question of the week
So here is the question of the week: What does it mean that the Bible is inspired? (Check out previous questions here)
all nations blessed
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. [Isaiah 19:20] The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.” [Isaiah 19:25] There can be no doubt that God’s…
what gifts am I offering?
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers– the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord…