Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Isaiah

May It Never Be

ISAIAH 63:4-5 – For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come. I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold . . . THEME OF THE DAY. MAY IT NEVER BE. Today’s scripture is one of those soul-searching, heart-exposing, mind-probing and life-evaluating portions of…

Our Hiding God

ISAIAH 45:15 – Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. THEME OF THE DAY. OUR HIDING GOD. Sometimes it feels like it – God hiding Himself especially during trying times when we cry out for His comforting presence and we are met with a silence and no relief. We feel abandoned, even ignored by the…

Nighttime Visitations

ISAIAH 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. THEME OF THE DAY. NIGHTTIME VISITATIONS. All of us experience sleepless nights. Believers and unbelievers alike. There are multiple reasons for being kept awake at night. Some of these reasons are common to both believers and unbelievers; work, stress, anxiety, worry, sickness, physical discomfort,…

It Begins In The Mind

ISAIAH 26:3-4 – You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. THEME OF THE DAY. IT BEGINS IN THE MIND. One of the most important impacts Christians may have in our world is to live out the promise Jesus gave…

Suffering And The Christian Life

ISAIAH 25:8-9 – He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. 9 It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.…

When Things Don’t Go As Planned

ISAIAH 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. THEME OF THE DAY. WHEN THINGS DON’T GO AS PLANNED. Today’s scripture might be considered one of those “great to…