Tag: scripture

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. Isaiah 62:1 God declares His intent and purpose for Zion, Jerusalem and for us in this verse. It is a covenant of love and faithfulness…

Instead of their shame, My people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance. Isaiah 61:7a The world promises us glitz and glitter, but instead it gives us guilt and garbage that produces fear and anxiety in our lives. The world cannot deliver its promises because they do…

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Isaiah 61:1 In our quieter moments, we may pause and ponder…

Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. Isaiah 59:1 When we were children, we might have thought that we are too little to do something or reach for that object. No one has ever detected the Lord thinking that He was not able…

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth, …so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:10a-11 Empty…

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 Supremacy describes the Lord of Hosts. Man has tried to outwit and control a huge,…

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Isaiah 55:6 Finding the Lord comes after we seek the Lord and then call upon His name. It is much harder to call anyone if we have no sense of where they are. A person can call someone without having…

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord. Isaiah 54:17 The grace of the Lord is being constantly poured out on our lives for those…

All your sons will be taught by the Lord, and great will be your children’s peace. Isaiah 54:13 Tradition, knowledge and understanding was passed down the Hebrew culture mainly through the men. Since books were rare and communication was more difficult, stories and other insights were taught by word of mouth. They were repeated through…