Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:4b (NKJV) (Part 2 of 2) Despite the fact that Jesus went to the cross carrying our burdens, it's easy for people to look back on history – and even during the actual days it happened –...
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Isaiah 53:4 (NKJV) (Part 1 of 2) Isaiah 53 is an amazing prophecy about the coming Messiah – who He would be and what He would do. And looking back on it from the view point of the cross, it is remarkably...
They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. Ps 112:7 (NLT) The Psalmist is writing about the kind of life someone who follows God lives. From verse 6-7, it says “Such people will not be overcome by evil. Those who are righteous...
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV) To be sanctified means to be “set apart – made holy, to consecrate, prepare, dedicate, be separate”. This passage of...
Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. Isaiah 41:10 (NLT) Fear. Most of us live with it, day-in and day-out, directing our decisions,...
Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. Ps 126:5 (NLT) What amazes me about this verse is that the people it speaks of who are grieving and depressed… Who were going through dark and hard times, a season marked with tears… Those people still planted....
Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her! Luke 1:45 Imagine an angel coming to you in the middle of the night. You have never seen one before and were never expecting one to show up, but as sure as the dawn, an angel stands...
But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength so that I might preach the Good News in its entirety for all the Gentiles to hear. And he rescued me from certain death. 2 Tim 4:17 (NLT) This is one of the last things Paul had written before he was martyred. He was...
As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. Hosea 6:3 (NIV) Have you ever been in a situation where a person treats you like you’re not there? It can be uncomfortable and degrading....
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Colossians 3:23 (NLT) I remember being at a staff retreat for a Church I was working at, and being given the exercise of reading Colossians and bringing back my...
