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Isaiah 52:2
Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem.
(Rather than His people sitting in the dust of mourning because of their exile
and where they had been sitting in despair,
the Lord is calling them to rise up and take their seat of honor
on the chosen and prepared throne that He gives them,
their enthronement being a seat of high honor and freedom.
The Lord invites us still today to sit in a place of honor in His Presence today,
which is always a seat of freedom,
and, even though we may still be in some kind of exile in our lives,
to shake off the mourning and sadness that binds us
because the Lord has triumphed over our enemy
and has prepared a place of victory for us.)
Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.
(Like a beast of burden, Israel has been yoked with bondage and exile
Now, the Lord declares through the meaning in Hebrew
that their bands have been loosened, that He has unchained them.
He has loosened whatever binds us today as well.
He calls us Daughter today, beloved and seated in high places with Him.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

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Isaiah 52:1b
The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you [Jerusalem] again.
(Zion, the city of God, has been decimated and its people, the people of God,
have been exiled to Babylon from their beloved homeland.
But the Lord has seen their desperation, and, now, after 70 long years,
the Lord extends His promise of deliverance from bondage
and back to His chosen home for His people.
He also declares this promise to Zion, that of a future when no enemy forces
will be able to penetrate the city and people of God,
when no attack, no entry, no oppression,
from the enemy's forces is even possible.
Today, we are God's people. We are His city on a hill.
This same promise holds true for us today, that the Lord has decreed
a time for us when the Lord's reign is complete and fulfilled
and we His people are safely and forever encamped
in the full and magnificent Presence of God.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

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Isaiah 52:1a
Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength!
Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city.
(In a call of encouragement, the Lord directs His people to arise
from their mourning and oppression in Babylon
and to put on their garments of celebration and joy.
Instead of their waiting until they are released
and set free from Babylon, the Lord is calling His people
to put on a new face while they are still in exile and bondage.
Instead of waiting until some point in the future when everything is fine,
we are called to celebrate and rejoice right now
while we are in the very middle of difficult circumstances,
This call to waken, earlier to Jerusalem
and earlier still to the strength of the Lord,
is now repeated again here as both a command and a promise.
Not only does the Lord call His people
to throw off their garments of bondage,
but His call is also a promise that He is delivering them
out of the exile and slavery in which they were bound
and into a new relationship with Him.
He is calling them to put on wedding garments
to ready themselves as His Bride.
His call to us today is the same, both a command
to exercise strength to shift ourselves and our focus
away from the situation we may be facing today and toward Him,
as well as a promise that He has chosen this time
to call us forth and deliver us into our true identity in Him.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

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Isaiah 51:22b-23
"See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of My wrath, you will never drink again.
(The Lord declares to His people that He is their Deliverer.
Not only will He remove them from the consequences of their sin,
He tells His people that He will not allow them
to suffer that kind of exile again.
Today He offers that same promise to us,
to remove cup of our disobedience and inadequacy
and to deliver us from the places of exile in which we have suffered
so that we do not experiences those places again.)
I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you,
'Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.'
And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on."
(The Lord will take the very cup of suffering
from which we have been drinking
and put it into the hands of those who have oppressed His people,
turning back on themselves the very things
they have done to God's chosen ones
and causing them to reap what they have sown.
He will pour out the cup of His wrath on the enemy of His people,
making true His promise that any attack on His people is an attack on Him.
Since He our God is undefeated and indomitable, completely undefeatable,
He will cause us who have been brought low, walked on, passed over,
and tormented by oppression to be raised and delivered by His Hand.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:21-22a
Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.
(The Lord is speaking to His people
who have experienced years of Babylonian exile,
exile from their homeland, exile into an uninviting people and environment.
They are afflicted with the harshness of their oppressors,
and they can't walk without staggering like a drunk because of their burden,
the burden of carrying God's displeasure with their sin.
We, too, today, may be drunken, completely overcome, with the sense
of feeling separated from God because of the circumstances that afflict us.
Today, He is calling us even in the present, difficult situation to listen to Him.)
This is what your Sovereign Lord says,
your God, Who defends His people:
(Today, no matter what kind of "exile" or affliction we may be enduring,
the Lord reminds us, first, that He is sovereign, that He reigns supreme.
Next, He assures us that He is our God, that He chooses us as His people.
And, finally, He declares He will defend us.
Whether we walked with eyes wide-open into a situation
or whether we were ambushed by circumstances over which we had no control,
the Lord is our Defender, our undefeated Warrior, our unconquered Ally,
in Whom we can wholeheartedly put our trust today.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:20
Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner,
like antelope caught in a net.
(If the children are God's people and Jerusalem is their mother,
God's people are helplessly caught in the devastation of their exile,
and, born in exile, the children of God's people are as lost as their elders.
What the people of God have produced, both their physical children,
as well as the work of their hands and their spiritual maturity, is weak and ineffective.
The people faint in the entrapment of their attempts to free themselves.
We, too, have tried to produce works, our "children," out of our own strength,
out of our own inner resources, out of our own determination, all to no avail.
We and all that we have tried to produce on our own are helpless and ineffective.)
They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.
(Because the people of God have failed to obey the Lord and His purposes for them,
their own, their so-called "good," works will forever fall short of pleasing God.
Failure and exile and fecklessness will always be the product of our own works,
and our good works, our performance, will never be good enough
to meet God's high and holy standards.
Holy Spirit's works that He chooses to produce through us
are the only way we can be free and strong,
and we are only strong in Him.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:19
These double calamities have come upon you—who can comfort you?—
ruin and destruction, famine and sword—who can console you?
(As the people of God sought answers and hope, the Lord spoke truth to them.
They had tried their own way, and it had taken them into exile.
They had looked to their leaders for help and found no one.
They had tried their own routes of escape
only to find themselves further entrapped.
The unwritten but clear answer to the Lord's challenge
is that there is no one to whom they can call.
The equally clear but unwritten answer
is that the Lord their God is their only hope.
Today, the situation is the same for many of us--
ruin and destruction in our lives,
a famine of truth and hope and deliverance,
and the sword of fierce life battles and deep wounding.
Today, the Lord asks us the same question and the answer is clear--
help from others or from our own strength
is unable to comfort or console us, much less deliver us.
There is no one on whom we can call.
Today, the answer is still the Lord, the Only One
Who is our Deliverer and Comforter.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:18
Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her;
among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand.
(Because God's people have drunk from the cup that makes men stagger,
the consequences of their sin and rebellion,
they reel under the burden of the consequences of their choices.
As if they were drunk with wine, as they seek help,
they can find no one who is able to hold them steady
or guide them back to the soberness of walking in God's holy ways,
not even their spiritual leaders who themselves are also staggering and lost.
Drawn to the same dregs of disobedience, not only are the leaders of Israel
unable to comfort themselves as they stagger under the heaviness of exile,
they are also unable to comfort the people whom they are supposed to lead.
Today, because we as the Body of Christ have been lukewarm and asleep,
we have not raised up the next leaders to call us back to God.
Today, because we have no one to whom to turn,
out of desperation, we may be seeking someone
to guide us and take us by the hand to lead us
out of the place of rebellion against God,
out of the place of foolish choices,
out of the place of exile that life has heaped upon us,
but we can find no help or solace from man or the leaders to whom we look.
Today, our only hope is in Christ Himself.
He is the One Who guides us, takes us by the hand,
and leads us out of the hopelessness in which we find ourselves.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings!

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Isaiah 51:17
Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem,

(A few verses earlier, this same call was made to the Arm of the Lord.

In 51:9, the Lord "awoke" and responded to the great needs of His people.
Now the Lord is calling to His beloved Jerusalem.

Today, He is calling to us by name, His beloved, His Jerusalem,
to awake and rise up to acknowledging the power of His Presence.)

you who have drunk from the Hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath,
you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.

(The Lord had allowed His people to experience the consequences
of their disobedience and rebellion against Him,
allowed them to experience an exile that mirrors in small part
the great exile that is in store for those
who continue rejecting the Lord and His purposes for their lives.
He knows the depth of wrath and the staggering heaviness of such a path.
Now He is calling His people to rise up and look to Him.
Some situations in our lives today
may also be the result of our own choices and behaviors,
and the Lord may have allowed us to experience the consequences of that life path.

He knows the fear and desperation which we may be experiencing today

and calls us to wake up, to rise up out of the turmoil of fear and hopelessness,

out of the heaviness of our foolish need to try to be strong enough
to exert control over our own lives in our own strength,
and to awaken to His Presence and His control over our lives.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:16b (Amplified translation)
"[I have] covered you with the shadow of My Hand—
(Speaking to His people Israel, the Lord reminds them
that it is He Who provides protection for them even in their difficulties

through the mighty power and strength of His Hand.
The Lord also reveals Himself to us through His protection and provision.
His Hand hovers over us today to shadow us against the heat of the sun
and to shelter us from the fury of the storm.
The mere shadow of His mighty Hand is sufficient to serve
as a canopy, as a shade, as a boundary between us and what lies in the world.)
to establish the [renewed] heavens
and lay the foundations of the ]renewed] earth,
(The Lord says He intends to "plant" the heavens and "fix in place" the earth,
renewing and making them new from their present fallen state.
He also says that part of that plan
in making known and revealing Himself and His purposes
includes leading us to that completed new heavens and new earth
and using us and His interactions with us to bring about the completion of that plan.)
and to say to Zion (Jerusalem), 'You are My people.'"

(Even though God's people are currently exiled in Babylon,
as He leads them into His purposes,
He declares over them that they belong to Him and are called by His Name,
that He will return them to their homeland,
a homeland that will ultimately be renewed and restored.
Today, even if our lives are filled with difficulties
and challenges beyond our capability to handle,
He calls us into those same purposes of using us
to carry out His plan to renew the heavens and the earth,
to set our feet at home in Him,
and to know that we belong to Him and are called by His Name.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:16a
"I have put My Words in your mouth . . . ."
(As the Lord speaks to His people Israel,
He reminds them He has given His truths to them
through the Law and the word of His prophets.
The Lord has been faithful to communicate to His people
a revelation of Himself and of the covenant He Himself has made with  them.
The Lord has put His Words in our hearts and minds, as well,
enabling us to process what He tells us and to apply His truths
to our lives and all the situations we encounter.
As we listen to Him, as we read and study His Word,
as we look to Jesus, as we listen to Holy Spirit,
the Lord communicates Himself to us, revealing Himself and His truths to us.
No issue, no problem, no challenge is so different, so unique,
that the Lord has not already made provision for it
in all its aspects and details for us.
As we speak forth the truths that He has given us today
over both ourselves and others, knowing that His Word never returns void,
we speak the very commands and promises of God Himself

into our lives and into the situations that we live through today.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:15
For I am the Lord your God,
(The Lord uses His proper Name, His national title here,
a name and title that speak of His eternal, majestic, awesome, self-existent nature,
as He graciously links Himself to us as our very God.
He chooses to call Himself our God,
and His Name reassures us that He speaks truth
in His earlier promises of providing for His people
and that we can hold Him to those promises of deliverance and provision.)
Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord Almighty is His Name.
(This God Who makes this declaration to us
is the same God Who parted the unstoppable juggernaut of sea waves
and caused them to come to rest in a pool against a wall of water.
He quieted the waters and caused their roar to come to rest.
This God is the same God Who quiets the roaring storms in our lives
and makes them reside in a quiet pool with a walkway for us
to journey through them to the other side.
While the storm we face today may seem insurmountable,
even the wind and the waves obey His Voice,
so we can know today that any situation in our lives
has to yield to His command.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:14
The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;
(The Hebraic meaning for cowering describes the Lord's people
as bowed and weighted down, bent over
with the crush of their Babylonian captivity
and their banishment from their homeland.)
they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
(The underlying message to us is that, as His people,
we may well experience a Babylonian captivity
bowing us down under the weight of the chains that hold us,
but the message does not stop there
He will not leave us to die there in despair and pain.
In that banishment, in that captivity, in that impossible situation,
the Lord's promise to us is not only that we will not die in the pit,
in the Babylon of the situation that imprisons us, but that He will set us free
He knows our emotional and spiritual needs, as well as our physical needs,
and He declares unequivocally that He will provide for all our needs.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

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Isaiah 51:12b-13
Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass,
(The Lord has just promised us that He will rescue us,
that He will return us to our home in Him, and that He will comfort us.
With such support from such a God, how can we ever stoop
to the foolishness of fearing men and the situations springing from them.
No matter the most powerful of man, we are all as fragile and short-lived
as the grass that withers and dies away.)
that you forget the Lord your Maker, Who stretches out the heavens
and Who lays the foundations of the earth,
(This God Who has chosen to covenant with us,
Who has chosen to fellowship with us,
Who has chosen to make His dwelling place in us,
is a God Whose power, try as we might,
is beyond any human comprehension.)
that you live in constant terror every day
because of the wrath of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
(Yet, even knowing this about the Lord God Almighty
Who has saved and redeemed us,
how often do we yield to fear, how often do we yield to the trap
of standing in agreement with the lies of the enemy.
Any time we sink into fear, we are actually agreeing
with the very enemy of our souls,
an enemy who is a liar and the father of lies
and whose sole purpose is to destroy us.
The Lord tells us here that no matter how powerful the situation seems,
no matter how daunting the circumstances,
no matter how impossible seems the attack,
the oppressor is of absolutely no account and has no power over us.
Today, we do not stand on the limited view
of the world and of the situations that we face
that may inform our human perspective.
Rather, we stand on the firm foundation of God's love and provision for us!)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:12a
"I, even I, am He Who comforts you.:"
(As He speaks deliverance and freedom and release to His people,
the Lord also declares He will comfort and console and ease their distress
even in the midst of their distress and discomfort.
Today, no matter what our circumstances,
the Lord still declares to us He is our Comforter and our Solace.
He has given us His Own Spirit to dwell within us to ensure that we are comforted,
that we have an Advocate Who speaks to the Father on our behalf.
His Covenant of Love that He made with us promises
that He will be our support and give us rest in Him.
If this Mighty God is for us, who, indeed, can be against us!
Who can prevail against us? Who can daunt us?
The Lord Himself is our Comforter and our God)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:11b
They will enter Zion with singing;
Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
(The Lord is promising His people He will rescue them
from their Babylonian exile and return them to their homeland.
That journey will be a long, extended one, through mountain and desert terrain.
In any journey of this length in that day,
the travelers' practice was to sing to help pass the time.
In their soon-to-come journey of deliverance,
their song will spring from their exuberance and joy
about being rescued, as well as their homecoming.
They will no longer even have any connection
to their former heavy-hearted sadness.

Because the Lord has also promised us deliverance from any bondage over us,
we can set out on our journey today into our Zion home in Him
with great joy and song , knowing that He has set us free.)

everlasting joy will crown their heads.
(Because of their deliverance and because of their journey home to their inheritance,
rather than being bound by oppression and sadness,
God's people will wear their joy like a crown of glory.
We, too, have been released from bondage and oppression.
We, too, are being led into a return to our inheritance, our promised land,
our homeland, our place of victory in Christ.
We, too, can sing during the journey we are on today
for the sheer and sure joy of release and victory the Lord has declared for us.
We, too, are crowned with the glory of the joy of the Lord
when we walk in the truth of His Word over us.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings!

Sally
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Isaiah 51:11a
Those the Lord has rescued will return.
(Repeated from Isaiah 35:10, this verse reiterates the sure promise
that the Lord's purposes for His people will prevail.
If the Lord chose to include this verse a second time in His enduring Word to us,
surely it carries a significant and powerful message to us.
Just as the Lord has rescued His people previously in countless situations,
one of which was deliverance through the parted Red Sea,
so He will rescue them once again,
this time from their Babylonian exile and bondage.
Not only will the Lord rescue His people
from the consequences of their disobedience and rebellion,
He will also return them to their original inheritance.
Today, just as the Lord has rescued us time and time again,
so will He rescue us from the places in our hearts and minds where sin,
where our own foolish choices, where the world, has dominion over us.
He will also reinstate our inheritance,
even working those things together for good where we failed and fell away,
returning us to the place of victory and restoration in the "land"
where we are once again aligned with Him and His purposes for us.) 

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:10
Was it not You Who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep,
Who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over^?
(As the speaker prays for the Lord for release from his Babylonian oppression,
he builds his faith by remembering all the Lord has done for His people in the past.
The Lord, indeed, is the One Who miraculously delivered His people
through a humanly impossible path as they escaped the pursuit of their oppressors.
Facing the sea barrier before them and looking backward
at the powerful Egyptian army in pursuit,
God's people experienced one of the greatest deliverances of their entire lives.
Today, when the barrier before us is absolutely humanly impassable,
and the enemy is bearing down on us from all sides,
as we look to the Lord Who is our Deliverer,
He blasts apart what is blocking us at its very root.
He makes the road ahead passable right through the middle of the impossible situation,
even through the valley of the shadow of death.
He offers us today the same kind of escape from our enemies
and the same kind of passage out of oppression and into freedom in Him.
What may look to us like an impossible barrier today
is merely the vehicle the Lord is choosing to use
to reveal His mighty power in our lives today!)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

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Isaiah 51:9c
Was it not You Who cut Rahab to pieces, Who pierced that monster through?

(This continued plea from a people who have been banished into exile
and who are suffering from the consequences
of their refusal to follow in the path the Lord laid out for them
resounds with the truth of God's past works on behalf of His people.
Rahab is a symbol of Egypt, whose Hebrew meaning points to pride or arrogance,
with Egypt here portrayed as being hewn to pieces by the Lord
when He divided the Red Sea as the means of escape for His people.
The monster or dragon is the Pharaoh
whom the Lord also defeated and destroyed in that same series of events.
When we cry out to the Lord for His deliverance,
we need to remember what the Lord has done in our own past,
first, in the most fundamental, elemental, foundational way,
that He has delivered us from the enslavement of the Egypt
of own sin nature which defined us in our pride and arrogance and rebellion
and that He has slain the dragon of sin that ruled over us.
Then, we need to recall the other places of intervention and deliverance
the Lord has accomplished over and in and through our lives,
those places of fear and anger and hopelessness,
those places where we needed to forgive,
those places of bondage and enslavement due to our disobedience to God's ways,
those places where we needed to let go of martyrdom
and be thankful for all the blessings with which He showers us
When we think of all He has done, we can be assured of all that He will do today, as well.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:9b
Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old.
(As he makes his plea to the Lord, the petitioner is giving us an example
of how to pray in our desperate times of need.
The speaker has acknowledged earlier that the Lord has allowed His people
to experience the dire consequences of turning their backs on Him.
Now, in intercession on behalf of the people,
the speaker is reminding himself of what the Lord has formerly done for His people
when He delivered them from their enslavement in Egypt.
If the Lord could deliver them from the power of Egypt,
so could He deliver them from their Babylonian exile.
Just as we often need to do, the speaker is building his own faith
as he "reminds" the Lord of His great past works
and by doing so reminding himself of the same
by turning his thinking and focus to revisiting the monuments and markers
of what God has formerly accomplished in His people's lives.
Today, as we call on the Lord to intervene in our present great needs,
we need to remind ourselves of all that the Lord has done and is doing
even in the midst of challenging and dark places.
As we call on Him and ask Him to waken to our cries,
we need to remember His great works on our behalf.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

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Isaiah 51:9a
Awake, awake, Arm of the Lord, clothe Yourself with strength!
(The speaker earnestly cries out to the Lord for help,
calling on Him, pleading with Him, to use His power to set His people free,
and giving us an example of yet another prayer
the Lord has chosen to include in Scripture for our benefit
so that we, too, can speak it forth in our deep needs.
Because of their wicked ways, the people of God
have experienced the consequences of their actions,
part of which has been exile from their beloved homeland for 70 years,
from everything that was familiar to them
and to everything that was harsh and oppressive.
This fervent cry is a petition and intercession to the Lord to act on their behalf.
Although the Lord never sleeps, is never late, is never unmindful of our needs,
this cry to awake is a figure of speech that reflects the speaker's heartfelt need
for the Lord to intervene in the lives of His people.
Although we, so often, like this intercessor,
attribute to the Lord's seeming inaction or even uncaring,
what we perceive as being no change in our situations,
the Lord, in fact, is always at work, always meeting our needs,
always acting to benefit and support us
in a thousand different ways in a thousand different levels,
bringing us into repentance, maturing us in the faith,
and timing His intervention perfectly for His highest and best purposes for us.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 51:8
"For the moth will eat them up like a garment;
the worm will devour them like wool.
(The Lord commits this promise to His people,
that both the people who attack us who are called by His Name,
as well as their slanders and lies, will be destroyed.
Because the Lord's covering over His people is so powerful,
the attacks of the enemy are so weak compared to Him
that a mere moth, a tiny insect, can destroy them.)
But My righteousness will last forever,
My salvation through all generations."
(Here is the everlasting truth for us today,
that the Lord God Almighty, God Most High,
is eternal, supreme, self-existent, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.
With His declaration ringing in our ears today,
we have nothing to fear as we live in His righteousness
and take part in the full salvation He has provided for us,
salvation that includes victory over the enemy.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
513 254 3874

Good Word for Today!

The Lord Be With You Today!

Isaiah 51:7b
"Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals
or be terrified by their insults."
(The Lord tells us today very plainly that we are not to fear
those who attack us, those who scheme against us,
those who insult us, those who belittle us,
those who try to smear our reputation.
The Lord once again reiterates
His most often repeated command in all His Word,
not to fear, not to be afraid, not to lack courage.
As we remember that He has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and love and a sound and controlled mind,
a mind that is disciplined to stand on the truth of God
instead of the lies of the enemy,
we remember that He tells us that if He, God Himself,
is for us who can be against us and what can mere man do to us.
When we focus on Him and Who He really is,
fear of man and fear of situations they may create
simply melt away in the light of the awesome power of Almighty God
Who is our Lord and Savior and Who faithfully instructs us in His way.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
513 254 3874