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Isaiah Chapter 39: Verses 5-8 (NIV) Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord Almighty: The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood…

Isaiah Chapter 36: Verses 20-21 (NIV)  Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”  But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.” Isaiah Chapter 37: Verses 18-20 (NIV)…

Ephesians Chapter 1: Verses 6-10 (NIV) I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the…

Isaiah Chapter 30: Verses 19-21 (NIV) People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes…

Isaiah Chapter 30: Verses 15-16(NIV) This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation,    in quietness and trust is your strength,    but you would have none of it.You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’    Therefore you will flee!You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’    Therefore your pursuers will be swift! Matthew…

2 Corinthians 12: 8-10 (NIV) Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s…

Psalm 106: Verses 32-33 (NIV) By the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord,    and trouble came to Moses because of them;for they rebelled against the Spirit of God,    and rash words came from Moses’ lips. Ephesians Chapter 6: Verse 4 (NIV) Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Judges Chapter…

2 Corinthians Chapter 11: Verse 6 (NIV)  I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way. 2 Timothy Chapter 1: Verse 12 (NIV)  That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom…

Isaiah Chapter 18: Verse 2(b) (NIV) Go, swift messengers,to a people tall and smooth-skinned,    to a people feared far and wide,an aggressive nation of strange speech,    whose land is divided by rivers. Isaiah Chapter 18: Verse 7 (NIV) 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…

Psalm 106: Verse 13 But they soon forgot what he had done    and did not wait for his plan to unfold. I am particularly enjoying the Psalmist’s summary of Israel’s history as he sees it. I’ve learned a lot from it thus far, and today another verse has caught my attention. Its another reminder of the volatility…