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January 16
Friday


GOD'S
REFRESHING
WORD

READ:
Isaiah 55:8-11
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My word...shall not
return to Me void.
__Isaiah 55:11
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When I was a boy, our family would occasionally travel across Nevada. We loved the desert thunderstorms. Accompanied by lightning bolts and claps of thunder, huge sheets of rain would blanket the hot sand as far as the eye could see. The cooling water refreshed the earth__and us.

Water produces marvelous changes in arid regions. For example, the pincushion cactus if completely dormant during the dry season. But after the first summer rains, cactuses burst into bloom, displaying delicate petals of pink gold, and white.

Likewise, in the Holy Land after a rainstorm, dry ground can seemingly sprout vegetation overnight. Isaiah used rain's renewal to illustrate God's refreshing word: "As the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isa. 55:10-11).

Scripture carries spiritual vitality. That's why it doesn't return void. Wherever it encounters an open heart, it brings refreshment, nourishment, and new life. __Dennis Fisher

`````````````````God's Word is like refreshing rain
``````````````````That waters crops and seed;
````````````````It brings new life to open hearts,
````````````````And meets us in our need. __Sper
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The Bible is to a thirsty soul
what water is to a barren land.

*************************Today's Bible Reading __ Isaiah 55:8-11*************************

8 "For My thoughts are not
your thoughts, nor are your
ways My ways," says the
LORD. 9 "For as the heavens
are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than
your ways, and My thoughts
than your thoughts.

10 "For as the rain comes
down, and the snow from
heaven, and do not return
there, but water the earth,
and make it bring forth and
bud, that it my give seed to
the sower and bread to the
eater, 11 so shall My word
be that goes forth from My
mouth; it shall not return
to me void, but it shall
accomplish what I please,
and it shall prosper in the
thing for which I
sent it."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
We can not know God unless He reveals himself to us. An attribute
of God is a characteristic that God has chosen to reveal about
Himself through his Word. Incommunicable attributes are those that
belong to God alone (e.g., omnipresence [present everywhere]; immutability
[unchangeable]; infinite [having no limits]; transcendence [beyond
comprehension]).

Communicable attributes are those that human beings can also
possess (e.g., compassion, love, mercy, goodness). In Isaiah 55:8-9,
God reveals that He is unlike any other being and our finite minds
can never fully understand him (see Job 11:7-9; Ps. 131:1; Rom.
11:33). Throughout Scripture we are told that there is no one like
God (see Ex. 15:11; Ps. 35:10, 89:6-8; Isa. 40:25).

[Mackenaw]

Amen!!!

Likewise, in the Holy Land after a rainstorm, dry ground can seemingly sprout vegetation overnight. Isaiah used rain's renewal to illustrate God's refreshing word: "As the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isa. 55:10-11).

Scripture carries spiritual vitality. That's why it doesn't return void. Wherever it encounters an open heart, it brings refreshment, nourishment, and new life. __Dennis Fisher

Amen!!!

God bless and keep you.
Love,
Mack