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July 15
Tuesday


SILENT HELPER

READ:
Isaiah 25:1-9
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I will praise Your name,
for You have done
wonderful things.
__Isaiah 25:5-1
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The discovery of penicillin revolutionized health care. Prior to the 1940's, bacterial infections were often fatal. Since then, penicillin has saved countless lives by killing harmful bacteria. The men who recognized its potential and developed it for widespread use won a Nobel Prize in 1945.

Long before the discovery of penicillin, other silent killers were at work saving lives by destroying bacteria. These silent killers are white blood cells. These hard workers are God's way of protecting us from disease. No one knows how many invasions they have stopped or how many lives they have saved. They receive little recognition for all the good they do.

The Lord gets similar treatment. He often gets blamed when something goes wrong, but He seldom gets credit for all the things that go right. Every day people get up, get dressed, drive to work or school or the grocery store, and return safely to their families. No one knows how many times God has protected us from harm. But when there is a tragedy, we ask, "Where was God?"

When I consider all the wonderful things that God does silently on my behalf each day (Isa. 25:1), I realize that my list of praises should be much longer than my list of petitions. __Julie Ackerman Link
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`````````````````God's goodness unergirds our lives```````````````
````````````````````````In many silent ways;```````````````````
``````````````````His blessings are beyond compare__````````````
```````````````For them we give Him praise. __D. De Haan`````````
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God keeps giving us reasons to praise Him.

****************Today's Bible Reading __ Isaiah 25:1-9************

1 O LORD, You are my God.
I will exalt You, I will praise
Your name, for You have
done wonderful things; Your
counsels of old are
faithfulness and truth. 2 For
You have made a city a ruin,
a fortified city a ruin, a
palace of foreigners to be a
city no more; it will never be
rebuilt. 3 Therefore the strong
people will glorify You; the
city of the terrible nations
will fear You. 4 For You have
been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the
storm, a shade from the heat;
for the blast of the terrible
ones is as a storm against the
wall. 5 You will reduce the
noise of aliens, as heat in a
dry place; as heat in the
shadow of a cloud, the song
of the terrible ones will be
diminished.

6 And in this mountain the
LORD of hosts will make for
all people a feast of choice
pieces, a feast of wines on
the lees, of fat things full of
marrow, of well-refined
wines on the lees. 7 And He
will destroy on this mountain
the sruface of the covering
cast over all people, and the
veil that is spread over all
nations. 8 He will swallow up
death forever, and the Lord
GOD will wipe away tears
from all faces; the rebuke of
His people He will take away
from all the earth; for the
LORD has spoken.

9 And it will be said in that
day: "Behold, this is our
God; we have waited for
Him, and He will save us.
This is the LORD; we have
waited for Him; we will be
glad and rejoice in His
salvation

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The believer is to seek comfort and rest in the adequacy of the God
of grace. as Isaiah eloquently penned, "In quietness and confidence
shall be your strength" (Isa. 30:15). A quiet, trusting confidence in
God equips us to face life's challenges. __Dennis Fisher
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