Thursday, April 9, 2009

You are everything!


Isa 48:1 Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah: You swear by the name of the LORD and claim to worship the God of Israel--- but you don't mean a word you say.
Isa 48:2 And yet you are proud to say that you are citizens of the holy city and that you depend on Israel's God, whose name is the LORD Almighty.
Isa 48:3 The LORD says to Israel, "Long ago I predicted what would take place; then suddenly I made it happen.
Isa 48:4 I knew that you would prove to be stubborn, as rigid as iron and unyielding as bronze.
Isa 48:5 And so I predicted your future long ago, announcing events before they took place, to keep you from claiming that your idols and images made them happen.
Isa 48:6 "All I foretold has now taken place; you have to admit my predictions were right. Now I will tell you of new things to come, events that I did not reveal before.
Isa 48:7 Only now am I making them happen; nothing like this took place in the past. If it had, you would claim that you knew all about it.
Isa 48:8 I knew that you couldn't be trusted, that you have always been known as a rebel. That is why you never heard of this at all, why no word of it ever came to your ears.
Isa 48:9 "In order that people will praise my name, I am holding my anger in check; I am keeping it back and will not destroy you.
Isa 48:10 I have tested you in the fire of suffering, as silver is refined in a furnace. But I have found that you are worthless.
Isa 48:11 What I do is done for my own sake--- I will not let my name be dishonored or let anyone else share the glory that should be mine and mine alone."
Isa 48:12 The LORD says, "Listen to me, Israel, the people I have called! I am God, the first, the last, the only God!
Isa 48:13 My hands made the earth's foundations and spread the heavens out. When I summon earth and sky, they come at once and present themselves.
Isa 48:14 "Assemble and listen, all of you! None of the gods could predict that the man I have chosen would attack Babylon; he will do what I want him to do.
Isa 48:15 I am the one who spoke and called him; I led him out and gave him success.
Isa 48:16 "Now come close to me and hear what I say. From the beginning I have spoken openly and have always made my words come true." (Now the Sovereign LORD has given me his power and sent me.)
Isa 48:17 The holy God of Israel, the LORD who saves you, says: "I am the LORD your God, the one who wants to teach you for your own good and direct you in the way you should go.
Isa 48:18 "If only you had listened to my commands! Then blessings would have flowed for you like a stream that never goes dry. Victory would have come to you like the waves that roll on the shore.
Isa 48:19 Your descendants would be as numerous as grains of sand, and I would have made sure they were never destroyed."
Isa 48:20 Go out from Babylon, go free! Shout the news gladly; make it known everywhere: "The LORD has saved his servant Israel!"
Isa 48:21 When the LORD led his people through a hot, dry desert, they did not suffer from thirst. He made water come from a rock for them; he split the rock open, and water flowed out.
Isa 48:22 "There is no safety for sinners," says the LORD.

Father in Heaven, I praised you and I thank you fo this wonderful day that you have made for me. Thank you for being a faithful Father. You who gives me life and strenght and You who created me and knows everything about me even the deepest secrets of my heart, You who had known me even before the foundation of this world, How wonderful are your deeds to me Oh Lord. And as I knew you, You have humbled me and I see my sins. I am not worthy to praise You but because of the blood of Christ, I am being made worthy and put right to you. Jesus, you are everything! Thank you that you saved me from all my unrigheousness! Thank you for dying on the cross that I may have life. Thank you that your Spirit dwells in me. Oh let me praise and thank you now because you rescued me from the power of darkness. Help me live a life that will be attracting to other unbelievers that you may use me as your servant and as a living testimony of your goodness to other people, In Jesus Name AMEN!

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