This Day With God – A Spiritual Journey

Reading for Today

Set some time aside; maybe 10-20 minutes each day for the next two days. Read Isaiah 65 using your Bible or the passage lookup tool: Passage Lookup. After reading the passage for today, click back and continue with the items below.   

Questions:

Isaiah is asking God a question at the end of Isaiah 64. How does God answer his question? What have you earnestly prayed for recently? Imagine the effect of the newness described in this passage. How would you feel in such a situation? Why?

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Actions or Responses:

God is answering Isaiah’s questions at the end of chapter 64. Isaiah is talking to God and is wondering if they will continue to go through struggles. In verses 17-25, God tells him it will be different in the future. Set aside a prayer time and remember to tell God that you are thankful for Christ Jesus who has cleared the way to a brighter future.

Reading for Today

Set some time aside; maybe 10-20 minutes each day for the next two days. Read Isaiah 63-64 using your Bible or the passage lookup tool: Passage Lookup. After reading the passage for today, click back and continue with the items below.   

Questions:

What are the desperate needs in your life today? What is your question to God now? (See verse 64:12)

Food for Thought:

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven. – Charles R. Swindoll

Actions or Responses:

Everyone goes through trials and errors as they journey through life. God’s people or His church have gone through struggles throughout history from being led out of Egypt to the Promised Land, up to that first Easter, and up to present time. Remember things in your past that caused struggle and in your prayer today, ask for lessons that can be learned; pass these lessons on so others will not have to go down that same difficult path.

Reading for Today

Set some time aside; maybe 10-20 minutes each day for the next two days. Read Isaiah 62 using your Bible or the passage lookup tool: Passage Lookup. After reading the passage for today, click back and continue with the items below.   

Questions:

The Lord cares about everyone. He delights in you and He sent His son to die for you. How does this change your attitude about others; even those that have caused a strain in the relationship you have with them?

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Actions or Responses:

God removed the obstacle to Him when He sent Christ. Pray that you can forgive others and remove any obstacles that may be between you and others that strain the relationship. Our response should always be to take people back and not to hold a grudge.

Set some time aside; maybe 10-20 minutes each day for the next two days. Read Isaiah 61 using your Bible or the passage lookup tool: Passage Lookup. After reading the passage for today, click back and continue with the items below.   

Questions:

What is the assigned servant’s part in the covenant (see verse 59:21 with 52:13; 55:4-5)? How will it transform society? What inheritance will all the people of the Lord enjoy?

Food for Thought:

We sometimes accept less than God wants to give. We need to see that the glass is half full instead of half empty – Paraphrase from a part of Rev Steve Ramsdell sermon, First United Methodist Church of Waco

Actions or Responses:

Sometimes it’s hard to see that the glass is half full instead of half empty but with Christ it makes it much easier. By faith we are grafted into Christ like a limb grafted into a tree. Pray for the nutrients one can receive from that tree of life. Pray for the eternal joy and blessings God can give. Pray for direction which allows one to act with justice and wisdom. Pray for God’s church to increase throughout the world.

Reading for Today

Set some time aside; maybe 10-20 minutes each day for the next two days. Read Isaiah 60 using your Bible or the passage lookup tool: Passage Lookup. After reading the passage for today, click back and continue with the items below.   

Questions:

Summarize the personal and societal changes in the presence of the Redeemer. How do you reconcile striving for a better society now and waiting for a revealed glorious society in the future?

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Actions or Responses:

This passage submits that a transformation takes place personally and in society because of Christ. Uplift in your prayer today with thankfulness and receive this package of hope that can cheer us on.