Lifted, Not Pulled

Psalm 107:26-29 “Their soul melted away in their misery. They reeled and staggered like a drunken man, and were at their wits’ end. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distresses. He caused the storm to be still.” Isaiah...

Watchmen

Isaiah 62:6-7 “On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest of yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”...

Fresh, Young, and Flowing with Sap

2 Peter 1:4 “He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.” Psalm 92:13-14 “[The righteous] will flourish in the courts of our...

The Pressure of His Forming

Isaiah 43:1-3; 44:21-23 “But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator; …He who formed you, O Israel, ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you.; I have called you by name; you are Mine! When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will...

Highlighting the Enemy’s Claims

2 Kings 18:31-32 “Thus says the King of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me and come out to me and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and...