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...

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.”...

Isaiah 55:12: “For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.” Observation: The whole of chapter 55 is an enticing invitation...

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...

Isaiah 46:1--4: “The things that you carry are burdensome, a load for the weary beast. They stooped over, they have bowed down together, and they could not rescue the burden but have gone into captivity together. . . . Listen to Me, . . . you who have been borne by Me...

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...

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...

2 Chronicles 29:10:  “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.”  Observation: The story of Hezekiah’s becoming king of Israel is one of those sudden turning points of Scripture. His...

2 Chronicles 28:10--11: “Now you are proposing to subjugate for yourselves the people of Judah and Jerusalem for male and female slaves. Surely, do you not have transgressions of your own against the Lord your God? Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives...

Isaiah 32:1: “Behold a king will reign righteously, and princes will rule justly.” Observation: Isaiah 32 depicts a time in the future during the millennial reign of Christ when He will reign righteously and princes will rule justly. Leadership then will be good, as...