O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:23 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday July 28 > Day 209 > > Isaiah 25-27 (The Message) > > Isaiah 25 > God's Hand Rests on This Mountain > 1-5 God, you are my God. I celebrate you. I praise you. > You've done your share of miracle-wonders, > well-thought-out plans, solid and sure. > Here you've reduced the city to rubble, > the strong city to a pile of stones. > The enemy Big City is a non-city, > never to be a city again. > Superpowers will see it and honor you, > brutal oppressors bow in worshipful reverence. > They'll see that you take care of the poor, > that you take care of poor people in trouble, > Provide a warm, dry place in bad weather, > provide a cool place when it's hot. > Brutal oppressors are like a winter blizzard > and vicious foreigners like high noon in the desert. > But you, shelter from the storm and shade from the sun, > shut the mouths of the big-mouthed bullies. > 6-8But here on this mountain, God-of-the-Angel-Armies > will throw a feast for all the people of the world, > A feast of the finest foods, a feast with vintage wines, > a feast of seven courses, a feast lavish with gourmet desserts. > And here on this mountain, God will banish > the pall of doom hanging over all peoples, > The shadow of doom darkening all nations. > Yes, he'll banish death forever. > And God will wipe the tears from every face. > He'll remove every sign of disgrace > From his people, wherever they are. > Yes! God says so! > > 9-10Also at that time, people will say, > "Look at what's happened! This is our God! > We waited for him and he showed up and saved us! > This God, the one we waited for! > Let's celebrate, sing the joys of his salvation. > God's hand rests on this mountain!" > > 10-12As for the Moabites, they'll be treated like refuse, > waste shoveled into a cesspool. > Thrash away as they will, > like swimmers trying to stay afloat, > They'll sink in the sewage. > Their pride will pull them under. > Their famous fortifications will crumble to nothing, > those mighty walls reduced to dust. > > Isaiah 26 > Stretch the Borders of Life > 1-6 At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah: > We have a strong city, Salvation City, > built and fortified with salvation. > Throw wide the gates > so good and true people can enter. > People with their minds set on you, > you keep completely whole, > Steady on their feet, > because they keep at it and don't quit. > Depend on God and keep at it > because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. > Those who lived high and mighty > he knocked off their high horse. > He used the city built on the hill > as fill for the marshes. > All the exploited and outcast peoples > build their lives on the reclaimed land. > 7-10The path of right-living people is level. > The Leveler evens the road for the right-living. > We're in no hurry, God. We're content to linger > in the path sign-posted with your decisions. > Who you are and what you've done > are all we'll ever want. > Through the night my soul longs for you. > Deep from within me my spirit reaches out to you. > When your decisions are on public display, > everyone learns how to live right. > If the wicked are shown grace, > they don't seem to get it. > In the land of right living, they persist in wrong living, > blind to the splendor of God. > > 11-15You hold your hand up high, God, > but they don't see it. > Open their eyes to what you do, > to see your zealous love for your people. > Shame them. Light a fire under them. > Get the attention of these enemies of yours. > God, order a peaceful and whole life for us > because everything we've done, you've done for us. > O God, our God, we've had other masters rule us, > but you're the only Master we've ever known. > The dead don't talk, > ghosts don't walk, > Because you've said, "Enough-that's all for you," > and wiped them off the books. > But the living you make larger than life. > The more life you give, the more glory you display, > and stretch the borders to accommodate more living! > > 16-18O God, they begged you for help when they were in trouble, > when your discipline was so heavy > they could barely whisper a prayer. > Like a woman having a baby, > writhing in distress, screaming her pain > as the baby is being born, > That's how we were because of you, O God. > We were pregnant full-term. > We writhed in labor but bore no baby. > We gave birth to wind. > Nothing came of our labor. > We produced nothing living. > We couldn't save the world. > > 19But friends, your dead will live, > your corpses will get to their feet. > All you dead and buried, > wake up! Sing! > Your dew is morning dew > catching the first rays of sun, > The earth bursting with life, > giving birth to the dead. > > 20-21Come, my people, go home > and shut yourselves in. > Go into seclusion for a while > until the punishing wrath is past, > Because God is sure to come from his place > to punish the wrong of the people on earth. > Earth itself will point out the bloodstains; > it will show where the murdered have been hidden away. > > Isaiah 27 > Selected Grain by Grain > 1 At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, > mighty sword. > He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, > the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. > He'll kill that old dragon > that lives in the sea. > 2-5"At that same time, a fine vineyard will appear. > There's something to sing about! > I, God, tend it. > I keep it well-watered. > I keep careful watch over it > so that no one can damage it. > I'm not angry. I care. > Even if it gives me thistles and thornbushes, > I'll just pull them out > and burn them up. > Let that vine cling to me for safety, > let it find a good and whole life with me, > let it hold on for a good and whole life." > > 6The days are coming when Jacob > shall put down roots, > Israel blossom and grow fresh branches, > and fill the world with its fruit. > > 7-11Has God knocked them to the ground > as he knocked down those who hit them? Oh, no. > Were they killed > as their killers were killed? Again, no. > He was hard on them all right. The exile was a harsh sentence. > He blew them away on a fierce blast of wind. > But the good news is that through this experience > Jacob's guilt was taken away. > The evidence that his sin is removed will be this: > He will tear down the alien altars, > take them apart stone by stone, > And then crush the stones into gravel > and clean out all the sex-and-religion shrines. > For there's nothing left of that pretentious grandeur. > Nobody lives there anymore. It's unlivable. > But animals do just fine, > browsing and bedding down. > And it's not a bad place to get firewood. > Dry twigs and dead branches are plentiful. > It's the leavings of a people with no sense of God. > So, the God who made them > Will have nothing to do with them. > He who formed them will turn his back on them. > > 12-13At that time God will thresh > from the River Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt, > And you, people of Israel, > will be selected grain by grain. > At that same time a great trumpet will be blown, > calling home the exiles from Assyria, > Welcoming home the refugees from Egypt > to come and worship God on the holy mountain, Jerusalem. > > > > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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