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: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:21 AM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday August 7 > Day 219 > > Isaiah 55-57 (The Message) > > Isaiah 55 > Buy Without Money > 1-5 "Hey there! All who are thirsty, > come to the water! > Are you penniless? > Come anyway-buy and eat! > Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk. > Buy without money-everything's free! > Why do you spend your money on junk food, > your hard-earned cash on cotton candy? > Listen to me, listen well: Eat only the best, > fill yourself with only the finest. > Pay attention, come close now, > listen carefully to my life-giving, life-nourishing words. > I'm making a lasting covenant commitment with you, > the same that I made with David: sure, solid, enduring love. > I set him up as a witness to the nations, > made him a prince and leader of the nations, > And now I'm doing it to you: > You'll summon nations you've never heard of, > and nations who've never heard of you > will come running to you > Because of me, your God, > because The Holy of Israel has honored you." > 6-7Seek God while he's here to be found, > pray to him while he's close at hand. > Let the wicked abandon their way of life > and the evil their way of thinking. > Let them come back to God, who is merciful, > come back to our God, who is lavish with forgiveness. > > 8-11"I don't think the way you think. > The way you work isn't the way I work." > God's Decree. > "For as the sky soars high above earth, > so the way I work surpasses the way you work, > and the way I think is beyond the way you think. > Just as rain and snow descend from the skies > and don't go back until they've watered the earth, > Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, > producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, > So will the words that come out of my mouth > not come back empty-handed. > They'll do the work I sent them to do, > they'll complete the assignment I gave them. > > 12-13"So you'll go out in joy, > you'll be led into a whole and complete life. > The mountains and hills will lead the parade, > bursting with song. > All the trees of the forest will join the procession, > exuberant with applause. > No more thistles, but giant sequoias, > no more thornbushes, but stately pines- > Monuments to me, to God, > living and lasting evidence of God." > > Isaiah 56 > Messages of Hope > Salvation Is Just Around the Corner > 1-3 God's Message: "Guard my common good: > Do what's right and do it in the right way, > For salvation is just around the corner, > my setting-things-right is about to go into action. > How blessed are you who enter into these things, > you men and women who embrace them, > Who keep Sabbath and don't defile it, > who watch your step and don't do anything evil! > Make sure no outsider who now follows God > ever has occasion to say, 'God put me in second-class. > I don't really belong.' > And make sure no physically mutilated person > is ever made to think, 'I'm damaged goods. > I don't really belong.'" > > 4-5For God says: > "To the mutilated who keep my Sabbaths > and choose what delights me > and keep a firm grip on my covenant, > I'll provide them an honored place > in my family and within my city, > even more honored than that of sons and daughters. > I'll confer permanent honors on them > that will never be revoked. > > 6-8"And as for the outsiders who now follow me, > working for me, loving my name, > and wanting to be my servants- > All who keep Sabbath and don't defile it, > holding fast to my covenant- > I'll bring them to my holy mountain > and give them joy in my house of prayer. > They'll be welcome to worship the same as the 'insiders,' > to bring burnt offerings and sacrifices to my altar. > Oh yes, my house of worship > will be known as a house of prayer for all people." > The Decree of the Master, God himself, > who gathers in the exiles of Israel: > "I will gather others also, > gather them in with those already gathered." > > 9-12A call to the savage beasts: Come on the run. > Come, devour, beast barbarians! > For Israel's watchmen are blind, the whole lot of them. > They have no idea what's going on. > They're dogs without sense enough to bark, > lazy dogs, dreaming in the sun- > But hungry dogs, they do know how to eat, > voracious dogs, with never enough. > And these are Israel's shepherds! > They know nothing, understand nothing. > They all look after themselves, > grabbing whatever's not nailed down. > "Come," they say, "let's have a party. > Let's go out and get drunk!" > And tomorrow, more of the same: > "Let's live it up!" > > Isaiah 57 > Never Tired of Trying New Religions > 1-2 Meanwhile, right-living people die and no one gives them a thought. > God-fearing people are carted off > and no one even notices. > The right-living people are out of their misery, > they're finally at rest. > They lived well and with dignity > and now they're finally at peace. > 3-10"But you, children of a witch, come here! > Sons of a slut, daughters of a whore. > What business do you have taunting, > sneering, and sticking out your tongue? > Do you have any idea what wretches you've turned out to be? > A race of rebels, a generation of liars. > You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade > and fornicate at whim. > You kill your children at any convenient spot- > any cave or crevasse will do. > You take stones from the creek > and set up your sex-and-religion shrines. > You've chosen your fate. > Your worship will be your doom. > You've climbed a high mountain > to practice your foul sex-and-death religion. > Behind closed doors > you assemble your precious gods and goddesses. > Deserting me, you've gone all out, stripped down > and made your bed your place of worship. > You've climbed into bed with the 'sacred' whores > and loved every minute of it, > adoring every curve of their naked bodies. > You anoint your king-god with ointments > and lavish perfumes on yourselves. > You send scouts to search out the latest in religion, > send them all the way to hell and back. > You wear yourselves out trying the new and the different, > and never see what a waste it all is. > You've always found strength for the latest fad, > never got tired of trying new religions. > > 11-13"Who talked you into the pursuit of this nonsense, > leaving me high and dry, > forgetting you ever knew me? > Because I don't yell and make a scene > do you think I don't exist? > I'll go over, detail by detail, all your 'righteous' attempts at religion, > and expose the absurdity of it all. > Go ahead, cry for help to your collection of no-gods: > A good wind will blow them away. > They're smoke, nothing but smoke. > > "But anyone who runs to me for help > will inherit the land, > will end up owning my holy mountain!" > > 14Someone says: "Build, build! Make a road! > Clear the way, remove the rocks > from the road my people will travel." > > 15-21A Message from the high and towering God, > who lives in Eternity, > whose name is Holy: > "I live in the high and holy places, > but also with the low-spirited, the spirit-crushed, > And what I do is put new spirit in them, > get them up and on their feet again. > For I'm not going to haul people into court endlessly, > I'm not going to be angry forever. > Otherwise, people would lose heart. > These souls I created would tire out and give up. > I was angry, good and angry, because of Israel's sins. > I struck him hard and turned away in anger, > while he kept at his stubborn, willful ways. > When I looked again and saw what he was doing, > I decided to heal him, lead him, and comfort him, > creating a new language of praise for the mourners. > Peace to the far-off, peace to the near-at-hand," says God- > "and yes, I will heal them. > But the wicked are storm-battered seas > that can't quiet down. > The waves stir up garbage and mud. > There's no peace," God says, "for the wicked." > > > > > > > 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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