Chapter 58 is very worth reading. ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday August 8
> > > 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: Saturday, August 08, 2009 12:01 AM > Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday August 8 > > >> Day 220 >> >> Isaiah 58-60 (The Message) >> >> Isaiah 58 >> Your Prayers Won't Get Off the Ground >> 1-3 "Shout! A full-throated shout! Hold nothing back-a trumpet-blast >> shout! >> Tell my people what's wrong with their lives, >> face my family Jacob with their sins! >> They're busy, busy, busy at worship, >> and love studying all about me. >> To all appearances they're a nation of right-living people- >> law-abiding, God-honoring. >> They ask me, 'What's the right thing to do?' >> and love having me on their side. >> But they also complain, >> 'Why do we fast and you don't look our way? >> Why do we humble ourselves and you don't even notice?' >> >> 3-5"Well, here's why: >> "The bottom line on your 'fast days' is profit. >> You drive your employees much too hard. >> You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight. >> You fast, but you swing a mean fist. >> The kind of fasting you do >> won't get your prayers off the ground. >> Do you think this is the kind of fast day I'm after: >> a day to show off humility? >> To put on a pious long face >> and parade around solemnly in black? >> Do you call that fasting, >> a fast day that I, God, would like? >> >> 6-9"This is the kind of fast day I'm after: >> to break the chains of injustice, >> get rid of exploitation in the workplace, >> free the oppressed, >> cancel debts. >> What I'm interested in seeing you do is: >> sharing your food with the hungry, >> inviting the homeless poor into your homes, >> putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, >> being available to your own families. >> Do this and the lights will turn on, >> and your lives will turn around at once. >> Your righteousness will pave your way. >> The God of glory will secure your passage. >> Then when you pray, God will answer. >> You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.' >> >> A Full Life in the Emptiest of Places >> 9-12"If you get rid of unfair practices, >> quit blaming victims, >> quit gossiping about other people's sins, >> If you are generous with the hungry >> and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, >> Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, >> your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. >> I will always show you where to go. >> I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places- >> firm muscles, strong bones. >> You'll be like a well-watered garden, >> a gurgling spring that never runs dry. >> You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, >> rebuild the foundations from out of your past. >> You'll be known as those who can fix anything, >> restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, >> make the community livable again. >> 13-14"If you watch your step on the Sabbath >> and don't use my holy day for personal advantage, >> If you treat the Sabbath as a day of joy, >> God's holy day as a celebration, >> If you honor it by refusing 'business as usual,' >> making money, running here and there- >> Then you'll be free to enjoy God! >> Oh, I'll make you ride high and soar above it all. >> I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob." >> Yes! God says so! >> >> Isaiah 59 >> We Long for Light but Sink into Darkness >> 1-8 Look! Listen! God's arm is not amputated-he can still save. >> God's ears are not stopped up-he can still hear. >> There's nothing wrong with God; the wrong is in you. >> Your wrongheaded lives caused the split between you and God. >> Your sins got between you so that he doesn't hear. >> Your hands are drenched in blood, >> your fingers dripping with guilt, >> Your lips smeared with lies, >> your tongue swollen from muttering obscenities. >> No one speaks up for the right, >> no one deals fairly. >> They trust in illusion, they tell lies, >> they get pregnant with mischief and have sin-babies. >> They hatch snake eggs and weave spider webs. >> Eat an egg and die; break an egg and get a snake! >> The spider webs are no good for shirts or shawls. >> No one can wear these weavings! >> They weave wickedness, >> they hatch violence. >> They compete in the race to do evil >> and run to be the first to murder. >> They plan and plot evil, think and breathe evil, >> and leave a trail of wrecked lives behind them. >> They know nothing about peace >> and less than nothing about justice. >> They make tortuously twisted roads. >> No peace for the wretch who walks down those roads! >> 9-11Which means that we're a far cry from fair dealing, >> and we're not even close to right living. >> We long for light but sink into darkness, >> long for brightness but stumble through the night. >> Like the blind, we inch along a wall, >> groping eyeless in the dark. >> We shuffle our way in broad daylight, >> like the dead, but somehow walking. >> We're no better off than bears, groaning, >> and no worse off than doves, moaning. >> We look for justice-not a sign of it; >> for salvation-not so much as a hint. >> >> 12-15Our wrongdoings pile up before you, God, >> our sins stand up and accuse us. >> Our wrongdoings stare us down; >> we know in detail what we've done: >> Mocking and denying God, >> not following our God, >> Spreading false rumors, inciting sedition, >> pregnant with lies, muttering malice. >> Justice is beaten back, >> Righteousness is banished to the sidelines, >> Truth staggers down the street, >> Honesty is nowhere to be found, >> Good is missing in action. >> Anyone renouncing evil is beaten and robbed. >> >> 15-19God looked and saw evil looming on the horizon- >> so much evil and no sign of Justice. >> He couldn't believe what he saw: >> not a soul around to correct this awful situation. >> So he did it himself, took on the work of Salvation, >> fueled by his own Righteousness. >> He dressed in Righteousness, put it on like a suit of armor, >> with Salvation on his head like a helmet, >> Put on Judgment like an overcoat, >> and threw a cloak of Passion across his shoulders. >> He'll make everyone pay for what they've done: >> fury for his foes, just deserts for his enemies. >> Even the far-off islands will get paid off in full. >> In the west they'll fear the name of God, >> in the east they'll fear the glory of God, >> For he'll arrive like a river in flood stage, >> whipped to a torrent by the wind of God. >> >> 20"I'll arrive in Zion as Redeemer, >> to those in Jacob who leave their sins." >> God's Decree. >> >> 21"As for me," God says, "this is my covenant with them: My Spirit that >> I've placed upon you and >> the words that I've given you to speak, they're not going to leave your >> mouths nor the mouths of >> your children nor the mouths of your grandchildren. You will keep >> repeating these words and won't >> ever stop." God's orders. >> >> Isaiah 60 >> People Returning for the Reunion >> 1-7 "Get out of bed, Jerusalem! Wake up. Put your face in the sunlight. >> God's bright glory has risen for you. >> The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, >> all people sunk in deep darkness, >> But God rises on you, >> his sunrise glory breaks over you. >> Nations will come to your light, >> kings to your sunburst brightness. >> Look up! Look around! >> Watch as they gather, watch as they approach you: >> Your sons coming from great distances, >> your daughters carried by their nannies. >> When you see them coming you'll smile-big smiles! >> Your heart will swell and, yes, burst! >> All those people returning by sea for the reunion, >> a rich harvest of exiles gathered in from the nations! >> And then streams of camel caravans as far as the eye can see, >> young camels of nomads in Midian and Ephah, >> Pouring in from the south from Sheba, >> loaded with gold and frankincense, >> preaching the praises of God. >> And yes, a great roundup >> of flocks from the nomads in Kedar and Nebaioth, >> Welcome gifts for worship at my altar >> as I bathe my glorious Temple in splendor. >> What's That We See in the Distance? >> 8-22"What's that we see in the distance, >> a cloud on the horizon, like doves darkening the sky? >> It's ships from the distant islands, >> the famous Tarshish ships >> Returning your children from faraway places, >> loaded with riches, with silver and gold, >> And backed by the name of your God, The Holy of Israel, >> showering you with splendor. >> Foreigners will rebuild your walls, >> and their kings assist you in the conduct of worship. >> When I was angry I hit you hard. >> It's my desire now to be tender. >> Your Jerusalem gates will always be open >> -open house day and night!- >> Receiving deliveries of wealth from all nations, >> and their kings, the delivery boys! >> Any nation or kingdom that doesn't deliver will perish; >> those nations will be totally wasted. >> The rich woods of Lebanon will be delivered >> -all that cypress and oak and pine- >> To give a splendid elegance to my Sanctuary, >> as I make my footstool glorious. >> The descendants of your oppressor >> will come bowing and scraping to you. >> All who looked down at you in contempt >> will lick your boots. >> They'll confer a title on you: City of God, >> Zion of The Holy of Israel. >> Not long ago you were despised refuse- >> out-of-the-way, unvisited, ignored. >> But now I've put you on your feet, >> towering and grand forever, a joy to look at! >> When you suck the milk of nations >> and the breasts of royalty, >> You'll know that I, God, am your Savior, >> your Redeemer, Champion of Jacob. >> I'll give you only the best-no more hand-me-downs! >> Gold instead of bronze, silver instead of iron, >> bronze instead of wood, iron instead of stones. >> I'll install Peace to run your country, >> make Righteousness your boss. >> There'll be no more stories of crime in your land, >> no more robberies, no more vandalism. >> You'll name your main street Salvation Way, >> and install Praise Park at the center of town. >> You'll have no more need of the sun by day >> nor the brightness of the moon at night. >> God will be your eternal light, >> your God will bathe you in splendor. >> Your sun will never go down, >> your moon will never fade. >> I will be your eternal light. >> Your days of grieving are over. >> All your people will live right and well, >> in permanent possession of the land. >> They're the green shoot that I planted, >> planted with my own hands to display my glory. >> The runt will become a great tribe, >> the weakling become a strong nation. >> I am God. >> At the right time I'll make it happen." >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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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