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Weekly Guide：Week 75
June 30, 2019
Week 75 Day 1: Raise Up Salvation ⇧ ⇩
Forward
Many of you have been endeavoring in God’s word each day while some might have had trouble keeping up due to busy schedule. No worry, you can always catch up and continue the journey. Bible study is a lifetime’s work, you may start anytime but shall never stop.
In the second half of this year, we’ll complete the books of the prophets, both major and minor prophets. If you are not familiar with the books of the prophets, this is a perfect chance to get started. Let us absorb God’s will and wisdom from these books.
This week, we continue with the Book of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah is loved by many. It is full of God’s promises to give us comfort and encouragement. When we hear the warmth of God’s calling “my people” our relationship with Him and privilege as the chosen ones from the entire universe made by God become even sweeter. We are His and He had done for us more than anything among His created; He even sacrificed His own Son to bring us closer to Him.
Let us open our wounded hearts, standing by our precious identity, hold on to the scared hands of Jesus with humbleness, and listen to God calling us “my people.” He will not only strengthen us, protect us, but will tenderly look after our emotions, supply us our daily needs, and ensure that we have an abundant life. Just as a loving father worrying about his children’s conducts, comforting their tearful eyes and broken hearts, caressing their sunken and disappointed heads, He comforts us, as “my people.”
May you all be renewed each day in God’s word!
Question
Why did the Lord raise up Cyrus?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself.
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This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him.
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I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free.
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Turn to the Lord and be saved, all of us ends of the earth; for He is God, and there is no other.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Does the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” Does your work say, “The potter has no hands?” We shall obey under God’s sovereignty knowing He had created us and is the source of our peace. What doubt do I still have for Him and wondering why something happens not to my liking? Call out to God and try to accept His sovereignty over that “thing.”
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 75 Day 2: When Righteousness Comes ⇧ ⇩
Question
What was the end of Babylon?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The idols of Babylon cannot be saved, they will all go off into captivity.
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Listen to me, Israel, I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
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With whom will you compare God or count Him equal?
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God make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
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Babylon will be defeated. They showed Israel no mercy. Even on the aged they laid a very heavy yoke.
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Babylonians are lovers of pleasure, lounging in their own security and saying to themselves, “I am, and there is none besides me.” Therefore, woe to them.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - God promised: “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born.” These loving words have encouraged many, given them hope. Put these words into my heart and become my strength.
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Integrity - God condemned Babylon: “You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’” Do I believe no one sees my improper behavior? Let me repent before God without reservation, because He knows everything and sees my heart.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 75 Day 3: Calling for Repentance ⇧ ⇩
Question
How does the Lord call His people to repent and return to Him?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Rebuke all those who take oaths in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel-but not in truth or righteousness.
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Rebuke all those who are treacherous and were rebellious from birth.
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The Lord for His name’s sake delays His wrath; for the sake of His praise He holds it back from them.
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Calling all to listen to the Lord, Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.”
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - We benefit from the Lord’s teaching and from His leading us to walk on the His way. If we obey, we’d be blessed because fearing God is the beginning of wisdom. Do I fear Him in how I act and am willing to seek His will? Or, do I just go my own way by my own will? Why is it that I sometimes don’t listen to Him?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 75 Day 4: The Lord's Servant ⇧ ⇩
Question
What are the attributes of the Lord’s servant?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Before I was born the Lord called me. I have labored in vain. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.
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The Lord who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and my God has been my strength.
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The Lord wants His servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and will also make him a light for the Gentiles, that His salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
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He will keep him and will make him to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land.
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Can a mother forget the baby at her breast? The Lord have engraved His people on the palms of His hands.
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The Lord’s servant would be persecuted, but the Lord would help him so that he would not be disgraced and put to shame.
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Trust in the name of the Lord and rely on our God.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - God never forgets us and never forsakes us: “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” Let me remember His promise and be strengthened through His word.
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Fidelity - When the servant of the Lord is being looked down upon, he knows the Lord will help him, so he is not disgraced nor ashamed. Have I ever been looked down upon in my service to the Lord? Let me receive strength and glory from Him.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 75 Day 5: When Salvation Comes ⇧ ⇩
Question
What is it like when salvation comes to Jerusalem?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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You who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord, think about His calling and blessing.
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The Lord will surely comfort Zion. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
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Listen, people. Instruction will go out from Him. His arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to Him and wait in hope for His arm.
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Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; sorrow and sighing will flee away.
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Jerusalem shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.
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Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem. The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. My righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.” & goto :_no_skip
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - God wants us: “Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults.” Am I afraid of the “mere mortals” in my heart? Or, do I have hatred when others hurt me? Let me hand off my grievances to God and let Him bring justice and righteousness.
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Fidelity - How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation. Am I a true ambassador of the Gospel? Who else may I share the good news with and testify for His glory?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 75 Day 6: The Sin Offering ⇧ ⇩
Question
How does the Lord’s servant suffer for us for our sins?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The appearance of the Lord’s servant was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness. But, he will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
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The Lord’s servant had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
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He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, familiar with pain, and we held him in low esteem.
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Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
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He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth.
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Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin. The will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
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After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Lord’s servant had no beauty or majesty to attract us. His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness. But he will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Our true value is not determined through our outward appearance. Do I value how others see me more than how God sees me?