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Weekly Guide：Week 76
July 08, 2019
Week 76 Day 1: Enlarge Your Place ⇧ ⇩
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The Book of Isaiah we are currently reading is one of my most loved. It is full of heart felt messages of promise and hope.
Here is a familiar passage in Isaiah 53:4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 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.
The prophet told us how the life of Messiah would be like. Today, we as the saved people of Jesus, must learn, follow, and be strengthened by His example to serve. If you served others with your entire life’s energy but received no recognition that made your endeavor seemed invisible, then there’s no use to seek thanks and gratitude. If this is how people see what Jesus had done for them, then there’s no use to expect being treated properly. We must take lightly the misunderstandings from others, not just shying away from them. There are setbacks in all successful services. One carries the burden to bring healing to all. The burden of the cross can be light if we can see the ultimate victory. Jesus has already taken up our sorrow so we shall take it up for others. It is easy to tell others that it is not hard to get rid of sorrow, but it is not so easy to share their sorrow. Put our shoulders with under their burdens and put our hearts into their struggles. Although we are not strong enough to carry the burdens, but we can bring them to God and lead them to rest under His wings.
May you all be renewed in His word each day!
Question
What salvation did God promise the Israelites?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Enlarge the place of your tent, your descendants will dispossess nations.
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Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.
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In a surge of anger, God hid His face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness He will have compassion on you.
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In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear.
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Give ear and come to God; listen, that you may live. He will make an everlasting covenant with you.
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Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways, for He will freely pardon.
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God’s ways are higher than your ways and His thoughts than your thoughts.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - In the surge of His anger, God has everlasting kindness and compassion on us. The peace in Him cannot be denied by the worldly suffering and dread. Think about His everlasting kindness and compassion. Make that my comfort and strength.
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Integrity - Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. Ask God to purify our hearts. Let me ask Him to forgive my sins and all things I have done to displease Him.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 76 Day 2: High and Holy ⇧ ⇩
Question
How shall we face the high and exalted one?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it and keeps hands from doing any evil.
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For my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.
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Rebukes the Judah for being rebellious and treacherous, but whoever takes refuge in Him will inherit the land.
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The Lord lives in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The wicked are like the tossing sea, “There is no peace, for the wicked.” Am I still full of guilt and sin and unable to let go? Please ask the Holy Spirit to help me, to forsake the sins that has being bonding me to receive peace from God’s grace.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 76 Day 3: Saving the Sinners ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why does the Lord save the sinners?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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God declares to His people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.
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If on the day of your fasting, you do as you please, in quarreling and strife. Is this the kind of fast God have chosen for people to humble themselves?
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If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please, then you will find your joy in the Lord.
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The arm of the Lord is not too short to save, but your iniquities have separated you from your God.
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He saw that there was no one, no one to intervene, so his own arm achieved salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.
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The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - The fasting that pleases God is to share the food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter. When you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood. When I serve, do I serve with all my heart and all my mind? Let me remember that when I act with such righteousness and mercy, the Lord’s glory would be behind me in support!
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 76 Day 4: Arise to Shine ⇧ ⇩
Question
How should God’s anointed to act out the righteousness in the world?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Arise, shine, the glory of the Lord rises upon you, the nations will come to your light.
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All will be gathered to you. For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish.
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Although you have been forsaken and hated, the Lord will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations.
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The Lord will be your everlasting light.
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The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on the anointed one to proclaim good news to the poor and the year of the Lord’s favor.
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They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - Do I have joy in the Lord and rejoice because of Him? Let me witness the produce in the field, the fruit in the orchard, see the righteousness and praises from the people, and shout out with joy each and every day in Him.
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Fidelity - The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on the anointed one, to proclaim good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn. Each and every one of us Christians are the anointed and chosen by our God, how am I living out the responsibility of the anointed?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 76 Day 5: To World's End ⇧ ⇩
Question
How does God’s salvation spread to the end of the world?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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For Zion, the prophet will not keep silent till her vindication shines out like the dawn.
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No longer will they call you Deserted. But you will be called Hephzibah, for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married.
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The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’”
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The Lord who proclaim victory, mighty to save, will trodden the enemies.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Lord call Israel Hephzibah also calls us the same as He takes delight in us. The people of the Lord shall shine on earth and be His ambassador of grace. How may I live out the life that is pleasing to the Lord?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 76 Day 6: Descend from Heaven ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did the prophet pray to God to bring justice to earth?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In all their distress, the anointed too was distressed. In his love and mercy he redeemed them.
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They rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.
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This is how you guided your people to make for yourself a glorious name. Please Look down from heaven and see.
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you and make your name known to your enemies!
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Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - While we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away, God is already saving us. The humble and repentant heart will not be taken lightly by Him. Pray to God to have mercy on my weakness, to forgive my wickedness, and let me atone quietly in from of Him.