Verse of the Day 9/14

Verse of the Day 9/14

Isaiah 26:3-4

English Standard Version

3 You keep him in perfect peace

    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

In preparing for the first lesson in this years Bible Study Fellowship I came across Jean's workbook for last years study. I opened it and went to the last two studie which I believe took place in the beginning of May. Due to the cancer her handwriting would soon become illegible but in the last lesson her words were clear enough to read.  She wrote that the study of Revelation were "making hope for a better tomorrow".  She wrote that the most convicting message that God had spoke to her this year had been "come Lord Jesus come", and her short prayer, her last prayer written was "God, I need you."  She wrote that the one word that described her experience this past year with the word was "understand".

She was amazing through those last weeks in her life, largely because she was still hoping, stil praying and still trusting that one way or another Jesus was coming. 

She had received God's message, Jesus came for her and He met her need. She understood and she is now in perfect peace.  Her mind "stayed" on Him and and will trust in Him forever, the everlasting, eternal rock.

May her words encourage you with a hope that leads to perfect peace.

1. Come, every soul by sin oppressed,
   There's mercy with the Lord,
   And He will surely give you rest
   By trusting in His Word.
   • Refrain:
     Only trust Him, only trust Him,
     Only trust Him now;
     He will save you, He will save you,
     He will save you now.
2. For Jesus shed His precious blood
   Rich blessings to bestow;
   Plunge now into the crimson flood
   That washes white as snow.
3. Yes, Jesus is the truth, the way,
   That leads you into rest;
   Believe in Him without delay
   And you are fully blest.
4. Come, then, and join this holy band,
   And on to glory go,
   To dwell in that celestial land
   Where joys immortal flow.

Blessings,

Mike

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Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace.  NIV

Isaiah 26:1-9

English Standard Version

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

26 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

"We have a strong city;
    he sets up salvation
    as walls and bulwarks.
2 Open the gates,
    that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
3 You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
5 For he has humbled
    the inhabitants of the height,
    the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.
6 The foot tramples it,
    the feet of the poor,
    the steps of the needy."

7 The path of the righteous is level;
    you make level the way of the righteous.
8 In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.