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Isaiah chapter 33 verse 2.

Listen to this prayer.

Oh Lord be gracious to us, we wait for you, be our arm every morning, our

salvation in the time of trouble.

What does that mean? Think about it. Be our arm every morning.

Well, basically the picture here is the arm is a symbol of strength.

And so Isaiah, amongst God's people, is saying,

God, be gracious to us, we're waiting for you,

be our strength every morning. We need you to be our strength. Our

salvation specifically in the time of trouble. So he's coming from a place of

weakness where he's surrounded by trouble and need around him and he looks

up to the Lord in the morning and says be my arm.

I think about my life today. I don't know obviously what's going on in your life, but I feel

weak at so many levels. I need strength in so many different ways, like physically, weak, I feel in a sense, emotionally weak.

Some days, maybe many days. in a sense emotionally,

some days, maybe many days, relationally week, just the relational challenges

where it's work or family or this or that in the church, I think about even

spiritual weakness, I think about my temptations to sin. I just see my weakness on so many levels and yet I have the opportunity to wake up in the morning from sleep to look up to the Lord on high, the God of the universe, and

pray be my arm. Every morning be my strength, every morning, surrounded by all kinds of things in the world.

I need you to be my strength and God hears that prayer. He is gracious to us.

He will be strength for us. Salvation

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