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Isaiah chapter 65 verse 12.

God says, I will destiny you to the sword.

And all of you shall bow down to the slaughter.

Because when I called, you did not answer.

When I spoke, you did not listen. But you did what was evil in my eyes

and chose what I did not delight in. Ah, these are somber words from God to people who have turned away from him.

And as I read them, I just prayed, God, I don't want this ever to be true in my life.

I don't want any of these things to be true in my life.

I don't want any of these things to be true in my family.

I don't want them to be true in the church that I'm a part of and people around me that

I pray for regularly. Obviously, I don't want this to be true in anybody, but this is a picture in

God's word of saying, hey, judgment is coming for those whom God is called, but they don't answer, God spoke they didn't listen who do what is evil in his eyes and choose what he doesn't delight in you hear that phrase

and in your own heart in my own heart i see this tendency to choose things that I delight in instead of that which God delights in.

And God very clearly in His Word is saying, don't do that. Choose what I delight in.

So let's pray for our lives, our families, our churches, the culture around us god please help us help us to hear you

when you call when you speak help us to listen god we see how we have so minimized your word not just in

our culture but even in the church today, how much biblical illiteracy

there is, how much it can be said, even about the church today. When you spoke, we did not listen.

God, may that not be so. God restore the supremacy of your word in the church today, the proclamation

of your word in the church today, the proclamation of your word in the church today, the proclamation of your word in the church

today, the proclamation of your word in our lives, the hearing of it and the obedience to it.

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