A Potentially Difficult Holiday (Isaiah 9:2-7)

Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer

Carey Green

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. 3 You have multiplied the nation;
you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest,
as they are glad when they divide the spoil. 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. 5 For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire. 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

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0:00.0	Good morning my friends and welcome back to the morning night set and
0:06.4	might I say Merry Christmas. I'm so thankful to be with you here on Christmas Day
0:11.4	and I hope that you're doing well. I know that the holidays can be a very difficult time for some people because they have lost a loved one. I think about my family has lost my sister this year and for my niece and my nephews in particular this is a very difficult
0:27.0	situation this year and so I want to stop for a moment and just say a quick prayer for you
0:32.2	if that's the circumstance that you're in.
0:34.0	Lord, we ask that you would give encouragement and hope to those who are struggling this year
0:39.4	because of the loss of a family member or perhaps there was a loss years ago at Christmas time and it
0:45.4	makes for a very difficult holiday season.
0:47.6	I pray that you would sustain and strengthen these brothers and sisters in Christ who are missing a loved one but Lord give them eyes to see
0:55.9	toward the future and that glorious day when we will all be reunited in heaven and
1:01.0	you will be the light and you will be the center of everything
1:04.6	Father we pray that you give us that sort of vision so that the losses of this
1:09.2	world will not be as painful because we know of the hope that's ahead. And Lord, we ask that in Jesus
1:15.7	name, Amen. Well, being Christmas, I wanted to give a little bit of a different sort of an
1:22.2	approach today. We are going to step away from the
1:24.7	book of Romans chapter 11 and come back to it tomorrow. Today I wanted to go backward in the scriptures.
1:30.8	Back to Isaiah chapter 9. This is a passage that is one of the
1:36.7	Christmas passages that you hear quite often. If you're familiar with Handels Messiah
1:46.2	there are a number of passages out of Handels Messiah, the musical composition that are from Isaiah chapter 9.
1:49.5	It's because Isaiah chapter 9 is a messianic prophecy, meaning Isaiah wrote it about certain
1:56.8	circumstances, at least in his mind, that's what it was about, but God gave him a prophecy as he wrote and the prophecy had to do with the Messiah
2:06.7	who was coming and we looking back are able to see very clearly some of the ways in which it's about Jesus and his birth and the time
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