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blessing to each other and the role God has called us to as women.

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as we talk about how God's word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.

Hello friend and welcome to the thankful homemaker Bitesize, just a quick nugget of encouragement

for your day.

As I've had some time to sit and read in the book of Isaiah,

it struck me how often God is not the first place I turn to when I need help. I may look to myself, my husband, or a friend,

and although those aren't necessarily bad things, it isn't where I should be turning to first.

I've read the verses in Isaiah Chapter 9. it isn't where I should be turning to first.

I've read the verses in Isaiah chapter 9 many times,

but for some reason, I don't think I fully took in

what was happening before these verses. God's judgment is coming upon Judah and they are going to be

taken captive by Assyria. When you get a moment sit with chapter 9 and the

chapters before if you get some time. I encourage you to do that. But the people at that time, they didn't go to God first either. They turned to mediums as it tells us in Isaiah 819.

Dark days were coming for God's people,

and in the midst of this,

Isaiah brings prophecy on the hope that is to come

when the Messiah reigns.

The first word in Isaiah chapter 9 verse 1

is always a favorite of mind to see in scripture.

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