Good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights we're going through the Bible,

book by book and chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And tonight, we are in the book of Isaiah

and one chapter tonight, chapter 40, and only one chapter, and I think you'll see why here

in a moment, really looking forward to this chapter.

I know I said about all the chapters, but in particular, this chapter here in the book of

Isaiah. So, why don't we pray, if you would please join with me. We'll just ask God to kind of

settle us down and help us focus on His Word and that which He has

for us tonight. So let's pray. Father in heaven, thank you so, so, so much for your Word.

Oh, for us right now with everything that's happening in the world, this is our lifeline.

This is the word of life, the bread of life, the water of life.

Lord, we need you, Lord, we need you.

Lord, tonight, would you, I got to believe, I got to know, and Lord, you know that many of us will come to a Bible study like this on a Thursday night and we bring with us the hassles,

the pressures, the stresses, the, man, just the issues, so much is happening and it's

just getting crazier by the day it seems, even by the hour.

And so Lord, this is our hour with you where we can just put all that aside and be in your

word and as we get into your word, your word gets into us and you speak

into our lives and you calm us and you settle us and you minister to us.

And oh Lord, we just need that so desperately tonight, especially with this chapter that we have before us tonight.

So, Lord, thank you in advance for what you're going to do.

In our time together in your word, we pray in Jesus' name.

Amen and amen.

All right.

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