All right, 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, verse by verse.

And tonight we find ourselves having completed chapter four in Isaiah in chapter five.

And we would encourage you at this time to join with us if you're not already there.

We're going to get right to it. But before we do, if you would please join with me as we pray and ask the Lord's blessing on our time together in His word tonight, if you would please.

Father in heaven, thank you so much.

Lord, we posture ourselves before you tonight as a people

who are hungry and thirsty for you, knowing that only you can satiate that hunger and that thirst that we have in our souls, Lord.

Lord, your word is the bread of life, the water of life.

And so Lord, we want to be fed.

We want to be nourished.

We want to be strengthened and filled, filled afresh.

So, Lord, we have before us tonight a chapter that is very interesting, very in some ways

intense.

And we readily admit that we need for the Holy Spirit to be our teacher and our guide tonight.

We need the Holy Spirit to minister to us, to get our attention and hold our attention so

our minds don't wander. And more importantly, Lord, we need for the Holy Spirit as only you can, Lord, to speak into

our lives in that still, small, refining voice.

And Lord, as you do speak, we want to not only listen and hear, but take heed.

So Lord, thank you in advance for our time together in your word.

We ask your blessing on it.

In Jesus' name, amen.

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