Good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. We're so glad that you're joining with

us tonight. We are making our way through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter,

and verse by verse. And tonight we are in the book of Isaiah. We finished chapter seven last

night. We're only going to do chapter eight tonight, and I think you'll see why here shortly. So for those

of you online, if you want to join with us, those of you here, if you're not there already, I'll

encourage you and invite you to turn there at this time. And again, very much looking forward to

what the Lord has for us tonight. So why don't we begin by praying and asking God

to bless our time together in this word. If you would please join with me.

Loving Heavenly Father, we're just so in awe of you. we're so in love with you.

And Lord, tonight as we now have our Bibles open, so too do we want to have our hearts open,

and our eyes open and our ears open too. Lord, we want to see what it is

that you want to show us tonight. We want to hear what it is that you want to speak into our

lives tonight. And in our hearts, we want to receive

and take heed to your word tonight. So, Lord, would you, as only you can, enable us by the

Holy Spirit to focus, concentrate, give you our undivided attention so our minds don't wander.

Lord, we need for the Holy Spirit to get a hold of our attention and then keep our attention

as you speak very powerfully, and I believe very personally, into our lives, in and through

your word here in this chapter that we have before us tonight. We pray Jesus name amen and amen all right so I want

to talk with you tonight about the paramount importance of going to God's word as a first response as opposed to a last resort.

And the reason is is because woven throughout the fabric of this chapter,

Isaiah is speaking to prophetically the go-to, if you will, for every situation

that we face in our lives. And such is the case with Judah and King Ahaz as we're about to see.

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