Good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights for going through the Bible.

We want to welcome those of you that are joining us online.

We are currently going through the book of Isaiah.

And what a blessing.

It's been last week we finished chapter 8.

And so tonight, Lord willing, I should preface it Lord willing we

will complete chapter 9 so we'll invite you to turn there if you're not there

already before we pray and get started I just want to mention this for the

benefit of our online viewers the shirt I'm wearing does not have syringes on it, okay? No, no, listen to this.

I wore this shirt one time on a Sunday morning and all of the comments on the prophecy update,

which was about, you know what, all the comments were why is pastor jd. wearing a

shirt with syringe needles on it these are outrigger canoes not syringe needles I just

wanted to get that out of the way all right are we good we good? Is everybody okay? All right. Why don't we pray? You're

saying we better pray. All right. Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much. Lord, thank you for humor.

Thank you that laughter is like medicine to the soul.

And Lord, thank you that we can laugh. And there is a time to laugh and there's a time

to be serious. And so Lord, tonight as we have this time together in your word we would ask for

your blessing on our Bible study especially with this chapter that we have

before us tonight Lord I know that many of us come to this place on a Thursday night for our midweek Bible study,

and it represents a sanctuary, literally, a place of respite,

and just that break from the cares and the affairs of our busy lives, especially in this world that we're living in today.

Just all the stress and the pressures and Lord, we can just disconnect from that and come to this place and connect with you in and through your word and that's why

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