Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. We're so glad that you're joining with us online.

On Thursday nights, we're going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

And tonight, Lord willing, we're going to do two chapters in the book of Isaiah, chapter 15 and 16.

So we'd encourage you to join with us and also at this time we're going to

partake together of the communion table at the conclusion of the Bible study so you might want to

get the elements so they're ready for that time so let's get right to it really looking forward to

tonight's study in God's word. And so if you would please join with me and we'll begin with the word of prayer. And we'll ask God to bless our time together.

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

Lord, we love you so much and we thank you so much and we thank you for this time that

we have together tonight in your word here in this amazing book of Isaiah and it is an amazing

book, so rich, so full. But Lord, we are here tonight because we readily admit that we are needy and we need you as we have just got done singing.

Oh, we need you, how we need you. Every hour we need you how we need you every hour we need you Lord so Lord

would you tonight as only you can just minister to us and satiate that need that we

have in our souls that thirst thirst, that hunger, that only you can satiate, speak

into our lives, Lord. That's why we're here tonight. We want to hear you speak in that still

small voice of the Holy Spirit. Lord, encourage and strengthen the discouraged, the downcast, Lord.

Lord, just a renewed hope. I think if anything, we need that hope, that blessed hope.

You're our only hope lord and so lord thank you thank you in advance

for what you're going to do tonight in our midst in jesus name amen and amen all right so

these two chapters, chapters 15 and 16, which I wanted to take together, actually a short chapter in chapter 15.

But they consist of a dual prophecy concerning Moab, which we know today as the modern day country of Jordan, actually.

It's where my mom was from. She was actually born and raised in a very small farm town in Jordan outside of Amman, the capital of Jordan.

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