Good evening and welcome again. Sorry for the late start. We're glad that you're joining with

us tonight. 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 Isaiah chapter 46. Just one chapter tonight again.

And I think you'll see why here shortly but before we jump

in if you would please join with me. We're going to pray and just ask God to bless our time

together in His Word. Father in heaven thank you so much for this time that we have, for this chapter that we have

before us tonight. Lord, thank you for your word. Lord, would you just settle our hearts now

and just quiet our minds and by the Holy Spirit just enable us to give you our undivided

undistracted attention so that you can speak into our lives in and through your word.

Especially with everything that's happening in the world today.

Lord, it just seems to be getting more and more intense with each passing day.

Just so many things are happening and just so much fear and uncertainty.

And Lord, we know that you've not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love

and of a discipline, sound mind.

And so Lord, tonight we want to, with that mind that you've given us. We want to use

it. And we want to use our ears too to hear and our eyes to see and our hearts to receive.

Lord, I truly believe with all my heart that you

have a word for us tonight and it's a word of encouragement and a word of hope. So Lord,

bless our time we pray in Jesus name. Amen and amen.

All right, so the chapter that we have before us tonight is one of those places in God's

Word along with many places in God's Word where we have this much needed reminder of how it

is that the Lord is always there for us.

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