All right, well, 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 and verse by verse.

And after a couple weeks, we're now going to resume our study through this amazing book of Isaiah.

We finished off in chapter 48.

We're only going to take one more chapter tonight because it is also

going to be the communion service at the end of the Bible study. So we want to encourage you,

those of you watching online, to at this time, get the elements so that we can partake together

at the conclusion. But Lord willing, we're going to make our way through a very

interesting chapter here in God's words. So looking forward to what the Lord has for us.

Why don't we begin with a word of prayer. If you would, please join with me. We'll ask God to

bless our time together tonight in His Word.

Father in heaven, thank you so much.

Lord, we're just so thankful to you, really unable to thank you enough.

Lord, you're so good.

You're so amazing. You're so amazing, you're so loving, you're so long-suffering and kind

and merciful, forgiving.

Lord, tonight we just are here as a people that readily admit that we need you. Oh Lord, we need you. And we need the Holy Spirit.

And we need this time together in your words so you can minister to us and fill us afresh and baptize us anew, Lord.

Many of us are here after a busy day, a busy week with just the stresses and the cares

and the affairs of our busy lives and this time together on a Thursday night and certainly our communion

celebration just represents for us a much needed respite and sanctuary and time where we can

just come together and open up our Bibles and open up our hearts and and just allow the Holy Spirit to have unfettered

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