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 we're gonna partake together of the communion table at the conclusion of the Bible

studies 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 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, 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, 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.

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