The Future God's Preparing
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. |
| 0:04.7 | Isaiah 43. 18. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.1 | The future God's preparing was written by Marvin Williams and read by West Ward. |
| 0:21.2 | Isaiah chapter 43 verses 16 through 21. |
| 0:26.4 | This is what the Lord says, he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, |
| 0:35.0 | who drew out the chariots and horses, the army, and reinforcements together, |
| 0:40.9 | and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick. |
| 0:47.5 | Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way |
| 0:57.6 | in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the |
| 1:04.8 | owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland to give drink to my people, my chosen, |
| 1:13.6 | the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. |
| 1:20.7 | The Future God's Preparing, written by Marvin Williams. |
| 1:26.1 | We live in a world where the internet forgets nothing. Every photo, |
| 1:31.9 | post, and blog entry is seemingly stored forever. One major search engine, however, introduced a privacy |
| 1:39.4 | feature allowing users to request the removal of personal data, like phone numbers, home addresses, and more. |
| 1:47.7 | While this doesn't erase the data from the Internet entirely, it significantly reduces its visibility, |
| 1:55.1 | giving people a sense of control over their digital footprints. |
| 1:59.1 | This idea of scrubbing the past echoes the prophet's words in |
| 2:04.0 | Isaiah 43, 18 through 19. God said, forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. See, |
| 2:12.6 | I am doing a new thing. These verses were spoken to Israel during their exile in Babylon, a period of deep |
| 2:21.1 | despair and longing for restoration. God commanded his people to not fixate on their past failures |
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