Good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights for going through the Bible.

We want to welcome those of you that are joining us online. We are currently going through the

book of Isaiah and what a blessing. It's been last week we finished chapter 8 and so tonight,

Lord willing, I should preface it, Lord willing we will complete chapter 9.

So we'll invite you to turn there if you're not there already.

Before we pray and get started, I just want to mention this for the benefit of our online

viewers.

The shirt I'm wearing does not have syringes on it, okay?

No, no, listen to this.

I wore this shirt one time on a Sunday morning, and all of the comments on the prophecy update, which was about, you know what,

all the comments were, why is Pastor J.D. wearing a shirt with syringe needles on it?

These are outrigger canoes, not syringe needles. I just wanted to get that out of the way. All right.

Are we good? Is everybody okay? All right. Why don't we pray? You're saying, we better pray.

All right, let's pray. Lord, thank you so much. Lord, thank you for humor. Thank you that laughter is like medicine to the soul.

And Lord, thank you that we can laugh.

And there is a time to laugh and there's a time to be serious.

So Lord, tonight, as we have this time together in your word, we would ask for your blessing

on our Bible study, especially with this chapter that we have before us tonight.

Lord, I know that many of us come to this place on a Thursday night for our midweek Bible study and it represents

a sanctuary literally a place of respite and just that break from the cares and the affairs

of our busy lives especially in this world that we're living

in today. Just all the stress and the pressures and Lord, we can just disconnect from

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