Heavenly father, whenever I enjoy the beautiful things in life which are here today and gone tomorrow, give me grace to enjoy the beautiful qualities of life which are eternal.
16 The Lord says,
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“The women of Zion think highly of themselves,
flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
and every fashion accessory.
17 Therefore the Lord will bring sores on…Heavenly Father, open my eyes today to see your presence, your glory - let it be to me a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.
What I pray for myself I pray for those on my heart today.2 In that day (when the dreadful consequences of sin will occur] the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel. …
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1 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:Thank you heavenly Father, for the love you have for your people
My loved one had a vineyard
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on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it…Heavenly Father, whenever I am successful in the things of this life, give me grace to have an understanding of eternal things.
Give me a passion for Justice and righteous acts and protect me from deceit,8 Woe to you who acquire property and wealth until you are lonely.
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9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing that:
“Large houses will become empty,10 and their estates will produce tiny…Heavenly father
give me grace to be truthful to myself about what is good and not good
give me grace to understand the limits of my wisdom
give me grace to find fulfilment in doing what is right, rather than what is pleasurable
lead me not into the temptation of using power to do what is wrong20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil,
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21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
22 Woe to those who are…Heavenly Father, give me grace to “see” the source of all goodness and prosperity
give me grace to “see” you
give me grace to see that the whole earth is full of your glory.1 In the year that King Uzziah died
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(and Uzziah was a king who had brought prosperity to Judah, so Isaiah and others were looking for where good times in the future might come from)
(and Uzziah had been inflicted with leprosy having tried to extend his authority to temple worship, and possibly put…Heavenly father
give me grace to see and admit to what there is within me that is destructive
give me grace to see and admit my part in what is destructive within my family / community
give me grace to let go of it, just as you let go of it, and do not hold it against me.5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6…
moreHeavenly Father give me grace to hear and understand what needs to be done
Give me grace to say “Here am I. Send me”
Give me grace to do this particularly when the outlook is bleak, and what I do will make little difference.8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”(People just don’t want to be told that what they are doing is wrong)
9 He said…
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give me grace to trust in you, particularly when I am under threat.1-2 Ahaz, king of Judah, was afraid when Syria and Israel attacked Judah
3-9Yahweh told Isaiah to go and tell Ahaz to not be afraid.
10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God”
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(so that when the sign happens you can have something…Heavenly father, give me grace to fear only you, so that I may fear no one else, for I know that if I trust in anyone or anything other than you, so I shall stumble and fall.
5 The Lord spoke to me again: 6 “Because the people of Judah are not satisfied with adequate resources I have given them (e.g. the rivers of their own country) and melt with fear at their militarily strong neighbours Israel and Syria 7 therefore the…
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give me grace to look to you and to listen to what you are saying
particularly in times of crisis.(Note this was written when Israel was facing invasion from Assyria)
19 When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritualists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 Consult God’s…
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give me grace to have hope when I walk in darkness
give me grace to bring hope to others who walk in darkness1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali (because they were the first to be invaded by Assyria); but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
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2 …The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned.https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-12-18-light-an-…
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Give use grace to turn away from pride, lies, profanity, folly and all wickedness
Give us grace to seek you with all our heart.8 The Lord sent a word to Israel, and 9 All the people will know, who say in pride 10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone.
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11 Therefore Yahweh will stir up his enemies…Heavenly Father
Give us grace to hunger and thirst after righteousness and justice1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous and oppressive decrees;
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2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights,
that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
3 …Heavenly Father
Give us grace to not give in to the temptation of wanting to destroy and
Give us grace to look beyond our own strength and our own wisdom, so that we Hallow your name, not ours; and seek your Kingdom and Your will, not ours.5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger and indignation! 6 I will send him to plunder a profane nation who anger me
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7 However he doesn’t mean so, neither does…Heavenly Father
give us grace to truly lean on you20 It will come to pass that the remnant of Israel
will no more again lean on the King of Assyria who struck them,
but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust you when the destructive consequences of sin occur
give us grace to see this as an overflowing of righteousness.(Note: Judah will be destroyed due to its turning away from Yahweh to other Gods. The destruction will come from Assyria, who will then be destroyed, for the same reason)
22A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
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23 …Heavenly father
pour out your holy spirit on us, so that we may be wise and understand what it is to fear you.1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
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from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
…Heavenly father
give us grace to seek your righteousness and justice, and not be swayed by the sometimes small amount of information that we see and hear.3 He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,
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or decide by what he hears with his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy,
with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.
He will strike the earth with…Heavenly father
give us grace to be filled with your knowledge, so that we do no harm today6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
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the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat…Heavenly father
give us grace to come out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Your Son so that people from all nations shall see Your glorious salvation visible like a banner, and come to it.10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
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11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving…Heavenly father
give us grace to draw on your strength in good times as well as bad, so that you may be our song and salvation today and everyday, for ever.1 In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
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2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
3 Therefore with joy you…Heavenly father
give us grace to walk humbly before you so that we will not be destroyed in our pride and arrogance.4 Yahweh of Armies is mustering an army, 5 the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 For Yahweh’s day is at hand! 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. . 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of…
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give us grace to cling on to hope in the face of sorrow, trouble and oppression.
give us grace to turn away from arrogance and from anything which puts down others.1 Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place.…
moreHeavenly father, when we are afflicted give us grace to be a blessing to those who are poor, needy and afflicted.
28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz (of Judah) died (in whose reign Philistia had oppressed parts of Judah)
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29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. 30 The…Heavenly father
give us grace to have compassion for those who are suffering as a result of their own sins
give us grace to repent of our own pride - pride which leads to oppression and wrath.15:1 In a night, Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
5 My heart cries out for Moab!16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
4 For the extortionist is brought to nothing. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.5…
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give us grace to turn to you for strength and worship you alone10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength.
9 your strong cities will be a desolation. and 11 you will have a harvest of grief and of desperate sorrow.7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
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8…Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for your kingdom to come, for your will be done.1 A message for the land of Ethiopia; 2 that sends ambassadors Egypt (to join forces against Assyria)” :
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3 All you inhabitants of the world, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
4 Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling…Heavenly father
give us grace in the face of civil unrest, international catastrophe and natural disaster, to have hope for a day of blessing, when all people (Egypt, Assyria and Israel) will be blessed1 “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
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2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother and his neighbour;
4 …He will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
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We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.1 Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be…
more1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
3 The voice of one who calls out,
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“Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!…Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for you, so that by waiting for you we find strength28 Haven’t you known?
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Haven’t you heard?
The everlasting God, Yahweh,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.
He isn’t weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak.
He increases the strength of him…but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
They will walk, and not faint.Heavenly Father
give us grace to turn in silence to you, our beginning and our end, for strength
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1 “Keep silent before me, islands,
and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
then let them speak.
Let’s meet together for judgement.
2 Who has raised up one from the east? [Cyrus]
Who called him to his foot in righteousness?
He hands over nations to him
…“Keep silent before me, islands,
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and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
then let them speak.
Let’s meet together for judgment.
…Heavenly Father
give us grace to hold your hand, to take strength from you and to serve you today8 “But you, Israel, my servant,
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Jacob whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham my friend,
9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
and called from its corners,
and said to you, ‘You are my servant…Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you.
Yes, I will help you.
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
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