“Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.” Isaiah 19:25 Blessed – You can easily imagine the reaction of the Jews when Isaiah relayed this message from God.  Shock!  Disgust!  How could God call Egypt His people and Assyria the work of His hands?  Didn’t that special…

“and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and make you eat with the inheritance of your father Jacob.” Isaiah 58:14 Eat – Do you want to really celebrate Christmas?  Then enjoy an inheritance meal, served up by God Himself.  It won’t be the usual turkey or ham.  It won’t…

“then you will take delight in the LORD” Isaiah 58:14 Delight – What is more rewarding than seeing the face of a small child opening a brightly wrapped gift?  The excitement, the joy, the anticipation and the sheer delight portrayed in that countenance is more thrilling than all rest of the festivities.  Why?  What makes…

“and you shall be called the repairer of the breech, the restorer of the streets” Isaiah 58:12 Restorer – Jesus is born to be the restorer.  If we follow in His footsteps, we must also be the restorers. The Hebrew word shuv is used more than 1000 times in the Old Testament.  It has a…

“and you shall be watered like a garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail” Isaiah 58:11 Watered – Clearly Isaiah was mistaken.  How could he have used the word raweh for “watered”?  After all, the root of this word is rawa, a word that means, “to be satiated, to have…