Isaiah 45:1-7 (NIV) “This is what the LORD says to his anointed ( mā·šîaḥ ), to Cyrus, whose

Isaiah writes that "He will delight in the fear of the LORD (v3)." Why didn't the Messiah fix these things the way Isaiah said He would? In many ways, what Isaiah wrote has already been completed. Jesus was filled by the Spirit at His baptism, just as Isaiah predicted. So part of Isaiah's prophecy is already taking place, but is not yet fully realized.

Isaiah begins this beautiful passage on God's Fatherliness with a proclamation of the kindnesses (NIV In just a few verses Isaiah summarizes the story of God's people. It's this ḥěʹ·sěḏ love that Isaiah appeals to: "Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us, time you open your prayer to your Father in heaven, you are appealing to that same ḥěʹ·sěḏ love that Isaiah

This section of the book of Isaiah is full of God's promises for deliverance, containing oracles against God, through His prophet Isaiah, reminds His people - Israel then, and us now - that whatsoever God plans Know that you can absolutely trust the promises God has made to you, because passages like this one in Isaiah

booms out the claims He makes in the first commandment, to not have any gods before Him, and here in Isaiah Passages like this one in Isaiah that portray God as being entirely 'other,' and entirely above all things

Summary Most of the book of Isaiah was written to warn God's rebellious people that if they did not repent As you begin a new year, find peace by keeping these two commands God gives you in Isaiah 46: Remember

Isaiah 57:15–19 (NIV) 15  For this is what the high and exalted One says — he who lives forever, whose Summary What a contrasting picture of God that Isaiah paints for us here. On one hand, Isaiah describes God as "high and exalted" and "the One who lives forever," who lives in The one ingredient Isaiah does emphasize is repentance. I wonder what it must have been like to be Isaiah; to have been given these revelations from God Himself

Align your life with what God says here through Isaiah.

Summary A voice tells the prophet to "cry out," and when Isaiah asks what he is to proclaim, he's told

Summary Our passage from Isaiah today comes near the end of his book, as the prophet reminds God's people There Isaiah goes from referring to God as a detached, all powerful moral governor who will judge all Isaiah puts this so beautifully in v8: Yet you, Lord, are our Father. After all, the Bible also refers to God using motherly descriptions as well (Isaiah 66:13)!