Morning Moments

The Prophet prays and crys out with love, compassion and a broken heart to Israel. This part of the message contains two major point:

THE PERSONAL CHARACTER OF GOD

Isaiah 40:1-31 (KJV)

In the Midst of Chaos and Conflict and untimate captivity God seeks to comfort those who have forgotten Him -

Caloused people who harden their hearts must always come to a place of brokenness to repent - anguish leads to brokenness and brokenness to repentance -

1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Although she had disobeyed and was judged for it, God offers COMFORT - it is also His way with us. He would prefer to comfort us that to crush us, but if he has to crush us, he will then comfort us.


2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord'S hand double for all her sins. There is a time to comfort and a time to cry out. Think about our own children. Sometimes volume gets the attention that comfort doesn't, but when the attention is gained, the compassion is shown.

God cares to such an extent that He is sending on crying in the wilderness that Messiah is coming and there is a straight path to be made for him in the desert. The man will come in the spirit of Elijah, the Prophet of old.

3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

When this Millinniel or Kingdom time shall come and Messiah's glory is revealed -

The Earth Shall Change
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

The Elements Shall Change
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

The Entrance will Change

Jesus shall be revealed as God
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

He is a Man of Strength

10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him:

He is a Man of Suprises

He will bring reward for work

behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

He will bring fodder for the flock

11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

He is a Man of Superior Skills
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

He is a Man of Supernatural Strength
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

He is a Man of Creative Capabilities
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

The Confusion will be Clarified

About the Lord's Presence

About the Lord's Punishment
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

The Perpetual Care of God

To Remind Us

28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

To Renew Us
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;

To Raise Us

...they shall mount up with wings as eagles;

To Run Us without exhausting

they shall run, and not be weary;

To Restrain us without expiring

...and they shall walk, and not faint.