Isaiah 44:3. Spurgeon.

From my Spurgeon devotional iPhone app thing:

Have you lost the joy of religion, and is this your prayer, "Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation"? Are you conscious also that you are barren, like the dry ground; that you are not bringing forth the fruit unto God which He has a right to expect of you; that you are not so useful in the Church, or in the world, as your heart desires to be?

Then here is exactly the promise which you need, "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." You shall receive the grace you so much require, and you shall have it to the utmost reach of your needs.

Water refreshes the thirsty: you shall be refreshed; your desires shall be gratified.
Water quickens sleeping vegetable life: your life shall be quickened by fresh grace.
Water swells the buds and makes the fruits ripen; you shall have fructifying grace: you shall be made fruitful in the ways of God.
Whatever good quality there is in divine grace, you shall enjoy it to the full.
All the riches of divine grace you shall receive in plenty; you shall be as it were drenched with it:
and as sometimes the meadows become flooded by the bursting rivers,
and the fields are turned into pools,
so shall you be-the thirsty land shall be springs of water.


"I will pour water upon him that is thirsty."-Isaiah 44:3

results!

Very successful morning!

home sweet home....and Oakland.

I was able to go home last weekend to get my car working like new again. While there I got to go to my parent's awesome Halloween party and catch up with friends. It was such a blessing and great mid-fall necessity.

Myself, Deborah, and Lindsey.

I made my costume just by hot glueing some black feathers to a tank top and tutu. The tutu was more like a petticoat type thing to wear under a Halloween costume...hence it was see through....so I de-hoochied it by adding feathers. I was Black Swan if you couldn't tell. Still haven't seen the movie, so I'm a poser. Oh well. Also haven't worn that much black eye makeup since I was on dance team in high school. Ugh.

My dark bff Mae, helping me look more pale.

GRACE

He will wait to be gracious; he will wait till you return to him and seek his face, and then he will be ready to meet you with mercy. He will wait, that he may do it in the best and fittest time, when it will be most for his glory, when it will come to you with the most pleasing surprise. He will continually follow you with his favors, and not let slip any opportunity to be gracious to you.

-Matthew Henry

I can't stop thinking about this verse.

Isaiah 30.

I love when God speaks to me through His Word.

Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

16 The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.

Isaiah 60: 1-2 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.

15 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

21 Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.

Isaiah 61: 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.

3 That they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.