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God Does NOT Help Those Who Help Themselves

February 6, 2021

  • Rev. Donn
  • Isaiah
  • Online Sunday Service
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Isaiah 40:21-31

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21 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
    Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
    and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
23 who brings princes to nought,
    and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
    scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
    and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

25 To whom then will you compare me,
    that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
    who created these?
He who brings out their host by number,
    calling them all by name;
by the greatness of his might,
    and because he is strong in power
    not one is missing.

27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
    and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hid from the Lord,
    and my right is disregarded by my God”?
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary,
    his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
    and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
    and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
    they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
    they shall walk and not faint.

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  1. Paul & Debby Horne says

    February 7, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Pastor Donn,

    I am so glad that God helps and blesses us all and that it is not up to me because I do a marvelous job of screwing things up not helping myself and I need God’s Help every hour. Thank you for your excellent sermon and thanks to the worship leader for her part and to Howard, Rick and Lorraine for the beautiful music. All added together made for a wonderful worshipful experience. God Bless.

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