Posted on 03/29/2018 11:08:14 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE-PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14
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Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?
The Servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about Him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a Man who suffered, Who knew pain firsthand. One look at Him and people turned away. We looked down on Him, thought He was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains He carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought He brought it on Himself, that God was punishing Him for His own failures. But it was our sins that did that to Him, that ripped and tore and crushed Him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through His bruises we get healed. We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on Him, on Him.
He was beaten, He was tortured, Hut he didn’t say a word. Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, He took it all in silence. Justice miscarried, and He was led off— and did anyone really know what was happening? He died without a thought for His own welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people. They buried Him with the wicked, threw Him in a grave with a rich man, Even though He’d never hurt a soul or said one word that wasn’t true. Still, it’s what God had in mind all along, to crush Him with pain. The plan was that He give himself as an offering for sin so that He’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life. And God’s plan will deeply prosper through Him.
Out of that terrible travail of soul, He’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad He did it. Through what He experienced, My righteous One, My servant, will make many “righteous ones,” as He Himself carries the burden of their sins. Therefore I’ll reward Him extravagantly— the best of everything, the highest honors— Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch, because he embraced the company of the lowest. He took on His own shoulders the sin of the many, He took up the cause of all the black sheep.
FATHER GOD,
Thank You for loving us so much that You would send Your only Son, JESUS, to die on the cross for our sins. You made CHRIST, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with You through CHRIST. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Instill in our hearts what JESUS told His disciples, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow Me." (Matthew 16:24) May we humble ourselves and die to self in absolute surrender to JESUS' commands. JESUS gave His all for us, help us to do the same for Him.
In JESUS' Name we pray. Amen.
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"When He had received the drink, Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, He bowed his head and gave up His spirit." (John 19:30)
But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:57)
Jesus, all for jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Wa2msOq9c&list=RDMMH1Wa2msOq9c
Amen
Amen. Thank God for His great love and grace to His people.
Thank you Lord that by your wounds we are healed. Thank you that because of your huge sacrifice we can live free. Thank you that sin and death have been conquered, and that your Power is everlasting.
Thank you that we can say with great hope, “It is finished…” For we know what’s still to come. And death has lost its sting. We praise you for you are making all things new.
In Jesus’ Name,
Amen.
Hosanna!
Hosanna!
LORD JESUS our KING.
In HIS name we pray.
Amen.
“Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSiFk5_ssR0&feature=youtu.be
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Oh, my Jesus, forgive our sins. Help us to walk the narrow way. Help our nation to turn away from sin and to turn back to you.
Amen.
Amen
“ISAIAH 53 - Message Bible”
That was one of the most lovely paraphrases of Is 53 I have ever read. Thank you for posting it.
Praying with you, in Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
Amen.
Joining with you all in prayer, praise and thanksgiving!
Joining you in prayer, dear stars & stripes forever, in Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
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