Daily Scripture & Questions

Isaiah 35:1-36:21 Chapter 35 gives us a glimpse of the joy that comes upon the people of God when the Kingdom of God comes.  What aspects were beginning to be fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus?  How do the words of 35:3-4 address the historical situation that is now described in 36?

Family Devotions—Scripture & Questions

Read Isaiah 35:1-7.  What are the images of the coming of the glory of the Lord in majesty? How should the promise of God's coming help us to face the situations that we are facing today (3-4)?  

Biblical Prayer Focus

Jonah 4:8b-11 And (Jonah) asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”"

Don't be like Jonah, who understood the character of God but just did not want Him to be gracious to his enemies. Ask the Lord to give you a heart for those who don't know Him and who will spend an eternity apart from Him if they to not turn to Him.