THE LORD OUR REDEEMER
This is what the Lord says-your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners.
Who overthrows the learnings of the wise and turns it into nonsense, who carries out the words of his servants and fulfils the predictions of his messengers,Who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited, of the towns of Judah, 'They shall be built, and of their ruins, 'I will restore them. Who says of the watery deep, Be dry, and i will dry up your streams. (Isaiah 44:24-27)
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."Surely He will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies be day nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side,ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. (Psalms 91:1-8)
This is what the Lord says: "cursed is the one who trust in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands;he will not see prosperity when it comes.He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,in a salt land where no one lives.
But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.It does not fear when heat comes, its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the Lord surrounds his people
both now and forevermore. (Psalm 125:1-2)
Pastor Kolis Arthur
