FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2022 DEVOTION

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2022

TEXT: Isaiah 11:1-10

1. A green Shoot will sprout from Jesse’s stump from his roots a budding Branch.

2. The life-giving Spirit of God will hover over him, the Spirit that brings wisdom and understanding, The Spirit that gives direction and builds strength, the Spirit that instills knowledge and Fear-of-God.

3. Fear-of-God will be all his joy and delight. He won’t judge by appearances, won’t decide on the basis of hearsay.

4. He’ll judge the needy by what is right, render decisions on earth’s poor with justice. His words will bring everyone to awed attention. A mere breath from his lips will topple the wicked.

5. Each morning he’ll pull on sturdy work clothes and boots, and build righteousness and faithfulness in the land. A Living Knowledge of God.

6. The wolf will romp with the lamb, the leopard sleep with the kid. Calf and lion will eat from the same trough, and a little child will tend them.

7. Cow and bear will graze the same pasture, their calves and cubs grow up together, and the lion eat straw like the ox.

8. The nursing child will crawl over rattlesnake dens, the toddler stick his hand down the hole of a serpent.

9. Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill on my holy mountain. The whole earth will be brimming with knowing God-Alive, a living knowledge of God ocean-deep, ocean-wide.

10. On that day, Jesse’s Root will be raised high, posted as a rallying banner for the peoples. The nations will all come to him. His headquarters will be glorious.

(The Message Holy Bible)

TOPIC: A SHOOT FROM THE STUMP OF JESSE

Judah, the royal line of David, is compared to a tree chopped down, leaving a stump. But from it a new Messiah. He is the fulfillment of God’s promise that a descendant of David would be on the throne and rule forever (cf. 2 Samuel 7:16).

The Spirit of the Lord, of wisdom, of counsel and might, of knowledge shall rest upon Him. He shall judge with righteousness, strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, etc., and through Him the unimaginable shall happen – leopard and goat shall lie down together and a child shall pay with deadly snakes without harm, among others.

It is only in and through Christ that all these can happens.

QUESTION: If all of these can happen through Christ, what else can’t He do in your life?

PRAYER: Dear Lord, please work in and through me, to Your own glory, in Jesus name, Amen.

 

Remain Blessed                                 

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