November 22, 2020 - Isaiah 58:1-12
November 22, 2020
Lessons Learned
By Wayne Gaeddert
Isaiah 58:1-12
1. “If you want to be blessed by God, be a blessing to others.” Today in the Word
2. “If your knees are bowed but your heart isn’t, people are going to be hurt.” Anonymous
3. Serving God is the result of a love relationship with God.
4. “By giving comes getting. According to the philosophy of God, it is by watering others that we get watered ourselves.” C. H. Spurgeon
5. “Fasting is giving up a craving of the physical to gain assistance from the spiritual.” Dr. Tony Evans
6. “give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:38 ESV
7. God wants you to be a conduit through which the needs of others are met.
8. “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35 ESV
9. “The one true God is just; He expects His people to demonstrate their faith through right living.” Dr. Blake Hearson
10. Application.
Don’t be guilty of being the oppressor—you will become discouraged.
When God is silent in your life, join the Psalmist; ask God to search your heart.
“Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!” Psalm 139:23-24 ESV
God restores what has been lost when we repent and renew our love relationship with Him.
God uses His people to be salt and light to those who are hurting.
See Lessons Learned #1.