PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Isaiah 40:1-5 Restoration and the coming of God

Scripture lesson: This promise was originally to the exiles in Babylon and was fulfilled with the return to Jerusalem. The valleys were not literally lifted up but all obstacles to the return fell away and the return was suddenly easy. That is how God works. These promises are for us also. At some time our valleys will be lifted up.

Time to reflect: Pray for that day.

 Comfort for God's People

 1 Comfort, comfort my people,
       says your God.

 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
       and proclaim to her
       that her hard service has been completed,
       that her sin has been paid for,
       that she has received from the LORD's hand
       double for all her sins.

 3 A voice of one calling:
       "In the desert prepare
       the way for the LORD [a] ;
       make straight in the wilderness
       a highway for our God. [b]

 4 Every valley shall be raised up,
       every mountain and hill made low;
       the rough ground shall become level,
       the rugged places a plain.

 5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed,
       and all mankind together will see it.
       For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."