June 17, 2025 • 35 mins
The ancient prophecy of Isaiah 53 reveals a love story more profound than any Hollywood romance. When God spoke these words to the prophet Isaiah, Jesus was already there, knowing every detail of the suffering that awaited Him centuries later—yet He still chose to come for us.
This powerful episode unpacks the rich layers of meaning in what many consider the most significant messianic prophecy in Scripture. We explore how Jesus grew "like a root out of dry ground," demonstrating God's ability to bring spiritual life from the most barren circumstances. They discuss how the "arm of the Lord"—representing His strength, protection and comfort—becomes available to believers through relationship with Christ.
The conversation takes a candid turn when panel members share personal stories of learning to remain silent when wrongfully accused, following Jesus' example of humble strength. This countercultural approach—choosing not to defend oneself—challenges our natural instincts but often leads to unexpected resolution and peace.
Perhaps most striking is the revelation that Isaiah 53 describes a complete "atonement package" for humanity. Christ's blood purchased salvation for our souls, His punishment secured our peace with God, and His wounds provide for our physical healing. We emphasize that these benefits are free gifts, available through grace rather than works.
The episode concludes with a powerful invitation to know Jesus personally—not just facts about Him, but to experience His life-transforming love. Whether you've walked with Him for decades or are just beginning to explore faith, this conversation will deepen your understanding of Christ's sacrifice and inspire you to embrace the countercultural values of the Kingdom: sacrifice instead of self-promotion, submission instead of demanding rights, and surrender to God's perfect will.
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Kim McIntire (00:08):
Hey everyone, welcome to the it's Time to Rise
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Welcome back to the studio.
Laurel Weick, Charity Degoniaand JoBeth Ellis.
So glad you abide.
Friends, we're willing to comeback for some time in the Word
and prayer.
Today we are opening Isaiah 53,and we're seeking the Lord, and
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it's a joy to have all three ofyou amazing ladies back tonight
.
Isaiah 53, what a chapter.
This chapter has so many layersAn Old Testament prophecy being
fulfilled, surrender, suffering, selfless submission to God,
the Father, and a sacrifice Ican't even comprehend.
Ultimately, though, this textreveals the deep, deep love of
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God for people.
So join us by getting yourBible and taking some notes.
Prepare your heart now toconnect to God's Word and learn
more about Christ as you abidein Him.
Laurel, would you open us inprayer, absolutely.
Laurel Wike (01:57):
Lord, we come to you in the name of Jesus and we
thank you for the privilege ofgathering together today as
sisters and Father, we thank youfor all the listeners who are
joining with us today and wethank you, God, that as we spend
time in your word, you willgrow us in wisdom and knowledge
and understanding.
God, we just open our heartsbefore you and we thank you that
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you will plant seeds of truththat will grow.
Lord, we ask for humility andgratitude and all the things,
Lord, and we ask foropportunities, all the things
that come forth today, in thistime together, that you would
give us opportunities then to goand share them with others,
Father, and just to continue tospread the beauty and the truth
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of your word.
And we ask these things all inthe mighty and holy name of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Kim McIntire (02:46):
Amen.
Isaiah 53,.
We're going to open that byreading it aloud.
If you're able to grab yourBible, we would invite you to do
that.
Charity's going to read outloud for us.
What version are you in tonight?
Charity, the Christian Standard.
Charity Degonia (03:00):
Awesome, yep, all right, who has believed what
we have heard and to whom hasthe arm of the Lord been
revealed?
He grew up before him like ayoung plant and like a root out
of dry ground.
He didn't have an impressiveform or majesty that we should
look at him, no appearance thatwe should desire him.
He was despised and rejected bymen.
A man of suffering who knewwhat sickness was.
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He was like someone peopleturned away from.
He was despised and we didn'tvalue him.
Yet he himself bore oursickness and he carried our
pains.
But we in turn regarded himstricken, struck down by God and
afflicted.
But he was pierced because ofour rebellion, crushed because
of our iniquities.
Punishment for our peace was onhim and we are healed by his
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wounds.
We all went astray like sheep.
We all have turned to our ownway and the Lord has punished
him for the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted,yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb, led to slaughterand like a sheep, silent before
her shearers, he did not openhis mouth.
He was taken away because ofoppression and judgment.
And who considered his fate?
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For he was cut off from theland of the living.
He was struck because of mypeople's rebellion.
He was assigned a grave withthe wicked.
But he was with a rich man athis death because he had done no
violence and had not spokendeceitfully.
Yet the Lord was pleased tocrush him severely.
When you make him a guiltoffering, he will see his seed,
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he will prolong his days and byhis hand the Lord's pleasure
will be accomplished.
After his anguish, he will seelight and be satisfied by his
knowledge.
My righteous servant willjustify many and he will carry
their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him themany as a portion and he will
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receive the mighty as spoil,because Amen.
Kim McIntire (04:59):
What a word.
What a rich word.
What a rich word when weapproach the word together.
What we're asking God is justLord.
What do you want us to know forour mind and for our heart, and
how do we live that out?
So, with that question, whowould like to begin?
Just a response to God's word.
Laurel Wike (05:20):
I would love to jump in because I rarely make it
past the first verse with thisquestion, and that is true in
this case.
And I have the New LivingTranslation in front of me and
it just says who has believed?
Our message Obviously the sameidea, but that left me asking
the question what is the messagethat we're wondering about?
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Who has believed?
And to get the answer to that,I just moved back a few verses
into Isaiah 52.
And he will again startle manynations.
Kings will stand speechless inhis presence, for they will see
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what they had not previouslybeen told about, they will
understand what they had notheard about.
And I just think it's sointeresting.
We've talked about how this canbe a heavy chapter with what
Christ went through for us, andyet the ultimate message of this
chapter is that look on the onewho's been bloodied and beaten,
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who's barely recognizable, andyet God's plan for him is that
he will prosper and he will behighly exalted, and there's so
much hope in that.
That's the story of Jesus, butthat's what he does in each one
of our lives as well, and verse11 is one of my favorites that
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when he sees all that isaccomplished by His anguish, he
will be satisfied.
And I think that's somethingthat we can just know is true of
our circumstances as well andthat whatever we may be walking
through, whatever challenge andactually when I was reading this
, we were in a very challengingfor the first time we were in a
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very challenging businesssituation a situation and just
paralleling you know, of coursenot an exact parallel to what
Jesus walked through, but we allhave our circumstances in life
where we can relate to this,where we feel like, you know,
people look on me and they'rejudging me, or you know just all
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the things.
We all think, we know what'sgoing on and formulate opinions.
And the Lord said hey, justlike I did in Jesus's life, this
is my promise over your livesas well.
You know, I think of the Psalmthat says I would have despaired
if I didn't believe I would seethe goodness of the Lord in the
land of the living and that hewants to prosper His servants
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and bring them to that place ofbeing highly exalted, sometimes
in this life, sometimes in thenext life, but that there's so
much hope in the context ofdeath.
The end game of death is alwaysresurrection, life when we're
walking in the kingdom Victoryultimate victory.
Charity Degonia (08:17):
I found a lot of this stuff.
I'm going to jump in Rightafter that line in verse 1, it
says and my version says Whomhas the arm of the Lord been
revealed?
And that stuck out to me.
I was like, why is it the armof the Lord?
And if we think I'm kind of avisual person, my husband's arms
around me, what does that mean?
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You know, god's arms around me,it's that strength.
Right, god reveals His strength.
Right, he reveals His arms,says I've got power for you,
like the power that we get totap into.
There's protection there,there's a comfort there.
And so in what you're sayingwith the hope, it's like, okay,
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so here's the message and here'sall the suffering that he went
through, but here's the arm ofthe Lord on Him.
He's not alone, his arms arearound us and it's going to be
revealed.
We're going to know that power,the strength, the protection.
He's making us strong, you knowin that.
So I loved that part becauseI'm like, right off the bat,
he's like my arm is on, my handis on you, my arms are around
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you, and I loved that part.
But right after that, in versetwo, it says he grew up like a
young plant and abide in thewhole vine and being a plant and
being planted and the strengththat all of that means to me.
I was like he grew up and itsays, like a root out of dry
ground, and so again, I'm visual, so I want to know more about
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this root.
And why is it dry ground?
Because things don't grow indry ground, right.
I mean they need to be wateredand we need to be planted in
fertile soil and fertile places.
But it actually refers, fromwhat I understand from studying,
to Galilee where he grew upbeing dry with there was no
spiritual things, and so it'sdry.
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Spiritually, it was drypolitically, it was a low living
standard, and so God was like,look what I did with Jesus he
didn't have to have all of thosethings around him for me to
grow him up out of those places.
And so many of us have been tothat dry place right where we
feel like how is God going touse this situation?
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How is God going to use me inthis?
I'm in this dry season, but ifhe can do it for Jesus, you know
he can grow him out.
That planting, when we plantourself with Jesus, no matter
those dry seasons, he's going togrow us out like out of that
too those dry seasons.
He's going to grow us out likeout of that too.
So I just there's just a lot ofencouragement that I found in a
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lot of these verses and thingsthat God said.
I want you to know more aboutthis Because the first couple of
times I go through this, youcan get through you know the
simple message of it's aredemption story and having to
remember sometimes that this wasa prophetic word.
How much power is in thisprophetic word, like long before
it actually happened, and thedetails that he knew before it
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happened.
So the power in that and thevisuals there's so many visuals
in this that I keep looking at.
Rejected, because we allrejected God in some way, in
some part of our lives and I waslike why did they reject him?
Well, it's because they didn'twant him.
They wanted him to be a Messiahthat had stature, that had a
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resume of I've killed all thesepeople or had you know like been
successful in all these waysthat their kings did right?
And so, in knowing these thingsthat God's like revealing to me
, they rejected him because itdidn't look the way he wanted.
God said how many times havethings not looked the way we
wanted them to look, you know,so there's so much hope in like.
We can just settle in knowingthings are not going to look the
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way they want to.
You know, we want them to lookor we think that they should
look, but God's purpose andvictory is going to come out of
it.
Kim McIntire (12:03):
Yeah, amen, that's good.
Amen, that's a good word.
What about obey?
What are what calls toobedience were in this passage?
Did anyone see?
Did anyone feel just compelledin their spirit by that keyword?
Laurel Wike (12:50):
Yeah, absolutely.
There was always.
You know, there's alwayssomething so applicable in our
own, differently than we did.
And the whole situation kind ofturned into an unfortunate
event and we were trying tounderstand what had happened and
have communication and resolveif and where we needed to.
And as this was happening, I'mreading this chapter and it
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talks about he was oppressed andtreated harshly and yet he
never said a word.
And our natural tendency is sooften as humans to we want to
defend ourselves, right, likethat is not how I saw the
situation, you know, or ifyou're right, then let's make it
right.
And in this particularsituation it felt like it was
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more like no, I just want toaccuse you.
Thanks, and you know, peoplelike to get on Facebook and do
their thing and that makes youall the more interested in
defending yourself.
But the Lord said no, andactually this was a confess as
well for me, where he saidyou've already said too much.
It's time to be quiet, andwithout fuel, the fire goes out
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right.
And that obedience, in thatcase, to follow in the example
of Christ in this text, itchanged the dynamic of what was
happening and we were able tobring it to a resolution.
And you know what?
Do you know?
His wisdom and His rhema wordin that moment that came to us
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is what helped totally shifteverything.
Charity Degonia (14:30):
That's so good I did have a little bit on that
too, Like that was one of myobeys that God said, hey, you
don't need to defend yourself.
And I thought it wasinteresting that of all of the
details he went through in thischapter, he said that twice,
Like he made a point to say hedid not open His mouth, he
didn't have to defend himself.
And that was when God saidbeing silent does not mean
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you're helpless.
Sometimes that silence ishumility and it's power.
There's power in silencebecause we know that you know,
are we doing the right thing?
Are we in God's will?
That's when you're silent andyou go to him instead of you
know.
And that's so hard.
So that was one of my obey andconfesses as well.
But then in verse 12, it sayshe poured out His soul into
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death, that totality of Jesus'sacrifice, like he poured
everything out.
It was a conscious, like it wasvoluntary.
It was not that God made Him doit, he did it himself.
He poured it all out and therewas nothing left.
And that's where I want to beobedient.
When Jesus says serve, whenJesus says sacrifice, when God
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asks me to do those things, itdoesn't mean pour a little, just
try sprinkle it.
You know, here's a littleobedience, here's a little
humility.
No, it's totality.
And that was an obey andconfess for me.
Kim McIntire (15:56):
I just want to echo that, because what I see
through this text is all ofthese examples of who Christ is
and what he did, and Ireferenced those words at the
beginning when I did the intro.
But you know, sacrifice like amI sacrificing, Lord, help me to
obey in the sacrifice, Becausethe life of a believer, of a
Jesus follower, there should bepoints of sacrifice and the
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submission to the Father.
You know, this only happenedbecause Jesus submitted to the
Father, so this prophecy wouldhave not been foretold if that
hadn't already been in order,Because Jesus was already with
God at this point, from the verybeginning.
And then just the surrender,the surrender of will, the
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selflessness I'm like.
Those are points of obediencethat this passage calls me to,
because our lives should be areflection of His, and we won't
do it perfectly.
Obviously, we aren't going tobe perfected until we see Jesus
Christ face to face.
But to me, this had challengewritten all over it, Because if
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we want to really be Jesusfollowers and that's what I want
to be then this is calling usto a much higher standard of
living than our culture does.
It's actually in opposition tothe things that our culture
would call us to.
The culture isn't going to tellyou to sacrifice or to
surrender or to submit.
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You know these are allcountercultures.
So I'm just like Lord, help meto obey this example, because it
is not the easy way, it is thehard way, it is the Jesus way.
JoBeth Ellis (17:37):
Great song by Phil Williams.
Charity Degonia (17:42):
Anyone else.
I just want to piggyback onthat, because you're saying that
you know the things that we'recalled to is so opposite.
But I think that this wholestory shows that the way he was
raised, the way he looked, theway you know everything that
they thought he was.
None of those things.
JoBeth Ellis (18:01):
Yeah, it really goes back to what you said at
the beginning Confession On thisone.
Mine was verse I think it was7-2, on being silent.
Am I right on that?
That it was verse 7?
Probably about three weeks agoI was in a situation where I
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believe I was right, but thesituation did not go as I wanted
it to and I ended up sayingsome things I regretted.
And if I had just been quiet,if I'd been silent, because I
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think the silence would havewent a lot farther.
So this was one of myconfessions Lord, help me
control my tongue, Help me to besilent when I need to be silent
, you know, and not always thinkI have to say something because
I don't.
What's empty?
Words that mean nothing, youknow.
So that was one of mine wordsthat mean nothing, you know.
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So that was one of mine.
And another one that was reallyimpactful for me on this.
I have read Isaiah many timesbut I can honestly say, until
Abide, I didn't spend time in it, I didn't tear it apart and
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that was a confession for methat I went through it too fast.
I didn't rest in it even if Ididn't get past the first verse,
so I didn't get past the secondverse.
This morning, when I was on myway to school, the Lord spoke
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something to me because I'd beenpraying God.
I want to learn something more.
Reveal something new to me,because I've read this so many
times.
And he did.
And what he spoke to my heartwas Jesus was there with Him.
When God was speaking all thisto Isaiah, all of it, Jesus was
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right there with Him.
He knew every detail, he knewall the pain, he knew all the
suffering that he was going toendure, and yet he came.
Yet he came for us and all Icould say was what a love story.
It's a love story and it's foryou, it's for me, it's for our
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listeners.
It is such a beautiful lovestory.
Knowing what he was going toface, knowing how terrible he
was treated, and yet he stillcame, because he loved us so
much, he still came.
Kim McIntire (21:03):
Thank you Jesus, so good, Thank you Jesus so good
.
Charity Degonia (21:09):
I read this somewhere in a devotional and I
just had to grasp it.
I write it everywhere just as areminder.
And it says he endured sicknessfor our healing.
He endured loneliness for ourredemption.
He endured wounds of all sortsfor our comfort.
He braved pain for our peace.
He experienced separation fromGod heaven, you know, so that we
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could be in his presence.
Like there's so much power inknowing that.
He experienced that.
So I went on to say thank you,jesus, for leaving everything,
everything he gave up.
So he gave up heaven for me sothat I get to be with Him, you
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know, in heaven with Him, sothat I can experience His
presence in the mornings or whenI choose to be.
You know, with Him.
And the Old Testament used tobe so far off for me and hard
for me to understand.
But, man, the more I'm in it,the more I love it to know, like
all the things that changed sothat I can be in His presence,
so I don't have to go to thetemple, so I don't have to rely
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on a priest.
You know all the things thatthey did in the Old Testament.
They don't have to carry it, Iget to carry God's presence with
me.
It's so good.
JoBeth Ellis (22:28):
So that's one of my thanksgiving for sure.
Kim McIntire (22:29):
There's so much to praise and thank god for.
Oh, so much.
Through this chapter, others.
I have a declare.
So, um, if you guys, I'm justgoing to go back to the verse
and I just want to read it outloud, and then I'm going to just
speak a declaration, not justover us but over our listeners.
Verse 5, he was pierced for ourtransgressions, he was crushed
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for our iniquities.
Upon Him was the chastisementthat brought us peace, and by
His wounds we are healed so inthat verse, my declaration is
Jesus shed his blood for mysalvation.
That is from that verse.
Yeah, he also took wounds thatI deserved and those wounds
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actually bring my healing.
So I'm healed because of thewounds of Jesus, yes, and I have
peace with God because I, ofthe punishment Jesus took, that
was mine.
So that is a body, mind andspirit atonement package.
If you've never made thatconnection before, his blood
bought your soul, right?
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If you're a believer.
The punishment he took broughtyou peace with God, and that
peace has to do with our mind.
JoBeth Ellis (23:46):
Right.
Kim McIntire (23:47):
And the wounds are our healing.
So that's our body, so our soul, our mind, our body.
Jesus paid a full atonementpackage, so his blood was shed
for our salvation.
Praise God, but don't stopthere because there's more.
And so I just declare that thathe died for me to not just be
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saved but to have peace and tobe healed.
And I claim it because he saidit.
I didn't say it, he said it.
So I just declare that truthover my life, over you, ladies,
and also over every listener,under the sound of my voice.
That's what the blood of Jesusdid, that's what the cross did
for us, and the amazing thing isit's a free gift.
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Amen, it's a free gift.
That's what the cross did forus, and the amazing thing is
it's a free gift.
Amen, it's a free gift.
By grace, we are saved.
JoBeth Ellis (24:37):
Yeah.
Kim McIntire (24:38):
It's amazing that he did this for us.
You know, we didn't deserve it,but he did it.
Laurel Wike (24:44):
I think my praise really couples with that Awesome
, Just thinking of the termwounded healer.
You know, a lot of times Ithink for the majority of my
life I've read this text andI've kind of relegated it to the
cross Right, Because that'swhere we know.
You know that he experiencedthese things.
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But reading through like itdoesn't say this is just at the
cross, you know.
And when you think about thefullness of his life I mean we
know his siblings didn't believein him for a long time what was
his childhood like, being theperfect son of God, having
siblings?
There was probably someconflict and tension there and I
just felt like the Lord spoketo my heart and said Jesus
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understands childhood trauma, heunderstands trauma period and
you know, most of the time we'veprobably all heard the
expression like wounded people,wound people, but healed people,
healed people.
And Jesus was that woundedhealer.
And so I just asked myself thatquestion like how did you do
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that?
You know, how did he do that?
And you know, we see, in verse4, towards the end, it says we
thought his troubles were apunishment from God for his own
sin.
So often we think we knowthings and we decide this is how
it is.
But Jesus thought differentlythan everybody else did.
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And he knew, as you go intoverse 5, he was wounded and
crushed for our sins andthinking differently from
everybody else, you know, I meannot that thinking differently
from everybody else is thestandard.
It's thinking on truth, right,and just so often the status quo
is not truth, and that was whatenabled him to.
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Even though he walked throughthe trauma, even though he
experienced all these things, hewas able to take that and use
that for our healing and I willpraise him all day long.
Amen.
Kim McIntire (26:44):
So will I, so will I so good.
Charity Degonia (26:49):
There's so many actions in this.
You know so many action wordsthat he bore, he carried.
You know it's so many likeactive things that he did.
And so, you know, we think aboutpraise being His character and
thanksgiving being like thethings that he did, man, we
could list them all day long,just in one chapter of the Bible
, you know.
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So I always separate them outbecause I want to really point
out God's character in my mindand in my heart.
I'm like this is who he is allthe time, this is what he did,
you know here, or whatever, andso some of the things that I
just jotted down, I was likethank you for being willing
because of that action word.
You know he was willing to takeall of my pain, my suffering, my
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diseases, my.
You know the loneliness that Ifeel.
You know, when we feel like wecan't do it, we don't know who
to talk to or whatever, we go toHim because he understands
absolutely every emotion andsometimes it's hard to think
that God's not a far off.
God, you know, he whispersbecause he's close right.
But in all of these action,words and all of the things that
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we talk about and think about,this is like he did all of this
for us.
But we have to accept it,that's right.
We have to take that.
You know, if somebody gives usa gift, if we don't unwrap it,
if we don't take it, if we don'tuse it, if we don't, you know,
apply it, it's not a gift.
And so I think that that'sreally important to point out
here, too is like this prophecyis telling us everything that
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Jesus did, and we want this, wewant all of this in our lives,
but it's up to us to pray boldlyfor this.
You know, I think about Kim.
You've taught me so much aboutpraying boldly and it's
transformed my entire prayerlife, about how, all the things
that I can come to him about.
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But this chapter was the onethat was like all of the things
God said.
It's like you said, with allthree things, everything I can
come boldly to Him because hecares about my diseases, he
cares about my loneliness, hecares about all of these things.
But I have to come to Him, Ihave to be the action step that
goes to him and accepts the giftof all the things he's ready to
give to me.
And then, after I come to him,then I have to trust his
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goodness and I have to trust hismercy to lead me to that next
step.
Kim McIntire (29:05):
That's right, that's very good, so rich.
I'm going to just have everyonereference verse 12.
The last part of that is justone of my favorite parts in the
whole chapter.
Yet he bore the sin of many andmakes intercession for the
transgressors.
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Jesus prayed.
Jesus prayed on the cross.
Father, forgive them, for theyknow not what they do.
He prayed then, he's prayingnow.
And so just that beautiful giftthat Jesus prays, not when I
deserved it, not when I didn'teven know him when he was
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praying for me.
You may not know Jesus, buthe's praying for you.
I speak this over the listeners.
You may not know Jesus, but heprays for you, and I think of
all of the things I mean.
There are so many things Ithank God for, but I'm so
thankful.
Jesus prays for me, aren't youguys?
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He prays the best prayers.
I know that, it's true, waybetter than anyone else can and
knows exactly what we need, andso I thank God for that.
That's one of my praises thathe prays for us.
You know.
Any other thoughts before weclose?
Isaiah 53.
JoBeth Ellis (30:27):
I would just tie in John 3, 16 with this.
And that is for God so lovedthe world that he gave His only
begotten Son that whosoeverbelieveth on Him will not perish
but have everlasting life, amen.
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Yeah, and that's what 53 wasabout Him coming.
Yeah, so true's what 53 wasabout Him coming.
Kim McIntire (30:54):
Yeah, so true.
So one of the questions that weask and abide is God, what is
on your heart as we read theWord?
And I believe the answer tothat question is we are on His
heart we are People are on God'sheart.
So do you know Jesus?
Not just about Him.
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I knew about Jesus for many,many years, but do you know
Jesus?
Do you know how much he lovesyou?
Do you know how much he praysfor you?
Do you know how much he longsto be in relationship with you?
Have you ever said yes, becausewe four ladies are praying that
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today or tonight, is your yesto Jesus?
JoBeth Ellis (31:47):
Amen.
Kim McIntire (31:48):
The Bible says if we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive usof our sins and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness 1 John 1, 9.
And so we want to encourage youto give your life to Jesus
Christ, if you don't alreadyknow Him as your Savior.
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But we also want to ask makeHim your Lord.
He didn't just die to save yoursoul.
He wants to be the Lord of yourlife.
And when he becomes the Lord ofyour life, everything will
change, because he will be anumbrella over you, a protection
over you over you, a covering,and it's one like no person on
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earth can give you.
So we are going to pray andwe're going to believe that
someone is making that decisionfrom this episode today.
Anyone who would like to prayalong with me, please pray along
with me, and then I will close.
Father, god, thank you for thepower of your word, the power of
the blood of Jesus Christ, thepower of the name of Jesus, and
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we speak, jesus, through theseairwaves right now.
Jesus, over every listener.
Thank you that you are speakingthrough the power of your Holy
Spirit.
God, we believe that and wetrust you to speak into hearts.
Laurel Wike (33:36):
God, I thank you that we were the joy that was
set before you, that caused youto endure the cross, and, father
, I pray for every personlistening that you would give
them a fresh, maybe a first-timerevelation of your love for
them.
Father, I pray that you wouldhelp each one of us and each
listener to have tangibleexperiences that allow us to
feel your love for us.
God, yes, lord, because yourword says that when we
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understand and experience yourlove for us, we'll be filled
with the fullness of life andpower that comes from God, and I
pray that blessing and I askfor that reality in the life of
every listener.
Kim McIntire (34:11):
Yes, lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
So, father God, thank you formeeting with us.
Thank you for opening ourhearts and minds to your word.
Thank you, god, that your worddoes not return void, but it
achieves the purpose for whichyou send, and it accomplishes
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the purpose for which you sendit.
So, thank you, lord.
We believe that every word youhave spoken is true.
We stand on your word.
Thank you for your love andthank you for this love letter
that you've written to us.
We give you all praise inJesus' holy name, amen.
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Welcome back to the studio.
Laurel Weick, Charity Degoniaand JoBeth Ellis.
So glad you abide.
Friends, we're willing to comeback for some time in the Word
and prayer.
Today we are opening Isaiah 53,and we're seeking the Lord, and
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it's a joy to have all three ofyou amazing ladies back tonight
.
Isaiah 53, what a chapter.
This chapter has so many layersAn Old Testament prophecy being
fulfilled, surrender, suffering, selfless submission to God,
the Father, and a sacrifice Ican't even comprehend.
Ultimately, though, this textreveals the deep, deep love of
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God for people.
So join us by getting yourBible and taking some notes.
Prepare your heart now toconnect to God's Word and learn
more about Christ as you abidein Him.
Laurel, would you open us inprayer, absolutely.
Laurel Wike (01:57):
Lord, we come to you in the name of Jesus and we
thank you for the privilege ofgathering together today as
sisters and Father, we thank youfor all the listeners who are
joining with us today and wethank you, God, that as we spend
time in your word, you willgrow us in wisdom and knowledge
and understanding.
God, we just open our heartsbefore you and we thank you that
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you will plant seeds of truththat will grow.
Lord, we ask for humility andgratitude and all the things,
Lord, and we ask foropportunities, all the things
that come forth today, in thistime together, that you would
give us opportunities then to goand share them with others,
Father, and just to continue tospread the beauty and the truth
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of your word.
And we ask these things all inthe mighty and holy name of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Kim McIntire (02:46):
Amen.
Isaiah 53,.
We're going to open that byreading it aloud.
If you're able to grab yourBible, we would invite you to do
that.
Charity's going to read outloud for us.
What version are you in tonight?
Charity, the Christian Standard.
Charity Degonia (03:00):
Awesome, yep, all right, who has believed what
we have heard and to whom hasthe arm of the Lord been
revealed?
He grew up before him like ayoung plant and like a root out
of dry ground.
He didn't have an impressiveform or majesty that we should
look at him, no appearance thatwe should desire him.
He was despised and rejected bymen.
A man of suffering who knewwhat sickness was.
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He was like someone peopleturned away from.
He was despised and we didn'tvalue him.
Yet he himself bore oursickness and he carried our
pains.
But we in turn regarded himstricken, struck down by God and
afflicted.
But he was pierced because ofour rebellion, crushed because
of our iniquities.
Punishment for our peace was onhim and we are healed by his
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wounds.
We all went astray like sheep.
We all have turned to our ownway and the Lord has punished
him for the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted,yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb, led to slaughterand like a sheep, silent before
her shearers, he did not openhis mouth.
He was taken away because ofoppression and judgment.
And who considered his fate?
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For he was cut off from theland of the living.
He was struck because of mypeople's rebellion.
He was assigned a grave withthe wicked.
But he was with a rich man athis death because he had done no
violence and had not spokendeceitfully.
Yet the Lord was pleased tocrush him severely.
When you make him a guiltoffering, he will see his seed,
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he will prolong his days and byhis hand the Lord's pleasure
will be accomplished.
After his anguish, he will seelight and be satisfied by his
knowledge.
My righteous servant willjustify many and he will carry
their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him themany as a portion and he will
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receive the mighty as spoil,because Amen.
Kim McIntire (04:59):
What a word.
What a rich word.
What a rich word when weapproach the word together.
What we're asking God is justLord.
What do you want us to know forour mind and for our heart, and
how do we live that out?
So, with that question, whowould like to begin?
Just a response to God's word.
Laurel Wike (05:20):
I would love to jump in because I rarely make it
past the first verse with thisquestion, and that is true in
this case.
And I have the New LivingTranslation in front of me and
it just says who has believed?
Our message Obviously the sameidea, but that left me asking
the question what is the messagethat we're wondering about?
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Who has believed?
And to get the answer to that,I just moved back a few verses
into Isaiah 52.
And he will again startle manynations.
Kings will stand speechless inhis presence, for they will see
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what they had not previouslybeen told about, they will
understand what they had notheard about.
And I just think it's sointeresting.
We've talked about how this canbe a heavy chapter with what
Christ went through for us, andyet the ultimate message of this
chapter is that look on the onewho's been bloodied and beaten,
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who's barely recognizable, andyet God's plan for him is that
he will prosper and he will behighly exalted, and there's so
much hope in that.
That's the story of Jesus, butthat's what he does in each one
of our lives as well, and verse11 is one of my favorites that
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when he sees all that isaccomplished by His anguish, he
will be satisfied.
And I think that's somethingthat we can just know is true of
our circumstances as well andthat whatever we may be walking
through, whatever challenge andactually when I was reading this
, we were in a very challengingfor the first time we were in a
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very challenging businesssituation a situation and just
paralleling you know, of coursenot an exact parallel to what
Jesus walked through, but we allhave our circumstances in life
where we can relate to this,where we feel like, you know,
people look on me and they'rejudging me, or you know just all
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the things.
We all think, we know what'sgoing on and formulate opinions.
And the Lord said hey, justlike I did in Jesus's life, this
is my promise over your livesas well.
You know, I think of the Psalmthat says I would have despaired
if I didn't believe I would seethe goodness of the Lord in the
land of the living and that hewants to prosper His servants
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and bring them to that place ofbeing highly exalted, sometimes
in this life, sometimes in thenext life, but that there's so
much hope in the context ofdeath.
The end game of death is alwaysresurrection, life when we're
walking in the kingdom Victoryultimate victory.
Charity Degonia (08:17):
I found a lot of this stuff.
I'm going to jump in Rightafter that line in verse 1, it
says and my version says Whomhas the arm of the Lord been
revealed?
And that stuck out to me.
I was like, why is it the armof the Lord?
And if we think I'm kind of avisual person, my husband's arms
around me, what does that mean?
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You know, god's arms around me,it's that strength.
Right, god reveals His strength.
Right, he reveals His arms,says I've got power for you,
like the power that we get totap into.
There's protection there,there's a comfort there.
And so in what you're sayingwith the hope, it's like, okay,
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so here's the message and here'sall the suffering that he went
through, but here's the arm ofthe Lord on Him.
He's not alone, his arms arearound us and it's going to be
revealed.
We're going to know that power,the strength, the protection.
He's making us strong, you knowin that.
So I loved that part becauseI'm like, right off the bat,
he's like my arm is on, my handis on you, my arms are around
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you, and I loved that part.
But right after that, in versetwo, it says he grew up like a
young plant and abide in thewhole vine and being a plant and
being planted and the strengththat all of that means to me.
I was like he grew up and itsays, like a root out of dry
ground, and so again, I'm visual, so I want to know more about
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this root.
And why is it dry ground?
Because things don't grow indry ground, right.
I mean they need to be wateredand we need to be planted in
fertile soil and fertile places.
But it actually refers, fromwhat I understand from studying,
to Galilee where he grew upbeing dry with there was no
spiritual things, and so it'sdry.
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Spiritually, it was drypolitically, it was a low living
standard, and so God was like,look what I did with Jesus he
didn't have to have all of thosethings around him for me to
grow him up out of those places.
And so many of us have been tothat dry place right where we
feel like how is God going touse this situation?
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How is God going to use me inthis?
I'm in this dry season, but ifhe can do it for Jesus, you know
he can grow him out.
That planting, when we plantourself with Jesus, no matter
those dry seasons, he's going togrow us out like out of that
too those dry seasons.
He's going to grow us out likeout of that too.
So I just there's just a lot ofencouragement that I found in a
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lot of these verses and thingsthat God said.
I want you to know more aboutthis Because the first couple of
times I go through this, youcan get through you know the
simple message of it's aredemption story and having to
remember sometimes that this wasa prophetic word.
How much power is in thisprophetic word, like long before
it actually happened, and thedetails that he knew before it
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happened.
So the power in that and thevisuals there's so many visuals
in this that I keep looking at.
Rejected, because we allrejected God in some way, in
some part of our lives and I waslike why did they reject him?
Well, it's because they didn'twant him.
They wanted him to be a Messiahthat had stature, that had a
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resume of I've killed all thesepeople or had you know like been
successful in all these waysthat their kings did right?
And so, in knowing these thingsthat God's like revealing to me
, they rejected him because itdidn't look the way he wanted.
God said how many times havethings not looked the way we
wanted them to look, you know,so there's so much hope in like.
We can just settle in knowingthings are not going to look the
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way they want to.
You know, we want them to lookor we think that they should
look, but God's purpose andvictory is going to come out of
it.
Kim McIntire (12:03):
Yeah, amen, that's good.
Amen, that's a good word.
What about obey?
What are what calls toobedience were in this passage?
Did anyone see?
Did anyone feel just compelledin their spirit by that keyword?
Laurel Wike (12:50):
Yeah, absolutely.
There was always.
You know, there's alwayssomething so applicable in our
own, differently than we did.
And the whole situation kind ofturned into an unfortunate
event and we were trying tounderstand what had happened and
have communication and resolveif and where we needed to.
And as this was happening, I'mreading this chapter and it
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talks about he was oppressed andtreated harshly and yet he
never said a word.
And our natural tendency is sooften as humans to we want to
defend ourselves, right, likethat is not how I saw the
situation, you know, or ifyou're right, then let's make it
right.
And in this particularsituation it felt like it was
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more like no, I just want toaccuse you.
Thanks, and you know, peoplelike to get on Facebook and do
their thing and that makes youall the more interested in
defending yourself.
But the Lord said no, andactually this was a confess as
well for me, where he saidyou've already said too much.
It's time to be quiet, andwithout fuel, the fire goes out
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right.
And that obedience, in thatcase, to follow in the example
of Christ in this text, itchanged the dynamic of what was
happening and we were able tobring it to a resolution.
And you know what?
Do you know?
His wisdom and His rhema wordin that moment that came to us
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is what helped totally shifteverything.
Charity Degonia (14:30):
That's so good I did have a little bit on that
too, Like that was one of myobeys that God said, hey, you
don't need to defend yourself.
And I thought it wasinteresting that of all of the
details he went through in thischapter, he said that twice,
Like he made a point to say hedid not open His mouth, he
didn't have to defend himself.
And that was when God saidbeing silent does not mean
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you're helpless.
Sometimes that silence ishumility and it's power.
There's power in silencebecause we know that you know,
are we doing the right thing?
Are we in God's will?
That's when you're silent andyou go to him instead of you
know.
And that's so hard.
So that was one of my obey andconfesses as well.
But then in verse 12, it sayshe poured out His soul into
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death, that totality of Jesus'sacrifice, like he poured
everything out.
It was a conscious, like it wasvoluntary.
It was not that God made Him doit, he did it himself.
He poured it all out and therewas nothing left.
And that's where I want to beobedient.
When Jesus says serve, whenJesus says sacrifice, when God
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asks me to do those things, itdoesn't mean pour a little, just
try sprinkle it.
You know, here's a littleobedience, here's a little
humility.
No, it's totality.
And that was an obey andconfess for me.
Kim McIntire (15:56):
I just want to echo that, because what I see
through this text is all ofthese examples of who Christ is
and what he did, and Ireferenced those words at the
beginning when I did the intro.
But you know, sacrifice like amI sacrificing, Lord, help me to
obey in the sacrifice, Becausethe life of a believer, of a
Jesus follower, there should bepoints of sacrifice and the
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submission to the Father.
You know, this only happenedbecause Jesus submitted to the
Father, so this prophecy wouldhave not been foretold if that
hadn't already been in order,Because Jesus was already with
God at this point, from the verybeginning.
And then just the surrender,the surrender of will, the
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selflessness I'm like.
Those are points of obediencethat this passage calls me to,
because our lives should be areflection of His, and we won't
do it perfectly.
Obviously, we aren't going tobe perfected until we see Jesus
Christ face to face.
But to me, this had challengewritten all over it, Because if
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we want to really be Jesusfollowers and that's what I want
to be then this is calling usto a much higher standard of
living than our culture does.
It's actually in opposition tothe things that our culture
would call us to.
The culture isn't going to tellyou to sacrifice or to
surrender or to submit.
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You know these are allcountercultures.
So I'm just like Lord, help meto obey this example, because it
is not the easy way, it is thehard way, it is the Jesus way.
JoBeth Ellis (17:37):
Great song by Phil Williams.
Charity Degonia (17:42):
Anyone else.
I just want to piggyback onthat, because you're saying that
you know the things that we'recalled to is so opposite.
But I think that this wholestory shows that the way he was
raised, the way he looked, theway you know everything that
they thought he was.
None of those things.
JoBeth Ellis (18:01):
Yeah, it really goes back to what you said at
the beginning Confession On thisone.
Mine was verse I think it was7-2, on being silent.
Am I right on that?
That it was verse 7?
Probably about three weeks agoI was in a situation where I
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believe I was right, but thesituation did not go as I wanted
it to and I ended up sayingsome things I regretted.
And if I had just been quiet,if I'd been silent, because I
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think the silence would havewent a lot farther.
So this was one of myconfessions Lord, help me
control my tongue, Help me to besilent when I need to be silent
, you know, and not always thinkI have to say something because
I don't.
What's empty?
Words that mean nothing, youknow.
So that was one of mine wordsthat mean nothing, you know.
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So that was one of mine.
And another one that was reallyimpactful for me on this.
I have read Isaiah many timesbut I can honestly say, until
Abide, I didn't spend time in it, I didn't tear it apart and
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that was a confession for methat I went through it too fast.
I didn't rest in it even if Ididn't get past the first verse,
so I didn't get past the secondverse.
This morning, when I was on myway to school, the Lord spoke
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something to me because I'd beenpraying God.
I want to learn something more.
Reveal something new to me,because I've read this so many
times.
And he did.
And what he spoke to my heartwas Jesus was there with Him.
When God was speaking all thisto Isaiah, all of it, Jesus was
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right there with Him.
He knew every detail, he knewall the pain, he knew all the
suffering that he was going toendure, and yet he came.
Yet he came for us and all Icould say was what a love story.
It's a love story and it's foryou, it's for me, it's for our
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listeners.
It is such a beautiful lovestory.
Knowing what he was going toface, knowing how terrible he
was treated, and yet he stillcame, because he loved us so
much, he still came.
Kim McIntire (21:03):
Thank you Jesus, so good, Thank you Jesus so good
.
Charity Degonia (21:09):
I read this somewhere in a devotional and I
just had to grasp it.
I write it everywhere just as areminder.
And it says he endured sicknessfor our healing.
He endured loneliness for ourredemption.
He endured wounds of all sortsfor our comfort.
He braved pain for our peace.
He experienced separation fromGod heaven, you know, so that we
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could be in his presence.
Like there's so much power inknowing that.
He experienced that.
So I went on to say thank you,jesus, for leaving everything,
everything he gave up.
So he gave up heaven for me sothat I get to be with Him, you
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know, in heaven with Him, sothat I can experience His
presence in the mornings or whenI choose to be.
You know, with Him.
And the Old Testament used tobe so far off for me and hard
for me to understand.
But, man, the more I'm in it,the more I love it to know, like
all the things that changed sothat I can be in His presence,
so I don't have to go to thetemple, so I don't have to rely
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on a priest.
You know all the things thatthey did in the Old Testament.
They don't have to carry it, Iget to carry God's presence with
me.
It's so good.
JoBeth Ellis (22:28):
So that's one of my thanksgiving for sure.
Kim McIntire (22:29):
There's so much to praise and thank god for.
Oh, so much.
Through this chapter, others.
I have a declare.
So, um, if you guys, I'm justgoing to go back to the verse
and I just want to read it outloud, and then I'm going to just
speak a declaration, not justover us but over our listeners.
Verse 5, he was pierced for ourtransgressions, he was crushed
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for our iniquities.
Upon Him was the chastisementthat brought us peace, and by
His wounds we are healed so inthat verse, my declaration is
Jesus shed his blood for mysalvation.
That is from that verse.
Yeah, he also took wounds thatI deserved and those wounds
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actually bring my healing.
So I'm healed because of thewounds of Jesus, yes, and I have
peace with God because I, ofthe punishment Jesus took, that
was mine.
So that is a body, mind andspirit atonement package.
If you've never made thatconnection before, his blood
bought your soul, right?
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If you're a believer.
The punishment he took broughtyou peace with God, and that
peace has to do with our mind.
JoBeth Ellis (23:46):
Right.
Kim McIntire (23:47):
And the wounds are our healing.
So that's our body, so our soul, our mind, our body.
Jesus paid a full atonementpackage, so his blood was shed
for our salvation.
Praise God, but don't stopthere because there's more.
And so I just declare that thathe died for me to not just be
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saved but to have peace and tobe healed.
And I claim it because he saidit.
I didn't say it, he said it.
So I just declare that truthover my life, over you, ladies,
and also over every listener,under the sound of my voice.
That's what the blood of Jesusdid, that's what the cross did
for us, and the amazing thing isit's a free gift.
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Amen, it's a free gift.
That's what the cross did forus, and the amazing thing is
it's a free gift.
Amen, it's a free gift.
By grace, we are saved.
JoBeth Ellis (24:37):
Yeah.
Kim McIntire (24:38):
It's amazing that he did this for us.
You know, we didn't deserve it,but he did it.
Laurel Wike (24:44):
I think my praise really couples with that Awesome
, Just thinking of the termwounded healer.
You know, a lot of times Ithink for the majority of my
life I've read this text andI've kind of relegated it to the
cross Right, Because that'swhere we know.
You know that he experiencedthese things.
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But reading through like itdoesn't say this is just at the
cross, you know.
And when you think about thefullness of his life I mean we
know his siblings didn't believein him for a long time what was
his childhood like, being theperfect son of God, having
siblings?
There was probably someconflict and tension there and I
just felt like the Lord spoketo my heart and said Jesus
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understands childhood trauma, heunderstands trauma period and
you know, most of the time we'veprobably all heard the
expression like wounded people,wound people, but healed people,
healed people.
And Jesus was that woundedhealer.
And so I just asked myself thatquestion like how did you do
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that?
You know, how did he do that?
And you know, we see, in verse4, towards the end, it says we
thought his troubles were apunishment from God for his own
sin.
So often we think we knowthings and we decide this is how
it is.
But Jesus thought differentlythan everybody else did.
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And he knew, as you go intoverse 5, he was wounded and
crushed for our sins andthinking differently from
everybody else, you know, I meannot that thinking differently
from everybody else is thestandard.
It's thinking on truth, right,and just so often the status quo
is not truth, and that was whatenabled him to.
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Even though he walked throughthe trauma, even though he
experienced all these things, hewas able to take that and use
that for our healing and I willpraise him all day long.
Amen.
Kim McIntire (26:44):
So will I, so will I so good.
Charity Degonia (26:49):
There's so many actions in this.
You know so many action wordsthat he bore, he carried.
You know it's so many likeactive things that he did.
And so, you know, we think aboutpraise being His character and
thanksgiving being like thethings that he did, man, we
could list them all day long,just in one chapter of the Bible
, you know.
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So I always separate them outbecause I want to really point
out God's character in my mindand in my heart.
I'm like this is who he is allthe time, this is what he did,
you know here, or whatever, andso some of the things that I
just jotted down, I was likethank you for being willing
because of that action word.
You know he was willing to takeall of my pain, my suffering, my
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diseases, my.
You know the loneliness that Ifeel.
You know, when we feel like wecan't do it, we don't know who
to talk to or whatever, we go toHim because he understands
absolutely every emotion andsometimes it's hard to think
that God's not a far off.
God, you know, he whispersbecause he's close right.
But in all of these action,words and all of the things that
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we talk about and think about,this is like he did all of this
for us.
But we have to accept it,that's right.
We have to take that.
You know, if somebody gives usa gift, if we don't unwrap it,
if we don't take it, if we don'tuse it, if we don't, you know,
apply it, it's not a gift.
And so I think that that'sreally important to point out
here, too is like this prophecyis telling us everything that
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Jesus did, and we want this, wewant all of this in our lives,
but it's up to us to pray boldlyfor this.
You know, I think about Kim.
You've taught me so much aboutpraying boldly and it's
transformed my entire prayerlife, about how, all the things
that I can come to him about.
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But this chapter was the onethat was like all of the things
God said.
It's like you said, with allthree things, everything I can
come boldly to Him because hecares about my diseases, he
cares about my loneliness, hecares about all of these things.
But I have to come to Him, Ihave to be the action step that
goes to him and accepts the giftof all the things he's ready to
give to me.
And then, after I come to him,then I have to trust his
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goodness and I have to trust hismercy to lead me to that next
step.
Kim McIntire (29:05):
That's right, that's very good, so rich.
I'm going to just have everyonereference verse 12.
The last part of that is justone of my favorite parts in the
whole chapter.
Yet he bore the sin of many andmakes intercession for the
transgressors.
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Jesus prayed.
Jesus prayed on the cross.
Father, forgive them, for theyknow not what they do.
He prayed then, he's prayingnow.
And so just that beautiful giftthat Jesus prays, not when I
deserved it, not when I didn'teven know him when he was
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praying for me.
You may not know Jesus, buthe's praying for you.
I speak this over the listeners.
You may not know Jesus, but heprays for you, and I think of
all of the things I mean.
There are so many things Ithank God for, but I'm so
thankful.
Jesus prays for me, aren't youguys?
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He prays the best prayers.
I know that, it's true, waybetter than anyone else can and
knows exactly what we need, andso I thank God for that.
That's one of my praises thathe prays for us.
You know.
Any other thoughts before weclose?
Isaiah 53.
JoBeth Ellis (30:27):
I would just tie in John 3, 16 with this.
And that is for God so lovedthe world that he gave His only
begotten Son that whosoeverbelieveth on Him will not perish
but have everlasting life, amen.
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Yeah, and that's what 53 wasabout Him coming.
Yeah, so true's what 53 wasabout Him coming.
Kim McIntire (30:54):
Yeah, so true.
So one of the questions that weask and abide is God, what is
on your heart as we read theWord?
And I believe the answer tothat question is we are on His
heart we are People are on God'sheart.
So do you know Jesus?
Not just about Him.
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I knew about Jesus for many,many years, but do you know
Jesus?
Do you know how much he lovesyou?
Do you know how much he praysfor you?
Do you know how much he longsto be in relationship with you?
Have you ever said yes, becausewe four ladies are praying that
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today or tonight, is your yesto Jesus?
JoBeth Ellis (31:47):
Amen.
Kim McIntire (31:48):
The Bible says if we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive usof our sins and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness 1 John 1, 9.
And so we want to encourage youto give your life to Jesus
Christ, if you don't alreadyknow Him as your Savior.
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But we also want to ask makeHim your Lord.
He didn't just die to save yoursoul.
He wants to be the Lord of yourlife.
And when he becomes the Lord ofyour life, everything will
change, because he will be anumbrella over you, a protection
over you over you, a covering,and it's one like no person on
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earth can give you.
So we are going to pray andwe're going to believe that
someone is making that decisionfrom this episode today.
Anyone who would like to prayalong with me, please pray along
with me, and then I will close.
Father, god, thank you for thepower of your word, the power of
the blood of Jesus Christ, thepower of the name of Jesus, and
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we speak, jesus, through theseairwaves right now.
Jesus, over every listener.
Thank you that you are speakingthrough the power of your Holy
Spirit.
God, we believe that and wetrust you to speak into hearts.
Laurel Wike (33:36):
God, I thank you that we were the joy that was
set before you, that caused youto endure the cross, and, father
, I pray for every personlistening that you would give
them a fresh, maybe a first-timerevelation of your love for
them.
Father, I pray that you wouldhelp each one of us and each
listener to have tangibleexperiences that allow us to
feel your love for us.
God, yes, lord, because yourword says that when we
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understand and experience yourlove for us, we'll be filled
with the fullness of life andpower that comes from God, and I
pray that blessing and I askfor that reality in the life of
every listener.
Kim McIntire (34:11):
Yes, lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
So, father God, thank you formeeting with us.
Thank you for opening ourhearts and minds to your word.
Thank you, god, that your worddoes not return void, but it
achieves the purpose for whichyou send, and it accomplishes
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the purpose for which you sendit.
So, thank you, lord.
We believe that every word youhave spoken is true.
We stand on your word.
Thank you for your love andthank you for this love letter
that you've written to us.
We give you all praise inJesus' holy name, amen.
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Thank you all for listening.
If you were encouraged,strengthened or blessed by this
conversation, would you pleaseshare it with someone?
The purpose of this podcast isto glorify God and encourage all
believers in their walk withthe Lord.
Once again, our website isitstimetoriseuporg and you'll
find our social media platformsthere.
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May God's grace and peace bewith you all, through Jesus
Christ, our Lord.
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