RTW 2024

The LORD has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,

“Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,
and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.
Make the LORD of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life.  
He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.
He will keep you safe.
But to Israel and Judah
he will be a stone that makes people stumble,
a rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem
he will be a trap and a snare.
Many will stumble and fall,
never to rise again.
They will be snared and captured.”

‍Preserve the teaching of God;
entrust his instructions to those who follow me.
I will wait for the LORD,
who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my hope in him.

‍I and the children the LORD has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies who dwells in his Temple on Mount Zion.

Someone may say to you, “Let’s ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn’t people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead?

Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.

Isaiah 8:11-22

For a child is born to us,
a son is given to us.
The government will rest on his shoulders.
And he will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
His government and its peace
will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David
for all eternity.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will make this happen!
Isaiah 9:6-7

• God is dealing with His people because they did not go His way. 
• God’s way is different and unique. 
• God’s way is better than the world’s. 
• As God’s people, we live differently today. 
• We fear differently. 
• We do not fear the same things that people that do not know Him fear. 
• We do not fear the same things that people that reject Him fear. 
• We fear God. 
• We belong to God…He holds us in His hands. 
• We hope differently. 
• If we fear God, He will be our sanctuary. 
• We believe God. 
• We wait for Him. 
• We hope in Him. 
• We don’t lose hope when things of this world fall through, because our hope is in Him. 
• We ask for guidance differently. 
• We turn to God’s Word. 
• We do not need the guidance of the world. 
• Our God is different…and so are we. 

Be different!!!