Isaiah 43:1-3

"YOU ARE MINE!"

 

 But now [in spite of past judgments for Israel’s sins], thus says the Lord, He Who created you, O Jacob, and He Who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you [ransomed you by paying a price instead of leaving you captives]; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.

 

 

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you.

 

 

 

³ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt [to the Babylonians] for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba [a province of Ethiopia] in exchange [for your release].

¹⁵ I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

 

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord, Who makes a way through the sea and a path through the mighty waters,

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⁷ Who brings forth chariot and horse, army and mighty warrior. They lie down together, they cannot rise; they are extinguished, they are quenched like a lampwick:

 

¹⁸ Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old.

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⁹ Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

 

BELOVED; MAY THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE, BECOME YOUR MEDIATION THIS MORNING. HAS THE THINGS OF THE PASS, KEPT YOU FROM HAVING FAITH FOR THE FUTURE. GOD TELLS YOU THIS MORNING; "YOU ARE HIS!"  HE IS DOING A NEW THING FOR YOU, AND NOW IT WILL SPRING FORTH!