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Cultivating Great Faith for the New Year

Text: Isaiah 12, 26
5 January 2013

PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH THAT ENCOURAGE US TO EXERCISE GREAT FAITH
1. God is my salvation          (lsa. 12:1-3)

a. Drawing water from the wells of Salvation          Cf. John 4:10,14

b. Determination

i. To trust God and not fear

ii. To praise God

2. This is our God          (Isa. 25:9)

a. Features of our God

i. A Strength in distress

ii. A Refuge

iii. A Shade

iv. Abolisher of death          1 Cor. 15

b. Our part

i. Waiting for Him

ii. Being glad and rejoice in His salvation

3. YAH, the Lord          (Psalm 26:3)

a. Blessings of God

i. Perfect truth

ii. Perfect peace

iii. Perfect everlasting strength

b. Actions

i. Keep the truth faithfully

ii. Keep our mind on God

iii. Keep t rusting in the Lord till the end          Cf. Phil 4

iv. Singing to the Lord          (Isae 26:1)

4. O Most Upright          (Isa. 26:7-9)

a. The way of the Just

i. Uprightness

ii. The Lord weighing the path of the just

b. Desires

i. Waiting on the Lord in the way of the Lord’s word

ii. Honoring God’s name

iii. Remembering the Lord

iv. Desiring the Lord in the night

v. Desiring the Lord in the morning          (Psalm 63)