Reading Isaiah Helped Me - Perhaps It Will Help You Too!

The other day, I was hit with a wave of exhaustion just before sunset. I crawled into my sleeping bag, plugged my phone in and was about to settle in for a nap to sleep this horrible feeling off when the phone rang.

A neighbouring sister in the Lord was on the phone line asking if she might come to visit me. I admitted that I just wasn't up to having company and that I had just crawled into my sleeping bag. We chatted a bit about the posts I had been writing then I said I still needed to finish my Shabbat readings.

I said that I felt I really needed to read the Isaiah selection - right then! I was a bit curious about this overwhelming need to read from Isaiah RIGHT THEN, so I opened up the Blue Letter Bible website on my phone and started to read from the Shabbar selection.

First I was delighted to discover this selection included many of my favourite scriptures, but one scripture really caught my attention.

Scripture:

40:29 נֹתֵן לַיָּעֵף כֹּחַ וּלְאֵין אוֹנִים עָצְמָה יַרְבֶּֽה׃

As I read this scripture, I exclaimed. "I am claiming this scripture for me!" I read it again aloud!

Just then, the smell of crack cocaine from my upstairs neighbours started flooding my studio. I needed to get the door open - fast! Renewed energy came into my body. I got up to fling the door wide open and dispel the fumes.

The sister on the phone exclaimed, "I am so happy to hear the change in you! When you answered the phone you sounded so weak, but now it's so different! You sound like you have so much energy!"

I am grateful Our Father led that sister to call me on the phone and put it in my heart to read that restorative scripture- who knows what might have happened if I had fallen asleep in that weakened state.

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3 Renewing Scriptures From Isaiah

This week's Shabbat Haftorah Isaiah reading is full of renewing scriptures that could make great encouraging posters for the walls of anyone who is feeling a bit under the weather. Here are some of the renewing scriptures from this section of Isaiah that are standing out as outstanding mental medicine for me today.

Do you have an energizing scripture that really helps you?

I would love to hear about it! Please post a note in the comments below.

3 Energizing Scriptures From Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16

Isaiah is full of great scriptures. However, it might take me until next Shabbat if I were to write out all the renewing scriptures from Isaiah in this post, so here are three that I have found helpful.

Feeling weak? Try Isaiah 40:29 נֹתֵן לַיָּעֵף כֹּחַ וּלְאֵין אוֹנִים עָצְמָה יַרְבֶּֽה׃
Been battling weakness for a while? Try Isaiah 40:31 and remember Our Father's timing is perfect.
Masoretic Text Screenshot Isaiah 40:31 - Blue Letter Bible
Feel like you don't know if you can hang on much longer? Try Isaiah 41:13
Isaiah 41:13 Masoretic Text from Blue Letter Bible

Since the verses in the Bible were not originally numbered when the scriptures were first written, I find it amazing that two of these scriptures are similar in their numbering -Isaiah 40:31 and Isaiah 41:13.

Prayers are very much appreciated for my neighbours to be delivered from their addictions to air-born chemicals. I now totally understand why it is written in scripture - Woe to those who build side by side. I can clearly see why there is a desperate need to build tiny home communities - especially for people with severe allergies!

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