Leaders have to make decisions day by day. Convictional leaders are determined to make the right decisions, grounded in those convictions. But at the end of the day, all we can do is make the best decisions we can, knowing that the final verdict will not come from shareholders, board members, church members, or even historians, but from God. “Well done, good and faithful servant” is the verdict for which we strive and hope. The decision to aim for that verdict is one we had better make right now before it is too late.
Albert Mohler

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READING

46 REAL SATISFACTION

PRAY Feed me through your word today, gracious Lord.

READ Isaiah 55:1-13.

THINK To whom is the invitation of verses 1 to 3 given? What is offered?

FOCUS INVITATION (1-3). Note the pleading, the reputation and the colourful, vivid illustrations. Our God longs that people will take that which satisfies. COVENANT (3-5). God promised to make ‘a lasting covenant’ (3) with his people, just as he had made a covenant with David many years earlier (See 2 Samuel 7:11-16). REPENTANCE (6,7). This is a good old-fashioned word meaning a change of mind and of direction. The people were not only to seek God, they were also to give up any sinful ways and intentions. ASSURANCE (8,9). God is great. His thoughts are infinitely greater than ours and therefore he has prepared for his people things that surpass our understanding. PROMISE (10,11). Notice how definite these verses are. Read them again. Believe them, rest upon these words as an accomplished fact today. But if we want to see this in our own experience we will have to do something first. What (See 2 Timothy 4:2)? PROPHESY (12,13). Picture the scene. Crowds of people full of joy, often the mark of God’s presence (Acts 8:8) and yet a deep, abiding peace (John 14:27) and creation, too, joins in the celebration (Romans 8:21). —————————————————————-

PRAY Give thanks to God for his promises. (Itemise some)