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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after the short word from our sponsors, we will

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Speaker 2: reflect on tonight's scripture Isaiah sixty one. Our evening reflection

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Speaker 2: is written and read by Kyle Norman. The spirit of

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Speaker 2: the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has

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Speaker 2: anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He

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Speaker 2: sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim

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Speaker 2: freedom to the captains, and release from darkness for the prisoners,

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Speaker 2: To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the

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Speaker 2: day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn,

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Speaker 2: and provide for those who grieve in Zion, to bestow

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Speaker 2: on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the

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Speaker 2: oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of

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Speaker 2: praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be

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Speaker 2: called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for

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Speaker 2: the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient

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Speaker 2: ruins and restore the places long devastated. They will renew

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Speaker 2: the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers

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Speaker 2: will shepherd your flocks. Farriers will work your fields and vineyards,

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Speaker 2: and you will be called priests of the Lord. You

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Speaker 2: will be named ministers of our God. Will feed on

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Speaker 2: the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

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Speaker 2: Instead of your shame, you will receive a double portion,

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Speaker 2: and instead of disgrace, you will rejoice in your inheritance.

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Speaker 2: And so you will inherit a double portion in your land.

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Speaker 2: An everlasting joy will be yours. For I the Lord,

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Speaker 2: love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness,

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Speaker 2: I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant

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Speaker 2: with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations,

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Speaker 2: and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them

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Speaker 2: will acknowledge that they are a people. The Lord has blessed.

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Speaker 2: I delight greatly in the Lord. My soul rejoices in

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Speaker 2: my God, for he has clothed me with the garments

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Speaker 2: of salvation and arrayed me in a row of his righteousness.

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Speaker 2: That's a bridegroom adorned tarns his head like a priest,

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Speaker 2: as a bride adorns herself with jewels. For as the

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Speaker 2: soil makes the sprout come up, and a garden causes

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Speaker 2: sea to grow. So the sovereign Lord will make righteousness

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Speaker 2: and praise spring up before all the nations. The other day,

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Speaker 2: I arrived home feeling physically, emotionally and spiritually exhausted. It

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Speaker 2: was one of those days when everything seemed taxing to

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Speaker 2: my spirit. Simple tasks seemed harder than normal, conversations felt labor.

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Speaker 2: I even got into an argument with a friend. Well

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Speaker 2: the time that I was done for the day, I

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Speaker 2: felt as if the day had bested me. But instead

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Speaker 2: of leaving it all behind, I spent the evening hours

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Speaker 2: thinking about everything that had happened. Running through the scenario

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Speaker 2: was time and again replaying all the problems Have you

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Speaker 2: ever done that? Have you ever spent an undue amount

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Speaker 2: of time rehearsing all the negative and difficult moments of

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Speaker 2: your day? Doing so rarely leads us into an evening

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Speaker 2: of rest and comfort when we find ourselves in those times.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah sixty one is a gift for us. This chapter

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Speaker 2: is filled with a multitude of divine promises, all centered

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Speaker 2: on Jesus and the good news that he brings into

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Speaker 2: our lives. And although these words were written roughly five

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Speaker 2: hundred years before Jesus and so almost twenty five hundred

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Speaker 2: years before our time. These are not ancient words long past.

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Speaker 2: They are declarations of what surrounds our lives today. Jesus

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Speaker 2: binds up the broken hearted. He proclaims freedom to the captives.

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Speaker 2: He announces that we live in the midst of his

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Speaker 2: fa favor. Instead of ashes, he gives oil of joy,

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Speaker 2: And regardless of what swirls around us, we dress ourselves

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Speaker 2: in praise rather than despair. We receive grace instead of shame,

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Speaker 2: and blessings instead of disgrace. Jesus makes an everlasting covenant

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Speaker 2: with us, one that clothes us with nothing less than salvation.

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Speaker 2: Promise upon promise is spoken to us. Can we dare

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Speaker 2: to apply these words to our lives today? If you

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Speaker 2: are ending the day feeling burdened and tired, then take

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Speaker 2: a moment and rehearse these promises. Is more than anything

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Speaker 2: that this world can throw at us. These words define

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Speaker 2: your life, and in these promises you can have comfort

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Speaker 2: and rest. Pressus Jesus, Isaiah reminds me of the many

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Speaker 2: blessings that you bestow upon me. Leads words declare not

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Speaker 2: just the salvation that sits at the core of my life.

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Speaker 2: But you are annielding mercies that come to me as

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Speaker 2: I approach my time of rest. I pray that you

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Speaker 2: speak the promise that I need to hear this night,

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Speaker 2: and print these words within me. And may your promise

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Speaker 2: be the script that runs through my heart all night long. Lord,

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Speaker 2: when I am tempted to listen to other voices, inspire

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Speaker 2: me to delight in your word and to rejoice in

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Speaker 2: your presence. For in you there is good news of

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Speaker 2: constancy and love. And so I place my day before you.

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Speaker 2: I empty myself of the concerns of the day past

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Speaker 2: and my worries of the day to come, so that

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Speaker 2: I might be filled with your comfort. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: I pray.

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