Isaiah 40-49 | September 19-25 - Episode 39

Episode 39

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Isaiah 40-49 | September 19-25

Lesson 39

“Comfort Ye My People”

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Join hosts Ganel-Lyn Condie and John Fossum as they discuss impactful topics from this week’s Come, Follow Me lesson covering these chapters in the book of Isaiah. Explore these important themes, topics, and questions:

Waiting upon the Lord (what it means and how it can be a sacred place)

Being refined in the furnace of affliction

Universal optimism and MORE hope

Christ’s personal sacrifice for us– we are graven on the palms of His hands

Anxiety about our children or our future children (and the importance of God never giving up on us)

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Invitation:

Think of what changes in your family relationships when you see the big hope-filled picture that Isaiah gives us.

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Quotes & Links:

Link to Come, Follow Me Through the Old Testament Book:

https://www.seagullbook.com/real-talk-real-life-scripture-journal-old-testament.html

“Waiting upon the Lord can be a sacred place—a place of polishing and refining where we can come to know the Savior in a deeply personal way. Waiting upon the Lord may also be a place where we find ourselves asking, “O God, where art thou?”—a place where spiritual perseverance requires us to exercise faith in Christ by intentionally choosing Him again and again and again. I know this place, and I understand this type of waiting.” [2022–A:81, Amy A. Wright, Christ Heals That Which Is Broken]

“Are you battling a demon of addiction—tobacco or drugs or gambling, or the pernicious contemporary plague of pornography? Is your marriage in trouble or your child in danger? Are you confused with gender identity or searching for self-esteem? Do you—or someone you love—face disease or depression or death? Whatever other steps you may need to take to resolve these concerns, come first to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Trust in heaven’s promises. In that regard Alma’s testimony is my testimony: “I do know,” he says, “that whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions.” … I testify that the Savior’s Atonement lifts from us not only the burden of our sins but also the burden of our disappointments and sorrows, our heartaches and our despair. From the beginning, trust in such help was to give us both a reason and a way to improve, an incentive to lay down our burdens and take up our salvation. There can and will be plenty of difficulties in life. Nevertheless, the soul that comes unto Christ, who knows His voice and strives to do as He did, finds a strength, as the hymn says, “beyond [his] own.” The Savior reminds us that He has “graven [us] upon the palms of [His] hands.” [Jeffrey R. Holland, Broken Things to Mend, April 2006]

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Real Talk is presented by Seagull Book and hosted by Ganel-Lyn Condie and John Fossum.