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Today's reading will cover Isaiah Chapters 58-61. Today we will read about WHY God found it necessary to send us intercession- someone to go to God on our behalf- and who He would send. We will read that despite following rules about how to worship God and asking God for things the people were not worshipping God with their hearts. At the same time they were fasting they were treating each other poorly and misbehaving. God explained that this was not the intention of things such as fasting. God noticed that no one was interceding for His people on their behalf- such as the the way that Abraham had done for his nephew Lot, the way Moses had done for the people, or the way Elijah had done for Israel. Since no one was interceding for the people God would do it himself. He sent us Jesus to intercede for our sins and He sent us the Holy Spirit to intercede for us in our weakness, when we don't know how to pray as we should. Romans 8:26-27 tells us that God knows the mind of the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groans too deep for words for ALL of us, according to the will of God! God's tells us today that when He would give us the Holy Spirit it would never leave us and it would be for everyone, rather than as before that time the Spirit of God would come upon people and leave people as God chose. Now we would have the Holy Spirit FOREVER! God's gifts that He has bestowed upon us are so much greater than we understand. Let us do our best to learn about the gifts that God has given us and USE them the way He intended, instead of just putting them on a shelf, not understanding or using them, like a gift we don't think we need or know how to use but accept and acknowledge that we have received.

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