Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you for your own good, who leads you in the way you should go. O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea; your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.

Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!" They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split open the rock and the water gushed out.

"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

Isaiah 48:17-22

Many of us have experienced situations that appeared hopeless. We saw no way out, but we prayed and God opened a way. He made moves that would have been impossible for us. We can trust Him. He can never be beat.

God is the only King who can never be defeated.

Our Daily Bread - April3, 2004