GRACE UPON GRACE

MATTHEW 24:8-13 ALL THESE ARE  THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS. THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER  YOU UP TO BE AFFLICTED,  AND SHALL KILL YOU:  AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF  ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. AND THEN SHALL MANY  BE OFFENDED, AND SHALL  BETRAY ONE ANOTHER,  AND  SHALL HATE ONE ANOTHER.  AND MANY FALSE PROPHETS  SHALL RISE, AND SHALL  DECEIVE MANY.  AND BECAUSE INIQUITY  SHALL ABOUND,  THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL  WAX COLD. BUT HE THAT SHALL  ENDURE UNTO THE END,  THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED. LOVE

HOSEA 11 WHEN ISRAEL WAS A CHILD,  THEN I LOVED HIM,  AND CALLED MY SON OUT OF EGYPT. AS THEY CALLED THEM,  SO THEY WENT FROM THEM:  THEY SACRIFICED UNTO BAALIM,  AND  BURNED INCENSE TO GRAVEN IMAGES.  I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO,  TAKING THEM BY THEIR ARMS;  BUT THEY KNEW NOT  THAT I HEALED THEM.  I DREW THEM WITH  CORDS OF A MAN,  WITH BANDS OF LOVE:  AND I WAS TO THEM AS THEY  THAT TAKE OFF THE YOKE  ON THEIR JAWS,  AND I LAID MEAT UNTO THEM.  HE SHALL NOT RETURN  INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT,  AND  THE ASSYRIAN SHALL BE HIS KING, BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO RETURN. AND THE SWORD SHALL  ABIDE ON HIS CITIES,  AND SHALL CONSUME HIS BRANCHES,  AND DEVOUR THEM,  BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN COUNSELS. AND MY PEOPLE ARE BENT  TO BACKSLIDING FROM ME:  THOUGH THEY CALLED THEM  TO THE MOST HIGH,  NONE AT ALL WOULD EXALT HIM.  HOW SHALL I GIVE THEE UP,  EPHRA...

PSALM 9:5-8 THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN,  THOU HAST DESTROYED  THE WICKED,  THOU HAST PUT OUT  THEIR NAME FOR EVER AND EVER. O THOU ENEMY,  DESTRUCTIONS  ARE COME TO A PERPETUAL END:  AND  THOU HAST DESTROYED CITIES;  THEIR MEMORIAL IS PERISHED  WITH THEM.  BUT THE LORD SHALL  ENDURE FOR EVER:  HE HATH PREPARED  HIS THRONE FOR JUDGMENT.  AND HE SHALL JUDGE  THE WORLD IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,  HE SHALL MINISTER  JUDGMENT TO THE  PEOPLE IN UPRIGHTNESS.   LOVE

PSALM 3:1-8 LORD,  HOW ARE THEY INCREASED  THAT TROUBLE ME!  MANY ARE THEY  THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. MANY THERE BE WHICH  SAY OF MY SOUL,  THERE IS NO HELP  FOR HIM IN GOD. SELAH. BUT THOU, O LORD,  ART A SHIELD FOR ME;  MY GLORY, AND THE  LIFTER UP OF MINE HEAD. I CRIED UNTO THE LORD WITH  MY VOICE, AND HE HEARD ME  OUT OF HIS HOLY HILL. SELAH. I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT;  I AWAKED;  FOR  THE LORD SUSTAINED ME. I WILL NOT BE  AFRAID OF TEN THOUSANDS  OF PEOPLE,  THAT HAVE SET THEMSELVES  AGAINST ME ROUND ABOUT. ARISE, O LORD;  SAVE ME, O MY GOD:  FOR THOU HAST SMITTEN ALL MINE ENEMIES  UPON THE CHEEK BONE;  THOU HAST BROKEN  THE TEETH OF THE UNGODLY. SALVATION BELONGETH  UNTO THE LORD:  THY BLESSING IS  UPON THY PEOPLE. SELAH. LOVE     "Adonai, though many rise against me, You are my shield and my glory. I will not fear what surrounds me....

 ISAIAH 19:19-25   IN THAT DAY SHALL  THERE BE AN ALTAR  TO THE LORD IN THE MIDST  OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,  AND A PILLAR AT  THE BORDER THEREOF  TO THE LORD.  AND IT SHALL BE FOR  A SIGN AND FOR  A WITNESS UNTO  THE LORD OF HOSTS  IN THE LAND OF EGYPT:  FOR THEY SHALL CRY UNTO  THE LORD BECAUSE OF  THE OPPRESSORS,  AND HE SHALL SEND  THEM A SAVIOUR,  AND A GREAT ONE,  AND HE SHALL DELIVER THEM.  AND THE LORD SHALL  BE KNOWN TO EGYPT,  AND THE EGYPTIANS SHALL  KNOW THE LORD IN THAT DAY,  AND SHALL DO  SACRIFICE AND OBLATION;  YEA, THEY SHALL VOW  A VOW UNTO THE LORD,  AND PERFORM IT. AND THE LORD SHALL  SMITE EGYPT: HE SHALL  SMITE AND HEAL IT:  AND THEY SHALL RETURN  EVEN TO THE LORD,  AND HE SHALL BE  INTREATED OF THEM,  AND SHALL HEAL THEM.  IN THAT DAY SHALL  THERE BE A HIGHWAY OUT OF EGYPT TO ASSYR...

ISAIAH 46:1-5 BEL BOWETH DOWN,  NEBO STOOPETH,  THEIR IDOLS WERE UPON  THE BEASTS, AND UPON THE CATTLE:  YOUR CARRIAGES  WERE HEAVY LOADEN;  THEY ARE A BURDEN  TO THE WEARY BEAST. THEY STOOP,  THEY BOW DOWN TOGETHER;  THEY COULD NOT  DELIVER THE BURDEN,  BUT THEMSELVES  ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY. HEARKEN UNTO ME,  O HOUSE OF JACOB,  AND  ALL THE REMNANT  OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,  WHICH ARE  BORNE BY ME FROM THE BELLY,  WHICH ARE CARRIED  FROM THE WOMB: AND EVEN TO YOUR OLD AGE  I AM HE;  AND EVEN  TO HOAR HAIRS  WILL I CARRY YOU:  I HAVE MADE,  AND I WILL BEAR;  EVEN I WILL CARRY,  AND WILL DELIVER YOU. TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME,  AND MAKE ME EQUAL,  AND COMPARE ME,  THAT WE MAY BE LIKE?    LOVE

ISAIAH 38:1-6 IN THOSE DAYS WAS  HEZEKIAH SICK UNTO DEATH.  AND  ISAIAH THE PROPHET  THE SON OF AMOZ  CAME UNTO HIM,  AND SAID UNTO HIM,  THUS SAITH THE LORD,  SET THINE HOUSE IN ORDER:  FOR THOU SHALT DIE,  AND NOT LIVE.  THEN HEZEKIAH TURNED  HIS FACE TOWARD THE WALL,  AND PRAYED UNTO THE LORD,  AND SAID, REMEMBER NOW,  O LORD, I BESEECH THEE,  HOW I HAVE WALKED  BEFORE THEE IN  TRUTH AND WITH A PERFECT HEART,  AND HAVE DONE  THAT WHICH IS GOOD IN THY SIGHT.  AND HEZEKIAH WEPT SORE.  THEN CAME  THE WORD OF THE LORD  TO ISAIAH, SAYING, GO, AND SAY TO HEZEKIAH,  THUS SAITH THE LORD,  THE GOD OF DAVID  THY FATHER,  I HAVE HEARD THY PRAYER,  I HAVE SEEN THY TEARS:  BEHOLD, I WILL ADD  UNTO THY DAYS FIFTEEN YEARS.    LOVE