The Stump
A
withered tree stump; no lovely arching branches or majestic trunk, just old and
ugly – could it possibly be good for anything but the fire? Isaiah 10 talks
about how God chops down the arrogant like one felling tall trees. The actual
people being addressed are the decedents of Israel. They had forgotten God and
become disobedient. Great foreign armies came and enslaved them. It was a dark
time.
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There shall come forth a shoot from the
stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
Isaiah 11:1
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Then
Isaiah 11 tells of a shoot coming up from a old stump…and there is not just a
hint of life in the new sprout, there is an abundance of it. It will become the
source of life for all! Isaiah is using the analogy of the tree stump to
foretell that God will still bring the Messiah through Israel’s descendants.
When Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross, He not only paid the price for all
people’s disobedience towards God, He released believers from the heritage of
sin.
Give thanks today for the amazing gift of your Savior’s sacrifice. Pray that many across America will believe and convey a heritage of abundant life to every dry and dark place in the land.
Give thanks today for the amazing gift of your Savior’s sacrifice. Pray that many across America will believe and convey a heritage of abundant life to every dry and dark place in the land.
Recommended Reading: Isaiah 10:33-11:5
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Ryan
Costello
Representative - 6th District of Pennsylvania 
Born: Sept.
7, 1976
Family: Married,
Christine Costello; one child
Religion: Presbyterian
Education: Ursinus
College, B.A., 1999; Villanova University, J.D., 2002
Career: Lawyer,
2002-present
Elected Office: Chester
County Board of Commissioners, 2011-present; Chester County recorder of
deeds, 2008-11; East Vincent Township Board of Supervisors, 2002-08
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Don Beyer
Representative - 8th District of Virginia 
Born: June
20, 1950
Family: Married,
Megan Beyer; four children
Religion: Episcopalian
Education: Williams
College, B.A., 1972
Career: Auto
dealer
Elected Office: Virginia
lieutenant governor, 1990-98, 2009-13
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Dozens of protesters interrupted holiday shopping in the St.
Louis area late Thursday and early Friday as part of the ongoing reaction to a
grand jury’s decision to not indict the Ferguson police officer who fatally
shot Michael Brown this past August.
Investors keeping an eye on plunging oil prices and Black Friday
sales resulted in a lackluster trading day on Wall street as stocked ended
mostly lower on the final trading day of November.
A man shot up a federal courthouse and a Mexican consulate in
Austin, Texas on Friday before being shot to death outside the Austin, Texas,
police headquarters.
Egypt’s former longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak was effectively
cleared of charges in a retrial Saturday and could soon be released in a
stunning reversal for a man who faced life imprisonment or worse after a revolution
toppled him in 2011.
Drug smuggling is up at many California county jails and
officials say it’s because some parolees are getting arrested just so they can
try to sneak narcotics behind bars.
Demonstrators temporarily shut down three large malls in
suburban St. Louis on Black Friday, before marching in front of the Ferguson,
Missouri police department to protest the grand jury’s decision in the Michael
Brown case.
We hope you had a very
blessed Thanksgiving.
Our team was off for the
Holiday, therefore no prayer request went out on 11/28/14.
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