Oakwood Church

“Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb…”
Isaiah 49:1

Four Promises for God’s People:

1. You have a Purpose from the Lord

“The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.”
Isaiah 49:1

Four Promises for God’s People:

1. You have a Purpose from the Lord

“He made my mouth like a sharp sword…he made me a polished arrow…”
Isaiah 49:2

Four Promises for God’s People:

1. You have a Purpose from the Lord

“And he said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.’”
Isaiah 49:3

“But I said, ‘I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.’”
Isaiah 49:4

Four Promises for God’s People:

2. You have Power in the Lord

“He who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him… for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength.”
Isaiah 49:5

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob… I will make you as a light for the nations.”
Isaiah 49:6

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“Behold, these shall come from afar and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.”
Isaiah 49:12

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult O earth… For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.”
Isaiah 49:13

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“But Zion said, ‘The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.’”
Isaiah 49:14

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“Can a woman forget her nursing child?… Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you… I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.”
Isaiah 49:15-16

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“Lift up your eyes around you and see; they all gather, they come to you… The children of your bereavement…”
Isaiah 49:18,20

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these?”
Isaiah 49:21

Four Promises for God’s People:

3. You will lead People to the Lord

“I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their arms.”
Isaiah 49:22

Four Promises for God’s People:

4. You will have Peace forever

“I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.” Isaiah 49:25

Four Promises for God’s People:

4. You will have Peace forever

“Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty one of Jacob.”
Isaiah 49:26

Four Promises for God’s People:

1. You have a Purpose from the Lord

2. You have Power in the Lord

3. You will lead People to the Lord and

4. You will have Peace forever

“Grieve not then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly… With the strong arms of prayer, draw the bowstring back and let the arrows fly, all of them, straight at the Enemy’s hosts.”
~ Jim Elliot