Encountering Jesus by Personalizing Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53 AMPC
1 Who has believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed?
2 For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly pomp], that I should look at Him, and no beauty that I should desire Him.
3 I despised and rejected and forsook Him, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces I despised Him, and I did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.
4 Surely He has borne my griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried my sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet I [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy].
5 But He was wounded for my transgressions, He was bruised for my guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for me was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him I am healed and made whole.
6 I like sheep have gone astray, I have turned to my own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him my guilt and iniquity.
7 He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living [stricken to His death] for the transgression of my [Isaiah’s] people, to whom the stroke was due?
9 And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick (for my salvation, redemption, healing, deliverance, restoration). When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to others] shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, My Servant, justify many and make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God), for He shall bear their iniquities and their guilt [with the consequences, says the Lord].
12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty, because He poured out His life unto death, and [He let Himself] be regarded as a criminal and be numbered with me the transgressor; yet He bore [and took away] my sin and made intercession for me, the transgressor (the rebellious).
PRAY & GIVE THANKS FOR THE MANIFESTATION ON ISAIAH 53 & TITUS 2:13-14
13We should live like that while we are waiting for the coming of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. He is our great hope, and he will come with glory. 14He gave himself for us; he died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people who belong only to him—people who are always wanting to do good things. Titus 2:13-14 International Children’s Bible
PRAY
Jesus, thank You for loving me through Your death, which redeemed me from the wickedness of my heart, separated me from my sin – deception, unrighteousness, pride, fear, resentment, offense, rebellion, curses, immorality, violence, unforgiveness, rejection, lack, and healed me from all forms of sicknesses, diseases & infirmities even after I had despised and rejected You. You went to hell and conquered it so I would not have to go there. Jesus, You reconciled me to Abba Father by Holy Spirit to be together forever anchored by eternal love.
Jesus, I ask that You would come and dwell permanently in my heart forever. Amen. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit and lead me to a body of believers so I can be discipled in You ways and walk Your path so that I will fulfill God’s perfect will for my life by Your grace through Holy Spirit in Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.
Thank You Abba Father, Thank You Jesus, Thank You Holy Spirit.
