GYC 10 DAYS OF PRAYER

Day  1: December 18  Title: The Only Course of Safety Scripture:  Isaiah 58:1-3a  1  “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. 2  Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God. 3  ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no [...]

Day  2 : December 19  Title: Sins of Israel Are Sins Today Scripture:  Isaiah 58:3b-5 “In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your laborers. 4  Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high. 5  Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you [...]

Day  3 : December 20  Title:  A Reformatory Influence From God Needed Scripture: Isaiah 58:6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the [c]heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?   EGW Quote: Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 1150 The people here described realize that they have not the favor of God; but instead of seeking His favor in His own way, they enter into a controversy with God. They ask why, since they observe so many ceremonies, the Lord does not give them [...]

Day  4 : December 21  Title: Christians Not a Band of Mourners Scripture:  Isaiah 58:7  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are [d]cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh? EGW Quote: Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 1150 We have everything to be thankful for. Never ought Christians to move along like a band of mourners in a funeral train. God does not require this of His followers. He does not ask them to spread [...]

Day 5 : December 22 Title:  God Needs Human Agencies Scripture: Isaiah 58:8  Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.   EGW Quote: Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 1151 We are to put into practice the precepts of the law, and thus have righteousness before us; the rereward will be God's glory. The light of the righteousness of Christ will be our front guard, and the glory of the Lord will be our rereward. Let [...]

Day 6 : December 23 Title: Compassion Causes Light to Rise Scripture: Isaiah 58:9  Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,   EGW Quote: Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 1151 All around us are afflicted souls. Let us search out these suffering ones, and speak a word in season to comfort their hearts. Here and there —everywhere— we shall find them. Let us ever be channels through which may flow to [...]

Day 7 : December 24 Title: God's Love Enables Us to Impart Light Scripture: Isaiah 58:10   If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your [f]darkness shall be as the noonday. EGW Quote: Reflecting Christ, p. 233 All around us are heard the wails of a world's sorrow. On every hand are the needy and distressed. It is ours to aid in relieving and softening life's hardships and misery.   Practical work will have far more effect than mere sermonizing. We are to give food to [...]

Day 8 : December 25 Title: God's Guidance Gives Clear Discernment Scripture: Isaiah 58:11 The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.   EGW Quote: Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, pp. 1151-1152 Of him who walks in the way of life everlasting, using his blessings to bless others, the prophet Isaiah declares: “The Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a [...]

Day 9 : December 26 Title: Sabbath Keepers Repair the Breach Scripture: Isaiah 58:12-14  12  Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of [g]Streets to Dwell In. 13  “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the Lord honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own [...]

Day 10 : December 27 Title: Whole-souled Men to Stand in the Gap Scripture: Isaiah 8:16   Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples.   EGW Quote: Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 1152 There must be no halfway work done now. The Lord calls for stanch, decided, whole-souled men and women to stand in the gap, and make up the hedge.  …We are always to look to God; His word is not Yea and Nay, but Yea and Amen (NL No. 19, pp. 2, 3).  The seal of God's law is found in the fourth commandment. This [...]