Friend, how's your heart? No, really, how are you doing? If I'm honest, I don't have many words this week. All I know to do is to sit in the Presence of my Abba and share His Word with you.

Presence is a theme in the Bible. When speaking through His prophet Isaiah, God shared an encouraging word for His people in chapter forty-one, "Fear not, for I am with you." Nine chapters later, Isaiah reveals: "The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary...