prepare the way of the Lord, expect the unexpected, Isaiah 43

Isaiah 43:19 (NIV)
"See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."

Isaiah 43:16-17 (NIV)
"This is what the Lord says—he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick..."

1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)
"However, as it is written: 'What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived'—the things God has prepared for those who love him—"

Isaiah 42:6-7 (NIV)
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness."

Romans 8:19 (NIV)
"For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed."

Isaiah 43:18 (NIV)
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past."

Isaiah 46:9-10 (NIV)
"Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please."

Isaiah 43:19b (NIV)
"I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."

Luke 3:4 (NIV)
"As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:

'A voice of one calling in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him."'"

Luke 3:5-6 (NIV)
"Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all people will see God’s salvation."