In The Word Read James 1: 1-18 Testing Your Faith James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, […]
Month: August 2015
RETURN TO ME
In The Word Read Malachi 3:7-18 “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ You Have Robbed God “Will a man rob God? Yet you are […]
GOD HATES DIVORCE
In The Word Read Malachi 2:10-3:6 Sin in the Family “Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers? Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; […]
LOVE, HONOR, AND RESPECT
In The Word Read Malachi 1-2:9 God’s Love for Jacob The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi. “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Wasnot Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I […]
A DAY IS COMING
In The Word Read Zechariah 14 God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Foes Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of […]
THE DIFFERENCE
In The Word Read Zechariah 12-13 Jerusalem to Be Attacked The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to […]
IT’S NOT ABOUT US
In The Word Read Zechariah 11 The Doomed Flock Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable forest has come down. There is a sound of the shepherds’ […]
THE KING IS COMING!
In The Word Read Zechariah 9-10 Prophecies against Neighboring Nations The burden of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, withDamascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord), And Hamath also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though […]
TRUTH AND PEACE
In The Word Read Zechariah 8 The Coming Peace and Prosperity of Zion Then the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.’Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in […]
HEART CONDITION
In The Word Read Zechariah 7 Hearts like Flint In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the Lord,speaking to […]