In The Word Read: Psalm 13-14 For the music director. A Psalm of David. 13 How long, Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long am I to feel anxious in my soul, With grief in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy […]
Month: August 2022
Blessings Of Coming Back
In The Word Read: Hosea 13-14 Ephraim’s Idolatry 13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he incurred guilt and died. 2 And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves cast metal images, Idols skillfully made from their silver, All of them the work of craftsmen. […]
Don’t You Remember?
In The Word Read: Hosea 11-12 God Yearns over His People 11 When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 The more they called them, The more they went away from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols. 3 Yet it is I […]
Consequences
In The Word Read: Hosea 9-10 Ephraim Punished 9 Do not rejoice, Israel, with jubilation like the nations! For you have been unfaithful, abandoning your God. You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on every threshing floor. 2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them. 3 They will […]
True Repentance
In The Word Read: Hosea 5:15-8:14 15 I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will search for Me. The Response to God’s Rebuke 6 “Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He […]
Whose Words Are You Listening To?
In The Word Read: Hosea 4:1-5:14 God’s Controversy with Israel 4 Listen to the word of the Lord, you sons of Israel, Because the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land, For there is no faithfulness, nor loyalty, Nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is oath-taking, denial, murder, stealing, and […]
Second Chance
In The Word Read: Hosea 3 Hosea’s Redemption of Gomer 3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet is committing adultery, as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.” 2 So I purchased her for […]
Faithfulness
In The Word Read: Hosea 1-2 Hosea’s Wife and Children 1 The word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 When the Lord first spoke through […]
Seeking And Finding
In The Word Read: Amos 8:4-9:15 4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, to put an end to the humble of the land, 5 saying, “When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain; And the Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market, To make the ephah smaller and […]
The Plumb Line
In The Word Read: Amos 7:1-8:3 Warning through Visions 7 This is what the Lord God showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing. 2 And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation […]