In The Word Read: James 1: 1-18 Testing Your Faith 1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. 2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect […]
Month: August 2018
Return To Me
In The Word Read: Malachi 3:7-18 7 “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 8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you […]
God Hates Divorce
In The Word Read: Malachi 2:10-3:6 10 “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? 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned […]
Love, Honor, And Respect
In The Word Read: Malachi 1-2:9 1 The [a]oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel through [b]Malachi. 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains […]
A Day Is Coming
In The Word Read: Zechariah 14 14 Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 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 city exiled, but the […]
The Difference
In The Word Read: Zechariah 12-13 12 The [a]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, 2 “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup [b]that causes reeling to all the peoples around; […]
It’s Not About Us
In The Word Read: Zechariah 11 11 Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars. 2 Wail, O [a]cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the [b]impenetrable forest has come down. 3 There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail, For their […]
The King Is Coming
In The Word Read: Zechariah 9-10 9 A prophecy: The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrak and will come to rest on Damascus— for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel are on the Lord—[a] 2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on Tyre and Sidon, though […]
Truth And Peace
In The Word Read: Zechariah 8 The Coming Peace and Prosperity of Zion 8 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying, 2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.’ 3 Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell […]
Heart Condition
In The Word Read: Zechariah 7 Hearts like Flint 7 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. 2 Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the Lord,3 speaking to […]