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Our scripture today is Hosea 14:9 (ESV). Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. We have heard guidance such as Hosea offers here before. In Psalm 107:43 we …
Our scripture today is Hosea 12:6 (ESV). So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God. What does it mean to “wait continually for your God”? There are several other Old Testament verses that encourage us in the same way. In Psalm 27:14 …
Our scripture today is Hosea 10:12 (ESV). Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. Even as Hosea warns the people of God’s judgement, there is a call to repentance and reconciliation with …
Our scripture today is Hosea 1:10 (ESV). Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.” …
Our scripture today is Hosea 1:1 (ESV). The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The Book of Hosea opens with a list of the …
Our scripture today is Daniel 9:9-10 (ESV). To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Daniel offers a communal confession of sin …
Our scripture today is Daniel 8:17 (ESV). So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.” I will tell you honestly that interpreting apocalyptic lessons …
Our scripture today is Daniel 5:5 (MEV). Immediately fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. And the king saw the back of the hand that wrote. God uses the Exile to teach Israel, but also the nation that had enslaved them. …
Our scripture today is Daniel 3:25 (MEV). He answered, “Look! I see four men unbound and walking in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed. And the form of the fourth is like the Son of God!”” In Daniel 3 we read of a king full of false pride who commands his people …
Our scripture today is Daniel 2:1 (MEV). And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. Remember the verse from chapter 1 that said “And Daniel had understanding in all kinds of visions and dreams.” God had provided Daniel with the …