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Putting God Before Everything
2022-08-21 12:57 Psalm 132:1-5. The psalmist asks the Lord to remember in David's favor all the hardships he endured - how he vowed not to enter his home, or to sleep, or to rest until he found "a place for the Lo...
I Get You, Jeremiah!
2022-08-20 10:39 Jeremiah 20:13-18. This is part of Jeremiah's prayer/lament/venting to the Lord over his situation. He is in a tough spot because God is prompting him to speak to the people, but he is suffering g...
Listen, Take Heed, We Are On the Brink of Destruction!
2022-08-18 10:19 Jeremiah 26:1-6. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the Lord tells Jeremiah to go to the court of the Temple and proclaim to all the nations of Judah the words that God will give him, and not...
There May Be Blossoms, But There Will Be No Harvest
2022-08-17 15:51 Isaiah 17:10-11. Part of Isaiah's warning to Damascus. They have a forgotten the God of their salvation, the Rock of their refuge. Therefore, though they plant "and set out slips of an alien god,"...
The Worthlessness of False Gods
2022-08-16 16:45 Baruch 6:53-59. Idols and false gods cannot set up a king, or give rain, or deliver someone who is wronged. They have no power at all, "they are like crows between heaven and earth." When fire breaks ...
Knowing When It's Not You, It's Them
2022-08-14 10:33 Job 27:7-11. Job says let his enemies be as the wicked and those who rise up against him as the unrighteous, because the godless have no hope when God cuts them off and takes away their lives. God wil...
Slain by the Lord
2022-08-13 17:47 Isaiah 66:14-15. "You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, your bones shall flourish like the grass; and it shall be known that the hand of the Lord is with his servants, and his indignation is aga...
Who Brings These Calamities On Us?
2022-08-12 11:58 Baruch 4:27-29. Baruch tells the people to take courage and cry to God "for you will be remembered by him who brought this upon you." Just as they purposed to go astray from God, they should now retur...
Are We Even Feeling the Effects of Our Debauchery?
2022-08-10 10:54 Hosea 4:7-10. (Another repeat!) The more God's people increased, the more they sinned against Him. So He says He will change their glory into shame. "They feed on the sin of my people; they are gr...
Mercy Can Be Very Harsh, Especially When Time is Short
2022-08-09 09:00 Revelation 9:1-6. The fifth angel blows his trumpet and a star falls from Heaven to earth holding the key to the shaft to the bottomless pit. He opens the shaft and smoke like that of a great furnace ...