Category: Daily Devotion

  Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4 – We have a verse here that is one of the most quoted in the New Testament…the righteous shall live by his faith. In our chapter we see the Lord responding to Habakkuk’s…

  Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. Habakkuk 1:3 – What we have with Habakkuk is a prophet of the Lord coming to his God and being real with Him. Habakkuk didn’t understand what he was seeing…

  There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? Nahum 3:19 – The prophet is continuing his words against the sinful Ninevah. Their evil had stretched far and wide, influencing nations to follow…

  Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will burn yourchariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard. Nahum 2:13 – No one on earth should desire such a message like…

  What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time. Nahum 1:9 – The prophet is speaking God’s word over the nation of Ninevah, the same nation Jonah went to about 100 years earlier and preached against. While Ninevah repented of their sins when Jonah…

  Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. Micah 7:18 – What is something you delight in that maybe for others they just can’t understand why you’d find enjoyment in it? For…

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people. ‭‭Micah‬ ‭6‬:‭16‬ – To understand this chapter, imagine a courtroom.…

  But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. Micah 5:2 – While it can be difficult at times to know what time period a…

  In that day, declares the Lord, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted; and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore. Micah 4:6-7 –…

  Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. Micah 3:12 – Don’t ever begin to believe your faithfulness today has no impact on the future. Here the prophet was speaking to God’s people, calling them to repent like…