Category: Daily Devotion

  Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction. If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people! Micah 2:10-11 – Like many of the prophets, Micah…

  For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches. Micah 1:8 – The prophet Micah felt for those he was preaching to, and it caused his heart to ache knowing they were rejecting the Lord’s call to repent. This posture from…

  And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Jonah 4:2 – When…

  …but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Jonah 3:8 – The rebellious prophet did faithfully go to where the Lord directed him to go, into the great city of Ninevah. There…

  For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your breakers and your waves passed over me. Jonah 2:3 – Our chapter describes the unique conversation between Jonah and the Lord. Not unique due to the words said, but the due to the unique…

  Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. Jonah 1:5 – We are stepping…

  Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s. Obadiah 1:21 – Obadiah was likely a very early prophet and we see his message wasn’t directed at Israel or Judah, but the nation of Edom. Edom was a brother nation to Israel, descending from Jacob’s brother Esau. While…

  …that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the Lord who does this. Amos 9:12 – Almost the entirely of the prophecies of Amos have been about the destruction that was to come on sinful Israel. This final chapter shows a final prophecy of destruction that…

  The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.” Amos 8:7 – The Israel that Amos prophesied to was one that was very content in their sinful ways. They abused the poor among them, they were corrupt in their business practices, and their worship of God was a superficial…

  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.” Amos 7:10 – What we have here is an idolatrous priest speaking lies to a wicked king of Israel about a…