Category: Daily Devotion

  For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.” Jeremiah 4:31 – In this chapter the Lord is outlining the severity…

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. Jeremiah‬ ‭3‬:‭3‬ ‭- As we work through this book, a common message we’ll see and write about is the waywardness of Israel at this time. Instead of a faithful…

  Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Jeremiah 2:11 – If anyone was wondering why the Lord was coming down so hard on His people at this time, Jeremiah made that reason clear within this chapter. Israel had…

  Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.” Jeremiah 1:9 – Starting this new book together we see the powerful call of the Lord on young Jeremiah’s life. As this time he was likely in his late teens to early twenties, living…

  Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons…Leviticus 27:2 – In this last chapter of Leviticus we see the Lord’s laws over vows that were made to Him. Essentially if someone possessed something, whether that be land, an animal, a house,…

  But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. Leviticus 26:45 – Our chapter, while not the last one in the book, seems to wrap up God’s message to…

  And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan. Leviticus 25:10 – Sadly we don’t know how much, or if ever, this was…

  Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. Leviticus 24:8 – Inside the Tent of Meeting was a table and on that table was to be placed what scripture calls the showbread, twelve loaves of bread made specifically for this purpose.…

  And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Leviticus 23:14 – Our chapter today outlines the different annual feasts the Jewish people were to hold in remembrance of…

  Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. Leviticus 22:3 – From our studies we’ve learn that not all Israelites were…