Category: Daily Devotion

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. Hosea 7:13 – Chapter 7 seems to be summed up with this idea of being blinded by love, but not in the typical sense. Israel was in love…

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away. Hosea‬ ‭6‬:‭4‬ ‭- Hosea begins the chapter with seeking to lead Israel in what to say to the Lord. He directed them to return to…

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. Hosea 5:15 – This chapter is an eye opener to the scary reality that is connected with a refusal to turn form our sin. God withdraws from us. Not in the sense that…

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6 – Starting in chapter 4 the whole visual example of Hosea and his adulterous wife is set…

For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days. Hosea 3:4-5 – We see Hosea put in perspective for us the bigger picture of…

And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. Hosea 2:8 – We see within this passage that Hosea’s adulterous wife had chosen to live in the house of her false lover. There she was…

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, “Childrenof the living God.” Hosea 1:10 – The people of the Northern Kingdom of Israel at the time of…

“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Proverbs 31:29 – In chapter 31 we have a mother speaking into the life of her son seeking to help him think with his head, and not his flesh, when it came to the women in his life. She told him to pursue the excellent, virtuous women…

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. Proverbs 30:32 – Chapter 30 is written by a different writer than King Solomon, a man named Agur. Outside of this chapter he is not spoken of elsewhere in scripture, so we don’t know anything…

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Proverbs 29:18 – To understand what the passage is saying, let’s make sure we know what it’s not saying. Its not saying that when there are no prophecies begin given like we seeing in Old Testament times that we…