Category: Daily Devotion

  Thus says the Lord: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and partof a bed. Amos 3:12 – To take a spiderman quote and change it up a bit,…

  Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. Amos 2:9 – The first chapter of Amos was the Lord directing His wrath over a handful of Gentile…

  Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.” Amos 1:11 – Amos, a simple shepherd, is called out from the sheep fields…

  Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. Joel 3:14 – This final chapter of Joel speaks of the nations and peoples that had come against Israel and scattered them over the centuries. Essentially its talking to the nations that had made the decision to…

  “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Joel 2:12-13 – Joel is pleading…

  Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. Joel 1:13 – While difficult to date when the book of Joel was written for the prophet…

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.‭‭ 2 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭1‬ ‭– Peter was warning the church of a very present danger that was not only at…

  And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things. 2 Peter 1:15 – After many years now of serving the Lord, the Apostle Peter realized that his earthly life was soon to be over. He then wrote this second letter to…

  …in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600. Jeremiah 52:30 – Here is the last chapter of Jeremiah, and what we find is a telling of many of the fulfillments of Jeremiah’s prophecies. Jerusalem was overtaken, the…

  I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord. Jeremiah 51:24 – While a very long chapter to read through, the message of it isn’t difficult to find. Babylon was to be destroyed. This nation that had…