Daily Devotional from Amos 9--Verse 15“I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God. Israel had abandoned God, but God hadn’t abandoned them. Even as they faced the consequences for their sins against Him, He promised that He would make a way. And He did. Not only was Israel placed back in their land, but al...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Amos 7—Verses 14-15Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’”Amos wasn’t a minister. He wasn’t anything particularly prestigious at all; he was a simple shepherd (Amos 1:1). Sheph...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Amos 5--Verse 4For the Lord says to the house of Israel: Seek me and live.This is the plea for Israel throughout this passage—and throughout the whole Bible! God wants us to LIVE. He doesn’t want destruction for us. He wants us to have life. And as God—he knows what brings life and what brings destruction. He wants us to know him because he wants us to live, and live abundant...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Amos 4--Verse 13For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!Amidst all the warnings to Israel, from God through His prophets, about their continued unfaithfulness and judgment to come, Amos takes time to prai...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Amos 1-2—(Multiple verses)…for three transgressions of ___________, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment…It’s interesting to scroll through each of the grievances listed against the different people in these chapters. For all the nations around Judah, the grievance is people-to-people, e.g. ‘you exiled these people, you took their land, you beat down the poor’…but f...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Joel 2--Verse 25I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten. Have you ever got stuck going the wrong way? Perhaps you even went the right way and still got hung up in traffic. Sometimes that can happen in life, and you can lose many good years. But Joel is here to remind us in chapter 2, verse 25, that the Lord is able to restore what has been lost. Whe...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Hosea 14--Verse 1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.God told Israel if they would repent He would forgive them, protect them, and heal them. Even if we turn away from God—He is always calling us to return.Growing up, I always thought of God as very stern, and I didn’t fully understand His grace. The thought of repentance see...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Hosea 10--Verse 12Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.What are we sowing in our lives? How do we sow righteousness so that we may reap steadfast love? Well we have to break up our fallow ground (soften our hearts!) We need to seek the Lord. The...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Hosea 8--Verse 4They have installed kings, but not through me. They have appointed leaders, but without my approval. They make their silver and gold into idols for themselves for their own destruction.Reading the Old Testament, we quickly recognize God's disdain for idol worship. God didn't even let the Israelites carve out an idol for him! Yet, over and over, the Israelites ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Hosea 4--Verse 14I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.Israel often faced judgement from God due to disobedience and idolatry. They were punished with famine, warfare and exi...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Hosea 2—Verse 19And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.When God really wants to get his point across, he is able! He tells the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute, and then let her go when she goes running off to other men, and then go and buy her back from them and love her again. This is...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Daniel 12--Verse 3Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. You will never be God. But if you turn people towards him, you will certainly be like Him. A star glistening in the heavens, a supernova burning in the sky. Nothing is more beautiful and yet you will exceed it all in...  Read More