The Gifts and Calling of God

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.  For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: even so have these also now …

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Repentance, Revival, and Restoration

Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.  And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.  And they stood up in their place, and …

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Promise Keeping GOD

And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.  Thus saith the Lord GOD; "When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people …

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From the Pastor’s reading of Hosea 6 through 10

And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is …

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Reading Ezekiel 36 through 40

"...And I will set My glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see My judgment that I have executed, and My hand that I have laid upon them.  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.  And the heathen shall know that …

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…Carry me out of Egypt…

Our reading for today is Genesis 46 through 48. We find Jacob in Egypt and near to death, and does not desire to be buried in that land, but back in Canaan. ...And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.  …

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He Answered Me In the Day of My Distress

The word of God hides nothing concerning the people He calls. In chapters 34 through 36 of Genesis we read of frailties, and the sins of the people of God; yet we also see the love, mercy, and grace of God. O that we as the redeemed of God would walk in His word and …

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…According to your ways, and according to your doings…

Remember the yea and nay of the promises of God. Today's reading is Ezekiel 22 through 24. ...Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; "Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon …

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