Tag - Backsliding

When You Don’t Think Right You Don’t Feel Right

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Isaiah 1:5 Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. O-bservation: These are the words that the Lord instructed Isaiah, the prophet, to ask the people of Judah. This word 'beaten' probably means beaten down because of their constant turning from the Lord. When a nation is running from the Lord, they seem to lose at everything. Consequently, that works on one’s mind. Isaiah said your head is injured, and your whole heart is afflicted. For Judah, bad thinking had turned...

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I’ll Take You Back

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Hosea 2:19 I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. O-bservation: The Prophet Hosea had been instructed by God to marry the prostitute Gomer. Gomer was a type of Israel. God, like Hosea, would experience Israel's constant backslidings in favor of other gods. Hosea would experience the unfaithfulness of his wife, Gomer, with other men. It was an illustration for Israel and "Followers of Jesus" for all time. Even so, here we see the Lord telling Israel ... "‘I'll Take You Back!' I...

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