In you I’ve taken refuge, LORD;You are my shelter in distress.O let me never be ashamed,But save me in your righteousness. LORD, turn your ear to hear my cry;Come quickly to deliver me,And be my rock and firm defence,My stronghold and security. You are my fortress and my rock;For your name’s sake be my sure […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th January
Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord?It is darkness, not light; as if someone fled from a lion, and was met by a bear;or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall, and was bitten by a snake.Is not the day of the Lord […]
URC Daily Devotions 19th January
They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain,you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them;you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.For I know how many […]
URC Daily Devotion 18th January
Amos was fed up. While most of the prophets peppered redemption and restoration in their prophecies, Amos devoted only his final five verses for such consolation. He directed his criticism against privileged people, who had no love for neighbour, took advantage of others, and only looked out for their own concerns. More than almost any […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th January
Come to Bethel—and transgress; to Gilgal—and multiply transgression;bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;bring a thank offering of leavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!says the Lord God.Israel Rejects CorrectionI gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places,yet […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th January
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria,who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: The time is surely coming upon you,when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.Through breaches in the […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th January
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod, and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,and say, “Assemble yourselves on Mount Samaria, and see what great tumults are within it, and what oppressions are in its midst.”They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.Therefore thus says the […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th January
Thus says the Lord:For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way;father and son go in to the […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th January 2018
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked. So I will send a fire on […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th January
And he said:The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem;the pastures of the shepherds wither, and the top of Carmel dries up.Thus says the Lord:For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;because they have threshed Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and […]