Dear <<First Name>> The Daily Devotions between now and Ash Wednesday will focus on the short Book of Micah. Just as Amos ministered in the northern Kingdom of Israel when it was threatened by the Assyrian Empire, Micah ministered in the southern Jewish Kingdom of Judah. Like Michah, he ministered in the 8th Century BC facing […]
URC Daily Devotions 28th January
How blessed the one who has receivedforgiveness for his sin!Whose sins are covered from God’s face,Whose debt is cancelled in God’s grace;there’s no deceit in him. When I kept silent, all my boneswith groaning were worn out.Beneath your hand I felt entrappedBoth day and night; my strength was sappedas in a summer drought. Then I […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th January
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people;and those who are left I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape. Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th January
Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain;and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale?We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances,buying the poor for silver and […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th January
This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit. He said, “Amos, what do yousee?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,“The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by.The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,”says […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th January
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, ‘Amos has conspired against you in the very centre of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos has said,“Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.”’ […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd January
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the lattergrowth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings). Whenthey had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,“O Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”The LORD relented concerning […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd January
Alas for those who are at ease in Zion, and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria,the notables of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel resorts!Cross over to Calneh, and see; from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines.Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is your […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st January
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 […]