LED ASTRAY BY LIES!  But their lies have led them astray. —Amos 2:4  But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel! —Psalm 125:5              Whether it was Judah of old or any nation or people today, lies lead them astray as they turn away from the Lord and to their own wicked ways. Their lies lead themselves astray and they lead others astray by those same lies.             Here are some of the lies today that are leading people astray.        Instead of working as God has designed, government pays people to stay home and be…

THE WAYS OF OUR LORD  A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress. —Hosea 12:7  Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. —Hosea 14:9              The ways of our Lord are right and those who love Him walk in them. But those who do not know Him stumble at what He has to say. They do not understand, they are not discerning and they do not know His ways. They love deception and oppression.             Think about it. Who…

DIFFICULTY… LOOK TO OUR LORD!  To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us. —Psalm 123:1-2              We look to the Lord, He who is enthroned in the heavens because He alone is ultimately in control of all things. He alone has our best interests in mind. He alone loves us with an everlasting love. He alone knows all things and is carrying out His…

WHOREDOM… BUT HOPE!  …for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD. —Hosea 1:2  And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD. —Hosea 2:13   There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;  there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. —Hosea 4:2  Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know…

MY LORD HELPS ME!  I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?  My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2              “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).  Such a brief statement, but for those who take His Word for what it is— His Word — this is a profound statement. Our mind cannot fathom His greatness. We cannot even fathom the vastness of the universe.   How could we ever understand the enormity of who God is? All that we understand of Him He has revealed to us in His Word. The heavens…

HE IS SHAPING ME ACCORDING TO HIS DESIRES  But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. —=Isaiah 64:8              The potter’s hands move with precision to form the vessel as he desires it to be. So too our Lord forms us. We are raw clay that He is forming according to His desires into a vessel that will accomplish His will. He presses on the clay of our lives and at times the pressure feels like it is more than we can take… but He is forming us, developing us, maturing us for…

SERVE THE NEEDY  Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself…

TRUST GOD’S WORD OVER MAN’S!  For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,  so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. —Isaiah 55`:10-11              The rain and snow comes down, but does not go back up the way it came down. No, instead it waters the earth. Springtime snow melts and the rains…

OUR SIN IS GONE, BLOTTED OUT, CAST AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST!  I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. —Isaiah 43:25  I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you, —Isaiah 44:22            Do you remember that playground incident that caused you pain? How about in elementary school— remember any negative incidents that took place there? You probably haven’t thought about those for decades until I just stirred up those memories. It is interesting how negative events can come back…

DON’T PUT YOUR TRUST IN PUNY MAN AS FIRST PRIORITY  A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. —Isaiah 40:6-8  Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. —Isaiah 40:15  All the nations are as nothing before him, they…