Month: August 2023
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Day 16, Elul 15 – Steadfast Hearts (2023)
How many times have we experienced God’s answers to prayer, and then returned to our original ways shortly after He gave us relief? God has been so patient with us. Let us no longer shrug our shoulders and stiffen our necks. Let us return to Him and continue steadfastly in His ways. Do you have a…
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Day 15, Elul 14 – Do as He has done for you (2023)
Nehemiah 9:18-27. Think through your life and all that the Lord has done for you. How have we repaid Him? He lovingly cares for us all the time. Do we love and care for others as He has done to us? He is ever patient and merciful to us. Are we patient and merciful to…
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Day 14, Elul 13 – Remember to be Thankful
Nehemiah 9:5-17. Just as the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, so we were spiritually slaves of sin and in hopelessness. God, in His great mercy, looked on our affliction and redeemed us. He crushed the Egyptians in the Red Sea and He triumphed over our old master, sin. Let us not harden our hearts and…
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Day 13, Elul 12 – Pray for His people (2023)
Read Daniel 9:13-19. Did you know that the Bible commands us to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6)? God appointed Israel to be His chosen people and He made an everlasting covenant with them (Deut. 7:6-8, Gen. 17:6-8, 2 Sam. 7:23-24, Psa. 105:6, Isa. 43:4-10). They are still His people and God still…
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Day 12, Elul 11 – Praying on behalf of others (2023)
Read Daniel 9:1-12. Daniel walked in God’s commandments and held fast to the Lord, even when he was a young man in a foreign, pagan country. Yet, in today’s passage, Daniel repents of rejecting God’s law and departing from God’s commandments. Daniel is repenting on behalf of his people, who have departed from God’s laws.…
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Day 11, Elul 10 – “God, be merciful to me!”
God, be merciful to me, for I have sinned. Help me not to trust in my own righteousness, for there is none righteous but You alone. Forgive me for any times when I have despised others in my heart, for I once was also lost and rebellious. You had mercy, saved me, and redeemed me.…
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Day 10, Elul 9 – Devouring Sins
Read Isaiah 9:18-21 and Isaiah 10:1-4. Do we see wickedness burning and spreading like fire all around us today? Do brothers and sisters fight against and devour one another? Do our policy makers decree unrighteous decrees and rob the needy of justice? Pray and repent today of these sins, on behalf of your country, the…
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Day 9, Elul 8 – Turn to Him
Read Isaiah 9:8-17. Today’s reading lists even more sins for which God’s “anger is not turned away but His hand is stretched out still.” Do we see these sins around us today? Whom the Lord loves, He chastens. When God strikes us, disciplines us, or brings us challenges in life, do we turn to Him…
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Day 8, Elul 7 – Wise in… whose eyes?
Read Isaiah 5:21-25. In our country, in our churches and congregations, and in our personal lives, do we see the sins for which God’s “anger is not turned away but His hand is stretched out still”? Have we rejected God’s Torah to follow our own ways? Do we choose to be wise in our own…
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Day 7, Elul 6 – Correct Change
Read Isaiah 5:14-20. Note the sins listed in today’s passage, the ones that God declares, “Woe to…” In our country today, is what is good called evil, and what is evil called good? Do the believers stand up for the truth and shine God’s light in the world, or is darkness creeping in where there…
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