by David Keesling | Mar 28, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Esther 5:13 “Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.” Observation: Haman had been elevated to high position by the king. From his lofty role he arrogantly demanded that all the king’s subjects bow before him to...
by David Keesling | Mar 22, 2024 | Daily Devotional
2 Chronicles 25:9 “Amaziah asked the man of God, ‘But what about the hundred talents I paid for those Israelite troops?’” Observation: Amaziah, king of Judah, was preparing to war against Edom. To augment his army he hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel...
by David Keesling | Mar 21, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Hosea 4:7 “The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful.” Observation: Through the prophet Hosea God condemns both the nation of Israel and their priests. They had rejected knowledge so God had...
by David Keesling | Mar 20, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Hosea 2:6-7a “Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.” Observation: Israel is portrayed as an unfaithful wife...
by David Keesling | Mar 19, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Hosea 1:2 “When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ‘Go, take yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord.’” Observation: Hosea’s family life is to be...
