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Romans Chapter 11: Verses 4-6 (NIV) And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer…

Romans Chapter 9: Verses 22-23 (NIV) What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory. Psalm…

Romans Chapter 9: Verses 16-17 (NIV) It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Yesterday I pondered on…

Romans Chapter 8: Verse 1 (NIV) There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans Chapter 8: Verse 34 (NIV)  Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Romans 8:34…

Hosea Chapter 9: Verses 7-8 (NIV) The days of punishment are coming,    the days of reckoning are at hand.    Let Israel know this.Because your sins are so many    and your hostility so great,the prophet is considered a fool,    the inspired person a maniac.The prophet, along with my God,    is the watchman over Ephraim,yet snares await him on all his paths,    and hostility in the house…

Hosea Chapter 6: Verses 1-3 (NIV) “Come, let us return to the Lord.He has torn us to pieces    but he will heal us;he has injured us    but he will bind up our wounds.After two days he will revive us;    on the third day he will restore us,    that we may live in his presence. Let us acknowledge the Lord;    let us press on to acknowledge him.As…

Hosea Chapter 3: Verse 1 (NIV) The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” I think the account of Hosea’s life is amazing. God…

Psalm 87: Verse 4 (NIV) “I will record Rahab and Babylon     among those who acknowledge me— Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush—     and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’” Commentators say that the reference to Rahab in this verse is a poetic reference to Egypt, but to me today its…

Amos Chapter 8: Verses 11-12 (NIV) “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord,    “when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water,    but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.People will stagger from sea to sea    and wander from north to east,searching for the word of the Lord,    but they will not…

Romans Chapter 5: Verse 6 (NIV) You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Paul reminded the Roman church that God’s timing was perfect. There are many things we don’t understand about God’s grace and Jesus’ sacrifice. We are only human and there are things that are beyond…