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Passage Read: Malachi 1-4 Meditation Verses: 1:7-10 The governor gets more honor than the Lord. The governor gets nice, healthy animals for his food, but God gets the sickly, the castoffs, the unsellable. Because God can't say anything; He won't do anything. He can't, because…

Passage Read: Haggai 1 - Zechariah 2 Meditation Verses: Haggai 1:2-9 The Lord had brought Israel back from captivity, and they had started to rebuild the temple, but then quit. They turned to build their own houses, to expand them. They found their farming to…

Passage Read: Nahum 2 - Habakkuk 2 Meditation Verse: Habakkuk 1:4 When the Law is ignored, justice can never be upheld. When rulers and judges ignore the law of the land, justice never comes, how much more when they ignore the Law of God? And…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 1-4 Meditation Verse: 1:17 Jeremiah is a youth, yet he is called by God to proclaim His message of judgment and warning. He is called to speak to rulers and nations and crowds of people, and God warns him not to be…

Passage Read: 1 Chronicles 27 - 2 Chronicles 1 Meditation Verse: 2 Chronicles 1:10 Solomon recognizes his own limitation, and his responsibility before God to rule over God's people. He knows he's not up to the task, but it is the one thing that consumes…