I desire to see our nation avoid the mistakes of our predecessors who rejected the rain of God’s righteousness through Christ.  For that reason, I’m praying that we will sow righteousness, reap steadfast love, break up our fallow ground, seek the Lord, and welcome the life and forgiveness we can only truly obtain through Jesus.

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God is not unjust.  He knows what He has called us to do, and His eyes see our obedience to His leading and our love for His people.  As you serve Him in what may at times feel thankless, please know that He has greater rewards in mind for His children than the human mind can conceive.

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Life is busy.  Your responsibilities are many.  You may have more things on your mind than you can naturally count, but in the midst of it all, don’t forget your Lord who loves you.  In Christ, you find the ultimate relationship, the perfect King, and an eternal home.

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When Christ saved us and made us alive in Him, we died to sin. Sin no longer has mastery over us. Our greatest pleasure is not derived from indulging in it. Our hearts are not satisfied by embracing it.

When we trusted in Christ, we were baptized by the Holy Spirit and united with Him. In obedience, we then followed that up by being baptized with water, which serves as a visible illustration of this spiritual reality. Paul tells us here that we were baptized into His death. Christ died for our sins, and baptism shows that we openly identify with what He suffered on our behalf. And we were raised out of the water of baptism to display the fact that we who were dead and buried have now been raised to life. Christ has accomplished this for us spiritually, we have identified with His work publicly, and now we have been set free from sin's bondage to live a new life.

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Christians tend to refer to the events that events recorded in John 12 as having taken place on Palm Sunday.  We may be familiar with some of the details of the story, but do we understand the significance of what Jesus was doing and the message He was attempting to convey through the actions He took?

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It wouldn't surprise me to learn that there may be someone in your life that you're presently praying for right now.  Someone who is on a journey of attempting to run from the Lord when what they really need to do is repent and return to Jesus.  There are certainly people in my life that I'm praying for right now who seem to be on that kind of path.

In Hosea 6, we read the words of the prophet as he prayed for the repentance of Israel during one of their severe seasons of rebellion against the Lord.  The words of his prayer and the subsequent response of God are both insightful and encouraging as we lift up our heartfelt concerns for others to the Lord as well.

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Depravity among spiritual leaders was a common issue in Hosea's day.  For starters, they had drifted from the clear teaching of the word of God.  As a result, the Lord revealed through Hosea that His people were "destroyed for lack of knowledge."  

The spiritual leaders weren't teaching God's word.  They also weren't modeling it.  Instead of feeding the people life-giving spiritual nourishment, they were feeding on the sin of the people and effectively encouraging more of it.  The Lord describes these spiritual leaders as greedy and enamored with iniquity.  It's a horrible image to picture.

God will hold spiritual leaders accountable for the lives they live and the nature of their influence on the lives of others.

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