Little by Little Daily Devotional

“...When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat -skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales?”Amos 8:5

Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet but I was a shepherd and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees - but the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’Amos 7:14-15

“Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.”Amos 5:23

“I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”Amos 2:5

“Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love and He relents from sending calamity.”Joel 2:13

“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction?”Hosea 13:14

“My people are determined to turn from me. Even though they call me God Most High, I will by no means exalt them.”Hosea 11:7

“They set up kings without My consent; they choose princes without My approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.”Hosea 8:4

“Then I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face - in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”Hosea 5:15

When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her...”Hosea 1:2

“...but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.”Daniel 11:32

“As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision.”Daniel 9:23

“My God sent His angel and He shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in His sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”Daniel 6:22

But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Daniel 1:8

“Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.”Ezekiel 47:9

“They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.”Ezekiel 44:23

Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits (nine feet) thick and each side room around the temple was four cubits (six feet) wide. Ezekiel 41:5

“I will put my Spirit in you and you will live...”Ezekiel 37:14

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.”Ezekiel 34:11-12

Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “Because the great cedar towered over the thick foliage and because it was proud of its height, I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside...”Ezekiel 31:10-11

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.”Ezekiel 28:25

“Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears.”Ezekiel 24:16

“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it but I found no one.”Ezekiel 22:30

“Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not just.” Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?”Ezekiel 18:25

Even if these three men - Noah, Daniel and Job - were in it (Jerusalem), they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord. Ezekiel 14:14