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Daily devotionalSeptember 30 – The authority of God challenged
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. – Nahum 1:7 Scripture reading: Luke 20:1-8 Who are you to tell me what…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 29 – At the end of the warning there is Jesus
For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? – Nahum 3:19b Scripture reading: Luke 10:1-21 Nahum ends with a question that can only, finally,…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 28 – Evil restrained
There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. – Nahum 3:19…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 27 – Undershepherds of our Shepherd-King
Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. – Nahum 3:18 Scripture reading: Ezekiel 34:1-16 Nahum’s prophecy is eloquently layered for New Testament…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 26 – The Prince who cares
Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on fences in a day of cold—when the sun rises, they fly away;…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 25 – Wealth and your citizenship in Babylon or Jerusalem
You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spread its wings and flies away. – Nahum 3:16 Scripture reading: Rev. 18:4-8;…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 24 – God is a consuming fire
There fire will devour you… – Nahum 3:15a Scripture reading: Heb. 12:18-29 What a picture Hebrews gives us. Our God is a consuming fire. Nahum…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 23 – Terrors no longer terrify Christians
There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like locusts. – Nahum 3:15 Scripture reading: Luke 10:13-20…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 22 – Living defensive stones
Draw water from the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold! – Nahum 3:14 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 21 – Are you trained for war?
Behold, your troops are women in your midst. – Nahum 3:13a Scripture reading: Ps. 144 Wait a minute, is the text sexist? Does the Bible…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 20 – Ripe for picking
All of your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs—if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater. – Nahum 3:12 Scripture reading: Heb….
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Daily devotionalSeptember 19 – Terrible wrath and greater mercy
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 18 – Wait, there is still more
…you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 17 – Prove it
See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 16 – Now is the day of salvation
Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts… – Nahum 3:5 Scripture reading: Nahum 3:5-7 and II Chron. 30:1-13 This, humanly speaking, may…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 15 – Appropriately warned
Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts… – Nahum 3:5a Scripture reading: Colossians 3:10-17 Why spend all this time on Nahum and a…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 14 – Humbly serve the living God
The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. –…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 13 – The messenger of God
And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 12 – Haughty lion thrown down
Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. – Revelation 5:5 Scripture reading: Nahum 2:10-13 and…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 11 – The Lord’s Day restores clarity
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. – Psalm 73:24 Scripture reading: Nahum 2:4-9 and Ps. 73 Confusion. If…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 10 – Believe it or not, judgment is on its way
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. – I Thessalonians 5:2 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 9 – Powerful imagery foreshadowing the New Testament
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 8 – Interesting name for the Lord: the Scatterer
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings… – Psalm 17:8 Scripture reading: Nahum 2:1-2 and Deuteronomy…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 7 – Confronting worthless counsellors
For he [Jesus] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. – I Corinthians 15:25 Scripture reading: Nahum 1:9-11 and Ps. 2…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 6 – An oracle, a burden
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. – Nahum 1:7 Scripture reading: Nahum…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 5 – The sacred sanctuary in time
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 4 – Where is Elkosh?
So that you are not lacking any gift, as you wait for the revealing of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 3 – A parade of God’s power
When he ascended on high he led a host of captives… – Ephesians 4:8 Scripture reading: Nahum 1:3-5 and Ephesians 4:1-17 Why do nations have…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 2 – The Lord the Avenger
The LORD is a jealous and avenging husband. – Nahum 1:2 Scripture reading: Nahum 1:1-3 and Isaiah 54:1-5 There is an expression out there that…
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Daily devotionalIntroduction to the month of September
Nahum is a book that is likely not too familiar for many readers. To be honest, I can’t recall ever preaching from this book. It…