Author Archives: JARoss

Ezekiel 14:21-23 “Now this is what the sovereign Lord says: How terrible it will be when all four of these dreadful punishments fall upon Jerusalem – war, famine, wild animals, and disease – destroying all her people and animals. Yet there will be survivors, and they will come here to join you as exiles inContinue reading “War, Famine, Wild Animals and Disease”

Isaiah 1:15-20  When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims. Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways. Learn to do good.Continue reading “Stop Living a Lie”

Jeremiah 6:10-15 “To whom can I give warning? Who will listen when I speak? Their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. They scorn the word of the Lord. They don’t want to listen at all. So now I am filled with the Lord’s fury. Yes, I am tired of holding it in! I willContinue reading “The Day Will Come”

Jeremiah 4:22  “My people are foolish and do not know me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!”  This is what you see when you look around. You see a world of people who doContinue reading “My People are Foolish”

Isaiah 45:21-23 “Gather together and come, you fugitives from surrounding nations. What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save! Consult together, argue your case. Get together and decide what to say. Who made these things known so long ago? What idol ever told you they wouldContinue reading “No Greater Gift”

Isaiah 63:19 Sometimes it seems as though we never belonged to you, as though we had never been known as your people. Isaiah 64:3-5  When you came down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked! For since the world began, no ear has heard, and noContinue reading “You Need to Remember”

2 Corinthians 10:3-6   We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach themContinue reading “Waging War”

Jeremiah 5:20-229   “Make this announcement to Israel, and say this to Judah: Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear. Have you no respect for me? Why don’t you tremble in my presence? I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlastingContinue reading “The Root Sin of Man”

Isaiah 49:7 The Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers: “Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the HolyContinue reading “I Chose You”

Isaiah 62:6-7   O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray day and night, continually. Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord. Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth. I have called you to pray. IContinue reading “Prayer”