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Weekly Guide：2022-2023 Week 81
July 23, 2023
2022-2023 Week 81 Day 1: Strayed from God ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Israel stray from the Lord?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest.
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But their ancestors strayed far from the Lord. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
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Has a nation ever changed its gods? But people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.
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Your wickedness will punish you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of Him.
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On every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute, turned your back to me, yet when you are in trouble, you say, “Come and save us!”
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Israelites exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols, be appalled at this, you heavens. Am I worshiping worthless idols to satisfy my fleshly desires?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
2022-2023 Week 81 Day 2: Return to God ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Israelites return to God?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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After the faithless Israel committed adultery, her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. She also went out and committed adultery.
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The Lord called Israel to return, for He is faithful and will not be angry forever.
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Israel wept and pleaded, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the Lord their God.
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Israel come to God, because He is the Lord.
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If you, Israel, will return, then return to me and no longer go astray.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception. The Lord our God is the salvation. Where is my protection and help? Is it on the rock or sand?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
2022-2023 Week 81 Day 3: Woe to Come ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did the Lord punish Jerusalem?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The prophet questioned to the Lord: “How you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ when the sword is at our throats!”
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The Lord said to Jerusalem: “Wash the evil from your heart and be saved. Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is!”
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The prophet was agonizing in his heart, which was pounding within him, and could not keep silent.
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The Lord questioned if there’s one in Jerusalem who dealt honestly and sought the truth.
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Ravage, but do not destroy them completely, strip off only those do not belong to the Lord.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The Lord found no one in Jerusalem who dealt honestly or sought the truth, and those who swore, sworn falsely. How may I differentiate myself from the world but deal with honesty and mercy by following God’s will?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
2022-2023 Week 81 Day 4: Must be Punished ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did God say the city of Jerusalem must be punished?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Warned the people of Benjamin to flee from Jerusalem, for disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.
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The Lord declared the city of Jerusalem must be punished. It must take warning as it is filled with oppression.
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Let enemies glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine, because they have not listened to God’s words and have rejected His law.
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An army is coming from the land of the north, armed with bow and spear to attack Zion.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - The Lord says to the Judah: “Ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” But they wont walk in it. Why didn’t they choose the Lord’s way? What ways am I choosing today instead of the Lord’s way and therefore unable to find peace?
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Fidelity - The Judah “From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” We as God’s servant today how much awareness do we have with the realities and the needs of the world? How may I face the injustice with grace and honesty?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
2022-2023 Week 81 Day 5: Call to Return ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did the Lord call the Judah to turn back to Him?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The Lord told the Judah to “Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.”
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The Lord would do to the promised land as what He did to Shiloh.
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This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.
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The bones of the kings and all of Judah will be removed from their graves. They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, they will not be gathered up or buried.
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The Lord says: “Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.”
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The Lord asked the people to deal with each other justly, do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow. Today, who among us are the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
2022-2023 Week 81 Day 6: Sinners be Punished ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why would the Lord punish the sinners?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The prophet would weep day and night for the slain of people. He would weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.
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People have forsaken the law, followed the stubbornness of their hearts, so the Lord will scatter them among nations.
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The Lord will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Idols are worthless, the objects of mockery. But our God is the Lord who created everything. Is any worthless object of mockery in my life to tempt me? Am I following the worthless idols and forsake the Almighty God?