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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 67
April 13, 2025
Week 67 Day 1: Return to God ⇧ ⇩
Question
What did Israel pray for in their return to God?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- The prophet advises Israel to return to their God. Ask Him to forgive all their sins and receive them graciously.
- God will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for His anger has turned away from them.
- Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - In their prayer returning to God, the Israelites asked God to Forgive all their sins and receive them graciously, that they may offer the fruit of their lips. Do I often offer my repentance through my prayer?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 67 Day 2: Army of Locusts ⇧ ⇩
Question
What did Joel warn the Israelites about?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- A nation has invaded my land, a mighty army without number; behind them, a desert waste-nothing escapes them.
- The people of Judah Mourn. The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.
- Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn. Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly, and cry out to the Lord.
- The day of the Lord is coming, the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
- Return to the Lord with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity.
- Then the Lord was jealous for His land and took pity on His people.
- The Lord will pour out His Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - God is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, so when the Israelites return to Him with all their heart, he would be merciful to them. How am I experiencing His mercy?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 67 Day 3: Nations on Trial ⇧ ⇩
Question
How would the Lord put the nations on trial?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- God will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There He will put them on trial.
- In that day, all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house and will water the valley of acacias.
- Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste.
- Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem, the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel. How am I experiencing God as my refuge and my stronghold?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 67 Day 4: Sins Committed Repeatedly ⇧ ⇩
Question
What nations does the Lord sand His judgment from Zion?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- The vision Amos saw concerning Israel came when Jeroboam was king of Israel.
- The Lord roars from Zion; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.
- For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent.
- For three sins of Gaza, even for four, I will not relent. I will turn my hand against Ekron, till the last of the Philistines are dead.
- For three sins of Tyre, even for four, I will not relent.
- For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent.
- For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not relent.
- For three sins of Moab, even for four, I will not relent.
- For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent.
- For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent.
- Judgment on Israel for they rebelled against the Lord and turned their back to His mercy.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - On the day of judgment, the swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life. The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his life. Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day. Do I depend on my own ability or the grace of righteousness God has given me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 67 Day 5: Punish Their Sins ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why God punishes Israelites of their sins?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- God had chosen only Israel of all the families of the earth; therefore He will punish them for all their sins.
- The Sovereign Lord has spoken-who can but prophesy?
- The Lord warns the descendants of Jacob. On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
- You cows of Bashan, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy. The time will sure come when you will be taken away with hooks.
- Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more.
- God punished Israel with heavy penalties, and they still don’t turn back to Him.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Because God’s had chosen only Israel from all the families of the earth; He would punish them for all their sins. God loves His people so much that He put heavy emphasis on their cleanliness and holiness. How does this fact encourage and alert me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 67 Day 6: Of Exorbitant Indulgence ⇧ ⇮
Question: What were Israel’s sins?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.
- This is what the Lord says to Israel: Seek me and live.
- I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them.
- Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
- You will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.
- You rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar and say: Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?
- The Lord God Almighty declares, I will stir up a nation against you.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Israelites rejoiced in the conquest of Lo Debar and said: Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength? God hates the proud but is graceful to the humble. Am I leaning on my own strength over God’s?