1407. Misery Turned to Hope — Micah 7:1-13

1407.

Misery turned to  Hope
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Today's Passage: Micah 7:1-13
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He knows it. You are forgiven. 
Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out.

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight.

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Asking Questions about the Passage and
​Allowing this Passage to Change My Life.
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• Ask God to join you in your thoughtful questioning.
• A message from the LORD from He Himself, or through a person or prophet.
• Who is sending the message and to whom?
• Why?
• When?
• What will happen?
• How will this effect the people involved?
• How does this prophecy/message effect/affect me?
• What does this prophecy/message prove about who God is?
• Think about the protection  or discipline of God for His people.
• Think about the protection or discipline of God for you.
• Remember when a parent loves a child they must discipline them too. For the child's protection and growth.
  
• Pray. Don't forget to thank God for His revelations that might come later. But trust that they will come.

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1. How miserable I am!
I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat.
Not a cluster of grapes or a single early fig can be found to satisfy my hunger.
2. The godly people have all disappeared; not one honest person is left on the earth.
They are all murderers, setting traps even for their own brothers.
3. Both their hands are equally skilled at doing evil!
Officials and judges alike demand bribes.
The people with influence get what they want, and togther they scheme to twist justice.
4. Even the best of them is like a brier, the most honest is as dangerous as a hedge of thorns.
But your judgment day is coming swiftly now.
Your time of punishment is here, a time of confusion.
5. Don't trust anyone — not your best friend or even your wife!
6. For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother.
The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law.
Your enemies are right in your own household!

7. As for me, I look to the LORD for help.
I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me.

8. Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again.
Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
9. I will be patient as the LORD punishes me, for I have sinned against him
But after that, he will take up my case and give me justice for all I have suffered from my enemies.
The LORD will bring me into the light, and I will see his righteousness.

10. Then my enemies will see that the LORD is on my side.
They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying,
"So where is the LORD — that God of yours?"
With my own eyes I will see their downfall; they will be trampled like mud in the streets.

11. In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt, and your borders will be extended.
12. People from many lands will come and honor you — from Assyria all the way to the towns of Egypt, from Egypt all the way to the Euphrates River, and from distant seas and mountains.
13. But the land will become empty and desolate beause of the wickedness of those who live there.

Micah 7:1-13 NLT

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