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Beejai · Beejai

Ephraim has sold herself to lovers. Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king. (Hosea 8:9-10)- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Ephraim has sold herself to lovers. I was walking down the parking lot t...

Beejai · Beejai

Hosea had a son. He named him Jezreel. Jezreel means God Plants. What does it mean to be planted by God? Ive moved from Oswego back to Binghamton to be a part of a church that God is planting. Pastor Will has moved here with his young family. Others have come from around the country. Some that have joined us...

Beejai · Beejai

They have betrayed the honor of the Lord, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth. (Hosea 5:7 NLT) - - - - - - - - - - Day and night he moped around in deep depression. As his son came closer and closer to de...

Beejai · Beejai

You refuse to obey me. You offer sacrifices to other gods. So I will punish all of you. People of Ephraim, I know all about you. What you're doing is not hidden from me. (Hosea 5:2-3 NIRV) - - - - - - - - - - So I was sitting on the bus and I just had to laugh. There are t...

Beejai · Beejai

You offer sheep and cattle as sacrifices to me, but I have turned away and refuse to be found. (Hosea 5:6 CEV) - - - - - - - - - - The silences of God. Im reading Blackaby and thats what he calls it. He said that when he was going through one of those times, it wasnt because of sin but the first thing he did was go thr...

Beejai · Beejai

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord. Israels arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them. (Hosea 5:4-5 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - There is a di...

Beejai · Beejai

Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I'm not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It's the men who pick up the whores that I'm after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses a stupid people, ruined by whor...

Beejai · Beejai

Listen, you priests! Pay attention, Israel! Listen, you members of the royal family. Justice was your duty. But at Mizpah and Mount Tabor you trapped the people. At the place of worship you were a treacherous pit, and I will punish you. (Hosea 5:1-2 CEV) - - - - - - - - ...

Beejai · Beejai

For Israel has behaved stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. How then should he expect to be fed and treated by the Lord like a lamb in a large pasture? Ephraim is joined [fast] to idols, [so] let him alone [to take the consequences]. (Hosea 4:16-17 Amp) - - - - - - - - - - One of the scariest things God could do t...

Beejai · Beejai

Wine has robbed my people of their understanding. They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute serving other gods and deserting their God. They offer up sacrifices to idols on the mountainto...

Beejai · Beejai

They'll eat and be as hungry as ever, have sex and get no satisfaction. They walked out on me, their God, for a life of rutting with whores. (Hosea 4:10 The Message) - - - - - - - - - - I was thinking of grabbing a book on leadership today. I ended up sitting down and reading the first chapter of The Starbucks Exp...

Beejai · Beejai

You encourage others to sin, so you can stuff yourselves on their sin offerings. That's why I will punish the people for their deeds, just as I will punish you priests. (Hosea 4:8-9 CEV) - - - - - - - - - - Conventions and cassettes. They can be soooooooo fun. Every year right around Easter, New York will hav...

Beejai · Beejai

Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will changetheir glory into shame. (Hosea 4:6-7 NKJV) - - - - - - - - - - W...

Beejai · Beejai

My people will be destroyed because they have no knowledge. You have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be priests to me. (Hosea 4:6 NCV) - - - - - - - - - - "God said it. I believe it. That settles it." There is truth in this statement, but every time I hear it I cringe. It's one of the three s...

Beejai · Beejai

For your people are like those who contend with the priest. Therefore you shall stumble in the day; the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night. (Hosea 4:4-5 NKJV) - - - - - - - - - - I make a great armchair quarterback. On a Sunday afternoon from the comfort of my lazyboy (or a booth at Tully's), befo...

Beejai · Beejai

But let no man bring a charge, let no man accuse another. (Hebrews 4:4 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - OK. So this one is like an emotional punch in the gut. I read it this morning and I thought: "Hmmm maybe I should pass over this part." The thing is, by most people's standards I'm a pretty good guy. I've never...

Beejai · Beejai

There is no faithfulness or love or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn; and everyone who dwells there will waste away with the beasts of the field an...

Beejai · Beejai

Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows blood...

Beejai · Beejai

But afterward the people will return and devote themselves to the Lord their God and to David's descendant, their king. In the last days, they will tremble in awe of the Lord and of his goodness. (Hosea 3:5 NLT) - - - - - - - - - - I was at Walmart yesterday and saw th...

Beejai · Beejai

For the Israelites will live without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. (Hosea 3:4 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - OK. So this one has me stumped. I'm looking at what it follows as well as how it is followed. I can see how it fits in context, but I just know with that gut feeling tha...

Beejai · Beejai

Then God ordered me, "Start all over: Love your wife again, your wife who's in bed with her latest boyfriend, your cheating wife. Love her the way I, God, love the Israelite people, even as they flirt and party with every god that takes their fancy." (Hosea 3:1 The Message) - - - - - - - - - - There...

Beejai · Beejai

The LORD said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress" So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and [ten bushels] of barley. Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any...

Beejai · Beejai

"In that day'" says the Lord, "I will give an answer to the heavens, and they will give an answer to the earth. 22 The earth will give an answer to the grain, the new wine, and the oil. And they will give an answer to Jezreel. 23 I will plant her for Myself in the land. Those who were not loved,...

Beejai · Beejai

I will remove the names of the gods from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked. In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down i...

Beejai · Beejai

Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. (Hosea 2:14-15 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - T...

Beejai · Beejai

I fully agree that there is a huge difference between "love" and being "in love". I remember well doing a series on Wednesday nights at Calvary's Love going through each of the things love is from 1 Corinthians. None of them did I find disgusting (or whatever word fits best). All...

Beejai · Beejai

Therefore I will take away her grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and linen, intended to cover her nakedness. So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands. I will stop her celebrations: her yearly festivals,...

Beejai · Beejai

"But now call your mother to account, for she is no longer my wife, and I am no longer her husband. Tell her to take off her garish makeup and suggestive clothing and to stop playing the prostitute. If she doesn't I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will leave her to die of thirs...

Beejai · Beejai

She doesn't realize that all she has, has come from me. It was I who gave her all the gold and silver she used in worshipping Baal, her god!(Hosea 2:8 TLB) - - - - - - - - - - There's a book I haven't read called Thinkin Big. It's a biography of a boxer named James "Quick" Tillis. Tillis had a couple sh...

Beejai · Beejai

"Say of your brothers, 'My people' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.' "(Hosea 2:1 TNIV) - - - - - - - - - - There is so much depth, so much power in that simple sentence I don't know where to begin. It's got Jesus written all over it. Do you see it? Chapter one sets it up. Because of the sins of their m...

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	Running And Buying And Selling (8:9-10) (Preview) Ephraim has sold herself to lovers. Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king. (Hosea 8:9-10)- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Ephraim has sold herself to lovers. I was walking down the parking lot t...	Beejai	5	2385	Jun 8, 2014 by Dmitriy
	What Does It Mean To Be Planted? (Hosea 1:11-2:1) (Preview) Hosea had a son. He named him Jezreel. Jezreel means God Plants. What does it mean to be planted by God? Ive moved from Oswego back to Binghamton to be a part of a church that God is planting. Pastor Will has moved here with his young family. Others have come from around the country. Some that have joined us...	Beejai	1	1620	Oct 1, 2012 by Beejai
	Betrayed Honor (Hosea 5:7) (Preview) They have betrayed the honor of the Lord, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth. (Hosea 5:7 NLT) - - - - - - - - - - Day and night he moped around in deep depression. As his son came closer and closer to de...	Beejai	2	1873	Feb 28, 2009 by Beejai
	Clean Yourself Up, You Stink (Hosea 5:2-3) (Preview) You refuse to obey me. You offer sacrifices to other gods. So I will punish all of you. People of Ephraim, I know all about you. What you're doing is not hidden from me. (Hosea 5:2-3 NIRV) - - - - - - - - - - So I was sitting on the bus and I just had to laugh. There are t...	Beejai	1	1666	Feb 6, 2009 by World Conqueror
	The Silence Of God (Hosea 5:6) (Preview) You offer sheep and cattle as sacrifices to me, but I have turned away and refuse to be found. (Hosea 5:6 CEV) - - - - - - - - - - The silences of God. Im reading Blackaby and thats what he calls it. He said that when he was going through one of those times, it wasnt because of sin but the first thing he did was go thr...	Beejai	1	1584	Feb 6, 2009 by April Hunter
	Unremorseful, Unrepentant, and True Reconciliation (Hosea 5:4-5) (Preview) Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord. Israels arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them. (Hosea 5:4-5 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - There is a di...	Beejai	1	2644	Feb 6, 2009 by Marc Edwards
	Constance (Hosea 4:14-19) (Preview) Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I'm not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It's the men who pick up the whores that I'm after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses a stupid people, ruined by whor...	Beejai	14	1679	Oct 20, 2008 by Simplicity
	Not Equal To The Cost (Hosea 5:1-2) (Preview) Listen, you priests! Pay attention, Israel! Listen, you members of the royal family. Justice was your duty. But at Mizpah and Mount Tabor you trapped the people. At the place of worship you were a treacherous pit, and I will punish you. (Hosea 5:1-2 CEV) - - - - - - - - ...	Beejai	0	1598	Oct 20, 2008 by Beejai
	Jesus Take The Wheel (Hosea 4:16-17) (Preview) For Israel has behaved stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. How then should he expect to be fed and treated by the Lord like a lamb in a large pasture? Ephraim is joined [fast] to idols, [so] let him alone [to take the consequences]. (Hosea 4:16-17 Amp) - - - - - - - - - - One of the scariest things God could do t...	Beejai	3	1871	Oct 20, 2008 by Marie Elena Boyer
	Anna Nichole Smith (Hosea 4:11-13) (Preview) Wine has robbed my people of their understanding. They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute serving other gods and deserting their God. They offer up sacrifices to idols on the mountainto...	Beejai	1	1941	Oct 20, 2008 by Brandon Bush
	When Is Enough Enough (Hosea 4:10) (Preview) They'll eat and be as hungry as ever, have sex and get no satisfaction. They walked out on me, their God, for a life of rutting with whores. (Hosea 4:10 The Message) - - - - - - - - - - I was thinking of grabbing a book on leadership today. I ended up sitting down and reading the first chapter of The Starbucks Exp...	Beejai	6	1557	Oct 20, 2008 by Beejai
	Cassettes and Conventions (Hosea 4:8-9) (Preview) You encourage others to sin, so you can stuff yourselves on their sin offerings. That's why I will punish the people for their deeds, just as I will punish you priests. (Hosea 4:8-9 CEV) - - - - - - - - - - Conventions and cassettes. They can be soooooooo fun. Every year right around Easter, New York will hav...	Beejai	1	1145	Oct 20, 2008 by Marie Elena Boyer
	Five Billion (Hosea 4:6-7) (Preview) Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will changetheir glory into shame. (Hosea 4:6-7 NKJV) - - - - - - - - - - W...	Beejai	1	1114	Oct 20, 2008 by World Conqueror
	A Brief History Of Stupidity (Hosea 4:6) (Preview) My people will be destroyed because they have no knowledge. You have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be priests to me. (Hosea 4:6 NCV) - - - - - - - - - - "God said it. I believe it. That settles it." There is truth in this statement, but every time I hear it I cringe. It's one of the three s...	Beejai	4	1573	Oct 20, 2008 by World Conqueror
	Armchair Quarterbacks (Hosea 4:4-5) (Preview) For your people are like those who contend with the priest. Therefore you shall stumble in the day; the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night. (Hosea 4:4-5 NKJV) - - - - - - - - - - I make a great armchair quarterback. On a Sunday afternoon from the comfort of my lazyboy (or a booth at Tully's), befo...	Beejai	1	1292	Oct 20, 2008 by World Conqueror
	The Accuser (Hosea 4:4) (Preview) But let no man bring a charge, let no man accuse another. (Hebrews 4:4 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - OK. So this one is like an emotional punch in the gut. I read it this morning and I thought: "Hmmm maybe I should pass over this part." The thing is, by most people's standards I'm a pretty good guy. I've never...	Beejai	3	1164	Oct 20, 2008 by Russ Connor
	Frustration Bondage and Groaning (Hosea 4:1-3) (Preview) There is no faithfulness or love or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn; and everyone who dwells there will waste away with the beasts of the field an...	Beejai	0	1706	Oct 20, 2008 by Beejai
	Bonhoeffer Today (Hosea 4:1-2) (Preview) Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows blood...	Beejai	2	4339	Oct 20, 2008 by Beejai
	The Greatest Gift (Hosea 3:5) (Preview) But afterward the people will return and devote themselves to the Lord their God and to David's descendant, their king. In the last days, they will tremble in awe of the Lord and of his goodness. (Hosea 3:5 NLT) - - - - - - - - - - I was at Walmart yesterday and saw th...	Beejai	1	1161	Oct 20, 2008 by World Conqueror
	Nowhere To Turn (Hosea 3:4) (Preview) For the Israelites will live without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. (Hosea 3:4 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - OK. So this one has me stumped. I'm looking at what it follows as well as how it is followed. I can see how it fits in context, but I just know with that gut feeling tha...	Beejai	1	1220	Oct 20, 2008 by World Conqueror
	To Come Back Home (Hosea 3:1) (Preview) Then God ordered me, "Start all over: Love your wife again, your wife who's in bed with her latest boyfriend, your cheating wife. Love her the way I, God, love the Israelite people, even as they flirt and party with every god that takes their fancy." (Hosea 3:1 The Message) - - - - - - - - - - There...	Beejai	2	1715	Oct 20, 2008 by Josue
	I Will Wait For You (Hosea 3:1-3) (Preview) The LORD said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress" So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and [ten bushels] of barley. Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any...	Beejai	0	1068	Oct 20, 2008 by Beejai
	Its A Wonderful Life (Hosea 2:21-23) (Preview) "In that day'" says the Lord, "I will give an answer to the heavens, and they will give an answer to the earth. 22 The earth will give an answer to the grain, the new wine, and the oil. And they will give an answer to Jezreel. 23 I will plant her for Myself in the land. Those who were not loved,...	Beejai	2	1924	Oct 20, 2008 by Melanie
	So Here I Am (Hosea 2:17-20) (Preview) I will remove the names of the gods from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked. In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down i...	Beejai	1	1092	Oct 20, 2008 by World Conqueror
	Falling In Love (2:14-15) (Preview) Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. (Hosea 2:14-15 NIV) - - - - - - - - - - T...	Beejai	3	1464	Oct 20, 2008 by Melanie
	More On This Thing Called Love (Hosea 2:16) (Preview) I fully agree that there is a huge difference between "love" and being "in love". I remember well doing a series on Wednesday nights at Calvary's Love going through each of the things love is from 1 Corinthians. None of them did I find disgusting (or whatever word fits best). All...	Beejai	4	1949	Oct 20, 2008 by Aim
	I Know Better Than That (2:9-13) (Preview) Therefore I will take away her grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and linen, intended to cover her nakedness. So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands. I will stop her celebrations: her yearly festivals,...	Beejai	2	986	Sep 9, 2008 by Suzie
	I Will (2:2-7) (Preview) "But now call your mother to account, for she is no longer my wife, and I am no longer her husband. Tell her to take off her garish makeup and suggestive clothing and to stop playing the prostitute. If she doesn't I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will leave her to die of thirs...	Beejai	1	995	Sep 9, 2008 by Amy
	Take My Suitcases Away (2:8) (Preview) She doesn't realize that all she has, has come from me. It was I who gave her all the gold and silver she used in worshipping Baal, her god!(Hosea 2:8 TLB) - - - - - - - - - - There's a book I haven't read called Thinkin Big. It's a biography of a boxer named James "Quick" Tillis. Tillis had a couple sh...	Beejai	2	905	Sep 9, 2008 by Laura
	He Is Loved (2:1) (Preview) "Say of your brothers, 'My people' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.' "(Hosea 2:1 TNIV) - - - - - - - - - - There is so much depth, so much power in that simple sentence I don't know where to begin. It's got Jesus written all over it. Do you see it? Chapter one sets it up. Because of the sins of their m...	Beejai	1	916	Sep 9, 2008 by World Conqueror
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