Day 146 Bible Readings - Ezekiel 16:59-60 (NLT)

Ezekiel 15-17, Psalm 141

Ezekiel 16:59-60 (NLT)

“Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will give you what you deserve, for you have taken your solemn vows lightly by breaking your covenant. Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.”

In Ezekiel 16:59-60, the Lord tells Ezekiel that He will correct and pass judgement on Jerusalem and Judah for breaking their vows and their covenant with Him. But Father-God then tells Ezekiel that He will remember the covenant He made with His people when they were young. The Lord says He will offer restoration to His people and establish a covenant with them.

These verses tell believers that the Lord remembers His covenant with His people even when they fail Him. Father-God made a covenant with the descendants of Abraham and gave them laws and rules to live by. But the people continually broke the covenant laws, especially through their worship of idols and their unfaithfulness. Because the Lord loved His people, He disciplined them by allowing them to experience exile in Babylon. But the Lord never forgot the covenant. The Lord promises a path to restoration so they could once again have an everlasting covenant with Him.

These verses also show us the Lord’s character. Father-God is steadfast and committed to His promises. The Lord’s love and faithfulness are unchanging. Even after the unfaithfulness of His people, the Lord promises them an everlasting covenant. These verses give us another prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ, who will establish a new covenant with people through His death and resurrection. This new covenant will be based not on the law, but on grace that offers eternal life and a restored relationship with the Lord.

I love these verses because they give another prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ and the promise of a new and everlasting covenant with the Lord. I also love that these verses show the depth of the love the Lord has for His people. The earlier verses in Ezekiel 16 go into detail about all the ways the descendants of Abraham broke their covenant with the Lord and how much Father-God hated their disobedience. But then the Lord tells Ezekiel He has not forgotten His covenant with His people and will establish an everlasting covenant. 

I love that these verses show me how merciful the Lord is and the depth of His love for His people. I know that no matter how much I might fail the Lord, He will always offer me a path to restoration when I come to Him in repentance.

If these verses resonate with you—if you feel drawn to place your faith in Jesus Christ, the One who will offer restoration and forgiveness even after failure—this may be your moment. Open your heart to Him. Speak to Him in prayer. Tell Him you trust Him and desire to walk with Him. He is faithful, and He will meet you exactly where you are.

Heavenly Father, I give You my life. Please forgive me for all my sins and wash me clean through the blood of Jesus. I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead, and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I receive Your forgiveness and the gift of salvation. Thank You, Lord—I am saved, I am forgiven, I am clean, and I am made new in Jesus’ name. Amen.

If you prayed this prayer, welcome to the family of Father-God! I encourage you to find and join a Holy Spirit–filled, full-Gospel, Bible-based church where you can grow in your faith and experience the Lord’s love, signs, wonders, and miracles in your life.

Day 145 Bible Readings - Ezekiel 14:6-7 (NLT)

Ezekiel 12-14, Psalm 140

Ezekiel 14:6-7 (NLT)

“Therefore, tell the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Repent and turn away from your idols, and stop all your detestable sins. I, the Lord, will answer all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts and so fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice.”

In Ezekiel 14:6–7, the Lord tells Ezekiel to say to the leaders of Israel that He knows when they have set up idols in their hearts, even when they come to seek guidance from the Lord through His prophets. Father-God tells the leaders of Israel to get rid of the idols in their hearts, repent, and turn away from their sins.

These verses remind believers that the Lord knows everything about the people who believe in Him. Nothing can be hidden from the Lord. Believers may not participate in external idol worship, but if they have idols in their hearts, they can become double-minded. The leaders of Israel pretended to serve the Lord, but their hearts were far from Him.

When I read these verses and think about inner idols and being double-minded, I see independence and doubt as idols I still wrestle with in my heart. When the Holy Spirit guides me to do or say something, there is still a part of me that resists the guidance. For much of my life before I was saved, I valued my independence and was proud of the fact that I did not need help from anyone. Surrendering my will completely to Father-God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit is still something I struggle with.

Doubt is another inner struggle that I continue to wrestle with. I do not want to doubt the Lord, and I do not worship doubt, but it has been with me for so long that I still struggle to fully let it go. For many years, I doubted the Lord and His promises because I did not see them happening in my life. When difficult things happened, doubt would rise up within me and ask why the Lord did not step in to stop them.

I know doubting the Lord is wrong, yet the doubt still lingers like an idol, even though I now have so much evidence that the Lord has always fulfilled His promises to me. But I also know that, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, my struggles with independence and doubt will lessen over time until they become only whispers in my heart that I hear but no longer follow.

If these verses resonate with you—if you feel drawn to place your faith in Jesus Christ, the One who sees the idols in your heart and helps you overcome them—this may be your moment. Open your heart to Him. Speak to Him in prayer. Tell Him you trust Him and desire to walk with Him. He is faithful, and He will meet you exactly where you are.

Heavenly Father, I give You my life. Please forgive me for all my sins and wash me clean through the blood of Jesus. I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead, and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I receive Your forgiveness and the gift of salvation. Thank You, Lord—I am saved, I am forgiven, I am clean, and I am made new in Jesus’ name. Amen.

If you prayed this prayer, welcome to the family of Father-God! I encourage you to find and join a Holy Spirit–filled, full-Gospel, Bible-based church where you can grow in your faith and experience the Lord’s love, signs, wonders, and miracles in your life.

Day 144 Bible Readings - Psalm 139:17-18 (NLT)

Ezekiel 6-11, Psalm 139

Psalm 139:17-18 (NLT)

“How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!”

In Psalms 139:17–18, David, the writer of this psalm, recognizes that the Lord thinks about him continually. David called the Lord’s thoughts “precious,” and one Bible commentary I read noted that the Hebrew word for “precious” suggests something rare and valuable, like treasures or jewels.

David also acknowledged that Father-God’s thoughts about His people are infinite in nature and beyond human comprehension. He compares the Lord’s thoughts about His people to grains of sand, which cannot be counted. David then tells us that when he wakes up, he still feels Father-God’s presence with him.

These verses stood out to me because they remind me that the Lord loves me deeply and thinks about me continually. Father-God knows everything that is going on in my life, my thoughts, and my plans. Nothing in my life is hidden from the Lord.

After I was born again and started attending a full-gospel, Spirit-filled church, I began learning more about the covenant relationship the Lord has with people who believe in Him. I knew about the covenant relationship the Lord had with His people, but I did not know much about it, and it was not emphasized in my previous places of worship.

But now that I understand this concept more deeply, I realize that the Lord loves me because He created me. When I had this realization, I began waking up feeling the presence of Father-God. I was waking up like David in these verses, realizing that the Lord was still with me.

Cultivating a personal relationship with Father-God and the Holy Spirit has deepened my covenant relationship with Him. Sometimes I even wake up with a Christian song in my head. It has been one of the greatest joys of my life these past six months to know that the Lord loves me and that, as David wrote in these verses, the Lord thinks about me continually.

If these verses resonate with you—if you feel drawn to place your faith in Jesus Christ, the One who thinks about you continually—this may be your moment. Open your heart to Him. Speak to Him in prayer. Tell Him you trust Him and desire to walk with Him. He is faithful, and He will meet you exactly where you are.

Heavenly Father, I give You my life. Please forgive me for all my sins and wash me clean through the blood of Jesus. I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead, and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I receive Your forgiveness and the gift of salvation. Thank You, Lord—I am saved, I am forgiven, I am clean, and I am made new in Jesus’ name. Amen.



If you prayed this prayer, welcome to the family of Father-God! I encourage you to find and join a Holy Spirit–filled, full-Gospel, Bible-based church where you can grow in your faith and experience the Lord’s love, signs, wonders, and miracles in your life.

Day 143 Bible Readings - Ezekiel 6:8-10 (NLT)

Ezekiel 4-7, Psalm 138

Ezekiel 6:8-10 (NLT)

“But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world. Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins. They will know that I alone am the Lord and that I was serious when I said I would bring this calamity on them.”

In Ezekiel 6:8–10, the Lord tells Ezekiel that He will preserve a few people to escape the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile to Babylon. Father-God tells Ezekiel that this remnant will remember Him and realize how much their disobedience and idolatry grieved the Lord. The Lord says the remnant will hate the evil they committed by sinning against His laws and His plans for their lives and their nation.

The people will remember that the Lord keeps His word and His promises. When Father-God said He would judge the people, He meant it. But the people can also trust that the Lord will not forget His covenant with the descendants of Abraham. Restoration will be offered to them when they repent of their sins.

These verses remind believers that while the Lord corrects His people through judgment, He will always remain faithful to His covenant with them. Father-God preserves a remnant of people in the hope of restoration, and this action demonstrates His mercy toward His people. Father-God, even in the midst of judgment and correction, always offers hope for restoration.

The Lord loves His people so much that He is grieved when we turn away from Him. But the Lord never gives up on His people, even when they become unfaithful. Father-God always leaves room for repentance and restoration.

When I read these verses, I see how deeply the Lord loves His people. Father-God never gave up hope that they would one day repent and be restored to Him. When I was a backslider, I often thought that the Lord had given up on and forgotten me. I was too ashamed to return to the Lord because I thought He would never take me back. But I was wrong. Father-God was simply waiting for me to repent and ask for His forgiveness.

He never closed the door to restoration; it was always open to me. I just didn’t realize it until I was ready to return to Him and be born again.

If these verses resonate with you—if you feel drawn to place your faith in Jesus Christ, the One who never closes the door to restoration—this may be your moment. Open your heart to Him. Speak to Him in prayer. Tell Him you trust Him and desire to walk with Him. He is faithful, and He will meet you exactly where you are.

Heavenly Father, I give You my life. Please forgive me for all my sins and wash me clean through the blood of Jesus. I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead, and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I receive Your forgiveness and the gift of salvation. Thank You, Lord—I am saved, I am forgiven, I am clean, and I am made new in Jesus’ name. Amen.

If you prayed this prayer, welcome to the family of Father-God! I encourage you to find and join a Holy Spirit–filled, full-Gospel, Bible-based church where you can grow in your faith and experience the Lord’s love, signs, wonders, and miracles in your life.