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Week 49, Day 1: Monday, 7 December 2009

Hosea 6, 7

How many days were appointed for the restoration process? (6:2)

What does God desire more than religious activity? (6:6)

Do sinners understand the depth of their depravity and the seriousness of their deeds? (7:2, 9, 11)

What does God long for? (7:13)

Is sorrow the same as repentance? (7:14)

Proverbs 7

Are there places that you should avoid to prevent being tempted by sin? (7:8, 9)

How often do you here adultery and promiscuity justified as acts of love? (7:18)

Revelation 3

Does God see things the way the world does? (3:1)

Is hearing enough? (3:3)

How important is obedience to God? (3:8, 10)

Week 49, Day 2: Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Hosea 8, 9

Do cries for forgiveness always signal repentance? (8:1-3)

What does God desire more than sacrifice? (8:13; see also Psalms 40:6, and 51:16).

How does God feel about the sacrifices of the wicked? (9:4; see also Proverbs 15:8)

How does a wicked society view God’s faithful witnesses? (9:7)

Is there any future for the godless? (9:11-16)

Proverbs 8

What does the Lord hate, and if you fear the Lord, what should you hate? (8:13)
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Who does wisdom love? (8:17)

Revelation 4

What occurs continuously in heaven? (4:8)

What is the only attribute of God repeated three times in the Bible? (4:8)

Week 49, Day 3: Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Hosea 10, 11

A society full of law suits reveals what about that society? (10:4)

When will God punish? (10:10)

What should be our response to the Lord’s discipline? (10:12)

What do the wicked place their trust in? (10:13)

What was Israel’s problem? (11:5)

Proverbs 9

How do the wise and foolish respond to rebuke differently? (9:8)

Will you reap what you sow? (9:12)

Revelation 5

Who is the Lion/Lamb? (5:5, 6)

Why is the Lion/Lamb worthy to read the scroll? (5:9)

What has God made us to be? (5:10)

Week 49, Day 4: Thursday, 10 December 2009

Hosea 12-14

How should we live? (12:6)

What happens to a people that reject the Lord? (13:3)

Why did Israel forget God? (13:6)

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What leads to downfall? (14:1)

Proverbs 10

Compare 10:8, 17 with 9:8, 12.

Revelation 6

Does God know exactly who will be persecuted for their faith? (6:11)

Week 49, Day 5: Friday, 11 December 2009

Joel 1-3

Do the godless understand the relationship between faithfulness and circumstances? (1:5)

How does God punish nations? (1:16, 2:2)

What should be the response to sin? (2:12-14)

How should religious leaders respond to a nation’s sins? (2:17)

Can the Lord completely restore you after sin? (2:25)

Why does God bless and punish? (2:27)

What does war do to the productivity of a nation? (3:10)

Who decides? (3:14)

Proverbs 11

How does 11:2, 31 relate to what you have read in Hosea?

Revelation 7

How many come out of the great tribulation? (7:9)

Week 49, Day 6: Saturday, 12 December 2009

Obadiah 1

What is at the root of our sin? (verse 3)

What is God’s general rule for justice? (verse 15)

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Proverbs 12

Who receives favor from the Lord? (12:2)

Psalm 143

What should be our prayer to the Lord? (143:8, 10)

Week 48, Day 7: Sunday, 13 December 2009

Amos 1, 2

How does God respond to a nation’s injustice? (1)

What often happens to the church in a sinful nation? (2:12)

Proverbs 13

What is the mark of wisdom? (13:10)

Why does God discipline His children? (13:24)

Psalms 144

Who is blessed? (144:15)