Monday, October 28, 2019

Focus Church: Hale
Pastor: Becky Stephens and spouse Allen

Prayers are requested for Bill Koch, (retired Mark Twain District) as he prepares for an upcoming outpatient surgery.  Notes of concern and well wishes may be sent to [email protected]. 

Scripture - Habakuk 1:1-4, 11-12

1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

The prophet complains

² Lord, how long will I call for help and you not listen?
        I cry out to you, “Violence!”
            but you don’t deliver us.
³ Why do you show me injustice and look at anguish
        so that devastation and violence are before me?
There is strife, and conflict abounds.
⁴         The Instruction is ineffective.
            Justice does not endure
            because the wicked surround the righteous.
        Justice becomes warped.

¹¹ He passes through like the wind and invades;
        but he will be held guilty,
            the one whose strength is his god.

The prophet questions the Lord

¹² Lord, aren’t you ancient, my God, my holy one?
Don’t let us die.^[a]
Lord, you put the Chaldean here for judgment.
        Rock, you established him as a rebuke.