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The Only Savior Who Can Rescue You | Hosea 13:14-16 08/08/2026

The Only Savior Who Can Rescue You | Hosea 13:14-16 Welcome to The Daily. We are 8 days away from beginning our next book of the Bible. We are moving to the New Testament, 1 Peter. We are going to discover how to live holy in a hostile world. Go ahead and pick up your now. And if you are a donor giving $35 or more per month, this has already been shipped to you. So become a donor and partner with us in . Our text today is I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes. Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing. Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. — Every person is looking for something to save them. But eventually life confronts every one of us with a reality no earthly solution can overcome: Death. Not just physical death. Spiritual death. The separation from God that sin creates inside every human soul. And this chapter presents the biggest question underneath all the smaller ones: What can actually rescue you? But into all the warnings, God speaks hope: “I shall ransom them… I shall redeem them…” Those two words are important. The word ransom carries the idea of paying a price to free someone from bondage or captivity. The word redeem means to reclaim, rescue, or buy back what was lost. That is the story of the Bible. Humanity wandered into sin, bondage, death, and separation from God. But God was not content to leave His people there. From Exodus to Hosea to the cross itself, God keeps moving toward enslaved people to bring them home again. And Hosea points us forward to Jesus. Because Jesus is the ransom. Jesus is the redeemer. Jesus paid the price and bought us back. That is why Paul later quotes this verse in when talking about the resurrection: “O death, where is your victory?” Because through Christ, death no longer gets the final word. It means: Your failures are not final. Your shame is not final. Your suffering is not final. Your grief is not final. And even death itself is not final for those who belong to Christ. But this truth is not meant to stay theoretical and philosophical. It demands a response. From you and me. So stop looking for salvation in temporary things. Bring your fears, shame, exhaustion, sins, and even your future to Jesus. Because the Savior we truly need is not another earthly solution. It is Christ. And unlike every false savior, He actually rescues, redeems, and defeats death itself. DO THIS: Write down one thing you have been depending on too heavily for peace, identity, or security—and intentionally surrender it to Jesus in prayer today. ASK THIS: What am I trusting to save me besides Christ? What controls my peace most right now? Do I actually live like Jesus is enough? PRAY THIS: Jesus, forgive me for looking to temporary things to rescue me. Thank you for ransoming and redeeming me through your death and resurrection. Teach me to trust you fully and build my life completely on you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Living Hope" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41494245

When Success Makes You Forget God | Hosea 13 08/08/2026

Stop Wasting Your Pain | Hosea 13:12-13 08/07/2026

Stop Wasting Your Pain | Hosea 13:12-13 Welcome to The Daily. We are 9 days away from beginning our next book of the Bible. We are moving to the New Testament, 1 Peter. We are going to discover how to live holy in a hostile world. Go ahead and pick up your now. And if you are a donor giving $35 or more per month, this has already been shipped to you. So become a donor and partner with us in . Our text today is The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store. The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb. — Pain can either change you or harden you. God uses a great image here: childbirth. Israel was experiencing pain that was supposed to lead somewhere. New life. But instead of responding correctly, they resisted the process. “He does not present himself at the opening of the womb.” So now the image gets a little bizarre. In other words, the pain was trying to produce something new, but they refused to eject from the womb. Nice image, right? But we all do this. When pain comes into our lives: conflict, failure, heartbreak, loss, disappointment, exhaustion, consequences, correction, suffering. And our first instinct is almost always to try to escape the pain. But sometimes the better response is to consider a reflective question: “What is this trying to change in me?” This is because pain has a way of exposing things that comfort never reveals. Pain exposes pride. Pain exposes idols. Pain exposes unhealthy dependence. Pain exposes false identities. Pain exposes where we have been pretending to be stronger than we really are. And if we are willing to surrender during painful seasons, God often uses them to birth something new from us. New levels of humility, wisdom, dependence, courage, and spiritual maturity. But I have watched as many people waste their pain. They stay bitter instead of becoming softer. They become defensive instead of teachable. They get angry instead of surrendering. They grow numb instead of transforming. And eventually they repeat the same cycles because the pain changed nothing. Do not waste what God may be trying to produce in you right now. Instead of only asking God to remove the pain why not learn the lesson God wants to teach you through the pain? Here are some practical ways to stop wasting your painful seasons: Stop numbing yourself with endless distraction. Stop blaming everyone else immediately. Stop pretending you are unaffected. Talk honestly with God about what hurts. Invite trusted believers into your struggle. Ask what patterns, sins, fears, or idols are being exposed. Stay teachable instead of defensive. Let suffering deepen your dependence on God rather than push you away from Him. Faithful believers have always learned that God often does His deepest work in painful seasons—not comfortable ones. So stop wasting your pain. Let it birth something better in you. DO THIS: Write down one painful situation you are facing right now and ask God specifically what He may be trying to teach, expose, or change through it. ASK THIS: How have I been responding to pain lately? Am I becoming softer or harder through suffering? What might God be trying to produce in me right now? PRAY THIS: Father, help me stop wasting painful seasons. Teach me through suffering, soften my heart through difficulty, and use every hardship to draw me closer to you instead of farther away. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Refiner" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41492050

Politics Cannot Save Your Soul | Hosea 13:9-11 08/06/2026

Politics Cannot Save Your Soul | Hosea 13:9-11 Welcome to The Daily. We are 10 days away from beginning our next book of the Bible. We are moving to the New Testament, 1 Peter. We are going to discover how to live holy in a hostile world. Go ahead and pick up your now. And if you are a donor giving $35 or more per month, this has already been shipped to you. So become a donor and partner with us in . Our text today is Hosea 13:9-11 He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper. Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath. — Hosea 13:9-11 Every election cycle reveals the same thing: people are looking for saviors. We look to politicians, parties, movements, leaders, and governments, hoping someone will finally fix what is broken in the world. And listen, leadership matters. Policies matter. Elections matter. Christians should absolutely care about truth, morality, justice, and the direction of a nation. But Hosea reminds us, over and over, that politics makes a terrible savior. Israel demanded kings because they preferred visible human solutions to dependence on God. They believed the right leader, the right system, and the right power structure would secure their future. But eventually God interrogates them and us: “Where now is your king, to save you?” Remember, no politician can heal the human heart. No party, left or right, can remove sin. No movement can resurrect spiritually dead people. No government can become the kingdom of God. People today are emotionally discipled more by political outrage than by Scripture. They wake up consumed with headlines, fear, anger, tribalism, and constant cultural panic. Some believers know legacy news better than they know the Word of God. That should concern us. Because when politics becomes ultimate, it slowly replaces trust in God with fear-driven dependence on earthly power. Christians should engage politically. We should vote. Speak truth. Defend righteousness. Stand against evil. Faithful believers have always lived in difficult and morally confused cultures. What we are experiencing is not new. But we must never confuse political engagement with spiritual salvation. One changes policies. Only Jesus changes people. And maybe this is especially important during the constant noise surrounding another midterm season. Every side promises rescue. Every campaign claims urgency. Every movement declares: “This is the most consequential election of our time.” Stay grounded, brothers and sisters. Hope in God—not panic. Conviction—not hysteria. Courage—not outrage addiction. Faithfulness—not political idolatry. Kingdoms rise and fall. Even ours. But Jesus remains King and cannot be jerrymandered away. So care deeply about truth in your nation. But never place the weight of your soul on earthly saviors; they cannot carry it. DO THIS: Evaluate whether political fear, outrage, or tribalism has started shaping your emotions more than your trust in God. ASK THIS: Have I placed too much hope in political outcomes? Am I more emotionally shaped by media than by Scripture? Do I trust Jesus more than earthly leaders? PRAY THIS: Father, help me engage my culture with wisdom and conviction without placing my hope in earthly saviors. Keep my trust rooted in Christ alone, who remains King above every nation and generation. Amen. PLAY THIS: "King of Kings" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41491830

When You Resist God Long Enough | Hosea 13:7-8 08/05/2026

When You Resist God Long Enough | Hosea 13:7-8 Welcome to The Daily. We are 11 days away from beginning our next book of the Bible. We are moving to the New Testament, 1 Peter. We are going to discover how to live holy in a hostile world. Go ahead and pick up your now. And if you are a donor giving $35 or more per month, this has already been shipped to you. So become a donor and partner with us in . Our text today is So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way. I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open. — People love the idea of God being loving. Fewer people are comfortable with the idea of God opposing them. But that is because people misunderstand God’s love. It is not soft indifference. God is holy. And when people persistently resist Him, reject Him, harden themselves against Him, and refuse every warning He gives, eventually they experience not only His kindness but His opposition. In our text, God is pictured as: Lion. Leopard. Bear. These are not random animals. They are kings of the jungle. Hunters. Protectors. Violent. Protective. They describe the seriousness of what happens when people continue resisting the God who loves them. And this is difficult for many modern believers because we have created a version of God that only affirms, comforts, and accommodates. But the God of Scripture also confronts, disciplines, restrains, and judges because He knows where rebellion ultimately leads. A loving Father does not stand by while destruction consumes His children. That is why this passage should not merely scare us. It should wake us up. And yet, even here, the warning itself is mercy. Because God is still speaking. If He truly wanted to abandon His people completely, He would stop warning them altogether. But Hosea exists because God keeps confronting people He still wants to rescue. And maybe that is what this moment is for you. Maybe God has been pressing on something in your life for a long time: a compromise, an addiction, bitterness, pride, a relationship, a hidden sin, or an area of stubborn resistance. Do not keep hardening yourself. The longer the compromise is defended, the harder surrender becomes. But hear this absolutely: God’s confrontation is not proof He hates you. It is proof that He still loves you enough to stop you from destroying yourself. So stop resisting Him. Respond while your heart is still soft enough to surrender. DO THIS: Stop defending one area of compromise or resistance today and honestly bring it before God. ASK THIS: What conviction have I been resisting repeatedly? Where has my heart started growing numb? Am I treating God’s warnings as mercy or annoyance? PRAY THIS: Father, do not let my heart grow hard toward you. Help me respond quickly to your conviction, surrender honestly, and trust that your correction comes from your love for me. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Nothing Else" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41491660

How Success Makes You Forget God | Hosea 13:4-6 08/04/2026

How Success Makes You Forget God | Hosea 13:4-6 Welcome to The Daily. We are 12 days away from beginning our next book of the Bible. We are moving to the New Testament, 1 Peter. We are going to discover how to live holy in a hostile world. Go ahead and pick up your now. And if you are a donor giving $35 or more per month, this has already been shipped to you. So become a donor and partner with us in . Our text today is But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.— Most people think success will strengthen their faith. But sometimes success does the exact opposite. Israel loved God in the wilderness. When life was uncertain, when they were desperate, when they needed daily provision, they leaned on Him constantly. They depended. They knew they could not survive without Him. But then life improved. They became “full.” And strangely, "fullness" became more spiritually dangerous than emptiness. “...their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.” This is one of the saddest lines in Hosea. The very blessings God provided slowly convinced them they no longer needed Him. This same cycle happens all the time. People cry out to God during sickness, heartbreak, uncertainty, financial pressure, addiction, loneliness, or desperation. But once life stabilizes, once the career grows, once the money comes, once the family settles down, once comfort increases, prayer slowly fades and dependence quietly weakens. That is why prosperity can become spiritually dangerous. Comfort has a way of numbing urgency. We stop seeking God desperately because life starts functioning smoothly enough without obvious desperation. And eventually, people begin trusting systems, routines, income, investments, productivity, influence, and self-sufficiency more than God Himself. This kind of forgetting rarely feels rebellious. But underneath it all, the heart slowly drifts from dependence to self-reliance. Some of the most spiritually "alive" people are often those who remember what it felt like to need God desperately. They never fully lose the wilderness. And that is the invitation hidden inside this warning today. Don't let suffering alone remind you that you need God. Remember Him now. While life is good. While business is growing. While your family is stable. While your body is healthy. While provision is flowing. Every good thing you have was meant to deepen your gratitude and dependence—not replace it. So return and revere the God who gives all good things in times of suffering and in times of success. DO THIS: Spend time today thanking God specifically for the blessings you may have started taking for granted. ASK THIS: Has comfort slowly reduced my dependence on God? Do I seek God as desperately in success as I did in struggle? What blessings have I started treating as self-produced instead of God-given? PRAY THIS: Father, protect me from the kind of success that slowly makes me forget you. Keep my heart humble, grateful, dependent, and fully aware that every good thing comes from your hand. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Gratitude" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41491390

False Gods Never Last | Hosea 13:2-3 08/03/2026

False Gods Never Last | Hosea 13:2-3 Welcome to The Daily. We are 13 days away from beginning our next book of the Bible. We are moving to the New Testament, 1 Peter. We are going to discover how to live holy in a hostile world. Go ahead and pick up your now. And if you are a donor giving $35 or more per month, this has already been shipped to you. So become a donor and partner with us in . Our text today is And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!” Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window. — Israel kept building idols they believed would secure them, satisfy them, protect them, and give them meaning. They invested silver, skill, energy, and devotion into things they thought would save them. But God says all of it would disappear: like mist, like dew, like chaff, like smoke. In other words, it's all temporary. And our modern idols are no different. So I realize most people today do not bow before carved statues, but we still build gods with our time, attention, emotions, money, and devotion. Some people worship success. Others worship their ideal image. Some worship pleasure. Other worship politics. Some worship relationships. Still others worship comfort, control, entertainment, sexuality, or endless digital distraction. What makes idolatry dangerous is that it feels powerful in the moment. That is why people keep coming back to them. They promise relief. Validation. Escape. Security. Identity. But eventually, every false god we worship reveals the same truth: It cannot bear the weight of sustaining your soul, as tempting as it is to the flesh. That is why God compares idols to smoke. It's a total smokeshow. Every one of them looks substantial until life’s deeper realities hit, and we go through suffering, loss, face death, loneliness, experience anxiety, guilt, and encounter the reality of eternity. And suddenly, the things we trusted start to evaporate before our eyes. The alarming part is not merely that idols fail. It is how long people keep pursuing them and worshipping them before admitting they cannot save them. Faithful believers must live differently in every generation. The culture will always normalize "new" idols. But God’s people are called to recognize what is temporary and anchor themselves to what is eternal. Because only God remains when everything else fades. Here are some questions to consider today: What do I run to for comfort faster than I run to God? What absorbs my attention more than God? What feels devastating to lose because it has become too central in my life? Those answers will reveal our real gods. And the loving warning of Hosea is: don't build your life on things that disappear like smoke. This was the truth we discovered in Ecclesiastes, too. It's all smoke! Build your life today on the God who remains forever. DO THIS: Identify one thing in your life that may be competing for the place only God should hold in your heart. ASK THIS: What temporary thing have I been depending on too heavily? What do I fear losing most? Am I building my life on what fades or on what lasts? PRAY THIS: Father, expose every false god competing for my heart. Help me stop chasing temporary things and teach me to build my life fully on you alone. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Christ Be All Around Me" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41486160

Standing Firm in a Hostile World | 1 Peter Study 08/01/2026

The Danger of Persistent Defiance | Hosea 12:14 08/01/2026

The Danger of Persistent Defiance | Hosea 12:14 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds. — Persistent defiance is dangerous with the Lord. Persistent defiance hears the truth repeatedly and keeps resisting it anyway. That is where Israel had arrived. God had warned them. Pursued them. Corrected them. Sent prophets to them. Called them to return. Yet they kept hardening themselves against Him. Eventually, wealth became resistance, which became rebellion. This still hardens believers today Very few people wake up one day and suddenly reject God completely. Most people slowly harden themselves over time. They ignore conviction long enough that their conscience grows quieter. They resist the truth long enough that compromise begins feeling normal. You can become so committed to your way of life that you stop recognizing God’s warnings and mistake God’s patience for God’s approval. But God’s patience is meant to lead us to repentance. That is why Hosea ends this chapter so strongly. God is loving enough to warn people before consequences fully arrive. He confronts defiance because He knows where defiance eventually leads. But even here, there is an invitation. Because the very fact that you are listening to this today means God is still speaking to you. So do not keep resisting Him. Lay down your pride. Stop defending your compromise. Stop ignoring God. Return while your heart is still just soft enough to respond. Because persistent defiance slowly hardens the soul. Bur surrender today, restore it. DO THIS: Respond immediately to one area of conviction God has been pressing on your heart instead of delaying or defending it. ASK THIS: Where have I been resisting God repeatedly? Have I mistaken God’s patience for approval? What conviction do I need to respond to honestly today? PRAY THIS: Father, do not let my heart grow hard toward you. Help me respond quickly to your conviction, surrender fully to your truth, and remain soft and teachable before you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "I Surrender All" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41428130

Remember Before You Ruin Your Life | Hosea 12 07/31/2026

Don’t Forget Your Humble Beginnings | Hosea 12:12-13 07/31/2026

Don’t Forget Your Humble Beginnings | Hosea 12:12-13 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep. By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded. — Today, Hosea brings Israel back to Jacob. Jacob was not impressive at first. He was running. Vulnerable. Uncertain. Working long days guarding sheep and trying to survive. In the same way, Israel’s story did not begin with strength. It began with dependence. That is how most of us begin. Unpolished. Tired. Broken. Searching. Wandering people. People who realize they can no longer carry themselves. Remember, your spiritual beginnings matter. It reminds you who you were before God changed you. It keeps gratitude alive. It keeps pride from taking over. It reminds you that your life today was built on grace, not self-sufficiency. I think about this often in my own life. Some of my earliest spiritual memories take me back to sitting with my grandfather in his old ’58 Chevy truck. Simple moments. Conversations about God. Quiet beginnings that did not seem monumental at the time, yet God was planting seeds that would shape the rest of my life. And those humble beginnings are still important to me. Because remembering where God first met me softens me. It reminds me that everything meaningful God has done in my life started with His grace long before I understood what He was doing. Believers become spiritually dangerous when they forget their beginnings. They start acting self-made. Self-righteous. Independent. Self-important. And this weakens your dependence on God. So remember your story. Remember the prayers prayed over you. Remember the people God used. Remember the moments you were desperate for Him. Remember the season when faith was simple and honest and dependent. Go back there for a moment. Back to the moment you first realized you needed God. Back to the grace that found you and dependent on the God who carried you this far. And if you feel so convicted, share that moment in the comments below. DO THIS: Spend time today remembering and thanking God for the people, moments, and humble beginnings He used to draw you toward Him. ASK THIS: Have I forgotten where God first found me? What early moments or people helped shape my faith? How can remembering my beginnings deepen my humility today? PRAY THIS: Father, thank you for meeting me in my weakness and drawing me to yourself. Help me never forget the humble beginnings of my faith or lose sight of the grace that carried me here. Amen. PLAY THIS: "God of All My Days" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41427785

Why Does False Freedom Lead to Slavery? | 2 Peter 2:17–19 07/31/2026

Why Does False Freedom Lead to Slavery? | 2 Peter 2:17–19 Our text today is : These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. — Not every promise of freedom sets you free. Peter calls false teachers “waterless springs.” They promise refreshment but deliver nothing. Their words sound liberating, but their lives reveal bondage. They offer people freedom while remaining “slaves of corruption” themselves. Their message is still popular today. It sounds like: Follow your desires. Reject every boundary. No one has the right to tell you what to do. Do whatever makes you happy. All this sounds like freedom. But Peter exposes the lie: “Whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.” Sin never advertises itself as slavery. It presents itself as much more enticing—as relief, pleasure, or personal preference. But once gratified, it begins making demands. What you once chose occasionally becomes something you cannot stop choosing. The desire becomes a habit. The habit becomes a master. The master makes you a slave. I have become very suspicious of any so-called freedom that requires me to hide, lie, compromise, or lose self-control. If I cannot say no to something, I am not free from it. It will have authority over me. That is the test Peter gives us. Can you say no? Can you walk away? You are not free just because you can do whatever you want. You are truly free when sin is no longer master over you. Jesus does not free us to obey every appetite. He frees us from being ruled by them. Under his lordship, we learn to say no to what destroys us and yes to what gives life. So examine the freedoms being offered to you. What do they promise? What do they demand? A freedom that removes Christ as Lord will always install another master. And a freedom that cannot say no is not freedom at all. DO THIS: Identify one desire, habit, or behavior that has become difficult for you to refuse. Remove one opportunity to feed it today, and tell a trusted believer: “I do not want this to master me anymore.” ASK THIS: What behavior does the world call freedom that Scripture reveals as bondage? Is there anything in your life you defend as a choice but struggle to stop choosing? How does submission to Jesus produce greater freedom rather than less? PRAY THIS: Jesus, expose every false freedom in my life and teach me to live under your lordship instead of being mastered by my desires. Amen PLAY THIS: All I Have Is Christ /episode/index/show/resolute/id/42278585

Why Rock Bottom Doesn’t Always Change You 07/30/2026

Listen To Faithful Teachers | Hosea 12:9-11 07/30/2026

Listen To Faithful Teachers | Hosea 12:9-11 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast. I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables. If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field. — Truth is a gift delivered by God's voice through his prophets of old. God had not been silent. He warned Israel. Corrected them. Called them back. Sent faithful messengers to confront their drift and lead them toward repentance. But Israel preferred comfort over correction. This is true for us all. Most people naturally look for voices that affirm them, validate them, entertain them, or tell them exactly what they want to hear. But faithful teachers are different. Faithful teachers tell people not merely what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. And that kind of truth and person can be uncomfortable because truth exposes pride. Truth confronts compromise. Truth challenges drift. Truth calls us to repentance, surrender, holiness, and change. But the discomfort we feel is actually mercy. Faithful teachers are not trying to control your life. Faithful teachers are trying to keep you from destroying it. That is why believers need to learn to listen willingly to the truth, even when it cuts deeply. But not every voice speaking about God is faithful to God—or a faithful teacher. Some teachers soften sin. Some reshape Scripture to match cultural trends. Some avoid the hard truth to retain approval. Some preach comfort without repentance, grace without holiness, or blessing without surrender. On the other hand, faithful teachers lovingly teach the whole truth because they know that truth is what produces real transformation. And we all need faithful voices in our lives. Not just voices that inspire us. Voices that sharpen us. Correct us. Challenge us. And lovingly call us back when we drift. Spiritual growth does not happen by accident. It happens when humble believers remain teachable before God. So do not resist the inconvenient truth simply because it makes you uncomfortable. Lean into it today. God wants to use it to change your life. DO THIS: Identify one faithful teacher, pastor, mentor, or biblical voice that consistently points you toward truth, repentance, and surrender—and intentionally lean into their teaching this week. ASK THIS: Do I seek truth or just affirmation? What biblical truth have I been resisting lately? Am I willing to let God change me through faithful correction? PRAY THIS: Father, give me humility to listen to faithful truth even when it challenges me. Protect me from voices that only comfort me, and lead me toward teachers who faithfully point me back to you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Faithful" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41427490

How Prosperity Can Blind You | Hosea 12:7-8 07/29/2026

How Prosperity Can Blind You | Hosea 12:7-8 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress. Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”— Prosperity can convince you that you are spiritually healthy simply because life is going well. That was Israel’s problem. They had wealth. Growth. Stability. Business success. Expanding influence. And because things looked prosperous outwardly, they assumed nothing was wrong inwardly. Prosperity had blinded them. And prosperity can do the same thing to us. When life is comfortable, we stop examining ourselves. Success can numb spiritual conviction. Wealth can create the illusion of security. Comfort can slowly blind us to pride, compromise, selfishness, greed, spiritual drift, and dependence on ourselves instead of God. That is the threat running underneath the entire book of Hosea. Israel became prosperous and slowly lost sight of God. Blindness is the perfect metaphor for this condition because blind people often do not realize they are blind. That is what deception does. It convinces you everything is fine while your soul quietly drifts farther from God. We see this all the time today. People assume that a good income means God’s approval, that career growth means spiritual maturity, that comfort means blessing, and that outward success means inward health. Meanwhile, marriages quietly weaken, prayer disappears, surrender fades, hearts grow hard, and souls slowly starve underneath polished lives. Prosperity is not the problem. Blind prosperity is the problem. When prosperity convinces you that you no longer desperately need God, your prosperity has already blinded you. And maybe that is why some of the most spiritually eye-opening moments in life happen during loss, weakness, failure, or desperation. Pain has a way of restoring vision. It reminds us how dependent we actually are. So has comfort slowly blinded you? Has success reduced your dependence on God? Don't let prosperity blind you. Let it humble you and deepen your dependence on God. DO THIS: Take inventory today of where comfort, success, or stability may have reduced your dependence on God. ASK THIS: Where has prosperity made me spiritually passive? What success or comfort am I trusting more than God? How can I intentionally deepen my dependence on Him again? PRAY THIS: Father, do not let comfort or success blind me spiritually. Keep my heart humble, dependent, and fully aware of how deeply I need you every day. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Give Me Jesus" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41426955

Stop Drifting and Come Home | Hosea 12:5-6 07/28/2026

Forging The Brotherhood | Session 3 | Armory of Leadership 07/27/2026

You Won’t Change Until You Break | Hosea 12:2-4 07/27/2026

You Won’t Change Until You Break | Hosea 12:2-4 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds. In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God. He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us— People do not change when they are informed. They change when they are broken. That is the story of Jacob. From the very beginning, Jacob was a fighter. A manipulator. A controller. Even in the womb, he was “grabbing at the heel” of his brother. His whole life became a picture of striving, scheming, and trying to force outcomes through his own strength. And many of us live the same way. We wrestle for control, approval, success, identity, security, recognition, and outcomes we are terrified of losing. We think everything depends on us. But eventually, self-reliance exhausts the soul. That is why Jacob’s turning point did not happen when he became successful. It happened when he finally broke. Hosea says: “He wept and sought his favor.” That is a very different Jacob. In a moment, the self-sufficient manipulator is gone. Gone is the man who pretended he could control everything. Now Jacob is desperate, humbled, limping, and finally honest enough to stop wrestling against God and start surrendering to Him. That is where real transformation begins for us, too. Most people do not surrender while life is working. They surrender when: The marriage becomes unbearable, The addiction becomes undeniable, The exhaustion becomes overwhelming, The striving stops working, or The false version of themselves finally collapses. I know that feeling personally. There have been seasons in my life where I kept trying harder, leading harder, serving harder, pushing harder—thinking a breakthrough would come through effort alone. But eventually, I reached moments where I realized the real issue was not my circumstances. It was my unwillingness to surrender. And that breaking felt painful at the time. But looking back now, I can see it differently. God was not destroying me. He was dismantling the false self I kept trying to save. That is what God often does in breaking seasons. He strips away self-reliance so we finally discover dependence on Him. And maybe that is where you are today. Maybe you are exhausted. But hear this clearly. Breaking is not always the end of you. Sometimes when we are broken down, God breaks open the real you. The version surrendered to God instead of striving against Him. So stop fighting in your breaking. Let the breaking humble you. Let your brokenness soften you. Let the breaking teach you dependence. Stop wrestling God and surrender to Him. DO THIS: Stop pretending to be strong today. Bring one area of exhaustion, failure, fear, or striving honestly before God and surrender it to Him. ASK THIS: What am I still trying to control? Where is God trying to break my self-reliance? What would surrender look like instead of striving? PRAY THIS: Father, I am tired of striving in my own strength. Break down the pride and self-reliance in me, and teach me to surrender fully to you instead of wrestling against you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Broken Vessels" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41424170

The Exhaustion of Chasing More | Hosea 12:1 07/26/2026

The Exhaustion of Chasing More | Hosea 12:1 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt. — Some people are exhausted because they are spending their lives chasing things that can never satisfy them. “Ephraim feeds on the wind.” What an image. They were trying to fill themselves with something that had no substance. Chasing things they thought would finally satisfy them, secure them, validate them, or give them peace. But in the end, they were consuming emptiness. And honestly, that sounds like modern life. People chase: more money, more success, more followers, more comfort, more experiences, more possessions, more attention, more productivity, more control. And the frightening part is this: some people actually achieve the “more” they were chasing, only to discover they are still empty when they get there. Because the soul, your soul, was never designed to feed on temporary things. That is why so many people today are emotionally exhausted. We live in a culture addicted to striving. We are constantly told: achieve more, earn more, optimize more, improve more, consume more, become more. But eventually, the human soul starts to collapse under the weight of endless pursuit. And underneath all that exhaustion is often a deeper spiritual problem. We are trying to get created things to give us what only God can give us. Peace. Identity. Worth. Rest. Security. Meaning. But “feeding on the wind” never works. Wind will not nourish you. And neither can all the striving. I have learned that exhaustion is sometimes a warning light on the dashboard of the soul. It reveals that we are trying to sustain ourselves on things that were never meant to carry the weight of our lives. That is why Jesus speaks so differently than the world. The world says: chase more. Jesus says: come to me. The world says: prove yourself. Jesus says: abide in me. The world says: work harder. Jesus says: rest in me. So if your soul feels exhausted today, stop trying to get more from the wind you are chasing. The first step toward peace is finally admitting that the life you are chasing is not actually sustaining you. So slow down. Turn toward God again. Open His Word. Pray honestly. Sit quietly. Surrender control. Rest instead of striving. Because the soul that feeds on God no longer has to live feeding on the wind. DO THIS: Identify one exhausting pursuit in your life that is not truly feeding your soul, and intentionally surrender it to God today. ASK THIS: What am I chasing that still leaves me empty? Where am I feeding on “wind” instead of God? What practical step would help me slow down and reconnect with God today? PRAY THIS: Father, I am tired of feeding my soul with things that cannot sustain me. Teach me to stop striving for what leaves me empty and help me find true rest, peace, and purpose in you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Run To The Father" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41423915

When Faith Becomes Performance | Hosea 11:12 07/25/2026

When Faith Becomes Performance | Hosea 11:12 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:12: Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. — Hosea 11:12 One of the most dangerous things about performative faith is that it can look spiritual on the outside while your heart quietly drifts from God underneath. That is Hosea’s warning in this last verse. “Ephraim has surrounded me with lies.” This is not atheism. These are still religious people. They still carried the identity of God’s people. They still maintained appearances. But underneath it all was deceit. They were close outwardly but distant inwardly. And honestly, modern Christianity struggles with this greatly. We call ourselves Christians, but often do not live surrendered lives. We celebrate Christmas and Easter without stopping to consider the weight and wonder of what those days actually mean. We avoid hard biblical truths when culture drags them into politics. We stay passive about sin, passive about truth, passive about surrender, while still wanting the comfort of religious identity. That is performative religion. It looks faithful without needing surrender. And the unnerving part is that you can do spiritual things for years without actually walking closely with God. Folks, there is a massive difference between serving God and surrendering to God. Serving can sometimes be done out of obligation, duty, routine, or even image management. But surrender happens when you finally realize there is nowhere else to go. Surrender is dependence. Surrender is honesty. Surrender is living open-handed before God, rather than merely performing spiritual activities around Him. And, honestly, this is something I constantly guard against in my own life and ministry. Even these devotionals could become performative if I am not careful. Ministry can become another way to build identity, seek approval, or maintain appearances if surrender quietly disappears underneath it all. That is why I have learned that I must surrender a little more in my service every day. Because God does not merely want my service. He wants me. And He wants you too. Not the polished version. Not the religious version. Not the image-managed version. The real you. The surrendered you. So after all the compassion, pursuit, mercy, and restoration in this chapter, God is still after something deeper than outward religion. He wants hearts that truly belong to Him. Stop settling for performative faith. Do not just serve around God while staying emotionally distant from Him. Surrender to Him. Right now. Because the Father we keep running from is still inviting us closer. DO THIS: Ask God today to expose any place where your faith has become routine, performative, or image-driven instead of deeply surrendered. ASK THIS: Am I serving God while resisting surrender to God? Where has my faith become more performative than personal? What would deeper surrender look like for me right now? PRAY THIS: Father, protect me from performative faith. Teach me to live surrendered instead of merely religious, and help my outward life flow from a heart that truly belongs to you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Nothing Else" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41335805

There Is a Father Who Still Loves You | Hosea 11 07/25/2026

You Were Made to Come Home | Hosea 11:10-11 07/24/2026

You Were Made to Come Home | Hosea 11:10-11 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:10-11: They shall go after the Lord; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west; they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord. — Hosea 11:10-11 Every person is searching for a place to belong. A home. An identity. A place of security, purpose, rest, and acceptance. The problem is that many people spend their lives trying to build that identity for themselves instead of receiving it from the Father. And in this chapter, the Father is calling his children home. Listen: “They shall go after the LORD… his children shall come trembling…” They are returning, but trembling. And why? Because returning to God often requires leaving behind the false identities we built to survive without Him. And that can feel terrifying. I remember a moment like that in my own life. When I finally left my mother’s home for good as a teenager, I knew I could not continue living under the same dysfunction anymore. But at the same time, I also knew I was not fully prepared to survive on my own. Leaving meant uncertainty. It meant leaving behind whatever comfort and security I thought I had, even though much of it was unstable and unhealthy. It meant stepping into a world that felt much bigger than me. New responsibilities. New fears. New realities. But looking back now, I can see something deeper happening underneath it all. God was teaching me that true security would never be found in unstable people, self-reliance, or the false identities I was trying to build for myself. And many people are still trapped there today. Some people build an identity through achievement. Some through success. Some through relationships. Some through appearance, control, performance, politics, pleasure, or approval. But eventually those identities start collapsing under the weight of expectations they were never designed to carry. Because identity is not something we ultimately earn, achieve, or accomplish. It is something we receive from the Father. That is why this text feels so much like the prodigal sons. Returning home means laying down both self-reliance (the younger son) and self-righteousness (the older son). It means finally admitting that life apart from the Father cannot give us what we were searching for. God is still calling people home. Not to shame them. Not to humiliate them. Not to reject them. But to restore them. You were never made to carry your own identity alone. You were made to receive it from the God who calls you His child. So stop trying to build a false version of yourself strong enough to save you. Come home to the Father. Because that is where your real identity has been waiting all along. DO THIS: Identify one false identity you have been trying to build your life on, and surrender it honestly to God today. ASK THIS: What identity have I been trying to earn instead of receive? Where have I confused achievement with worth? What would it look like for me to come home to the Father again? PRAY THIS: Father, I am tired of trying to build my identity apart from you. Help me surrender false versions of myself and teach me to receive the identity, love, and purpose only you can give. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Homecoming" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41335380

God Is Not Done With You | Hosea 11:8-9 07/23/2026

God Is Not Done With You | Hosea 11:8-9 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:8-9: How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath. — Hosea 11:8-9 One of the greatest lies people believe is this: “God is done with me.” Maybe because of failure, shame, repeated sin, exhaustion, compromise, or disappointment. At some point, many people quietly assume they have wandered too far, failed too much, or disappointed God beyond repair. But these verses say otherwise. “How can I give you up?” Feel the emotion in that statement. God is speaking to rebellious people who deserve judgment, yet His compassion wells up within Him. This is not a weakness in God. This is the heart of a holy Father whose mercy is deeper than we realize. He even adds: “My compassion grows warm and tender.” There was a season in ministry when I felt completely crushed. I was exhausted, discouraged, and slowly losing passion for the very work I thought God had called me to do. But looking back, the issue was not the ministry itself. The issue was me. For years, I think I had done ministry mostly out of education, preparation, skill, ability, and talent—but not fully out of the deeper calling God actually designed for me. I was trying to fulfill purpose through my own strength instead of surrendering to His purpose. It felt so distant from God. And honestly, it nearly broke me. I had become a people-pleaser, pretending to be someone I was not. I was doing work I could do, but not fully living in the calling God was reshaping me for. But here is what I discovered in that painful season: God was not done with me. He was rebirthing something in me. He was remaking me. The crushing was not abandonment. The exhaustion was not rejection. God was lovingly stripping away the false version of myself I had built through performance, pressure, and self-reliance. And maybe some of you need to hear this today, too. Just because you feel exhausted does not mean God has left you. Just because you failed does not mean God has abandoned you. Just because you are struggling does not mean your story is over. Sometimes God allows us to come to the end of ourselves so we finally discover the freedom of surrender. That is what all of Hosea 11 reveals. God is holy enough to confront us and compassionate enough to restore us. So stop believing the lie that God is finished with you. If He were done with you, you would not still feel His conviction. You would not still long for restoration. The Father is still calling. Return to him today, tell God honestly where you feel exhausted, ashamed, disappointed, or afraid that He is done with you—and surrender that lie to Him today. Make today the day you finally stop running from the mercy that has been pursuing you all along. DO THIS: Tell God honestly where you feel exhausted, ashamed, disappointed, or afraid that He is done with you—and surrender that lie to Him today. ASK THIS: Where have I believed God is finished with me? Am I living from performance or from surrender? What false version of myself might God be asking me to lay down? PRAY THIS: Father, thank you for not giving up on me. Help me surrender the false identities, fears, and lies I keep carrying, and teach me to trust your mercy more than my failures. Amen. PLAY THIS: "More Than Able" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41334795

The Exhaustion of Carrying Yourself | Hosea 11:5-7 07/22/2026

The Exhaustion of Carrying Yourself | Hosea 11:5-7 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:5-7: They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me. The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels. My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all. — Hosea 11:5-7 Some people are exhausted not because life is hard, but because they are trying to carry themselves through it alone. That is what we discover in this chapter. God keeps calling His people back, but they “refused to return.” He wanted to help, lead, protect, and restore them. Yet they were too stubborn to accept the help they needed. And honestly, many of us do the same thing. We know how to perform. We know how to stay productive, stay busy, stay guarded, and keep moving forward. But we do not know how to surrender. So we carry everything ourselves—pressure, fear, shame, expectations, anxiety, disappointment, and pain. Over time, that weight becomes too much for us. We are crushed by it. But instead of opening up, we tighten up. We resist vulnerability and become more secluded. That is what pride looks like in real life. It's not always loud arrogance. Sometimes it's quiet self-preservation. The belief that we must try alone because others won't understand or won't help. Hosea says: “My people are bent on turning away from me.” That word “bent” means inclined toward resistance. Some people become so used to handling everything on their own that they instinctively resist help—even from God. But the more we do this, the more we manage our image than heal our soul. I have watched pride do this to people for years. Men and women slowly isolating themselves emotionally, spiritually, and relationally because they do not know how to admit weakness. They would rather silently suffer than honestly surrender. But God is not standing at a distance, eager to shame you. In this chapter, God is calling you home. Not to expose you—but to remove the weight of isolation and pride that is crushing you. Maybe the exhaustion you feel today is not just physical or emotional. Maybe it is the exhaustion of trying to carry alone what God never asked you to carry. Surrender matters. The moment you finally tell the truth, something begins to break. The moment you ask for help, something begins to open. The moment you stop pretending, healing begins. And this is especially true in your relationship with God. Humility is not weakness in a believer's life. Humility is the beginning of letting the Father be your strength. So stop carrying everything on your own. Give it to God and return to his divine strength. Start by telling God honestly today where you are exhausted, overwhelmed, or pretending to be stronger than you really are. DO THIS: Tell God honestly today where you are exhausted, overwhelmed, or pretending to be stronger than you really are. ASK THIS: What am I trying to carry alone right now? Where has pride kept me guarded or isolated? What would surrender look like for me today? PRAY THIS: Father, I am tired of trying to carry everything alone. Help me stop resisting your care, surrender my pride, and trust you enough to let you help me. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Come Ye Sinners" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41333785

God Is Gentler Than You Think | Hosea 11:4 07/21/2026

God Is Gentler Than You Think | Hosea 11:4 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:4: I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them. — Hosea 11:4 Many people see God as heavy-handed but rarely see Him as gentle. That’s because most of us only notice God when life hurts. When prayers go unanswered. When correction comes. When consequences arrive. When things feel hard. And yes, God does discipline His children. Hosea has already shown us that clearly. God has a heavy hand when wandering children refuse to listen. But God also has a gentle hand. Listen again: “I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love.” That is not the language of an angry tyrant dragging people behind Him. It is the language of a Father carefully leading children who need help walking. Some people only know harsh religion. Perform harder. Try harder. Carry more. Never fail. Never struggle. Never admit weakness. But God is not merely standing over His people demanding performance. Sometimes he bends down and carries what we cannot carry ourselves. “I bent down to them and fed them.” That image is deeply intimate and personal. It is the picture of a Father kneeling beside a struggling child. Helping him take another step. Feeding him when he is too weak to feed himself. Supporting him when strength runs low. And honestly, many controlling people struggle to receive that kind of kindness from God. Because control feels safer than surrender. So we try to manage everything: our careers, our children, our future, our image, our ministry, our outcomes. We grip life tightly because we are afraid of what will happen if we loosen our hands. But sometimes the exhaustion we feel is not from working hard. It is from trying to carry what God never asked us to carry alone. I have experienced that personally. When this ministry first began, there were moments I felt crushed by it. Pressures, uncertainty, responsibilities, fear of failure. Yet in those same moments, God met me with kindness. He brought encouragement, support, gifts, prayers, and faithful believers alongside me at just the right time. Looking back now, I can see something clearly. This ministry was not built by my strength alone. It was built on the compassion and kindness of God. And maybe your life has more evidence of God’s kindness than you realize too. The promotion you did not get. The relationship that ended. The closed door. The unexpected help. The person who showed up at the right moment. The strength you somehow had when you should have collapsed. God’s gentle hand was there. In every one of these moments. But did you see it? So stop assuming God only wants to crush you into obedience. Sometimes, He wants to lovingly lead you into surrender. And maybe today, surrender simply means loosening your grip and letting the Father carry what you cannot anymore. DO THIS: Identify one area of your life you are trying to control too tightly, and intentionally surrender it to God in prayer today. ASK THIS: Where am I resisting God’s gentle leadership? What am I trying to carry alone? How has God shown kindness to me that I may have overlooked? PRAY THIS: Father, forgive me for trying to control what should be surrendered to you. Help me trust your kindness, receive your leadership, and rest in your care instead of my own strength. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Jireh" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41333155

The God Who Carried You All Along | Hosea 11:2-3 07/20/2026

The God Who Carried You All Along | Hosea 11:2-3 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is : The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. — One of the strangest things about human nature is how quickly we forget who carried us. “The more they were called, the more they went away.” God kept pursuing His people, and they kept running. He called them, protected them, provided for them, healed them, and sustained them. Yet instead of turning toward Him, they credited someone—or something—else. People pray desperately when life falls apart. But when success comes, they quietly credit their effort, strategy, intelligence, discipline, or luck. We often explain away the hand of God because self-explanation feels easier than surrender. This is what I would call functional atheism. Functional atheism is when someone says they believe in God but lives as though everything ultimately depends on themselves. We work hard and forget who gave us the ability. We build something meaningful and forget who opened the door. We survive a painful season and forget who carried us through it. Sometimes we even resent the very moments God used to save us from ourselves. I have experienced that personally. Some of the seasons I disliked most—moments of frustration, limitation, discipline, redirection, or pain—were actually moments where God was protecting me. At the time, I wanted God to remove the challenge. Looking back, I can see He was carrying me through something I could not yet understand. That is the image in this verse. A father teaching his child to walk. Holding him under the arms. Steadying shaky steps. Or even a wounded son learning to walk again after injury, leaning fully on the strength of his father. And Hosea says, “They did not know that I healed them.” That may be one of the most heartbreaking lines in the chapter. The Father was healing while they went on, ignoring him. We have all done this. We are constantly too distracted, self-focused, hurried, or emotionally numb to notice the quiet grace of God holding our lives together. Then, when life goes wrong, we blame Him. But when life goes right, we take the credit. Yet God keeps taking us up by our arms. That is the compassion of God. So maybe today is not just about gratitude. Maybe it is about surrender. Slow down long enough to notice where God has carried you. Look back at the closed doors, the painful seasons, the frustrations, the discipline, and even the losses. You may discover that God was protecting you far more than punishing you. And instead of taking credit for surviving, succeeding, or enduring, surrender the glory back to Him. Because the God who carried you this far is still carrying you right now. DO THIS: Take ten quiet minutes today and write down three moments where you now realize God was protecting, guiding, or carrying you—even when you did not understand it at the time. ASK THIS: Where have I taken credit for what God sustained? How have I practiced functional atheism in my daily life? What difficult season might God have used to protect me from myself? PRAY THIS: Father, forgive me for the times I ignored your care while taking credit for what you sustained. Open my eyes to your grace, teach me to trust your leading, and help me surrender fully to you today. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Come Jesus Come" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41332770

The Father We Keep Running From | Hosea 11:1 07/19/2026

The Father We Keep Running From | Hosea 11:1 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:1: When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. — Hosea 11:1 One of the hardest things for people to believe is that God genuinely loves them. Even believers sometimes carry the wrong view of God and His love for them. God does not merely tolerate us. God does not reluctantly put up with us. God does not accept us unwillingly. God perfectly loves those who are His. “When Israel was a child, I loved him.” Notice where this chapter starts. God looks back before Israel’s rebellion, failure, and wandering. He begins with His love for them when they were barely more than a budding nation. Before their drifting, there was His affection. Before their rebellion, there was His pursuit. Before they even understood who He was, God had already set His covenant love on them. That’s important because true love begins with God. His love initiates love. His love is steadfast. And in His mercy, He made a way to deal with our sin through the sacrifice of His Son so wandering people like us could be brought near again. And honestly, many people struggle to believe this because earthly love has often been inconsistent. Some grew up with distant fathers, absent fathers, harsh fathers, passive fathers, or conditional love. Others have spent years trying to prove themselves valuable enough to be loved at all. That pain shapes how people see their heavenly Father. So they run from Him. Hide from Him. Distrust Him. Keep Him at a distance. But Hosea 11 reminds us that God is not pulling away from His people. He is calling for them. “Out of Egypt I called my son.” Matthew later points to this verse as ultimately fulfilled in Jesus. Jesus became the true Son who succeeded where Israel failed. And through Him, wandering people like us can be brought back into the Father’s family. That means this chapter is not just about Israel. It’s about you. You may have wandered. You may have resisted God. You may feel ashamed, distant, or spiritually exhausted. But none of that changes this truth: God still calls people He loves. So stop seeing God merely as someone waiting to punish you. See Him as the Father you keep running from. And maybe your exhaustion is not just physical. Maybe it is the exhaustion of trying to live loved without actually receiving the Father’s love. You do not have to keep running. You can come home to the Father today. DO THIS: Stop striving for a few moments today. Sit quietly with God and honestly tell Him where you have been running, hiding, or trying to earn love He already offers through Christ. ASK THIS: What has shaped my view of God’s love? Where have I been running from the Father? Am I trying to earn what God freely offers through Jesus? PRAY THIS: Father, thank you for loving me before I ever understood you fully. Help me stop running from your love and teach me to rest in your grace through Jesus Christ. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Good Good Father" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41332090

How Collapse Happens | Hosea 10:13-15 07/18/2026

How Collapse Happens | Hosea 10:13-15 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is Hosea 10:13-15: You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors, therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children. Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off. — Hosea 10:13-15 Israel looked stable on the outside. They had systems, strength, leadership, and confidence. But underneath it all, something destructive had been growing for years. “You have plowed iniquity.” Sin was no longer accidental. It had become cultivated, protected, and repeated. Over time, what they planted became what they lived in. Then Hosea says: “You have eaten the fruit of lies.” People build entire lives on lies and then wonder why anxiety, confusion, emptiness, and instability keep growing. We are told that fulfillment comes through self-worship, that identity is self-created, that truth is flexible, and that God’s design is outdated. But lies like this always have consequences. That is why Hosea says: “Because you have trusted in your own way…” Israel trusted itself more than God. Their systems. Their strength. Their plans. And slowly, the collapse began growing underneath the surface. That’s how collapse happens spiritually, too. Not overnight. Through small compromises repeated over time. But don’t miss the hope inside this warning. The principle works in the opposite direction. What you seed today shapes tomorrow. Which means it is not too late to sow something different. You can plant truth instead of deception. Humility instead of pride. Prayer instead of self-reliance. Obedience instead of compromise. And over time, those good seeds grow, too. God warns us before destruction fully grows. He exposes what is growing beneath the surface while there is still time to turn. So don’t read this chapter with hopelessness. Read it with urgency. Collapse grows slowly, but restoration can, too. An honest prayer. An act of repentance. A step of obedience. A surrendered decision at a time. God can soften any hardened heart if you are willing to let him restore what compromise tried to destroy. DO THIS: Identify one unhealthy pattern you need to stop feeding and one godly habit you need to begin planting today. ASK THIS: What seeds am I planting in my life right now? Where have I trusted myself more than God? What small step toward restoration can I take today? PRAY THIS: God, expose the lies I’ve believed and the compromises I’ve tolerated. Help me plant truth, obedience, and dependence on you so my life grows in the right direction. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Undivided Heart" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41249585

When Prosperity Becomes Poison | Hosea 10 07/17/2026

How Your Heart Slowly Hardens | Hosea 10:9-12 07/17/2026

How Your Heart Slowly Hardens | Hosea 10:9-12 Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in . Grab your Our text today is : From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah? When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity. Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself. Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. — Hard hearts don't just suddenly harden. They harden slowly, over time. Today God points back to Gibeah—a dark moment in Israel’s history marked by sexual corruption, violence, and moral collapse—and says: “There they have continued.” In other words, the sin never stopped. Sins that once shocked them slowly became acceptable. What once produced sorrow now produced silence. This is how sin hardens the heart. At first, sin bothers you. Then you tolerate it. Then you manage it. Then eventually, you stop feeling much at all because you become accustomed to the sin. And the dangerous part is that you can still look functional while this is happening. You can keep attending church, keep saying the right things, and keep maintaining appearances while your inner life quietly grows cold toward God. This is why God says to them: “Break up your fallow ground.” "Fallow ground" is hardened soil. Land left untouched for so long that it can no longer receive seed properly. Before anything healthy can grow again, the hardened surface has to be broken open with a sharp spade, pickaxe, or jackhammer. Some hearts today are spiritually hardened (fallowed) by years of compromise, distraction, pride, entertainment, bitterness, pornography, greed, political obsession, comfort, and constant noise. The soil has become hard. Truth hits the surface but never sinks in. And yet God says: “It is the time to seek the LORD.” Not tomorrow. Not someday. Now. Before hardness grows deeper. Before the conviction disappears further. Before compromise becomes your identity. Hardened hearts can be softened up. God would not call them to seek Him if restoration were impossible. So don’t ignore the places where your heart has grown hard. Bring them to God honestly. Ask Him to soften what has become resistant. Ask Him to break apart what has been hardened by sin, pride, fear, or compromise. Because God does beautiful things with broken ground. Sometimes the first sign he has is just feeling the conviction of his Spirit again. DO THIS: Spend time honestly asking God where your heart has grown cold, numb, resistant, or distracted—and invite Him to soften it again. ASK THIS: Where has my heart hardened? What conviction have I been ignoring? What would it look like for me to seek God seriously again? PRAY THIS: God, break up the hardened places in my heart. Soften what has grown numb, awaken what has drifted, and teach me to seek you again with sincerity and surrender. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Run to the Father" /episode/index/show/resolute/id/41249250

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