Devotionals

When fasting is needed

May 15.      1 Chronicles ch WHEN FASTING IS NEEDED.  “After many days of seeing neither the sun nor the stars, and with the violent storm continuing to rage against us, all hope of ever getting through it alive was abandoned. After being without food for a long time, Paul stepped before them all and said, “Men, you should…

Learn More

More prayers less worries bring change

May 8.           1 Chronicles ch 6-7 MORE PRAYERS LESS WORRIES BRING CHANGE “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,” 1 Timothy 2:1, 3 NASB1995 GOOD DAY: It is so pathetic that every new  day…

Learn More

It shall turn to good

May 7.          1 Chronicles ch 3-5 IT SHALL TURN TO GOOD “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.”  Genesis 50:20 NASB1995 GOOD DAY: Joseph was in Potiphar’s house as slave and prisoner for no fault of his…

Learn More

Avoid aiding and abetting

May 6.                 1 Chronicles ch 1-2 AVOID AIDING AND ABETTING ““Woe to you! You build monuments to the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Therefore, you are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.”  Luke 11:47-48 HCSB GOOD DAY: Aiding, abetting, and supporting evil are the same…

Learn More

DON’T GIVE IN TO DECEPTION

May 4.              2 Kings ch 20-22 DON’T GIVE IN TO DECEPTION “Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern, until I come…

Learn More

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

May 3.        2 Kings ch 18-19 PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE “Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.” Psalms 107:19-20 GOOD DAY: I was listening to two women at the bus stop the other day…

Learn More

GOD MADE MAN AND KNOWS MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH

May 2.                          2 Kings 16-17 GOD MADE MAN AND KNOWS MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH Psalm 139:1-24 1 “Lord, you know everything there is to know about me.  2 You perceive every movement of my heart and soul, and you understand my every thought before it even enters my mind. 3-4 You are so intimately aware of me,…

Learn More

DEALING WITH YOUR FEARS

April 29.                                  2 Kings ch 9-10 DEALING WITH YOUR FEAR “Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if…

Learn More

PEACE:REWARD ON INVESTMENT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

April 27.                                    2 Kings ch 4-5 PEACE: A REWARD ON INVESTING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS “If you live according to my rules, keep my commands, and do them, I will grant peace in the land so that you can lie down without anyone frightening you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through it.”Leviticus 26:3,6…

Learn More

READ TO NOURISH YOUR SOUL

April 26.     2 Kings ch 1-3 READ TO NOURISH YOUR SOUL “Instead, when he sits on his royal throne, he himself must write a copy of this Instruction on a scroll in the presence of the levitical priests. That Instruction must remain with him, and (he must read in it every day of his life) so that he…

Learn More