Posts from August 2020

Read: 2 Kings 18-19 Focus Verse: “They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. Now, LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, LORD, are God.” (2 Kings 19:18-19).  Devotion: Hezekiah’s prayer of deliverance from…

Read: 2 Kings 15-17 Focus Verse: “They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, ‘Do not do as they do.’” (2 Kings 17:15b).  Devotion: They became worthless because what they followed was worthless. It’s like, ‘you are what you eat’. Israel was given a great promise, a great…

Read: 2 Kings 12-14 Focus Verse: “You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?” (2 Kings 14:10).  Devotion: Why go looking for trouble? King Amaziah of Judah had aspirations too big for himself. When he defeated Edom he decided to challenge…

Read: 2 Kings 9-11 Focus Verse: “How can there be peace.” Jehu replied, ‘as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?” (2 Kings 9:22b).  Devotion: Jehu had come to take the kingdom. He had been secretly anointed king, and one of this first acts is to expel any worship to Baal. Jehu knows as long as God is not worshiped in Israel there can…

Read: 2 Kings 6-8 Focus Verse:“Then they said to each other, ‘What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.” (2 Kings 7:9).  Devotion: The Aramean army had abandoned their siege of the city and four men with…

Read: 2 Kings 4-5 Focus Verse: “Naaman’s servants went to him and said, ‘My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed!’” (2 Kings 5:13).  Devotion: Naaman seeks Elisha to be healed of his leprosy. Elisha doesn’t even come out to meet him, but sends word to wash in…

Read: 2 Kings 1-3 Focus Verse: “And he replied, ‘as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.’ So the two of them walked on.” (2 Kings 2:6b).  Devotion: Three times this happens. Both Elijah and Elisha know it’s time for Elijah to die and go to be with the LORD, but he doesn’t want his servant Elisha to have to suffer and witness it happen.…

Read: 1 Kings 21-22 Focus Verse: “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but will bring it on his house in the days of his son.” (1 Kings 21:29).  Devotion: The book of 1st kings has shown the degradation of Kings in Israel. Each gets worst than the last and it reaches its climax with Ahab as the worst, most evil…