Posts by APUMC (Page 8)

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…

Read: 1 Kings 18-20 Focus Verse: “The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” (1 Kings 19:7).  Devotion: You’ve probably heard it said that the LORD won’t give you more than you can handle. I’m not so sure that’s true. See the verse in 1 Corinthians 10:13 is more specific and says that…

Read: 1 Kings 15-17 Focus Verse: “The jar of flower will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.” (1 Kings 17:14b). Devotion: King Ahab is being contrasted with a widow. The top of society with the bottom. It is said that king Ahab committed great sin and so Elijah has to go tell him that there will be no rain…

Read: 1 Kings 12-14 Focus Verse: “After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, ‘It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” (1 Kings 12:28). Devotion: No Jeroboam, why would you do that!? God gave you the kingdom from Rehoboam after his poor decision. So Rehoboam was made king…