Devotionals

How Do We Respond to the Victories God Brings Into Our Lives? — 2 Chronicles 15:12, 15, 16, 19 King Asa and all the people of Judah responded with worship and repentance. In fact, full-out revival! They had trusted God in the battle, but they needed to clean up their...

Have you ever been outnumbered? Overwhelmed? – 2 Chronicles 14:11-12 The things that are in front of you being so much greater than you have strength for? A great army is attacking King Asa of Judah, a mighty army. Humanly speaking, he was way outnumbered. What was he...

Do we own our sin, or do we blame others? — 2 Chronicles 12: 1-2, 5-8 We can get comfortable and forget God, but when reminded, will we repent? Rehoboam had really focused on God his first three years. In fact, many people from all over Israel had now come to Judah...

What have you been given by God? What are you willing to compromise to keep it? – 1 Kings 12:26-28 Reading in 1 Kings 12-14 this morning, there is a series of tragic stories. Three men are each given a responsibility to steward: Rehoboam, Solomon's son, heir to the...

High Standard - Great Reward — Proverbs 31: 10-31 We live in a day when lifting up the ideal is offensive.  Yet we are lost. We can not define what a man is and what a woman is. Yet, we want the respect, the reward, and the benefits of being one. Certainly, no...

God raises up, and God takes away. — 1 Kings 11: 29-33, 37-39 I was deeply saddened by this mornings reading in 1Kings. God appoints Jeraboham to rule over 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel.  Dividing the kingdom, because of Solomon's sin. 1 Kings 11: 29-33 (NIV84):...