Category: Daily Devotional

Scripture 2 Chron 36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Observation: God doesn’t give up easy, but there is a time when enough is enough. God gave me plenty of chances to come to Him and I’m not sure if the last time might have been the last time and I would have left this earth Hell bound. God opens doors, sends people and does miracles to get our attention and gives us an opportunity to turn from our sins and turn towards Him. However the final choice is still ours whether we will humble ourselves and receive Jesus as our Lord and savior or not.

Application: I want to be one of those people God sends to warn others. I want the opportunity to tell others about the love God has for them and if the humble themselves and receive Jesus they too will be saved. I need to look for those opportunities and to prayer to my Lord to use me in whatever way He desires. I need to be that faithful servant God desires me to be.

Prayer: My Lord I am yours, please use me to touch the lives of others in your name. May I be useful to you and that I will speak out boldly about your love and saving grace. I love you Lord and I do want to honor you with this life you have given me.

Scripture 2 Chron 35:21 But he sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; for God commanded me to make haste. Refrain from meddling with God, who is with me, lest He destroy you.”

Observation: If God commands you or someone else do what He commands. Do not get in the way of God’s will, but be in it. If someone is doing God’s will see if you can help in any way or get out of the way. It’s easy enough to distinguish God’s will, if it aligns with scripture and glorifies God it is of God. God may call us to do things that seem strange to us, but always take it to prayer to see how God will use it to fulfill His purpose. King Josiah was the king who got in the way of God’s plan and he was defeated and died. Be on the side of God and be blessed.

Application: I get so involved in me and what I am doing for God I make myself unaware of how God is using others and that He may what me to help them. God has used so many people in my life to guide and help me, as a matter of fact I don’t remember doing anything to glorify God that didn’t involve others. All the outreaches I have done in God’s name involved so many people, even my testimony can only touch others by people helping me find a way to reach them.

Prayer: My Lord guide me in your plan for my life and may I assist others in the plan you have for them. I’m a servant and a servant serves his Master and the guests of his Master. May I be a faithful servant glorifying your name.

Scripture 2 Chron 34:31 Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Observation: To make a covenant with God because it seems to be the right thing to do is worth nothing if you don’t do it with all your heart mind and soul. You make a covenant with God because you love, fear Him and desire to please Him and fulfill the purpose He has created you for. We must follow God’s law. Not just some of it, but all of it. This is God’s direction for our life, the path that will keep us safe and if we decide to stray from it we can’t expect God to protect us any longer.

Application: I need to make a covenant with my Lord that I will keep all of His word, because I love Him and want to please Him. I can’t pick and choose what commands I want to keep and which ones I don’t. I need to stand on His promises and trust Him with all of my heart, mind and soul that His will would be done in my life from now on.

Prayer: My Lord I freely give you this life as a living sacrifice may it be Holy and pleasing to you. I love you Lord and I want to please you and I make a covenant with you today that I will keep your laws and draw closer to you.

Scripture 2 Chron 33:13 and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

Observation: Manasseh did nothing but evil against God. He built and worshiped idols, went against all that God had set up until God didn’t want to take anymore and brought up an enemy to destroy him. If that was me I would have washed my hands of him, but God with His endless mercy saw him repent and beg for forgiveness. So God forgave and brought him back and blessed him and it wasn’t until then that Manasseh knew that the Lord was God. So what will it take for us to know that our Lord is God?

Application: Not only to know that my Lord is good, but to show my Lord how much I appreciate Him. To serve my Lord in any way He desires and to tell others about His unbelievable mercy and grace. To live a life pointing others to God and to use all that God has given me for His glory.

Prayer: My Lord and my God. Speak to your servant so that I may know your desires. Help me live a life that leads to you. Show me how to serve others in your name and not to waste this precious time you have blessed me with. I’m yours and I love you with all of my heart.

Scripture 2 Chron 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Observation: We get so overwhelmed with our daily battles that we forget we don’t have to fight them alone. God will help us fight but we need to call on Him to help us. When we see our battles knowing that the Lord is on our side they seem small compared to what God has in store for us. God is always there and desires to be part of our lives and wants to guide us through this life even the battles we seem to loose from time to time has a meaning and if we search with our hearts knowing God cares and loves us there is always a valuable lesson to learn.

Application: I need to stop trying to fight the battles on my own strength, because I don’t have any. My focus is on me and not my Lord and I need to be focused on Him to make it through this life victoriously. I need to humble myself like the kings and prophets of old and give it to God bowing to His authority and allow Him to guide and fight for me.

Prayer: My Lord I am conquered without you. I’m weak in mind and spirit and need your strength and guidance to get through each day. Even now I’m hurting physically and I’m mentally defeated. Strengthen me and get me through that my eyes would be open to your will and give me victory this day.

Scripture 2 Chron 31:6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God they laid in heaps.

Observation: One of the first things I did when I was saved was to tithe. Not sure why that was important to me then, because I was a very selfish person and what was mine was mine. It was one of the most dramatic changes in my life at that time and now over 16 years later there has not been anything that I have received that I haven’t tithed on. I’ve told others we should tithe on our first fruits as it tells us in the Bible and I tell others the most precious thing God has given us is time. To give a tithe of our time is 2.4 hours a day or 17 hours a week in studying, praying and serving others in our Lord’s name. I don’t come close even though those times that I dedicate to God are the times that are most full of joy and peace. Our Lord deserves so much more than a tithe and most of us haven’t been able to even mustard up that for the One who has given us everything.

Application: I need to work on my selfishness, which is what keeps me from giving to God what he deserves. If I wasn’t so concern about my time to rest or do what I want to do for my own pleasure I would be more free to give to my Lord who deserves all of my love praise, obedience and time. God needs to be my priority in this life and the life to come and if there is anything left I should be giving to others with me receiving what is left. I know if I live like that God would bless me even though I don’t deserve anything, because that’s the God we serve.

Prayer: My Lord you deserve so much better than I give you. Help me please set me free of the bondage of my selfish desires that I will give you freely all you deserve from this life you have blessed me with. I want to be a joyful servant in your presence and serve you will all of my heart mind and soul.

Scripture 2 Chron 30:9 For if you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children will be treated with compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.”

Observation: God doesn’t keep a grudge. If we return to Him and ask for forgiveness and mercy, He will give it. Not because we deserve it, because He wants to. He loves us and He will rejoice when we come running back to Him like the prodigal son. God wants us to come to Him, He waits until we come to our senses at times and is ready to protect and bless us for our obedience to seek Him.

Application: I need to stop trying to do things on my own, but do them with my Lord. My life should be a living sacrifice which means it is no longer my life but it’s God’s. I need not just to return to Him, but to stay with Him always each day. Living in a way that others can see Him too.

Prayer: My Lord keep me near and convict my spirit if I stray. I know I might not have too much longer to go on this earth, so please Lord guide me the rest of the way that I may honor you with the life that is left. I love you Lord.