Archives for November 2009

Ezra 9:9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall […]

2Chronicles 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. I am afraid that we have each decided for ourselves what is right and what is wrong. We have […]

2Chronicles 29:11 My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him. Hezekiah has determined to seek the Lord and make a covenant with Him. God’s people have suffered long enough because of […]

2Chronicles 26:15-16 And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. God often blesses us to the point of destruction. It isn’t the blessing that is the problem it is the attitude that we get when we get blessed. […]

2Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our […]

2Chronicles 2:7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. What […]

1Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house […]

1Chronicles 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. What are you doing to […]

1Chronicles 16:34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. We are to give thanks unto the Lord. It should be a natural outgrowth of our understanding of who He is and what He has done. He is God. He is good. He has saved us. His […]

1Chronicles 16:23-26 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the people […]

2Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. […]

2Kings 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. What do you do when you get bad news? What do you do with the things that are worrying you? How do you […]

2Kings 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into […]

2Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: R. G. Lee had a very famous sermon by this title and based on […]

1Kings 21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that […]

1Kings 14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house. Under Solomon’s leadership, at least at the beginning, God had greatly blessed the nation of Israel. Now things have changed. Solomon had made shields […]

1Kings 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. This is one of those stories that should come […]

1Kings 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. In middle of all the blessings of the Lord and many prayer requests we find this sentence. They have just finished building the temple. God is and has blessed them greatly. Then Solomon […]

1Kings 1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom. The fact that his father never displeases him seems to be the death of him. 1Kings 1:5 says “Then Adonijah the […]