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God’s Word for You – Lamentations 1:3-4 The roads to Zion mourn
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 1:3-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 Judah has gone into exile– even from affliction and harsh labor.She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place.All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. All of our understanding of this verse must hinge on the […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 18:1-4 “Just one more thing…”
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 18:1-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 18:1 Jehoshaphat had much wealth and honor. He also made a marriage alliance with Ahab. 2 After some years passed, Jehoshaphat went down to visit Ahab in Samaria. Ahab sacrificed sheep and cattle in great numbers for him and for the troops with […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 17:10-19 Shoulder to shoulder
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 17:10-19 Click to listen to this devotion. 10 The fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah. They did not wage war against Jehoshaphat. 11 Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver to Jehoshaphat as tribute. Arabs also brought flocks to him: seven […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 17:7-9 Teaching in the villages
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 16:7-9 Click to listen to this devotion. 7 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah. 8 Along with them he sent these Levites: Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 17:1-6 Jehoshaphat
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 17:1-6 Click to listen to this devotion. 17:1 His son Jehoshaphat became king after him. He strengthened his position against Israel, 2 he strengthened all the cities of Judah. He placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured. Jehoshaphat’s […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 16:11-14 Asa’s feet
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 16:11-14 Click to listen to this devotion. 11 The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. Asa’s “acts” would include all of his official functions: the family weddings, the state funerals, receiving envoys and royalty from other nations. […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 1:2 To weep bitterly
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 1:2 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 She weeps bitterly at night; tears are on her cheek.Of all her lovers there is not one to comfort her.All her friends have betrayed her. They are her enemies. The city of Jerusalem is seen as a weeping woman with tears on her […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 1:1 The Three Crosses
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 1:1 Click to listen to this devotion. We find three crosses in Lamentations. The first and most obvious is the cross that Judah was carrying in its 70-year exile in Babylon. The Lamentations are a description of the pain of this cross directly, and if we encounter a troubling or difficult […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:175-176 Law and Gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:175-176 Click to listen to this devotion. 175 Let my soul live and it will praise you,and may your judgments sustain me. We have seen the piel verb with the meaning “cause me to live” before in this Psalm many times (119:37, 40, 88, 107, 149, 154, 156, 159). Here, however, […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:173-174 Salvation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:173-174 Click to listen to this devotion. 173 May your hand be ready to help me,for I have chosen your precepts. The poet asks for God’s helping hand, and shows that he firmly believes in God’s divine providence. God our Maker did not abandon the world after he made it. We […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:171-172 Our Great Heritage
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:171-172 Click to listen to this devotion. 171 May my lips overflow with a song of praise,for you teach me your statutes.172 May my tongue sing about your word,for all your commandments are righteous. Tehillah is the word in verse 171 I have translated “song of praise.” It is the Hebrew […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:169-170 my prayer for mercy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:169-170 Click to listen to this devotion. These verses begin the final stanza of the Psalm, in which the initial words begin with the letter tav. Many of these are translated with “May…” because the letter tav is the mark of the third person imperfect or jussive verb form, which is […]
