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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 […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:167-168 The lens of the cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:167-168 Click to listen to this devotion. 167 My soul keeps your testimonies,I love them very much. To say “my soul” instead of “I” is a common thing in Hebrew, especially in poetry. Here in the Great Psalm there are eight examples. The human soul shares almost all of the characteristics […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:164-166 Seven Times in a Day
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:164-166 Click to listen to this devotion. 164 Seven times in a day I praise youfor your righteous judgments. The ancient church and the Medieval church took this verse to mean that Christians should do the same thing. In other words, they took the verse to be prescriptive rather than descriptive. […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:161-163 believe, and be saved
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:161-163 Click to listen to this devotion. This stanza consists of Hebrew words beginning with the letters Sin or Shin. There are elements of every theme of the Great Psalm in this second-to-last part, but especially the love of God’s word and the repentant return to the word. 161 Princes persecute […]
