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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:137-144 Righteous forever
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:137-144 Click to listen to this devotion. The tsade stanza shows God’s word as it is opposed by wicked enemies and in various troubles caused by them. The prophet describes the word of God being forgotten by enemies and yet tested and proven. He says twice that God’s word is always […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:134-136 The oppression of man
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:134-136 Click to listen to this devotion. 134 Redeem me from the oppression of manso that I may keep your precepts. Usually the verb “redeem” (padah) means to pay a price, or to rescue from violence and death. Here the poet asks God to spare us from the oppression of unbelievers […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 14:12-15 War and mercy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 14:12-15 Click to listen to this devotion. 12 The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled, 13 and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. Such a great number of Cushites fell that none of them survived. They were crushed before the […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 14:7-11 A prayer for help
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 14:7-11 Click to listen to this devotion. 7 Asa said to Judah, “We should build up these towns and set walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we sought the LORD our God; we sought him and he has given us peace on […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 14:2-6 Smashing pagans
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 14:2-6 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God. 3 He removed the foreign altars and the high places. He smashed the sacred memorial stones and chopped down the Asherah poles. 4 He commanded Judah to […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 13:19-14:1 A new king
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 13:19-14:1 Click to listen to this devotion. 19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took towns from him: Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, along with their surrounding villages. 20 Jeroboam did not regain power during the time of Abijah. Then the LORD struck him down and he died. According to 1 Kings 15:9, […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 13:13-18 Divine providence
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 13:13-18 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 Now Jeroboam had set up an ambush from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush was behind them. 14 Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked at both front and rear. Then they cried […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:131-133 The sweetest words
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:131-133 Click to listen to this devotion. 131 I open my mouth wide and pant,longing for your commandments. Holding open one’s mouth was sometimes used as an ancient synonym for “to declaim,” that is, to speak some practiced speech or poem in a loud and often pompous manner, as when a […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:129-130 The flap of the tent
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:129-130 Click to listen to this devotion. This, the pe stanza, initiates what I believe to be the final round of the repeating parts of the Great Psalm (the tav stanza will serve as a final prayer for deliverance, salvation and forgiveness). Here we will hear about the poet’s love for […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 13:10-12 Christ our head
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 13:10-12 Click to listen to this devotion. 10 “But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests who serve the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites assist them. 11 They present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD morning […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 13:4-9 Idolatry in the North
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 13:4-9 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel! 5 Don’t you know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 13:1-3 A chronology question
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 13:1-3 Click to listen to this devotion. 13:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah, 2 and he reigned in Jerusalem for three years. His mother’s name was Maacah, a daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. When people used to ask me how long […]
