SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people, that they would become accursed and laid waste, and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD. [2 Kings 22:19]…
Author: Norm
free to be responsible
If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law [Galatians 5:18] Paul said that walking according to the Spirit is not license: an excessive or undisciplined freedom constituting an abuse of privilege. As a Christian you may see the phrase “You are not under the Law” in Galatians 5:18 and exclaim, “Wow, I’m…
leaning towards Jesus
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! [Matthew 18:7] Our reading today makes me think of these words from Jesus – woe to Manasseh! How he changed from his father Hezekiah, who was faithful…
garage door evangelism?
Apparently a company in Germany is marketing these garage door covers. What do you think of the last one? Click to enlarge…
God works through humble hearts
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, `This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD. [2 Kings 20:5]…
spread out your prayer
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the…
more influenced than we realize
“We do not start our Christian lives by working out our faith for ourselves; it is mediated to us by Christian tradition, in the form of sermons, books and established patterns of church life and fellowship. We read our Bibles in the light of what we have learned from these sources; we approach Scripture with…
choose life? what life?
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, until I come and take you to a land…
Satan’s bait
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “All this I will give you,” Satan said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” [Matthew 4:9-10] To worship is to honour, respect and serve; we were created to honour, respect…
no need to appease God
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. [John 3:16] God does not need to be appeased, convinced, or cajoled to love us; he loves us, period! And yet people forget this, they assume that…