Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 20--Verse 17“You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.”Isn’t God great? He tells us to not fear in the Bible a couple hundred times. It’s actually the most s...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 19--Verse 3“…good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God.”God rebuked Jehoshaphat through Jehu for aligning himself with God-hating Ahab, He also acknowledged his good actions. When we have erred, we can follow this example.Ask the Holy Spirit what actions, ambitions or affiliati...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 18--Verses 12-13 (CSB)“The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, ‘Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and s peak favorably.’”But Micaiah said, “As surely as the Lord lives, I can tell him only what my God says.”Can you imagine how intimidating it would be to be the only d...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 17--Verse 3-4a“The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments…”Jehoshaphat did not let his father’s (Asa) reliance on worldly things shape him. Instead he chose to seek God and his ways. He even took down the idols and had the Tora...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 16--Verse 12“In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians.”King Asa of Judah had a difficult time trusting the Lord.Late in his reign, he developed a foot disease and did not seek the Lord’s help, but instead sought help from phy...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 15--Verse 2b“Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.”“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” – favorite words of mine, repeated many times in many different books of the Bible. They resonate with me because I’ve never had an eart...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 14--Verse 2 & 6“2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 6 And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the Lord gave him peace.”Horace, a latin poet under the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus, said, “Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.”Israel had seen its share of...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 13--Verse 18“The men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.”Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote on the virtue of self-reliance, Norman Vincent Peale spoke on the power of positive thinking, and Frank Sinatra sang from the bottom of his heart—"I did it my way!" As Americans, we’ve been baptized in the spirit of independence and traine...  Read More

Daily devotional from 2 Chronicles 12--Verse 7“When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: ‘They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.’”In Hebrew, the word for humbled is niphal. Its meaning in this passage is, “to submit oneself, ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 11--Verse 4a“Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.”One of the best things you can do when conflict arises, is to stop and ask God if you should engage in it. Maybe someone offended you, maybe you want to address an injustice, maybe you just don’t see eye to eye on somethin...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 10--Verse 8“But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.”Rehoboam ignored the elders and instead decided to listen to his young friends. This fulfilled God’s promise to make Jeroboam a king of Israel, but what would have happened if Rehoboam had dealt peacefully with Is...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Chronicles 9--Verses 22-23“Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.”I can imagine it was quite the spectacle to go and see Solomon. The man had everything. God granted him wisdom that impressed everyone. He was the richest ...  Read More