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Devotional 4--5-25-12

2 Timothy 1:5-7 (ESV)
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

2 Timothy 1:13-14 (ESV)
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Devotional 3--5/25/12

Joel 3:4 (ESV)
"What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.

Joel 3:7 (ESV)
Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.

Joel 3:10 (ESV)
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."

Joel 3:14 (ESV)
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

Joel 3:16 (ESV)
The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

Joel 3:21 (ESV)
I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion."

Devotional 2--5/25/12

Joel 2:2 (ESV)
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Joel 2:9 (ESV)
They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

Joel 2:11-13 (ESV)
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?

Joel 2:17-18 (ESV)
Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, "Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

Joel 2:26 (ESV)
"You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

Joel 2:28 (ESV)
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Devotional 1--5/25/12

Joel 1:5 (ESV)
Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:11-12 (ESV)
Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:20 (ESV)
Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Devotional 5––5/4/12

Matthew 21:12 (ESV)
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.

Matthew 21:15-16 (ESV)
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant,

Matthew 21:21 (ESV)
And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.

Matthew 21:27 (ESV)
So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Matthew 21:31-32 (ESV)
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 21:38 (ESV)
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.'

Matthew 21:41-43 (ESV)
They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons."

Devotional 4––5/4/12

1 Chronicles 19:2 (ESV)
And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt kindly with me." So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came to the land of the Ammonites to Hanun to console him.

1 Chronicles 19:6 (ESV)
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.

1 Chronicles 19:12-13 (ESV)
And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.

1 Chronicles 19:19 (ESV)
And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to save the Ammonites anymore.

Devotional 2––5/4/12

2 Samuel 9:1 (ESV)
And David said, "Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

2 Samuel 9:6 (ESV)
And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, "Mephibosheth!" And he answered, "Behold, I am your servant."

2 Samuel 9:10 (ESV)
And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 9:13 (ESV)
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet.

Devotional 3––5/4/12

1 Chronicles 18:9-10 (ESV)
When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,

1 Chronicles 18:14 (ESV)
So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.

Devotional 1––5/4/12

2 Samuel 8:15 (ESV)
So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.

Devotion 3––4–28–12

Matthew 15:7-9 (ESV)
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

Matthew 15:11 (ESV)
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person."

Matthew 15:13-14 (ESV)
He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

Matthew 15:19-20 (ESV)
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 15:24 (ESV)
He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Matthew 15:27 (ESV)
She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

Matthew 15:32 (ESV)
Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

Devotion 2––4–28–12

1 Chronicles 12:17 (ESV)
David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you."

1 Chronicles 12:22 (ESV)
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.

1 Chronicles 12:38 (ESV)
All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

Devotion 1––4–28–12

2 Samuel 3:8 (ESV)
Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.

2 Samuel 3:15-16 (ESV)
And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.

2 Samuel 3:25 (ESV)
You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."

2 Samuel 3:27 (ESV)
And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 3:30 (ESV)
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:35-36 (ESV)
Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"

Devotional5--3/28/12

1 Corinthians 13:1 (ESV)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:3 (ESV)
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:8 (ESV)
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Devotional4--3/28/12

Psalm 41:5-6 (ESV)
My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?"

Psalm 41:9 (ESV)
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

Devotional3--3/28/13

Psalm 39:4-5 (ESV)
"O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!

Psalm 39:13 (ESV)
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"

Devotional2--3/28/12

Judges 5:9 (KJV)
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.

Judges 5:16 (KJV)
Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

Judges 5:24-25 (KJV)
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Devotional1--3/28/12

Judges 4:4 (KJV)
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

Judges 4:8-9 (KJV)
And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

Judges 4:21 (KJV)
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Devotional4--3/27/12

1 Corinthians 12:1 (ESV)
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.

1 Corinthians 12:4-6 (ESV)
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

1 Corinthians 12:13 (ESV)
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:18 (ESV)
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

1 Corinthians 12:22-23 (ESV)
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

1 Corinthians 12:25 (ESV)
that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

1 Corinthians 12:31 (ESV)
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

Devotional3--3/27/12

Judges 3:2 (ESV)
It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.

Judges 3:4 (ESV)
They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

Judges 3:9 (ESV)
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

Judges 3:16 (ESV)
And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.

Judges 3:19 (ESV)
But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

Judges 3:21 (ESV)
And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.

Judges 3:23 (ESV)
Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.

Judges 3:25-26 (ESV)
And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.

Judges 3:31 (ESV)
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.

Devotional2--3/27/12

Judges 2:1 (ESV)
Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you,

Judges 2:3-4 (ESV)
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

Judges 2:10-11 (ESV)
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

Judges 2:14 (ESV)
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

Judges 2:16-17 (ESV)
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

Judges 2:19 (ESV)
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

Judges 2:23 (ESV)
So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

Devotional1--3/27/12

Judges 1:15 (ESV)
She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Judges 1:19 (ESV)
And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.

Judges 1:25 (ESV)
And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

Judges 1:28 (ESV)
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.

Judges 1:34 (ESV)
The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.

Devotional3--3/22/12

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 (ESV)
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:7 (ESV)
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

1 Corinthians 7:17 (ESV)
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

1 Corinthians 7:19 (ESV)
For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.

1 Corinthians 7:28 (ESV)
But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 7:33 (ESV)
But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,

1 Corinthians 7:35 (ESV)
I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Devotional2--3/22/12

Joshua 14:8 (ESV)
But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.

Joshua 14:10 (ESV)
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Devotional--3/22/12

Joshua 13:6 (ESV)
all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

Joshua 13:33 (ESV)
But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them.