FIX YOUR EYES ON HIM WHO IS OVER ALL! O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. —II Chronicles 20:6 We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you. —II Chronicles 20:12             Are there times when we just do not know what to do?  What do you do in those times?  The best thing to do is to keep our eyes on our Lord and wait on Him! —“fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter…

A LIFE YIELDED TO OUR LORD IS A LIFE SEEKING TO LIVE RIGHT Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.” —II Chronicles 19:7             Now here are the problems with worldly judges— There is no fear of the Lord in their lives. They do not judge carefully. They are unjust. They are partial. They take bribes. This is not to say every judge is like this, but in a fallen world, a sinful world, there are going to be many that are like the stated points above.  But praise God that He always judges perfectly. …

WHOEVER HAS MY EAR IS WHO DETERMINES MY DESTINY! Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord, and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them. —II Chronicles 13:6-7 If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. —II Chronicles 15:2 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest…

SENT! Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.” —John 13:20             Just as our Father sent Jesus into the world, so now also has Jesus sent us into the world (John 17:18).  Those who accept the messengers that Jesus has sent accept Him and whoever accepts Him also accepts our Father who sent Jesus.  Now this is key as we share Jesus with others— If they do not accept our message, they will not accept the Son and the Father.             Fellow ambassador of our Lord Jesus Christ— All this is from God, who reconciled…

GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD AND LOVING —MAN IS NOT! “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.” —II Chronicles 7:3, 6             God is always good.  He gave Adam and Eve the opportunity to choose His loving goodness or to choose the way of Satan.  They failed miserably.  Now people ask why God made Adam and Eve that way— to have the opportunity to make the choice.  They ask this because they want to blame God for all the evil in the world.  The fact of the matter is God gave them the choice because He wants people to love Him freely and not be like robots.  The…

NO OTHER! O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth. —II Chronicles 6:14             There is none like You “in heaven or on earth.”  You are the only Hope that we have.  Why would we not trust in and live for our Creator and Sustainer of all things?  It is because people would rather do what they desire and not what God desires.  The pull to do what we want is strong and the devil’s dark world seeks to draw us and keep us in his dark domain and away from God.             But there is no other Answer for us other…

CALL A BAD APPLE FOR WHAT IT IS— EVIL IS EVIL! Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. —John 12:3-6             Even…

SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS! They said, “Though John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true.” And in that place many believed in Jesus. —John 10:41-42             Even if you or I never perform “a sign” let us be faithful witness of Jesus as John the Baptist was.  John never performed a sign; he was a sign to point others to Jesus.  That is exactly what you and I are supposed to be— signs point others to Jesus.  May our witness of Him be such that all that we say about Jesus it true and others come to believe what we say of Him is…

WITHOUT GOD THERE IS HOPELESSNESS! There is no one like you, Lord, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. —I Chronicles 17:20             How wonderful to be able to speak these words and believe them.  To know there is no one like our Lord is such an encouragement and comfort.  To know there is no God but He gives hope for today and the future.  To have come to the point in our lives to have heard with our own ears about our Lord God Almighty and then to have called on His Name for salvation for sin and to a relationship with…

LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD’S PRESCRIBED MANNER It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.” —I Chronicles 15:13             Because the ark of God was not carried the proper way the first time— When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God. Then…