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  • Biblical Principle #125: Israel Crossed the Red Sea on Dry Land

    Biblical Principles List Principle God parted the Red Sea and Israel walked across on dry land. Explanation GOD had one more miracle to show Pharaoh. 1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel that they turn and camp at the village between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal…

  • September 2 – Ezekiel’s Vision of Dry Bones

    Reading Eze. 37:1-28; 38:1-39:29 Devotional GOD showed Ezekiel more visions and gave him more prophecy to speak to Israel: 1 The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2…

  • July 3 – Isaiah Prophesies about Babylon’s Fall

    Reading Isa. 14:28-32; 13:1-22; 14:1-23; 21:1-10 Devotional The Babylonians were a fierce and ruthless nation. In the year that king Ahaz of Judah died, Isaiah received a prophecy from GOD about the coming fall of Babylon. 4 Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,…

  • June 30 – Judah Defeated by Israel and Aram

    Reading Isa. 10:1-34; 11:1-16; 12:1-6 2 Chron. 28:5-21 Devotional Continuing with Isaiah’s prophecy, GOD explained that, although He would use Assyria to punish Israel, afterward He would also punish Assyria because of the king’s prideful heart and haughty eye (both of which the LORD hates) and his desire to utterly destroy. GOD reminds the reader…

  • June 11 – GOD Purges Judah and Israel

    Reading 2 Kings 8:23-24a; 2 Chron. 21:19, 20b 2 Kings 8:24b-26; 9:29; 2 Chron. 22:1-4 2 Kings 8:7-15, 28; 9:14b, 15a; 8:29b 2 Kings 9:1-14a, 15b-27; 2 Chron. 22:7 2 Kings 9:30-37; 10:1-14; 2 Chron. 22:8 2 Kings 9:28; 2 Chron. 22:9 2 Kings 10:15-17 Devotional Today’s reading is filled with terrible bloodshed, people killing people.…

  • June 3 – Asa and Jehoshaphat

    Reading 2 Chron. 14:1b-8 1 Kings 14:19-20; 15:25-26, 31, 27-30, 33-34 2 Chron. 14:9-15; 15:1-8, 17-19, 9-16 1 Kings 15:16-22 2 Chron. 16:7-10 1 Kings 16:7, 1-6, 8, 14, 9-10, 15a, 11-13, 20, 15b-19, 21, 31a, 22-29; 21:25-26; 16:34 2 Chron. 16:12, 11, 13-14 1 Kings 15:24b; 22:41-43, 46-47 2 Chron. 20:32-33; 17:2-13a; 18:1a; 17:13b-19…

  • May 12 – Recognizing the Value of Wisdom

    Reading 1 Kings 2:13-46; 3:1; 9:16; 3:2-3 2 Chron. 1:2-6 1 Kings 3:5-28  Devotional Solomon has taken over for his father David, who recently died. His first few recorded actions as king are to deal with problems that arose prior to his taking the throne. Solomon had his brother Adonijah executed because Adonijah asked to…

  • March 29 – Wait on GOD

    Reading 1 Sam. 13:1; 14:49-51 1 Chron. 9:35-44 1 Sam. 13:2-14:45 Devotional King Saul had an army of 3,000 soldiers. He put his son Jonathan over 1,000 of them. Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at a place called Geba. The Philistines gathered their army of 3,000 chariots, six thousand charioteers, and too many soldiers to…

  • March 31 – A Cause Worth Fighting For

    Reading 1 Sam. 16:1-17:58 Devotional GOD told Samuel to stop crying over Saul because GOD had chosen a new king for Israel. GOD sent Samuel to anoint David as king over Israel. David was a handsome young shepherd who was watching over his father Jesse’s sheep. When Samuel anointed David, the Holy Spirit came upon…

  • April 7 – David Captures Jerusalem; Uzzah Struck Dead

    Reading 2 Sam. 5:6-8 1 Chron. 11:6-9 2 Sam. 5:11-12 1 Chron. 13:1-14; 14:8-17 2 Sam. 22:1-51 Psalm 18 Devotional David and his warriors marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites who lived there. David conquered the Jebusites and the fortress of Zion and he lived there. Joab led the charge on Jerusalem and David made…