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Prepare Your Heart

Day 113

Reading: 2 Kings 24:1 - 2 Kings 25:30

Today we see many places of worship in the westernised world closing down for many reasons. This is not a new phenomenon. When the people of God have departed from worshipping God, the House of God has been destroyed. As I wrote this blog all I could hear was a clarion cry to return to God wholeheartedly. The day of God's wrath is drawing near and yet many are asleep to this fact. Arise and tell the world to get ready for a shaking is coming. 

After King Josiah died, the kings we are introduced to never sought God. They walked in the ways of the those who departed from God's commandments. And as God had declared in the days of Manasseh, the Jerusalem and Judah were taken captive. We are introduced to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who laid siege over Jerusalem and took all the bronze, gold and silver from the House of God. He simply took apart the House of God taking away the beauty it had. 

In reading about the captivity of God's people, the tearing down of the House of God and the manner in which a king was locked up in a foreign land my heart is left searching within whether we the children of God are today doing enough to serve Him wholly. 

As we close on the books of Kings let me remind you what we have learnt.
  • Love God and God will defend you. We saw how God delivered David from his enemies as long as he walked with God.
  • Serve God and not idols. The Kings of Israel forgot about God and set up idols for worship. 
  • God will always use a willing person given to Him to show forth His power. Elijah dared a nation to see who is God and Jehovah didn't let His name down. God is looking for people who will be willing to dare Him in the midst of the evil surrounding us. 
  • God answers prayer. I repeat God answers prayer. To whom do you pray to? The prayer answering God or an idol?
  • When a nation's leader is given to the ways of God that nation prospers. Remember, David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Asa, and Josiah.
  • God can postpone His judgement when we walk in His ways. King Josiah's deeds suspended the judgement of God while he was alive for he cleansed the land of idolatry and made the people celebrate the Passover. 
  • God's word will always come to pass. Every prophet who spoke we have seen the fulfilment of their prophecies. God will always back those who are sent by Him alone.
Memory Verse: 2 Kings 25:29

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So Charles changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life. 2 Kings 25:29 (paraphrased; italics mine)
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