Every Word

Instead of worrying about others…

“Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase.”

- Proverbs 3:9 NKJV

Beautiful pictures of God…

“A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity.”

- Psalm 68:5-6 NKJV

It comes with a guarantee!

“‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.’”

- Malachi 3:10 NKJV

They thought it was worth $30.

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”

- Isaiah 53:6 KJV

How is your trust in God?

“Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”

- 2 Chronicles 20:20 NKJV

He was overwhelmed and overmatched.

“Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.’”

- 2 Chronicles 20:15 NKJV

It could have defined his legacy.

“So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, ‘It is the king of Israel!’ Therefore they surrounded him to attack; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him, and God diverted them from him.”

- 2 Chronicles 18:31 NKJV

Here’s an example worth imitating.

“Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, ‘Now listen, the words of the prophets with one accord encourage the king. Therefore please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak encouragement.’ And Micaiah said, ‘As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak.’”

- 2 Chronicles 18:12-13 NKJV

The truth can be a challenge.

“There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil.”

- 2 Chronicles 18:7 KJV

It was a difficult time to be alive.

“They taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.”

- 2 Chronicles 17:9-10 KJV