Month: September 2014

Reading Ezra 1 for Wednesday, October 1st. King Cyrus allows the Israelites to return from exile to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.

Reading 2 Corinthians 8 for Tuesday, September 30th. Live to please God, and it is ok to be also approved of by men.

Reading 2 Corinthians 7 for Monday, September 29th. Pain and Godly sorrow are worth it for repentance.

Reading 2 Corinthians 6 for Saturday, September 27th. Don’t be yoked together with unbelievers.

Reading 2 Corinthians 5 for Friday, September 26th. Be reconciled to God.

Reading 2 Corinthians 4 for Thursday, September 25th. Paul explains that we are influenced by the power of God more than the world, and encourages us to stay focused on the eternal reward.

Reading 2 Chronicles 36 for Wednesday, September 24th. Jehoiakim was a bad king, and his son was an evil king. Zedekiah did evil too.

Reading 2 Chronicles 35 for Tuesday, September 23rd. Josiah dies from an arrow wound.

Reading 2 Chronicles 34 for Monday, September 22nd. Josiah sought God and purified his kingdom. He funded the repair of the temple. The book of the law was read to Josiah, and he was convicted by the sins of the nation, humbled himself and followed God.

Reading 2 Chronicles 33 for Saturday, September 20th. Manasseh was not a very good king, and his son, Amon was worse.

Reading 2 Chronicles 32 for Friday, September 19th. Hezekiah leads his people to have faith in the strength of their God, rather than the strength of their numbers. God gets taunted by an attacking force led by Sennacherib who compares Him to the gods of other nations who were crafted by men’s hands, and could… Continue reading 2 Chronicles 32

Reading 2 Chronicles 31 for Thursday, September 18th. Hezekiah did a lot of good things, including providing a lot of livestock for the sacrifices to be done by the people.

Reading 2 Chronicles 30 for Wednesday, September 17th. Hezekiah prays for the unclean people and God heals them.

Reading 2 Chronicles 29 for Tuesday, September 16th. Hezekiah has the temple cleaned up and made pure to be used again for its intended purpose.

Reading 2 Chronicles 28 for Monday, September 15th. Another king did poorly.

Reading 2 Chronicles 27 for Saturday, September 13th. Jotham was the king, and did right in God’s sight.

Reading 2 Chronicles 26 for Friday, September 12th. Uzziah, the king of Judah did pretty well, until his pride took over.

Reading 2 Chronicles 25 for Thursday, September 11th. Things that happen under Amaziah, king of Judah.

Reading 2 Chronicles 24 for Wednesday, September 10th. Joash has the temple repaired, but he was still wicked.

Reading 2 Chronicles 23 for Tuesday, September 9th. The king’s remaining son was pronounced king, and the queen was not happy about it. Then the queen was killed and all the high places were torn down and the priest of Baal was killed as well.

Reading 2 Chronicles 22 for Monday, September 8th. The king was assassinated, but an heir was saved from the queen by his sister in a room for six years.

Reading 2 Chronicles 21 for Saturday, September 6th. Jehoram was a bad king who was left alive only to preserve David’s lineage, but was not even honored in death with a proper burial location. Moreover, his bowels fell out with great pain.

Reading 2 Chronicles 20 for Friday, September 5th. Jehoshaphat knows who to turn to when war was being waged against his kingdom, but he did not choose his allies and business partnerships well.

Reading 2 Chronicles 19 for Thursday, September 4th. Jehoshaphat is under God’s wrath, but there is still some good in him.

Reading 2 Chronicles 18 for Wednesday, September 3rd. Ahab goes into battle with mostly bad advice, then dies.

Reading 2 Chronicles 17 for Tuesday, September 2nd. A good king is blessed by God as he does the right things.