How to Be Heard

II Kings 22:18-19  “. . . As touching the words which thou hast heard; Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake . . . I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.” Perhaps this scenario has...

God Is in Control

II Kings 19:25  “Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.” When I was a kid, there was an open field...

Cut Down to Size

II Kings 14:11  “But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.” Recently, someone on the Ranch tried to teach my boys the art...

Ending Well

II Kings 10:31  “But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.” I recently skimmed an article detailing the pressures of being voted...

“Fear Not”

II Kings 6:16  “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” I love the story in II Kings 6!  The Syrian king sent out a posse to round up Elisha. When Elisha’s servant woke up that morning, he saw a...