Category: Daily Devotion

  And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” Mark 5:30-31 – Something that is standing out to me in this reading of…

  And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. Mark 4:36 – After speaking to a massively large crowd, Jesus had His disciples set sail across the sea. What follows is the familiar story of Jesus calming the stormy sea. Something…

Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. Mark‬ ‭3‬:‭20‬ – Jesus’ fame was growing in unheard of ways. People from all the surrounding areas were traveling to come and be close to Jesus. Everyone who had a disease came to be healed and everyone who had…

  And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. Mark 2:2 – We can tell the Jesus isn’t too far into His years of ministry due to His not even having all His disciples called yet, but already…

  And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. Mark 1:10 – Maybe you noticed this while reading the chapter, but we find a word repeated often in this chapter and is used more than 40 times in the short…

So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table, and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived. ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭25‬:‭29‬-‭30‬ ‭- In this last chapter of 2 Kings we…

For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭24‬:‭20‬ ‭- Under the original covenant God made with His people, it was a if/then sort of agreement. If they…

Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of…

  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 2 Kings 22:1 – It took more than 300 years for this verse to come about, but King Josiah was finally on the throne of Judah. While…

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 2 Kings‬ ‭21‬:‭17‬ ‭- Let’s be grateful that we have the book of 2 Chronicles that gives more details of Manasseh’s…