summer bible study info

this is a link to the summer series on 'I will build My Church'.
there you will find archives and updates of this summer's monday night sharing.
http://homepage.mac.com/danacon/summer07/

also -- here is a link to the online txt of "recovery and restoration:
two views of God's end-time work" by br dana congdon if you have not
been able to read it yet:
http://www.grn.org/voices/guest/congdon.shtml

2007-06-23 2 Kings 18

2007-06-23 2 Kings 18

5: He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him.
6: For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

a good list of Bibles

interesting, especially the Key Word study bible and Tompson Chain bible



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devotional thought - 2 King 2

curious thoughts in 2 King 2

Places:

1. Gilgal

2. Bethel

3. Jericho

4. Jordan : where Elijah was taken

5. Jeircho

Elisha rent off is own clothes and took the mentle of Elijah

what is the meaning of Jodan river in the bible?

6. then Elisha went down to Bethel/Samaria

what is the meaning of Gehazi? - Valley of sight

a good devotional about simplicity for the children of God - from mUtmostHisHighest

THE BAFFLING CALL OF GOD
"And all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished . . . And they understood none of these things."  Luke 18:31, 34 God called Jesus Christ to what seemed unmitigated disaster. Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death; He led every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken. Jesus Christ's life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. But what seemed failure from man's standpoint was a tremendous triumph from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose. There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because His call is to be in comradeship with Himself for His own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what He is after. The things that happen do not happen by chance, they happen entirely in the decree of God. God is working out His purposes. If we are in communion with God and recognize that He is taking us into His purposes, we shall no longer try to find out what His purposes are. As we go on in the Christian life it gets simpler, because we are less inclined to say - Now why did God allow this and that? Behind the whole thing lies the compelling of God. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends." A Christian is one who trusts the wits and the wisdom of God, and not his own wits. If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the leisureliness which ought to characterize the children of God.

morning devotion - word study "Vanities"

1 King 16: 26: For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Vanitieis - here: also translated Idols

vanity |ˈvanətē|
noun ( pl. -ties)
1 excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements : it flattered his vanity to think I was in love with him | the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians. See notes at egotism, pride .

thought of the word in Psalms , Ecclestiates, Isaiah ...

2 the quality of being worthless or futile : the vanity of human wishes.

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1 King 17: 12: And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
13: And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
14: For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
15: And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.

Fwd: morning devotion

1 Kings 10:8: Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom.

:wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord
:His word gives wisdom
:And He is our wisdom

morning devotional verses

1 King 6:12 this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

thought: what is statutes/judgements/commandments

Psalm 78:72: So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.