Daily Scripture & Questions

II Kings 12:1-13:25; II Chronicles 24:1-27 The account of Jehoash is one of both joy and sadness.  When did this king, hidden by a brave woman from the evil queen, make good decisions?  When did he make bad ones?  Who are your counselors?  Have you internalized the wisdom that good advisers have given you?

Family Devotions—Scripture & Questions

Read II Kings 11:1-3 and II Chronicles 22:10-12. God had promised that there would be a king in the line of David forever. How did God use Jehosheba to help that happen during the evil rule of Athaliah? Would you have been brave like her and protected the infant?

Biblical Prayer Focus

Exodus 34:8-9 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Ask the Lord to pardon your iniquities and to help you not be stiff-necked when he leads you in His ways.