R³ Devotional - Day 180
R³ Devotional - Day 178 - 1 Kings 22 & 2 Chronicles 18
By: Anderson Baptist Church
Have you ever found yourself seeking help and advice from others, and you keep looking for one more person to get advice because all the others are telling you the same thing, but you just want to validate what you have already decided?
These passages of the Word of God tell a story of a similar case. King Ahab and King Jehoshaphat wanted to battle for Ramoth Gilead, a land that they claimed to be theirs. We see a good response from King Jehoshaphat: seek that the LORD wants you to do this (1 Kings 22:5).
So Ahab decided to ask the prophets. Let’s have in mind that these prophets were the people who also allowed the worship of Baal among the people of Israel, and they were also known to say whatever the King wanted to hear just to please him.
They responded as expected, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.” (1 Kings 22:6). Now, notice they use the word Lord, and not LORD. Even though it seems silly, it does have a difference; every detail on how the Bible was written has a purpose. And in this case, the word LORD meant God himself, YAHWEH, the God of their covenant, while Lthe ord only refers to a title, a relationship between creator and creation, Adonai.
So the prophets were just pleasing the king's ear. This is exactly our time today, and the Bible warns us about this. 2 Timothy 4:3 says, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.”
This is that time, people are seeking what they want to hear, not what God wants them to hear.
Real: Life Principles
• Seeking God is the only and true way for the answers we need in our lives.
• When we have to make a big decision in our lives, we can seek God first, but we can also ask for advice, but let’s always compare everything that is being said to us to what God tells us through his word.
Relevant: Life Applications
• We need to ask ourselves, how are we looking for God today? Even in the small things, are we seeking God’s direction?
• What is more valuable to us? Our opinion, or God’s opinion? We need to seek God’s will daily
Ready: Life Action Steps
• Try to make a habit in your life to seek God as the first thing you do every day. Let him talk to you daily.
• Seeking God’s will takes time in his word, prayer, and fellowship with other brothers and sister’s in Christ. Are we willing to pay the cost?
These passages of the Word of God tell a story of a similar case. King Ahab and King Jehoshaphat wanted to battle for Ramoth Gilead, a land that they claimed to be theirs. We see a good response from King Jehoshaphat: seek that the LORD wants you to do this (1 Kings 22:5).
So Ahab decided to ask the prophets. Let’s have in mind that these prophets were the people who also allowed the worship of Baal among the people of Israel, and they were also known to say whatever the King wanted to hear just to please him.
They responded as expected, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.” (1 Kings 22:6). Now, notice they use the word Lord, and not LORD. Even though it seems silly, it does have a difference; every detail on how the Bible was written has a purpose. And in this case, the word LORD meant God himself, YAHWEH, the God of their covenant, while Lthe ord only refers to a title, a relationship between creator and creation, Adonai.
So the prophets were just pleasing the king's ear. This is exactly our time today, and the Bible warns us about this. 2 Timothy 4:3 says, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.”
This is that time, people are seeking what they want to hear, not what God wants them to hear.
Real: Life Principles
• Seeking God is the only and true way for the answers we need in our lives.
• When we have to make a big decision in our lives, we can seek God first, but we can also ask for advice, but let’s always compare everything that is being said to us to what God tells us through his word.
Relevant: Life Applications
• We need to ask ourselves, how are we looking for God today? Even in the small things, are we seeking God’s direction?
• What is more valuable to us? Our opinion, or God’s opinion? We need to seek God’s will daily
Ready: Life Action Steps
• Try to make a habit in your life to seek God as the first thing you do every day. Let him talk to you daily.
• Seeking God’s will takes time in his word, prayer, and fellowship with other brothers and sister’s in Christ. Are we willing to pay the cost?
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