8th Year 12-14 Edition 3 –II Kings 18 l The Feast l Who said it?  – 2 Kings 18            Feb 3, 2013 - 2 Kings 18 Return to Admenu Home Dear  Saints, Today we are prayerfully reading, 2 Kings 16.  God has saved us, we should listen to him.  If we don’t like the leaders appointed over us we should cry out to God.  Unless a person is born again the previous two sentences would sound foolish.   Today we see the faith of Hezekiah tested, and he fails to trust God.  Then it’s just like Satan to stir up distrust in God’s people.  Hezekiah did not trust God, so the king of Assyria takes advantage of the situation and starts a campaign of lies.  “30 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ 31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,“ 2nd Kings 18:30-31 English - Standard Version (ESV).   He doesn’t threaten the people; on the contrary he offers them a life of abundance.  In every case of a person questioning their faith in God, Satan will be there lying and accusing.  He doesn’t come to people as the ugly black hearted entity he is.  He comes in the form of “good sense” offering abundance and therein is the lie. “But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.” Psalm 59:16 NIV.  Saints When the going gets hard that is the time to take refuge in the Lord.  Remember faith comes by hearing the word of God. Herein is our fight and dependence on God; “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 ESV.  Let’s keep the first thing first, salvation through Jesus, the Lamb of God.  Put on that helmet of salvation and listen with spiritually tuned eyes and ears.  Look to see from whom the message comes. The Feast Sun, February 3, 2013, 2 Kings 18, - “Good reign of Hezekiah in Judah, Idolatry. (1-8) Sennacherib invades Judah. (9-16) Rabshakeh's blasphemies. (17-37)” – Matthew Henry Concise   Pastor Glens complete Devotional Series |Click Here| See Destiny by Sandra Lee |Click Here| The Holy Spirit Is Calling by R. L. Waters |Click Here| Living the Christian Life Series! Devotional by Pastor Glen Aycock. Posted 1/30/2013 LIVING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE- (WED JAN 30, 2013) SCRIPTURE: 2 PETER 1:5-11 5 ¶ so don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, 6 alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, 7 warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. 8 With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet; no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. 9 Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books. 10 So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, his choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. Do this and you’ll have your life on a firm footing, 11 the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ. DEVOTIONAL:  “BUILDING YOUR LIFE” There is not a minute to waste. Let the construction of our life begin. We have the Master Architect in Jesus Christ. Our job is to build on the foundation of faith in Jesus and to allow the Holy Spirit to give us spiritual understanding. The following are the levels of the building that God wants to build in our life. 1.     Alert Discipline 2.     Passionate Patience. 3.     Warm Friendliness 4.     Generous Love. 5.     Each quality active and growing in your life. We are instructed to accept God’s invitation and we experience a firm footing and streets paved and the way open into the eternal kingdom of our Lord. PRAYER THOUGHT: Dear Jesus please help us to cooperate in building these attributes and reflecting your love to the lost. Amen God Bless you, Brother Mike http://www.admenu.com http://admenu.wordpress.com Tags: jesus, love, hope, care, god, holy, ghost, save, help Click Here to visit admenu for more information on our services and contacts! “But, as it is written,“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV.