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09/07/2025

Daily Devotional 📖

Joash

“Now it happened after this that Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the Lord” (2 Chronicles 24:4).

When it was built in 1891, critics called it too extreme and lacking in style. But eventually, the Monadnock Building in Chicago was dubbed an architectural landmark. One of the nation’s earliest skyscrapers, critics now call it “a classic” and “a triumph of unified design.”

By 1979, the building had badly declined. The main entrances had been closed, the ground floor had been defaced by garish signs, the brick had been painted and was peeling, and the beautiful marble wainscoting inside had been painted over. Decorative stair rails were enclosed and much of the original tile floor had been demolished.

William Donnell purchased the building in 1979 for only $2 million and decided to restore the Monadnock to its original condition in painstaking detail. After working with original drawings, old photographs, and the nation’s leading preservation architects, Donnell spent thirteen years restoring the building down to the carbon filament bulbs. In 2008, he sold the restored structure for $48 million.

Young King Joash embarked on an equally daunting restoration project—God’s temple in Jerusalem. Growing apostasy left the central building for worship in disrepair. When the king asked the Levites to go out and collect funds to repair the house of God, they did not cooperate. So, he placed a wooden chest outside the temple gate and requested that people bring offerings. The Israelites responded generously. “So, the workmen laboured, and the work was completed by them; they restored the house of God to its original condition” (2 Chronicles 24:13).

You are the temple of God, but sin has brought disrepair to your life. Are you ready to bring yourself before the Lord for restoration? God promises to make you into His own likeness.

Lord, restore me to Your likeness and create in my life the character of Jesus.

For Further Study: Genesis 1:27; 2 Chron. 24:1–14; 2 Cor. 6:16

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06/07/2025

Daily Devotional 📖

Ahaziah, Son of Joram

“He did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction” (2 Chronicles 22:4).

You can choose your friends, but not your family.” This popular adage is familiar and often considered humorous. Yet according to recent research, it should be expanded to, “You can choose your friends,

but not their friends.” While the influence of friends has been known for ages, especially by parents, the influence of the friend of a friend has not always been obvious.

The following scenario describes what two social scientists discovered. Imagine that Person A is friends with Person B, and Person B becomes friends with an individual who is obese, Person C. Even if Person A does not know Person C, it is 20 percent more likely that Person A will also become obese! Even if people choose their friends carefully, they are likely to also face the influence of the friend of a friend.

King Ahaziah had a major source of negative influence working against him. The record states that “his mother advised him to do wickedly” (2 Chronicles 22:3). While he was more or less, helpless with respect to his family, he had the opportunity to choose his friends. Unfortunately, Ahaziah chose to befriend Jehoram. This new friend was not only wicked, but he was also the son of Ahab and Jezebel.

Although many people cannot discern the connections of their friends, this was not the case for Ahaziah. Notorious for their wickedness, Ahab and Jezebel’s descendants had been singled out for destruction
(2 Chronicles 22:7). Sadly, this did not deter Ahaziah, and his choice of friends led to his death. Jehu, one of the commanders, was chosen by God to be king instead of Jehoram. In the process of “executing judgment” on Jehoram, Jehu also killed Ahaziah and his nephews (2 Chronicles 22:8, 9).

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05/07/2025

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05/07/2025

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What does it mean to follow the voice of a Heavenly Commander?
In Sacrificial Soldiers, we reflect on the quiet strength of listening to God and the courage it takes to walk in obedience. It’s not about striving, but surrender—learning to trust the One who leads with love and purpose. This message invites you to consider the beauty of a life laid down in faith.

04/07/2025

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02/07/2025

Daily Devotional 📖

Ahaziah, Son of Ahab

“Is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?” (2 Kings 1:16).

On the morning of October 31, 2015, Peter Siebold survived a fall of more than 50,000 feet. The pilot was testing a vessel that was de- signed to transport rich tourists into outer space. During the test flight the co-pilot pulled the wrong lever and the mistake cost him his life. The lever set off a series of movements that caused the vessel to begin to break apart.

Soon Siebold was facing the raging elements in only his flight suit. He plummeted through icy temperatures until his parachute deployed between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. After his landing, he was rushed to the hospital where he discovered his right arm and collarbone were broken. Additionally, he had fiberglass and shrapnel removed from his eyes. The injuries were most likely caused by the breakup of the vessel. Amazingly, he was released from the hospital after only three days.

King Ahaziah was not so fortunate. When he fell through the lattice of his upper room, his injury resulted in his death. Although the physical fall was bad, his spiritual fall was worse. Not only was he known for doing “evil in the sight of the Lord” (1 Kings 22:52) and serving Baal, but he also decided to ask a foreign god for a prognosis on his illness (2 Kings 1:2). As the king of Israel, he should have known that the creator God knew his future and also had the power to help him recover.

Yet Ahaziah’s spiritual fall did not end there. Once his messengers were rebuked by Elijah, Ahaziah decided to send troops to get the prophet. The death of the first two sets of troops was not enough to deter him. God spared the third set of troops, but the message for Ahaziah was not as positive. Elijah reported that Ahaziah’s rebellion would end in death, and the prediction soon came true.

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29/06/2025

Daily Devotional 📖

Elisha, Part 2

“The woman conceived and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her” (2 Kings 4:17).

Giving birth after the age of forty-five is rare. But did you know that Dawn Brooke, a British woman, conceived naturally and gave birth to a son when she was fifty-nine years old?

We don’t know exactly how old the Shunammite woman was when her son was born, but we do know it was a miraculous birth. Further, Elisha predicted the birth about a year before it happened.

The Shunammite couple had been very kind to Elisha, first inviting him to eat with them whenever he happened by their home, and eventually building a room to make a nice place where the man of God could stay on his travels. In the way of a reward for their kindness, God provided them a son.

Several years later, the boy was out in the fields with his father when he complained of a severe headache, and his father had a servant carry the boy to his mother. Probably a victim of heatstroke, the child sat in his mother’s lap until he died.

His mother immediately took him to the prophet’s room and laid him on the bed. Then she tracked down the prophet at Mount Carmel and threw herself at Elisha’s feet in deep distress.

Upon his arrival at the house, Elisha closed himself in the room with the child. After praying to God, he stretched himself out on the boy. Then he paced and did the same again. This time, the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. He was alive again!

God used Elisha—who is a type, or symbol, of Christ—to give the woman’s son back to her.

Have you lost loved ones? Jesus said, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death” (Hosea 13:14). Because of Christ, who conquered death, we can look forward to the day when we will be reunited in His kingdom.

Jesus, Lifegiver, thank You for defeating death and giving us eternal life through Your loving sacrifice.

For Further Study: 2 Kings 4:8–37; 1 Cor. 15:50–58; 1 Thess. 4:15–17

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28/06/2025

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