JEHU
Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 10
Click scripture link to read online or HERE to listen online (then click the symbol of the audio speaker above the scripture portion).
On display at the Archaeological Museum of ancient Corinth in Greece is a gold ring and many other artifacts. As far as we know, there are no golden calves, as in today’s reading.
GOOGLE MAPS – To see where the photo was taken, click HERE.
Key Verse: 2 Kings 10:29
However, Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan.
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord God, I decide for You 100%. May I be granted grace, intelligence, and a heart that is true to You in all things. I pray that I will put out of my life all idols, those things that take priority ahead of You. I realize that to worship is to ascribe worth to someone or something. I worship You, Lord God; all else fades away in the focus of my life on You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen!
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
In the late 1970s I took my sons out of high school for the month of March and we back-packed throughout Israel. However, when we arrived at Vered Hagalil, a dude ranch just above the Mount of Beatitudes north of the Sea of Galilee, we rented horses for a day and rode across the hillsides and back for 20 miles or so. By the time we arrived at the northern stretch of the Jordan river, I realized that while I was doing fine walking and carrying a large back pack, I was not in shape for long periods in the saddle. I was very sore on a certain part of my anatomy! I remember jumping into the river, clothes and all, propping my feet against a fallen tree trunk and lying upstream into the current. The fast flowing waters of the Jordan provided the best and most refreshing massage imaginable. When my spiritual muscles and joints are tired and sore, I picture myself doing the same as I lie back into the river of prayer and worship. It’s amazing how refreshed I am after doing this. I’m ready to mount up and go again.
Yours for the refreshing streams of God’s Presence,
David
P.S. Below are pictures from our backpack & horseback trek across Israel in 1978, including the northern Galilee region and the rushing Jordan River.
My sons Reynold & Ron with me backpacking around Israel in 1978.
Riding across the hills north of the Sea of Galilee. Reynold (left) was 16 and Ron (right) was 14.
Me lying upsream in the Jordan having a blessed massage that I needed after a long horseback ride.
My boys next to a rushing Jordan River in Northern Israel.
That water must have been very invigorating on a very hot day (in March?).
I finally figured out how to change the format of my poems so they can be shared again om my new puter.It was actually quite simple but the terminology confused me.I think this prayer fits today.May God bless
Search Me
Search me,oh Lord,I’m Yours,
Remove the cobwebs that hide,
Find out what my heart stores,
Then put the wrong far to one side.
Search again,oh Lord,for light,
Let not darkness cloud my mind,
That I may freely do what’s right,
For I want a heart clean and kind.
Search my soul,Oh Lord,for me;
Don’t let me be vain and phony,
For such get lost and can’t see,
Then become the devil’s crony.
Search my heart,oh Lord again,
Leave no trace of greed within,
Then I can show,without pain,
The love betrayed by my sin.Amen
G W Marshall / 08-Nov-013
I’m glad you are able to post your poems again, Mr Marshall! Blessings. Please pray for my son Shane in hospital with kidney stones. (having a second surgery now). Obeying God brings the closeness of God – help us Lord to follow Your leading. Amen.
May God direct the surgeon’s hands and may the surgery be completely successful. Lord give Shane, his mother Doreen and the whole family, your abundant peace!
We place Shane in your loving, capable hands.
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…what tough reading today in 2 Kings 10…God had commanded it…and still today tough decisions have to be made in that same place, Israel…praying for the “Peace of Jerusalem” – Ps 122:6-7…God bless Shane in his recovery…and pls pray for Jenn, my daughter and mother to an 18 and 20 yr old sons who needs divine intervention to multiple life-threatening issues and already 7 weeks in ICU.
I’m sorry to hear about your daughter, Alice.
I pray for divine intervention in Jenn’s situation. May God do the miraculous in her life and give her a great testimony, for His glory!
May He comfort you, your grandsons and all family members and grant His inexplicable peace. 🙏🙏