Map showing the Kingdoms of Israel (blue) and Judah (orange), ancient levant borders and ancient cities such as Urmomium and Jerash. The map shows the region in the 9th century BCE. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Preparation for Passover. King Hezekiah keep the Passover (KJV). 2 Chronicles 30.

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1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel. 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 4 And the thing pleased the king…

English: Enoch Adejare Adeboye (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Prayer Points and sermon by Pastor E A Adeboye. June 2013 RCCG Holy Ghost Service. Theme: The Wonder Of Worship

The Wonder of Worship

by Pastor E. A. Adeboye

Lift your hands to the Almighty God and begin to worship Him. Give Him glory, give Him honor, give Him adoration.

He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be adored, He is worthy to be magnified. Praise His holy name, give Him glory, give Him honor, give Him adoration. Bless His holy name. Worship Him, Worship the King of kings, worship the Lord of lords, bless His holy name, there is no One like Him, give Him glory, give Him Honor, give Him adoration.

The Bible says we are to make a joyful noise…

Map showing the Kingdoms of Israel (blue) and Judah (orange), ancient levant borders and ancient cities such as Urmomium and Jerash. The map shows the region in the 9th century BCE. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

King Ahaz of Judah. War between King Ahaz and Pekah (KJV). 2 Chronicles 28.

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1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He sacrificed…

King Hezekiah on a 17th century painting by unknown artist in the choir of Sankta Maria kyrka in Åhus, Sweden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

King Hezekiah’s provision for Priests and Levites. King Hezekiah reforms religious life (KJV). 2 Chronicles 31.

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1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. 2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace…

The Pool of Hezekiah, Jerusalem (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

King Sennacherib of Assyria invades Judah. The Assyrians threaten Jerusalem (KJV). 2 Chronicles 32.

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1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. 2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. 4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? 5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was…

English: King Josiah by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hilikiah finds the Book of the Law. King Josiah of Judah attacks pagan worship (KJV). 2 Chronicles 34.

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1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence…

King Josiah on a 17th century painting by unknown artist in the choir of Sankta Maria kyrka in Åhus, Sweden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

King Josiah celebrates the Passover (KJV). 2 Chronicles 35.

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1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD, 3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, 4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according…

May God help me! (Photo credit: radiant guy)

Proverbs 3:6.  In all your ways acknowledge him (God); And He shall

direct your paths.

Submit to God in all your Ways

Many times we pray for direction but direction comes as a result

of a lifestyle of act in the knowledge of  Our Heavenly Father, which can only

come if we live according to the revelation of the Word of God in us.

Many people say get in The word but more than that allow The Word

to get in you today and bring it in your daily activities and you

will see the leading of the lord in your life. Hallelujah!

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be…

Remember that in Christ Jesus, you’ll never walk alone because He is a friend that sticks closer to you than a brother!

What is a real friend?

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17

The great Presbyterian preacher Donald Barnhouse once said, “True love must leave the stage and walk the real paths of life.” By that, he meant that someone who really loves others doesn’t just love in the good seasons of life. They also love in the hard times. They love in both the showroom and the warehouse… in the sanctuary as well as the streets.

That’s the only kind of love that’s truthful because, in life, there are those people who stick by your side when things are great, yet are nowhere to be found when the world seems to collapse around you. That’s because…

The Power of the Local Church. By Jim Liske CEO, Prison Fellowship Ministries.

At a recent conference in England I had the opportunity to hear Bill Hybels, senior pastor of Willow Creek. Bill has often said that “the local church is the hope of the world.” I couldn’t agree more! As the Body of Christ, who is the Light of the World, the local church is God’s Plan A to heal the woundedness of individuals, families, and the culture.

As part of the community, a local church has a unique sensitivity to the needs of its culture and its neighbors. It knows who is hurting and why. A local church speaks the language of the people it wants to help and introduce to Jesus. That’s why Prison Fellowship is committed to equipping local churches to receive men and women…

Jean Fouquet – Job and his False Comforters – WGA08033 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Where Is God in the Midst of All My Troubles?

Has God forgotten me? Does He hate me? Why does He seem to hide Himself?

by J. Budziszewski.

Trouble suffocates me. Worry entangles me. By night I can’t sleep, by day I can’t rest. The burden of suffering is intolerable. Where is God? Does He know, or are my prayers heard only by the wall? Is He near, or somewhere distant, only watching?

If you hurt enough to ask such questions, you deserve an answer.

Some people think that you don’t. You’re sick, you’re dying, you’ve been deserted, you’ve lost a child, you’re innocent but accused of wrongdoing — and they try to shush you. Their intentions may be good, but they are hard to bear. “Don’t question God’s ways; He might…

King Joahaz of Judah. King Jehoiakim of Judah (KJV).
2 Chronicles 36.

English: Jehoiakim Burns the Word of God; as in Jeremiah 36:21-32; illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. 5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old…

King Manasseh on a 17th century painting by unknown artist in the choir of Sankta Maria kyrka in Åhus, Sweden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

King Manasseh of Judah (KJV). 2 Chronicles 33.

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1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. 5 And he…

We have names in heaven; we are going to bear our own names there; we will be known.

Known in Heaven

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Isaiah 66:22

Many are anxious to know if they will recognize their friends in heaven. In Matthew 8:11, we read: “And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.” Here we find that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who lived so many hundreds of years before Christ, had not lost their identity. And if you will turn to that wonderful scene that took place on the Mount of Transfiguration, you will find that…

God’s radical master plan for our lives.

“Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”

Genesis 12:1, NIV

God promised to bless Abraham, but Abraham would not receive all God had for him unless he claimed it by leaving everything – his familiar surroundings, his comfortable lifestyle, his old friends, his values, his job, his home, and even his family – and set out on a life of faith. God told him, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). Abraham did not know where God would lead him, just that he was to follow.

God’s command was clear. Abraham was to put God first in his life if he wanted to receive God’s blessing.

If Abraham obeyed God by putting Him…

English: Solomon and the Plan for the Temple, as in 1 Kings 6, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1 Kings 6. Solomon builds the Temple

1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the…

English: Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) or followers, gouache on board, 10 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (26.2 x 19.2 cm), at the Jewish Museum, New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1 Kings 7. Solomon’s palace

1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. 5 And all the doors and posts were square…

English: Solomon and the Plan for the Temple, as in 1 Kings 6, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1 Kings 8. The Ark brought into the Temple. The covenant box is brought to the Temple

1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD…

David Yonggi Cho. The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner

“Every morning when I wake, I greet the Holy Spirit and invite Him to go with me through the day and take the lead in all my affairs, and He does. I say, Good Morning, Holy Spirit. Let’s work together today and I will be Your vessel, every evening before retiring I say again. “it’s been a wonderful day working with You, Holy Spirit”.

David Yonggi Cho

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

May the grace the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God

Prayer Points by Pastor E A Adeboye. RCCG May 2013 Holy Ghost Service. “The Wonder Of His Favour”

1)Praise God because His grace has kept you till today.

2)Father, please just have mercy on me.

3)Father, please let Your favour locate me right now.

4) Father, please treat my case as special tonight.

5) Father, please get involved in my case right now.

6) Father, don’t pass me by tonight. Draw me nearer to Yourself.

7)  Father, please let me have a taste of Your awesome power tonight.

8)  Father, help me. Just help me.

9)  Father, answer all my prayers. Grant all my requests tonight.

10)  Father, do more than I can ever ask for.

11) Personal Prayer Requests

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face…