Tag - gods

Make Your Own god? Really?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Judges 18:31 They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh. O-bservation: This is the story of the Danites needing a place to call home, so they attacked a people of a little-known geographical location known as Laish. They burned it to the ground and killed all the people. On their way to do this, they stopped at the home of a man by the name of Micah. They took his handmade idols and his personal priest, threatening to kill him if he resisted....

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wood AND stone

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Jeremiah 2:27 “They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’” O-bservation: The Almighty used the voice of the prophet Jeremiah to tell the people of Judah that they were in love with the worship of “wood AND stone.” They called wood their father and said to stone that stone had given birth to them. That’s how much they worshipped inanimate gods, yet when they...

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They Got Rid Of Their Foreign gODS!

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Judges 10:16 Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer. O-bservation: This story occurs during the times of the Israeli Judges. Often there would be a godly Judge and the land would prosper, but other times the people of Israel would just worship the gods of their neighboring countries. In this particular case, their sin had gotten so bad that God Almighty had rejected them. Then Israel begged for Him to rescue them from their misery, and God did. A-pplication: It happened...

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PURIFY

S. O. A. P. Here's your 90 second AM devotional! S-cripture: Genesis 35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes." O-bservation: Shechem, a King’s son, had raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah in the previous chapter. Jacobs’s sons killed Shechem, his father, and all of the men of that city. They took all of their herds and wealth and women and children as a payback. When Jacob heard of this, he was upset and afraid. He told his family and all of his employees,...

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