1st Kings 22

 




Good Tuesday morning,

  This is The Daily Bible Challenge, a blog that challenges you to read the whole Bible cover to cover in context. We do this by reading/listening to one and sometimes two chapters at a time 365 days a year. No, we will not finish the whole Bible in one year. This is a larger commitment than that, we want to allow time for prayer and discernment as we dig into each chapter a little deeper. I do not do much of the digging for you. But will often leave links to dig into the puzzling aspects along the way. Many times from gotquestions.org and the tools section of BLB.ORG.

  So you might be asking who am I to try to lead you in this challenge? Well I am just some guy that used to be a drunk with all kinds of addictions in my past. I was a real sleaze-bag, running from God as fast as I could. Until God revealed Himself to me in a powerful way and redeemed me from my sins against Him and others. Now I am a Pastor in the background at a mid sized satellite church. I serve people all week long (kind of a Stephen minister) so our Head Pastor can stay focussed on his mission. More than six years ago God put it on my heart to start this ministry and it has been posted daily ever since. Now six years later, more than nine million words have been written in The Daily Bible Challenge. All this to Glorify and Honor God and challenge you that the Bible is not just some boring old book like you have been told! In today’s chapter there is a major war, and a miracle from God, well a supernatural experience at least.

  We are in 1st Kings 22, the final chapter of 1st Kings. We will read how God sent a lying spirit to the false prophets of King Ahab. For some this is a strange passage, but God’s will be done! You see God can use whatever means He deems acceptable to fulfill what He has foretold. These were false prophets anyway, not the real prophets of God. If this makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck, maybe it means that you have not accepted His Lordship. I too used to stand strong against God for a few passages in the Bible. But I can see so clearly now that that was my own foolish pride, afterall who am I to think I know better than the creator of the whole universe? If you struggle in this area, maybe you should ask God to reveal Himself to you in ways that will make His Lordship obvious, but be careful with such prayers, the consequences might be tough, like King Ahab discovered in Today’s Daily Bible Challenge. Click the link below to read/listen to more.

  Talk with you soon!

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