Reading: 2 Kings 14:23–27 (ESV)“23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.24 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God o

Reading: 2 Chronicles 26:16–21 (ESV)“16 But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.17 But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor,18 and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, ‘It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrat

Reading: “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him…”— Romans 1:21 (ESV) Devotional: It is easier to know about God than to live surrendered to God. Easier to know what He says than to obey it Easier to do our own thing than follow His plan Easier to be ungrateful and moody than to give thanks Easier to let our minds wander into fear and anxiety Easier to slip into cynicism and idolize people, success, and stuff That “easy way” is what we

Reading: Ezekiel 36:25–27 (ESV) 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Devotional: God doesn't want behavior modif

Reading: Ezekiel 37:1–14 (ESV) 1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dr