Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Feb 18, 2025, 7:08 AM
Passage Read: 1 Kings 14-17
Meditation Verses: 15:3-5
Thought
The Lord desired to do good to His people, and to keep His promise to David. Because of that, the people were able to disregard His commands and live, even prosper to a degree.
Feb 17, 2025, 7:06 AM
Passage Read: 1 Kings 10-13
Meditation Verses: 11:38-39
Thought
Solomon turned from the Lord later in life, under the influence of the women he loved. He loved his wives more then the Lord and more than his father David, so he provoked the Lord to uphold His end of the warning.
Feb 16, 2025, 9:35 AM
Passage Read: 1 Kings 6-9
Meditation Verse: 8:53
Thought
Did Solomon understand that the Lord's intent was not simply to single out the Israelites and make them His own people, and exclude all the rest? God made all people and deserves the worship of all His creation.
Feb 15, 2025, 3:07 PM
Passage Read: 1 Kings 2-5
Meditation Verses: 2:3-4
Thought
David's charge to Solomon is first that he walk in obedience to all the Law of God, so that he can enjoy the favor of God and prosper in all he does and wherever he goes.
Feb 14, 2025, 7:12 AM
Passage Read: 2 Samuel 22 - 1 Kings 1
Meditation Verses: 1 Kings 1:7-10
Thought
Solomon's appointment as next in line for the throne was public knowledge, at least among the leaders of Israel. Adonijah knew it too, and so he didn't invite Solomon or Nathan the prophet or Zadok the priest or Benaiah and his guard.
Feb 13, 2025, 8:06 AM
Passage Read: 2 Samuel 18-21
Meditation Verses: 18:14-15
Thought
Joab is a hard man, and he is wise in his own eyes. For the most part, he is loyal to David, but when he thinks his idea is better than David's, he will follow his own thoughts.
Feb 12, 2025, 7:08 AM
Passage Read: 2 Samuel 14-17
Meditation Verse: 17:23
Thought
For all his wisdom, Ahithophel didn't see a problem with joining the son in rebellion against his father? Does he not know how greatly God hates rebellion? David's own life is a testimony to that.
Feb 11, 2025, 7:07 AM
Passage Read: 2 Samuel 10-13
Best Verse: 10:12
Thought
Joab's job was to lead the army in battle, wherever the king desired. And because David honored the Lord so greatly, the Lord was pleased to bless the army in all they went to do.
Feb 10, 2025, 7:15 AM
Passage Read: 2 Samuel 6-9
Meditation Verses: 6:5-7
Thought
David loved the Lord and desired Him to be with him in Jerusalem. But there was only one right way to transport the ark: on the shoulders of priests. David put it on a cart, like Philistines who once had captured it and sent it back by cart.
Feb 9, 2025, 7:22 AM
Passage Read: 2 Samuel 2-5
Meditation Verses: 5:1-2
Thought
It seems everyone knew of God's promise to David! So why the ruse of putting Saul's son on the throne and fighting David for two years?
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