What is the Purpose of a Daily Devotional

The purpose of daily devotion is to start our day with Christ by reading the Scriptures and praying to God. When we read our daily devotions, we are know more of God's Word and it encourages us to always trust God and believe in His Word.

Daily devotions, as a Christians and believers in Christ. We needed God in our lives so that we will be cautious of our action and inaction. Our day will always be good. we also ask God to make our right with Him.

So, if you have not been starting your day with Christ, here is a daily devotions for you. You can also pray for God's grace to remind you so that you will be doing your devotions early in the morning before the day start, in Jesus name, Amen.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022

TEXT: 2 Kings 23:1-14

1. Then the king directed that all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem should be gathered to him.

2. The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people both small and great; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.

3. The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people joined in the covenant.

4. The king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, the priests of the second order, and guardians of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

5. He deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, those also who made offerings to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.

6. He brought out the image of Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

7. He broke down the houses of the male temple prostitutes that were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.

8. He brought all the priests out of the towns of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba; he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on the left at the gate of the city.

9. The priests of the high places, however, did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but ate unleavened bread among their kindred.

10. He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so that no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech.

11. He removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of the eunuch Nathan-melech, which was in the precincts; then he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12. The altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down from there and broken in pieces, and threw the rubble into the Wadi Kidron.

13. The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which king Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

14. He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

(New Revised Standard Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: THE FACE OF TRUE REVIVAL

As soon as King Josiah received the assurance of the grace of God upon him and his reign, he quickly moved into action. He knew that if revival must take place, he must lead the way.

The first thing he did was to share this vision with the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the inhabitants – both small and great – priests and prophets. Until a leader’s vision is shared by those you lead, you may as well be walking alone and revival cannot come. The vision must express the burden and point the people to the source of the revival: the Lord.

King Josiah followed his words of commitment with a deliberate, brutal, action plan of total and physical removal of anything ungodly in their national, political and religious lives.

Josiah challenges our resolve to submit to God through an uncompromising life that is above reproach and is holy. As leaders, we must approach this with an attitude of grace and true humility, totally dependent on God and His mercy.

QUESTION: Do you think that you can bring revival to your home, church, place of work, etc. through your own power and scheming?

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, send us a revival, and let it begin with and in me, Amen.