Thurs.’s Devo - More Than Conquerors

Read: 2 Chronicles 11:1-13:22, Even though we read about all these kings in first and second Kings, Chronicles is a chronicle of their lives. It lets us into some information that wasn’t told in the Kings. The kingdoms were reunited (Judah and Israel) during David’s rule and split back apart with the beginning of Rehoboam’s rule. Rehoboam becomes king of Judah while Jeroboam. Rehoboam gathers an army to fight Jeroboam and reunite the kingdom, but God’s sends a prophet to stop him. Both kings rejected God, but Jeroboam the most. He made his own sons to be priests while Rehoboam left God’s priests in order. Rehoboam repented of turning from God and humbled himself. God turned his anger away when he repented and had mercy. Abijah, Rehoboam’s son became king after him of Judah. Jeroboam was still king of Israel at the time. They met to battle. Jeroboam had twice the soldiers. Abijah stood on the battlefield and proclaimed his loyalty to God. God fought the battle and they won. They killed more of them than they had in their whole army. They even were able to gain three towns. In Romans we see that the earth is in labor pains as it waits on our adoption by God. It is like the earth is pregnant with what God is going to birth in us. When our bodies are glorified, the whole earth will become new also. This is our hope and what we are all waiting for. In the same way the earth has birth pains for us, the spirit has birth pains for us. We are pregnant with God’s plans, but like the earth, we don’t know what they are so we allow the Spirit to roan through us and pray through us His mind. These groans are never in our native tongue. They are sounds that come up from our spirit and speak the language of the Father. We can know this for sure…all God has planned for us is only good! Lord, thank you for you incredible love that we can never be separated from. Through You, we are more than conquerors.