Weds.’s Devo - The Army of the Lord

Read: 1 Kings 13- ; 2 Chron. 11:18- chapter 13; 1 Kings 14:25- chapter 15; 2 Chron. 14- 15:19
Today’s is a long reading so I’m going to only write about the portions that stood out to me. I love the prophet that prophesied about the altar and Josiah. It all came to pass but I don’t get the old prophet deceiving him and costing him his life. What a shame!
Jeroboam had a son he named him Abijah. That is one letter away from Ahijah, the prophet that prophesied his kingship. The son became sick so Jeroboam sent his wife to the prophet to see if he tell them if the child would live. Ahijah not only prophesied the child’s death but the death of Jeroboam’s whole lineage.
Rehoboam has a favored son who is also named Abijah who becomes the next king over Judah. To confuse us even more, Abijah is also referred to as Abijam. He has constant war with Jereboam during his reign. Abijam’s son, Asa becomes the next king and follows the Lord. During his reign there is prosperity and building. He rids the country of much of its idolatry and reestablishes the worship of Jehovah God.
Meanwhile in Israel, Jereboam finally dies after twenty two years and is replaced by his son Nadab. Nadab only lasts two years and is as evil as his father. He is killed by Baasha, who immediately killed all in his family fulfilling the prophecy of Jereboam’s linege. He rules for twenty-four years but was also evil.
Asa was attacked from an outside enemy, the Ethiopians with one million men. They only had 580,000 men in their entire army. Asa called out to the Lord and God’s army fought the Ethiopians and killed them. God sent them a prophet to tell them that as long as they stayed with God, he would be with them. They made a covenant to stay true to God.
God still has that army at out disposal and we need to be calling out for that army.
Lord, we ask your army to fight against the deception in the minds of our youth that are being deceived about their sexual identity, their minds and their souls. We ask you to intercede in our politics, economics, education, entertainment, and every other arena in our nation. We ask you to fight for your standard of righteousness to be raised in our nation.