June 2023

Daily Devotional for Friday, June 30 Samuel’s Lamentation “Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them,” 1 Samuel 8:9.   In Romans chapter 1, Paul describes how those who reject the sovereignty of God find that God has […]

Daily Devotional for Thursday, June 29 The People Request a King “And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations,” I Samuel 8:5.   Israel is God’s chosen nation, a special and holy people to the

Daily Devotional for Wednesday, June 28 The Respite and the Routine “And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites,” (1 Samuel

Daily Devotional for Tuesday, June 27 The Stone of Help “Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us,” 1 Samuel 7:12   For twenty long years, the ark set in silence at Kirjath-jearim.  The people cried in

Daily Devotional for Monday, June 26 The Repentance and the Routing “And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh,” I Samuel 7:6   Repentance

Daily Devotional for Sunday, June 25 The Glory Departs “Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and

Daily Devotional for Saturday, June 24 The Tragedy “And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?” 1 Samuel 6:20.   It is a tragedy when people interact with the sacred things of God inappropriately.  The ark of the

Daily Devotional for Friday, June 23 The Thanksgiving “And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD,” I Samuel 6:14.   The year 2020 will always