As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.'But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,...  Read More

When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, the LORD appeared to him at night and said:"I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices."When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the ...  Read More

When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it. When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, a...  Read More

When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated -- the silver and gold and all the furnishings -- and he placed them in the treasuries of God's temple.  . . . The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings ...  Read More

Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the LORD . . ."Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the new moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. Thi...  Read More

When He arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met Him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. "What do you want with us, Son of God?" they shouted. "Have you come here to torture us before our appointed time?"Some distance from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding. The demons begged Jesus, "If you drive us out, send...  Read More

Jesus called His twelve disciples to Him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits (demons) and to heal every disease and sickness.. . . These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions…"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the s...  Read More

I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you. LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you.  I Chronicles 2...  Read More

I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.Psalm 27:13-14 The land of the living is the world in which we live. The land of the living refers to the reality of daily living. The land of the living refers to the land of real life with its attendant ups and downs, joys and sorrows, mounta...  Read More

David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,"Praise be to you, LORD, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.. . . Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power ...  Read More

So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site. David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. . . . The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high p...  Read More

David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted?...LORD my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people." Then the angel of...  Read More