When We Want More of God
From 2 Chronicles 14
📖 2 Chronicles 15:1-4 ESV The Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded, 2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law, 4 but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
📖 1 Kings 15:1-3 ESV Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. 2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father
📖 1 Kings 15:4 NIV Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him (Abijah) and by making Jerusalem strong.
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More of God happens when we:
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📖 2 Chronicles 14:2 ESV And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
📖 1 Samuel 15:22 ESV And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
📖 Deuteronomy 7:12 ESV “And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
📖 1 John 2:5 ESV whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.
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📖 2 Chronicles 14:4 ESV and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.
📖 Jeremiah 29:13-14 ESV You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
More of God happens when we:
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📖 2 Chronicles 14:3 ESV He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim
📖 2 Chronicles 14:5 ESV He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
📖 2 Chronicles 15:16 ESV Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
📖 1 Kings 15:12 ESV He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
📖 2 Chronicles 14:6 ESV He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.
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📖 2 Chronicles 14:7 ESV And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.
