Tag: prayer
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Our Family Table: Come As You Are
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 18 July 2024 Reading From II Kings 18:1-8, II Chronicles 29-31 “Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs to the Lord. Although most of…
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Our Family Table: Positioned to Flourish
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 16 July 2024 Reading From Isaiah 18-22 “In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a…
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Our Family Table: An Undivided Heart
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 14 July 2024 Reading From II Chronicles 28, II Kings 16-17 “To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the Lord nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel. When…
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Our Family Table: Our First Resort
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 1 July 2024 Reading From II Kings 1-4 “One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would…
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Our Family Table: Peace and Rest Like We’ve Never Known
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 21 May 2024 Reading From Psalms 95, 97-99 “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,“Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as…
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Our Family Table: Answered Prayers
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 18 May 2024 Reading From II Samuel 19-21 “They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.” –II Samuel 21:14 Even though they…
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Our Family Table: His Own Presence to Cheer and to Guide
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 15 May 2024 Reading From Psalms 3-4, 12-13, 28, 55 “But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.” –Psalm 3:3-4 There have been seasons of my life when I have struggled…
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Our Family Table: A Double Cure for a Double Curse
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 9 May 2024 Reading From Psalms 50, 53, 60, 75 “The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.”They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity;There is none who does good. God looks down from heaven upon the children of men,To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.Every one of them…
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Our Family Table: Unity, Provision and Joy in the Holy Spirit
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 30 April 2024 Reading From II Samuel 5:1-10, I Chronicles 11-12 “All these were fighting men who volunteered to serve in the ranks. They came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of the Israelites were also of one mind to make David…
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Our Family Table: Unlikely Love
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 22 April 2024 Reading From I Chronicles 1-2 “The son of Appaim: Ishi, who was the father of Sheshan. Sheshan was the father of Ahlai… Sheshan had no sons—only daughters. He had an Egyptian servant named Jarha. Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore…