Devotion

Celebrating the results and the means to that https://www.esv.org/Ezra6:16–22 Week 20: 10/05/2023. Wed For your mental health, do you keep firm in your mind God's work done in your lives, and the way this was effected? Ezra 6:22 And they kept

Centre of Celebration: Atonement https://www.esv.org/Ezra6:15–18 Week 20: 09/05/2023. Tue Long way to go in the week or life? Regardless of long or short, lostness seeps in and stays if travelers loses a focus of celebration: atonement. Ezra and his community celebrated: "this

Decree of God of Israel and three kings of Persia https://www.esv.org/Ezra6:10–18 Week 19: 05/05/2023. Fri This verse is one of the glorious peak of prophets' preaching—the mention of God of Israel and three (3) kings of Persia in one breadth. Ezra

Human opposition might enhance God's glory https://www.esv.org/Psa76:10 Week 19: 04/05/2023. Thu Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt. (ESV) Not all things turn out smooth in life. But

Opposition can become Completion in God's Providence https://www.esv.org/Ezra5:1–17,6:6–12. Week 19: 03/05/2023. Wed The enemies' oppositions were frequently God's way of assuring the completion of His works. The messages of Haggai and Zechariah (5:1) were basically to "continue the

God's Eyes versus the king's eyes https://www.esv.org/Ezra5:1–17 Week 19: 01/05/2023. Tue Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an