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Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “‘You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf.’ When they began singing and praising, the Lord set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, so they were routed” 2 Chronicles 20:17,22 Jehoshaphat had became king after his father, Asa, had died. The land of Judah was invaded by “a great multitude” (2 Chronicles 20:2) and Scripture says, “Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.” 2 Chronicles 7:16 Just as God spoke these words to Solomon, let God speak these words to you; “I have chosen and consecrated this house.” In Jesus Christ we have become God’s house, a place for our Lord to dwell, especially “chosen and consecrated” by our God, through His grace, for our Lord’s presence

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.” 2 Chronicles 7:16 These are the words God spoke to Solomon after he had dedicated the temple he had built to the Lord. These are the words that have become true for us Christians as well, through the loving grace and New Covenant blood of our sacrificial, atoning, and resurrected Savior, Jesus Christ.

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now therefore arise, O Lord God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might; let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation and let Your Godly ones rejoice in what is good.” 2 Chronicles 6:41 As Solomon closed his prayer of dedication over the temple he had built to God, as a place for the Lord to dwell and be worshiped, Solomon exhorted the priests to be “clothed with salvation” and to “rejoice in what is good.

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built.” 2 Chronicles 6:18 King Solomon, David’s son, built a temple for the Lord God. In His prayer of humble dedication, of this temple to God, Solomon admitted that certainly no house could contain the Lord, for not even the heavens can contain our God. Yet Solomon’s desire, cle

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “In unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they praised the Lord saying, ‘He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,’ then the house, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud.” 2 Chronicles 5:13 We are so blessed to know our Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Our Good Shepherd is good all of the time. So let us, “with one voi

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “The trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they praised the Lord saying, ‘He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,’ then the house, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud.” 2 Chronicles 5:13 Jesus Christ, our risen and indwelling Savior, is presently the Head of the body of Christ, His Own church “which He purchased with His Own blo

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “It happened that when the priests came from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.” 1 Kings 8:10-11 Would you like to experience the glory of the Lord filling your house today? Yes? Then enter “the house of the Lord” within you, as a priest to the Lord (Revelation 1:6), and minister to you

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “It happened that when the priests came from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord” 1 Kings 8:10-11 This wonderful event occurred during the dedication of Solomon’s temple, which he had built for the Lord. The ark of the covenant had just entered “the most holy place” (verse 6) and that’s w

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 There is a sweet aroma produced within us as we grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18). It is the sweet aroma of Christ, Himself, in our every place! Knowing our Lord is everything. Knowing “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27) is