Posts with the category “broken-kingdoms”

INTRODUCTION: The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN:  Share with the group something interesting about your family history, ancestors, etc…. Is there something from your family histor...  Read More

Future Generations - 2 Kings 20:16-1916 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to this message from the Lord:17 The time is coming when everything in your palace—all the treasures stored up by your ancestors until now—will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 18 Some of your very own sons will be taken away into exile. They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace...  Read More

2 Kings 20:1-61 About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: “This is what the Lord says: Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.”2 When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 “Remember, O Lord, how I have always been faith...  Read More

A Kingdom Under Fire - 2 Kings 19:14–1914 After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the Lord’s Temple and spread it out before the Lord.15 And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth. 16 B...  Read More

A Kingdom Reform - 2 Chronicles 29:1-1129 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight, just as his ancestor David had done.3 In the very first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah reopened the doors of the Temple of the L...  Read More

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INTRODUCTION: The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN:  Is there a lesson, a task, a recipe, that no matter how many times you’ve learned it, you have to keep relearning? If so, share w...  Read More

A kingdom stuck in a vacuum - 1 Kings 22:4-94 Then he turned to Jehoshaphat and asked, “Will you join me in battle to recover Ramoth-gilead?”Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “Why, of course! You and I are as one. My troops are your troops, and my horses are your horses.”5 Then Jehoshaphat added, “But first let’s find out what the Lord says.”6 So the king of Israel summoned the prophets, ...  Read More

A Kingdom of Blood - 1 Kings 21:1-161 Now there was a man named Naboth, from Jezreel, who owned a vineyard in Jezreel beside the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. 2 One day Ahab said to Naboth, “Since your vineyard is so convenient to my palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it.”3 But Naboth re...  Read More

King of all kings - 1 Kings 18:1, 16-21, 36-3918:1 Later on, in the third year of the drought, the Lord said to Elijah, “Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!” 2 So Elijah went to appear before Ahab.16 So Obadiah went to tell Ahab that Elijah had come, and Ahab went out to meet Elijah. 17 When Ahab saw him, he exclaimed, “So, is it really you, you troublemaker ...  Read More

Two many kings - 1 Kings 17:11 Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “there are too many cooks in the kitchen.” Well I lived it one holiday, a few years back.Though everyone in that kitchen had good int...  Read More

A divided kingdom - 1 Kings 16:29-3329 Ahab son of Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria twenty-two years. 30 But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, even more than any of the kings before him. 31 And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of K...  Read More

INTRODUCTION: The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN:  If you had just moments left to live, what is a piece or two of wisdom that you would want to make sure were passed down to those...  Read More

Temporary Kingdoms - Ecclesiastes 1:12-14I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.Ecclesiastes 9:7-10Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine wit...  Read More

Kingdoms of Accumulation - Deuteronomy 17:14-17 “You are about to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you take it over and settle there, you may think, ‘We should select a king to rule over us like the other nations around us.’ If this happens, be sure to select as king the man the LORD your God chooses. You must appoint a fellow Israelite; he may not be a foreigner.“The king must...  Read More

Kingdoms of The Sword - 1 Kings 3:16-27Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled. “Please, my lord,” one of them began, “this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house. Three days later this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.“But her baby died during the night when she ...  Read More

Kingdoms of Wisdom - 1 Kngs 3:5-15… the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!”Solomon replied, “You showed great and faithful love to your servant my father, David, because he was honest and true and faithful to you. And you have continued to show this great and faithful love to him today by giving him a son to sit on his throne.“Now,...  Read More

Kingdoms of Envy - Matthew 19:23-30Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is very hard for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I’ll say it again—it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”The disciples were astounded. “Then who in the world can be saved?” they asked.Jesus looked at them intently and ...  Read More

INTRODUCTION: The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN:  Can you remember a time in your life when your parents, or someone, told you what would happen if you did or did not do something...  Read More

Kingdoms of Dust - 1 Samuel 18:6-15When the victorious Israelite army was returning home after David had killed the Philistine, women from all the towns of Israel came out to meet King Saul. They sang and danced for joy with tambourines and cymbals.  This was their song:  “Saul has killed his thousands,and David his ten thousands!”This made Saul very angry. “What’s this?” he said. “They credit Dav...  Read More

Kingdoms of Compromise  - 1 Samuel 13:5-11The Philistines mustered a mighty army of 3,000 chariots, 6,000 charioteers, and as many warriors as the grains of sand on the seashore! They camped at Micmash east of Beth-aven. The men of Israel saw what a tight spot they were in; and because they were hard pressed by the enemy, they tried to hide in caves, thickets, rocks, holes, and cisterns.  Some of ...  Read More

Kingdoms of Celebrity - 1 Samuel 9:1-2; 10:24 There was a wealthy, influential man named Kish from the tribe of Benjamin. He was the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, of the tribe of Benjamin. His son Saul was the most handsome man in Israel—head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the land.Then Samuel said to all the people, “This is the man the LORD has chosen as y...  Read More

Rejecting the King of Kings - 1 Samuel 8:4-9Finally, all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel. “Look,” they told him, “you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have.”Samuel was displeased with their request and went to the LORD for guidance. “Do everything they say to you,” the LORD replied, “for they are ...  Read More

The Kingdoms of Man - 1 Samuel 8:4-5, 9-18 … all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel. “Look,” they told him, “you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have.”… the LORD replied… Do as they ask, but solemnly warn them about the way a king will reign over them.”So Samuel passed on the LORD’s warning to the p...  Read More

1 Samuel 8:19-20“We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”Every sibling remembers wanting what their brother or sister had. It was a Christmas gift, a bigger piece of cake, the front seat in the car, or a pair of shoes. Honestly, it might not have been any better than what you already had. But they had...  Read More