Focus Chapters: Proverbs 14-16 Standout Verse(s): Proverbs 14:3 NLT Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest. Observation (s): Without the oxen (big messy situations), your life or stable stays clean. Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a…
Focus Chapters: Proverbs 11-13 Standout Verse(s): Proverbs 11:28 NLT Trust in your money and down you go! But the godly flourish like leaves in spring. Observation (s): When you place your trust in your money, you will go down. Trust in your money and down you go! But the godly flourish like leaves…
Focus Chapters: Proverbs 8-10 Standout Verse(s): Proverbs 10:16 NLT The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin. Observation (s): The earnings and rewards of the godly enhance their lives. The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.…
Focus Chapters: Proverbs 5-7 Standout Verse(s): Proverbs 6:6-11 NLT Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. But you, lazybones, how long will you…
Focus Chapters: Proverbs 1-4 Standout Verse(s): Proverbs 3:3-4 NLT Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. Observation (s): Kindness and loyalty should…
Focus Chapters: 1 Kings 4 Psalms 72 Psalms 127 Standout Verse(s): 1 Kings 4:29-31, 34 NLT God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore. In fact, his wisdom exceeded that of all the wise men of the East and the wise men of Egypt. He was…
Focus Chapters: 2 Chronicles 8 1 Kings 9:15-28 1 Kings 10:1-13 2 Chronicles 9:1-12 1 Kings 10:14-29 1 Kings 3:1-4 2 Chronicles 9:13-28 2 Chronicles 1:14-17 Standout Verse(s): 2 Chronicles 8:14 NLT In assigning the priests to their duties, Solomon followed the regulations of his father, David. He also assigned the Levites to lead…
Focus Chapters: 1 Kings 8:54-66 2 Chronicles 7:1-10 1 Kings 9:1-9 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 1 Kings 9:10-14 Standout Verse(s): 2 Chronicles 7:11 NLT So Solomon finished the Temple of the Lord, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do in the construction of the Temple and the palace. …
Focus Chapters: 1 Kings 8:1-11 2 Chronicles 5 1 Kings 8:12-21 2 Chronicles 6:1-11 1 Kings 8:22-53 2 Chronicles 6:12-42 Standout Verse(s): 2 Chronicles 5:11 NLT Then the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests who were present had purified themselves, whether or not they were on duty that day. And the Levites who…
Focus Chapters: 1 Kings 7 2 Chronicles 3:15-17 2 Chronicles 4 Standout Verse(s): 1 Kings 6:37-38, 7:1 NLT The foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid in midspring, in the month of Ziv,during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign. The entire building was completed in every detail by midautumn, in the month of Bul, during the eleventh…
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