Making Sure I Have My Heart Set on God Always! So so Blessed Praying God Keeps Us All from Evil!

 

In 2 Chronicles 12:1-14 we see a scene that looks very familiar today in our world (Read the verse below). We have elected and so called leaders who have turned from God and who do not believe or care even. They forget God is watching us all and all we do. They think it is fine to cheat, steal, be corrupt and fraudulent, greedy, selfish, mediocre, and do all the evil in the world hurt others and the world we all live in. We have a lot of selfish leaders today, we see it at every level, city, county, state, work, country and in the world. So many are devoid of God and do not believe or do not care, like Rehoboam, so many just like him today in our world. We see it and hear about it each day in the news and media.  They do evil  because they have not set their heart on seeking the Lord and living the way God wants us to. They do not care, selfishness is the big reason for all our wars and problems in our world today. Bad leaders abound, devoid of God, they only hurt our counties and world as a whole. It is sad. We all need to learn from this in the Bible and world, what is right. Follow God and live by His word and be that blessing He wants us to be, be disciples for Jesus Christ. That is all we can do. When you slip far from God, no good can come from it. We see this every single day by our so called leaders and billionaires who want to control us all with their money they made by cheating and hurting others. Just praying that God helps me make right choices each day, keeps me from all evil, and that I can please God in all I do in this life unlike so many of the elected, rich, and so called leaders of today. They and our world need a lot of prayers. Pray for all the evil leaders of today who have become slaves of the devil. We are all blessed when we have God in our hearts and learn from the past! 

2 Chronicles 12:1-14

12 After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel[a] with him abandoned the law of the Lord. 2 Because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. 3 With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[b] that came with him from Egypt, 4 he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

5 Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’”

6 The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”

7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. 8 They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.”

9 When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made. 10 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 11 Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

12 Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.

13 King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. 14 He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.