Posted by: Bill Hornbeck | August 5, 2025

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

Today’s devotion comes from 2 Chronicles 31:11-21.  Here is a link to this Scripture – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%2031&version=NASB1995

I quote only the following verses.

“Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.  They faithfully brought in the contributions and the tithes and the consecrated things;  and Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them and his brother Shimei was second.  …  Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the eastern gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to apportion the contributions for the LORD and the most holy things.  …  Also for the sons of Aaron the priests who were in the pasture lands of their cities, or in each and every city, there were men who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone genealogically enrolled among the Levites.

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good, right and true before the LORD his God.  Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and prospered.”  2 Chronicles 31:11-12 and 14 and 19-21. 

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“So keep the words of this covenant to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.”  Deuteronomy 29:9.

“How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.” Psalm 1:1-3.

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house;  and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.  Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.  The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house;  and it fell—and great was its fall.”  Matthew 7:24-27.


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