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Counterfeit Christians. Reflections from 1 Kings 13. 2026.

Published on April 27, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 1 Kings 13

In 1 Kings 12, I was reminded of the dangers of following counterfeit gods, and in 1 Kings 13, I’m reminded of the dangers of following counterfeit Christians. I’m afraid that all too often Christians trust whatever a professing Christian author, blogger, podcaster, or pastor says, without giving it serious thought or prayer. We need to “test everything; hold fast what is good.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV)

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
1 John 4:1 ESV

Remember that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16) It’s so important to know the Word. All the Word. Not just John 3:16 and Genesis 1:1. So that we can discern truth from error

I’m praying Ephesians 1:17 for you, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.”

Heavenly Father, We need Your wisdom. We need Your guidance. Please, Father, give us a hunger for Your Word. Give us an all-consuming desire for Truth in our innermost beings. May the half-truths of the world and the devil be repulsive to us. Please, Father, let us not settle for sorta, kinda, half-hearted faith, but make us passionate for a Holy Fire revival to sweep through our homes, churches, cities, and nations. For Your glory and fame we pray by the blood of Jesus Christ shed for the forgiveness of our sins. Amen.

Counterfeit Gods. Reflections from 1 Kings 12. 2026

Published on April 26, 2026May 8, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 1 Kings 12

After Solomon’s death, the kingdom of Israel was divided. Judah (and Benjamin) followed Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, while the other ten tribes of Israel followed Jeroboam, an Ephraimite who had been a hard-working servant of Solomon. Jeroboam feared that the Israelites would turn back to Rehoboam if they went to Jerusalem to worship God, so he set up counterfeit gods and counterfeit temples, counterfeit priests and counterfeit feasts.

Isn’t that just like Satan?

Satan doesn’t create his own stuff. He’s not a creator; he’s a fake trying to look like the real thing, and he copies what is true in order to draw people away from it. He disguises himself as an angel of light, and so do his followers (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).

God created mankind to worship Him. When we aren’t worshipping Him, we will worship other things, created things rather than the Creator Himself.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:18-23 ESV

There are still people all over the world who are worshipping idols, crafted objects made to resemble a supernatural being, but the majority of Americans think we’re above that. Most red-blooded Americans wouldn’t dream of bowing down to worship a golden calf or a stone Buddha. Oh, friends, but we are worshipping all kinds of counterfeit gods. We worship at the altars of money, fame, and sex. We worship at the altars of food, fame, fortune, and phones. We worship at the altars of Amazon, Facebook, and YouTube. These counterfeit gods are trying to steal our allegiance from the One True God, the only one who is worthy of our worship, and we’re falling for it.

Will you pray with me?

Heavenly Father, You alone are worthy of our worship. You are the one who created the sun, moon and stars, the earth and the seas and all that is in them. You are who created me and every man, woman, and child on the face of our planet. Open our eyes to the counterfeits that we have made with our own hands, the worthless things that we are setting before our eyes day after day. Forgive us, Father. Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. For Your glory we pray in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

Love God? Love Others – 2 Chronicles 34-36 – 2026 Day 83

Published on March 20, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 52, 2 Chronicles 34-36

“Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:29-32 ESV

Love God? Love Others – 2 Chronicles 34-26 – FormerAtheist58

How Deep the Father’s Love for Us – JJ Heller

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Our Sins are Many but His Mercy is MORE – 2 Chronicles 33 – 2026 Day 82

Published on March 19, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 50-51, 2 Chronicles 33

The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

2 Chronicles 33:10-13 ESV

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51:10-12 ESV

Our Sins are MANY – His Mercy is MORE – 2 Chronicles 33 – FormerAtheist58

Create in me a Clean Heart – Keith Green

His Mercy is More – T4G Live

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Giving Abundantly – 2 Chronicles 31-32 – 2026 Day 81

Published on March 18, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Chronicles 31-32, Psalm 49

And [King Hezekiah] commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the LORD.

As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.

In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel. And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”

2 Chronicles 31:4-10 ESV

Giving Abundantly – 2 Chronicles 31-32 – FormerAtheist58

This Is My Father’s World (Official Lyric Video) – Keith & Kristyn Getty

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Consecration and Sanctification – 2 Chronicles 29-30 – 2026 Day 80

Published on March 17, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Chronicles 29-30, Psalm 48

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs….”

2 Chronicles 29:3-6 ESV

Consecration and Sanctification – 2 Chronicles 29-30 – FormerAtheist58

Sanctuary – Randy Rothwell

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Relying on God and Working by HIS STRENGTH 💪🏋️‍♂️⚜️ 2 Chronicles 26-28 – 2026 Day 79

Published on March 16, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Chronicles 26-28, Psalm 47

[King Uzziah] set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper. He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines…. In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

2 Chronicles 26:5-6, 14 ESV

Relying on God and Working by HIS STRENGTH 💪🏋️‍♂️⚜️ 2 Chronicles 26-28 – FormerAtheist58

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The Lord is able to ABUNDANTLY RESTORE More Than You’ve Squandered – 2 Chronicles 25 – 2026 Day 78

Published on March 15, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Chronicles 25, Psalm 46

Please forgive the ridiculous AI graphic. Apparently, this is what AI thinks of as “people wasting their money,” but the point remains. God is able to ABUNDANTLY RESTORE more than you’ve squandered, even if it’s on $25 cups of coffee and $35 bags of truffle chips.

[King Amazia] hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.

But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites. But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”

And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?”

The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

2 Chronicles 25:6-9 ESV

The Lord is able to ABUNDANTLY RESTORE More Than you’ve Squandered – 2 Chronicles 25 – FormerAtheist58

If it had not been for the Lord – Keith & Kristyn Getty – video by Ridgeway Community Church

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Pray for your Pastors – 2 Chronicles 23-24 – 2026 Day 77

Published on March 14, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Chronicles 23-24, Psalm 45

But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them. And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’”

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD. Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”

2 Chronicles 24:15-22 ESV

PRAY for your PASTORS! – FormerAtheist58

Speak O Lord – Keith & Kristyn Getty

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Being a Godly Wife, Mother, and Sister – 2 Chronicles 21-22 – 2026 Day 76

Published on March 13, 2026May 6, 2026 by kendraskeLeave a comment

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 44, 2 Chronicles 21-22

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.

But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom.

Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.

And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
2 Chronicles 22:10-12 ESV