Daily Devotional With Murphy Eyenike

David's preparation for the temple was elaborate and deliberate, he made it easier for Solomon to build the temple by ensuring that all materials and personnels were available and ready to help the king. My lesson however today is with how capable some families were and how fathers had sons as skillful as themselves serving with them. The fathers had a sense of service they had been able to pass o...

Unlike the book of kings, we see in the book Chronicles that David carefully chose Solomon. Verse 9 of chapter 22 says, "but you will have a son who will be a man of peace. I will give him peace with his enemies in all the surrounding lands. His name will be Solomon". Actually, this verse makes it sound like David received this long before Solomon was even born. So why did David initially wanted A...

We've discussed severally on David's secret in winning so many battles and we see this again today in chapters 19 and 20. Chapter 21 however tells us about one story that resonates even today. It is not about the census or whether it was God or the devil that moved David to do it, nor is it about the disaster that ensues. My focus instead is on the THRESHING FLOOR OF ARAUNAH the Jebusite where the...

There is a reason why God said about David, "I have found a man after my own heart", David knew how to touch God's heart through praise and worship. During a period when the worship of God was more focused on the shedding of the blood of animals, David reach into realms no one had tasted before, he understood that what actually pleased God were not the blood sacrifices, but praise offered from a s...

It is easy to forget quickly what made David so successful and why he never lost a single battle, "so David asked God, should I...?" Again and again, this strategy was the secret to his many victories. We also note that anytime he failed to or didn't bother asking, the mistakes were often great and calamitous, in chapter 13, it cost a man, Uzzah, his life. If you want to win in life, make it a hab...

The deaths of Saul and his 3 sons will forever be one of the biggest lesson in the Bible, quite a tragedy but a lesson on missed opportunities, on how the innocent can suffer with the guilty party, a lesson on trusting God...Lastly today, the Bible tells us of the grace that was upon the sons of Issachar so that they understood the times and seasons and when the troop ought to move. I pray God wil...

A lot of records for us to follow. Verse 1 of chapter 7 tells us about the 4 sons of Issachar, Jacob's or Israel's son; Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron. This Jashub is called Job in Genesis 46:13 which gives us some background information about Job from the book of Job. Most people struggle to place when he lived but this account helps us and makes it clear that for some reason he did not stay with...

Everyone must know about this guy called Jabez by now, we know that his parents named him for the condition around his birth and that his life overtime began to look like his name, sorrow. But you see the Bible teaches us that Jabez refused to accept his condition as his destiny, he cried to God until God granted his request and changed his story. Also, in chapter 5, as we already learned in Genes...

The books of Chronicles while looking like information we already have is however a careful chronology of the peoples and events around the story of man right from Adam to when the children of Israel comes back from captivity. It gives us the events from Genesis to 2Kings together with information around the time of 2 other prophets; Ezra and Nehemiah. The book focuses tracing everyone and everyth...

Can something be broken beyond repair? The answer of course is yes, Manasseh had broken something in Judah that was irreparable, something that even God was unwilling to forgive. Josiah was faced with the impossible, to uproot an idolatry that has been since the nation began to have kings, he could have simply surrendered to the decadence and go with the flow, but no, he will go on to accomplish t...

Hezekiah's prayer to God is a truly fascinating one, at just 39, he probably felt it was too early, considering he also didn't have an heir. His story teaches us a very lesson; God hears prayers and he sees our tears. Howbeit, in the extra 15 years that Hezekiah was given, he would go on to have the worst king Judah as a nation ever had, Manasseh took idolatry to overdrive. So what lessons can we...

The nation of Israel eventually reaps the consequences of their idolatry as they are carried off into captivity. The Bible actually calls idols, worthless, and those who serve them, the same. It leaves them worthless. Next lesson, Hezekiah, the king of Judah is facing an enemy way too strong and powerful. What would you have done if you were Hezekiah? Hezekiah turns to God and the Lord helped him.

We read in amazement the ease with which kings are installed and then assassinated in Israel, a trend that would continue until Israel is carried off to exile. Lesson, you reap what you sow. In Judah, king Ahaz begins to reign and turns from every legacy the other kings of Judah left him, instead, he wanted to be more like the failing and volatile, kings of Israel. The result is a time of turmoil...

Your thought Jezebel was cruel, meet Athaliah the ruthless queen mother who would do anything for power, including killing children. In contrast to her, meet Jehoiada, my number one character mentor in the Bible, there is no one else as selfless as Jehoiada, let me know if you can name another. Under his leadership, one of the best kings Judah had, Joash would become king at just 7yrs old. Under h...

The most important lesson in today's devotional is the role marriage plays in influencing us. Judah that had been relatively immune from the idolatry Israel was suffering and the consecutive bad kings they've had, immediately plunges into both king of failings, idolatry and a terrible king. The only factor different now was that the king, Jehoram despite having such a great upbringing and father,...

Elisha was uniquely anointed, God used him to display the nine gifts of the Spirit expressed in 1Cor 12. In chapter 6, Elisha made an axe head, contrary to the laws of physics, float. That is what God can do. My main lesson today is in chapter 7 when God uses Elisha to end a siege within the twinkle of an eye. When Elisha said it was going to happen, it seemed impossible. What has God said to you?...

No one, apart from Jesus Christ did as many creative miracles as the prophet Elisha. Elisha truly had a double portion on Elijah's anointing and he did twice as many miracles too. Today's lesson is from chapter 5 where Gehazi, Elisha's personal assistant allowed his greed get the best of him and he ended up a leper. A lack of character is a real handicap for anyone who desires to serve in public m...

Elijah confronts the king of Israel and gives him a message from God, "is there no God in Israel?". A question I feel God is still asking us today. Chapter two Elisha receives a double portion of Elijah's anointing but only after proving he was worthy by being tenacious and focus. Lesson here, great reward comes with focus and hardwork. Finally in chapter three, the new king of Israel, Joram was a...

Two lessons stand out in today's devotional; however powerful you are, you won't get away with murder, a day of reckoning is coming. Secondly, be careful those you enter into alliances with, though a good king, Jehoshaphat almost lost his life because he entered into alliance with a king that was doomed and almost shared his faith.

After experiencing a great victory over the prophets of baal, Elijah had to flee, this time, not because God said so, but because he was afraid. In the midst of everything going on, he falls into depression and ask God to take his life. Elijah's is a big lesson, first, all men of God are first ordinary men like anyone, it is the grace upon them that makes them outstanding, take that away, and they...

"Let the God that answers by fire, let him be God", what a declaration, what a risk, what if God did not answer? What if baal answered since his prophets went first? But Elijah was sure beuond sure that God would answer him because he knew the God he was serving.

What would you be remembered for and how would you be remembered? What legacy would you leave behind? Would you be remembered more as a David or a Jeroboam. These are the lessons from today's podcast.

1kings chapter 13 was a bit confusing for me as a young Christian, I could understand the explosion of the gifts of the Spirit expressing themselves especially in the gift of prophecy and the gift of the word of wisdom due to the sharp rise in idolatry in both Judah and Israel, but I could not understand why God would punish the young prophet who sort to do the right thing and with courage and gre...

As King Solomon grew older, the things he managed so easily as a young man became a burden. As he grew older, instead of growing wiser to become a wise old man, Solomon seemed to have grown more and more foolish; who marries 700 wives, 300 concubines? What was King Solomon looking for? He would go on to worship the gods of his wives; Molech, Ashtoreth and Chemosh, three gods that demand human sacr...

Is there anything as "too much success"? Possibly, what King Solomon had was too much wealth. He made gold has common as plastic. Everything around him was platted or made of God. Sadly, Solomon himself will go on to say that "the love of money is the root of all evil", it seems he was talking about himself as his wealth will begin corrupt him and attract all manner of persons including the most b...