Then the word of the LORD came to him, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” 1 Kings 17:8-9 In medicine, nurses generally do not place orders. Rather, the ordering of labs, imaging, and medications is generally considered to be the…
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And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 1 Kings 17:6-7 The church which I attend frequently sings about God never letting us…
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In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun. 1 Kings 16:34 While addicted, I engaged…
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Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. 1 Kings 17:3 This well-meaning phrase pops up in my life occasionally – Jesus, take the wheel. Recognizing that following…
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And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. 1 Kings 16:31 When it comes to politics, it’s common for…
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And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him. 1 Kings 16:30 It seems to me that it is quite natural for the rules of a family to become more lenient from one generation to another. My parents, for instance, never went to…
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In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. 1 Kings 16:15 The life of addiction is chaos. There is no peace. In my own addiction, I lived in constant turmoil, hating who I was, constantly trying to figure out where my next bottle of pills would come from,…
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He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. I Kings 15:13 Honestly, my wife would probably do better at writing today’s blog, which addresses the family member who is making the family sick, either by using drugs themselves or by enabling others to do…
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And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done. He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 1 Kings 15:11-12 Working in addiction medicine, I do prescribe medications that can help cut down…
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And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. . . They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 1…
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