Good morning, this is another great day to serve Jesus. Hope you were
able to make it to church last night for a refueling for the rest of the
week.
This morning our Fire-starter is taken from 2 Chronicles 9.
Our Fire-starter thought is: I want to be around someone like him.
Please share this with family and friends.

Growing up there was a certain group of kids that everyone wanted to be
around and I will even admit I wanted to fit in their group as well just
never measured up. Looking back I am glad I never measured up to their
standards. Yes even in a Christian school you are going to have this
group. The cool Kids!!!!

As I read this I couldn’t help but notice verse 23. It speaks of how the
king’s of the earth wanted to be around Solomon. Why? Because of his
wisdom.

So many of us want to fit in the group of the cool kids if you will. We
want to do what they are doing but these kings wanted to be around
Solomon for his wisdom.

Can I ask you a question that should be asked every time we are around
someone, why, do you want to be around this person. Some will get around
a certain preacher to use his name to book meetings. Some will use a
business man’s name to up their business status. Some will use their
parents name to get out of trouble. Some will use their office to get
them off the hook. These kings they wanted to be around Solomon for one
reason his wisdom!!!! Young preacher, you need to be around older
preachers not to make a name for yourself or to book meetings because
God will do all that. Stay around these older preachers for one reason
that wisdom and knowledge they have.

I hate to say I have not asked the question what’s my reasoning for
wanting them to be around me when it came to alot of people and I have
made mistakes but I know this I can ask this question now and forward.
Yes I have asked this question many times and I also have failed to ask
this question many times but the question this morning is the person you
hang out with or the people you are around why are you around them?

Everyone has a reasoning for everything what’s yours? I encourage you
this morning search your heart to see if it is true and right and look
at the list of people you are friends with how many of them are there
just to get status or for you to get on their good side so they can tell
more about you.

Listen friend, ask yourself, why do I want to be friends with this
individual or group of individuals is it for my good? Or is it for my Gain?

Hope you have a wonderful day!!!!

2 Chronicles 9:1-31 KJV
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to
prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great
company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him
of all that was in her heart. [2] And Solomon told her all her
questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
[3] And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the
house that he had built, [4] And the meat of his table, and the sitting
of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel;
his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went
up into the house of the Lord ; there was no more spirit in her. [5] And
she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own
land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom: [6] Howbeit I believed not their
words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it : and, behold, the one
half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest
the fame that I heard. [7] Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. [8]
Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his
throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel,
to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do
judgment and justice. [9] And she gave the king an hundred and twenty
talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones:
neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king
Solomon. [10] And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious
stones. [11] And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house
of the Lord, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for
singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah. [12]
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever
she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she
turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants. [13] Now
the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and
threescore and six talents of gold; [14] Beside that which chapmen and
merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the
country brought gold and silver to Solomon. [15] And king Solomon made
two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold
went to one target. [16] And three hundred shields made he of beaten
gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put
them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. [17] Moreover the king made
a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. [18] And there
were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were
fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and
two lions standing by the stays: [19] And twelve lions stood there on
the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like
made in any kingdom. [20] And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon
were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon
were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted
of in the days of Solomon. [21] For the king’s ships went to Tarshish
with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of
Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. [22]
And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
[23] And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to
hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. [24] And they brought
every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
[25] And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and
with the king at Jerusalem. [26] And he reigned over all the kings from
the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of
Egypt. [27] And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in
abundance. [28] And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and
out of all lands. [29] Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and
last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer
against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? [30] And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem
over all Israel forty years. [31] And Solomon slept with his fathers,
and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his stead.