Good morning, thank you for reading the Fire-starter devotional each morning. Thank you to all those that are sharing these with others. Please keep sharing these with family and friends. 

This morning we will be looking at 2 Chronicles 12. This mornings Fire-starter thought is: when he humbled himself. 

I believe the most prideful people live in America. 

We are all the time talking of how we have done this and how we have done that. Don't get me wrong but when we have the ability to do something all glory and honor goes to God. We have missed the mark church. We brag on how many souls we had saved in the morning service or how we sang this song and the altars fill up and how we have been filling our Sunday school class up to where we can't fit no more . 

Thats all good but all I here is we and I Where is God in the picture? See simply we have made church about us. We have made life about us. Look at where I have been and look at what I have done. 

NEWS FLASH!!!!!!

IT AINT ABOUT YOU!!!!!

Yes God does use us but not for our glory but his glory. 

Notice in verse 1 when everything was going good he forsook the Lord. 

Pastor Lee Robertson said that when the church had the finances to do things they decided that they didn't need God anymore. 

Friend, if we are ever going to see revival in our land we must do verse 12 and that is HUMBLE OURSELVES!!!! 

It's like I mentioned yesterday God will not send revival if we do not do certain things. 

You cannot get your license unless you go to the DMV or renew them online. It's the same thing with God. 

As long as we stay in the place where we are forsaking him then we will never see a true change but when we humble ourselves we would see a great change. 

I want to encourage you this morning, don't forsake the Lord he has been to good to us. Our pride is what causes us to not be humble. 

Verse 14 states that he did evil. He got to the place where he was back in pride. You say how Do you know that bro. Justin? Look at verse 13. 

May we not be like Rehoboam, let's be willing to stay humble. 

By the way, God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble. 

If You stay prideful you just wait for the destruction!!!! 

May we be willing to humble ourselves!!!

Hope you have a great day and remember God's way up is down!!!! 

2 Chronicles 12:1-16 KJV

And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him. [2] And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord, [3] With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. [4] And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. [5] Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. [6] Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous. [7] And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. [8] Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. [9] So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. [10] Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house. [11] And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber. [12] And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well. [13] So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. [14] And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord. [15] Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. [16] And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.