Good morning, today is Friday!!! I'm glad we are one day closer to being able to be at the House of God. If you are not planning on being at the house of God make plans right now to be there in your area. 



This mornings Fire-starter comes from 2 Chronicles 24. Our Fire-starter thought is this: when the preachers present. 

I was preaching at the nursing home a couple of Saturdays ago where I preach every Saturday, unless I am preaching elsewhere, and there is a lady there that sits in the service sometimes and sometimes she goes outside and listens from outside. 

This day she happened to be going out the same time we were going out and the worker said it sure is hot out here and the lady said, oh please don't say that I've got something to say but the preacher is standing right behind me so I can't say it out loud. I stated, if you can't say it in front of me then it's probably not worth saying right and the lady looked at me and then looked at the worker and the worker spoke up and said, He sure did get you. 

My point in telling this story is the same thing was happening here. Joash did right as long as Jehoiada the priest was alive and around. 

Some have gone by the wayside when the preacher dies and they have no one to lean on. Please bear in mind, when God takes one man home he sends another man.

Some people don't have respect for the next man because they are still looking at the man they used to have. 

Zechariah is Jehoiada's son and Joash forgot all the kindness that his father had given him. 

Because of SIN he could not remember kindness. 

Are you serving God because the man of God is around? Will you be serving God when the man of God leaves this world? 

Be careful who you take advice from after the man of God leaves this world. You may end up in sins you don't want in your life. 

When another man of God shows up you will find things you don't like about him or how he does things but if he is God's man he has a ministry and that is to encourage you to do right!!!! 

Serve God with or without the man of God. 

Don't be like Joash and do right in the sight of the Lord only when the man of God is around!

Hope you have a great day!!! 

2 Chronicles 24:1-27 KJV

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. [2] And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. [3] And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. [4] And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord. [5] And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. [6] And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness? [7] For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord did they bestow upon Baalim. [8] And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord. [9] And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the Lord the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. [10] And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. [11] Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. [12] And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord. [13] So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it. [14] And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the Lord, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada. [15] But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. [16] And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. [17] Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. [18] And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. [19] Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord ; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear. [20] And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you. [21] And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord. [22] Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it. [23] And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. [24] For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. [25] And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. [26] And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. [27] Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.