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A ministry that seeks to help men develop a strong biblical character, cultivate positive habits, build and rebuild relationships, and make commitments that will move men closer to God’s good purpose and design – men who will Stand Courageous!

“God is zeroing in on men. In this hour we need men who are strong... when we have weak men, our children are left unprotected.” 
Tony Perkins
 “Man is the spiritual head of the family. You take out the man, you take out the family.”
General Jerry Boykin
“When men get it right, everyone wins.”
Stu Weber
“The women in your churches don’t know how to tell you, but they really want you to
be a man.”
Bishop Larry Jackson
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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

Week of Monday October 14 – October 20
Radical Return - Man as Chaplain
 
“In the first year of his reign, in the first month, [King Hezekiah] opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.  For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs...” - 2 Chronicles 29:3-6 ESV

For those who had lived long enough to experience the roller coaster of kings whose leadership brought blessings or judgments to the nation of Judah, there is something refreshing and hopeful when a godly leader takes the helm and proceeds to right the ship. Proverbs 29:2 ESV underscores this truth, “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” There had been a whole lot of groaning in the land until King Hezekiah began to rule.

When this 25-year-old came to the throne, he was obsessed with one obsession, he was ablaze with one fire, he was consumed with one great passion! After 16 years of disobedience and decline, he and his nation would know a renewal of their relationship with the Lord, a revival. In v 3, the Scripture says that “in the first month of the first year of his reign,” he led the people to return to the Lord in repentance. For Hezekiah, returning to God was priority one.

Why? Look back at v 6-9: “Our fathers were unfaithful and have done what is evil in the sight of the LORD…Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem…” They looked at their deplorable circumstances, wondered why they were weak as a nation, wondered why they were in fear of their enemies. They came to a conclusion: They had forsaken the Lord, and they were experiencing His discipline. When we feel the heat of God's discipline, that is often when we get motivated to make a radical return to God.

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1 Corinthians 16:13