Vicki Stephens-Parent
Vicki Stephens-Parent's Highlights
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 13:1-10 NASB
In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel at Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, awith which he made Israel sin; he did not turn from them.aSo the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually into the hand of bHazael king of Aram, and into the hand of cBen-hadad the son of Hazael.Then aJehoahaz entreated the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for bHe saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.The Lord gave Israel a adeliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Arameans; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as formerly.Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, awith which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and bthe Asherah also remained standing in Samaria.For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and amade them like the dust at threshing.Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 13:19-20 NASB
So athe man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Aram until you would have destroyed it. But now you shall strike Aram bonly three times."Elisha died, and they buried him. Now athe bands of the Moabites would invade the land in the spring of the year.
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 13:14-18 NASB
When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, "aMy father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows." So he took a bow and arrows.Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." And he put his hand on it, then Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.He said, "Open the window toward the east," and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" And he shot. And he said, "The Lord'S arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at aAphek until you have destroyed them."Then he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three times and stopped.
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 8:12-15 NASB
Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" Then he answered, "Because aI know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you bwill dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up."Then Hazael said, "But what is your servant, awho is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" And Elisha answered, "bThe Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram."So he departed from Elisha and returned to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that ayou would surely recover."On the following day, he took the cover and dipped it in water and spread it on his face, aso that he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 8:11 NASB
He fixed his gaze steadily on him auntil he was ashamed, and bthe man of God wept.
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 8:7-10 NASB
Then Elisha said to him, "aGo, say to him, 'You will surely recover,' but the bLord has shown me that he will certainly die."Then Elisha came to aDamascus. Now bBen-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, "cThe man of God has come here."The king said to aHazael, "bTake a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and cinquire of the Lord by him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels' loads; and he came and stood before him and said, "aYour son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 8:6 NASB
When the king asked the woman, she related it to him. So the king appointed for her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now."
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 2 Kings 8:1-5 NASB
Now aElisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for the bLord has called for a famine, and cit will even come on the land for seven years."So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field.Now the king was talking with aGehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done."As he was relating to the king ahow he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."
Aug 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Romans 1:13-15 NASB
aI do not want you to be unaware, bbrethren, that often I chave planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some dfruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.aI am under obligation both to Greeks and to bbarbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.So, for my part, I am eager to apreach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
Aug 10
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Romans 1:8-12 NASB
always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by athe will of God I may succeed in coming to you.For aI long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.First, aI thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because byour faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.For aGod, whom I bserve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly cI make mention of you,
Aug 10
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Romans 1:1-7 NASB
Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, acalled as an apostle, bset apart for cthe gospel of God,which He apromised beforehand through His bprophets in the holy Scriptures,concerning His Son, who was born aof a descendant of David baccording to the flesh,who was declared athe Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,through whom we have received grace and aapostleship to bring about the bobedience of faith among call the Gentiles for His name's sake,among whom you also are the acalled of Jesus Christ;to all who are abeloved of God in Rome, called as bsaints: cGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Aug 10
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Corinthians 6:11-20 NASB
aSuch were some of you; but you were bwashed, but you were csanctified, but you were djustified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.aAll things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.aFood is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will bdo away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but cfor the Lord, and dthe Lord is for the body.Now God has not only araised the Lord, but bwill also raise us up through His power.aDo you not know that byour bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? cMay it never be!Or ado you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "bTHE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."But the one who joins himself to the Lord is aone spirit with Him.aFlee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.Or ado you not know that byour body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that cyou are not your own?For ayou have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in byour body.
Aug 10
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Isaiah 40:31 NASB
Yet those who wait for the Lord
Jul 31
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Samuel 3:1-14 NASB
Then the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for Your servant is listening."The Lord said to Samuel, "Behold, aI am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle."In that day aI will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end."For aI have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for bthe iniquity which he knew, because chis sons brought a curse on themselves and dhe did not rebuke them."Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that athe iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever."Now athe boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli. And bword from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.It happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now ahis eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see well),and athe lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,that the Lord called Samuel; and he said, "aHere I am."Then he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, lie down again." So he went and lay down.The Lord called yet again, "Samuel!" So Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he answered, "I did not call, my son, lie down again."aNow Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him.So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli discerned that the Lord was calling the boy.And Eli said to Samuel, "Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
Jul 16
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Samuel 2:27-36 NASB
Then aa man of God came to Eli and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'bDid I not indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house?'aDid I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not bgive to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?'Why do you akick at My sacrifice and at My offering bwhich I have commanded in My cdwelling, and dhonor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?'"Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, 'aI did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever'; but now the Lord declares, 'Far be it from Me--for bthose who honor Me I will honor, and those cwho despise Me will be lightly esteemed.'Behold, athe days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will not be an old man in your house.'You will see athe distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that I do for Israel; and an bold man will not be in your house forever.'Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.'This will be athe sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: bon the same day both of them will die.'But aI will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and bI will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before cMy anointed always.'Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, "Please assign me to one of the priest's offices so that I may eat a piece of bread."'"
Jul 16
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Samuel 2:12-26 NASB
Now the sons of Eli were aworthless men; they did not know the Lordaand the custom of the priests with the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.Also, before athey burned the fat, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw."If the man said to him, "They must surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as you desire," then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men adespised the offering of the Lord.Now aSamuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy bwearing a linen ephod.And his mother would make him a little arobe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer bthe yearly sacrifice.Then Eli would abless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she bdedicated to the Lord." And they went to their own home.aThe Lord visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And bthe boy Samuel grew before the Lord.Now Eli was very old; and he heard aall that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with bthe women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.He said to them, "Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?"No, my sons; for the report is not good awhich I hear the Lord'S people circulating."If one man sins against another, aGod will mediate for him; but bif a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the cLord desired to put them to death.Now the boy aSamuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.
Jul 16
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Samuel 2:1-11 NASB
"aThose who contend with the Lord will be shattered;
Jul 16
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Genesis 11:1-4 NASB
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land aof Shinar and settled there.They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used atar for mortar.They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top awill reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves ba name, otherwise we cwill be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
Jul 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Genesis 11:5 NASB
aThe Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Jul 13
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Genesis 11:6-7 NASB
The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have athe same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them."Come, alet Us go down and there bconfuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
Jul 13