Quotes About Devotion

To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”

So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.

When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”

and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ëMy Name shall be there,í so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

The high places were not removed, but Asaís heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

Next, he arranged the wood, cut up the bull, placed it on the wood,