Quotes About Commitment

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.

They took an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, trumpets, and ramsí horns.

The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asaís heart was fully devoted all his days.

And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold articles that he and his father had dedicated.

and next to him, Amasiah son of Zichri, the volunteer for the LORD, and with him 200,000 mighty men of valor.

Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am like you, and my people are your people; we will join you in the war.”

He commanded them, saying, “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD.

The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself and made a covenant with the commanders of hundreds—with Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

So the Levites and all Judah did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions.

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORDís people.

Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.

So the workmen labored, and in their hands the repair work progressed. They restored the house of God according to its specifications, and they reinforced it.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.

Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported, “We have cleansed the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table of the showbread with all its utensils.

Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.

However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.

The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.

He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.