Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.

We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's Word, and builds your faith.

This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading First Kings 21 and 22, but before we jump in, I've got a quick

announcement for us. The Uncommon Parenting Conference will be hosted at Watermark Community Church

here in Dallas, Texas at the North Dallas location on November 10th and 11th of 2023.

So if you're listening to join the journey and you're a parent, this is for you.

The conference is designed to help parents feel more confident as you raise your children in an

ever-changing culture according to God's unchanging truth. And really, the uncommon parenting conference

is for any parent or caretaker who wants to be better equipped to disciple

the children in his or her life. So this could include expecting parents, foster parents, or those

in the process of adopting, and empty nesters or grandparents. We'll put the link to sign up for

the conference in the episode description, but the conference is in November, and today we're reading the end of

First Kings and watching the final demise of King Ahab.

More specifically, we're looking at chapter 22 versus 21 through 23 in which we encounter

the lying spirit.

So what are we to make of this?

First, we've got to understand that elements of the story aren't far off. This isn't a crazy alternate reality we're reading about.

The story clearly evidences the fallen nature of the world we live in today. As chapter 21 begins,

we read that Ahab really wanted Nabath's vineyard,

and when Ahab asks for the vineyard and gets told no, he goes home and pouts about it. He doesn't get

his way, and he pouts. If you've spent any time around toddlers, you know that's super relatable.

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