I have become a marvel to many, for You are my strong refuge. Psalm 71:7 NASB Marvel – You didn’t intend to become a celebrity. You thought you’d just go about your life and mind your own business. But things happen. People see what you’ve done. They hear about your choices. They recognize your face. Suddenly, you’re…
Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?” Daniel 4:29-30 NIV By my mighty power – “Life is not as fate designs,…
And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” Mark 9:23-24 NASB Unbelief – What is “unbelief”? Is it some sort of doubting? Or maybe not having the right answers like failing an examination? Or maybe it’s just the inability to make the…
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; there is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, they would be too numerous to count. Psalm 40:5 NASB Wonders – “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. Doubt comes…
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, . . . Isaiah 1:18 NASB Reason – There is a place where we are afraid to go. There is a place where we no longer have any sense of direction, where we know we don’t belong, where our lives hang on a silver spider…
and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30 NASB Saved – “Religions may be classified as those of self-satisfaction, of self-annihilation or of fellowship. In the first worship is a quest for satisfaction of personal needs like salvation or desire for immortality. In the second…
I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustains me. Psalm 3:5 NASB Awoke – Life as it is. Not life as I want it to be. Just what is now. That’s where I find God. Just waking up. Oh, what a joy! God didn’t decide my time was over when I went…
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 NASB (9:5 in the Hebrew text) Today’s word edition comes from a comment by Rodney…
He satisfies the thirsty soul and He fills the hungry soul with good. Psalm 107:9 With Good – Did you expect that? Wouldn’t we expect the psalmist to say, “He fills the hungry soul with food?” After all, isn’t this verse about what we need to survive? The Hebrew mi le-tov is literally “He satisfies…
“Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees;” Acts 23:6 I am – “I am a Pharisee,” says Paul. Do you think we hear what he proclaimed? I doubt it. Most of us think of Paul as a Christian convert from Judaism. Most of us think of the Pharisees as the bad guys. We…
