But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. Psalm 130:4 ESV May be feared – YHWH pardons! Rejoice! YHWH is salah. I can be straightened. But this is no surprise to the serpent, and he is prepared to manipulate YHWH’s pardon for his purposes. Never underestimate the craftiness of the yetzer ha’ra. …
Dear Skip and community: I would like to request prayer for my only sister, Faye, who has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which has already invaded the portal vein, and is considered inoperable unless they can shrink the tumor with chemo and radiation, and then do a Whipple, one of the most complicated and dangerous surgeries imaginable. …
But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. Psalm 130:4 ESV Forgiveness – Just four words in Hebrew. Ki-imka has-liha’ lema’an tivare’. But the world on my black desolation changes with these four words. Each one is crucial for my rescue. Ki-imka (but with you) opens the thought. The divine alternative. YHWH…
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? Psalm 130:3 NASB Should mark – I was always afraid of God. I wasn’t Catholic but when it came to guilt, I might as well have been. My childhood was punctuated by constant reminders that God saw everything I did, and as a result,…
Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Psalm 130:1-2 NASB Hear – “Out of my deepest despair, out of my total helplessness in the face of the darkness of my heart, Lord, YHWH, shim’ah.” The cry…
Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Psalm 130:1-2 NASB Depths – The psalm of the good shepherd assures us that we can walk in the valley of the depths and not fear evil attacks. But…
Skip, Would you please post this on Today’s Word? My family and I would really value your prayers in the coming days. My mum is gravely ill and we really don’t know how long she has left – could be days, could be weeks. She is now bed-bound and in almost constant pain, barely able…
It is your own wickedness that will punish you and your apostasy that will condemn you. Consider and take note what a bitter and evil thing it is to forsake Yahweh your God so that you have no reverence for me – The word of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. Jeremiah 2:19 (J. A. Thompson…
But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. Leviticus 18:26 ESV Rules/ abominations – The Hebrew word for “rules” in this verse is mishpat. If we think of this word the way that we understand “rules,” we will…
But Moses said to God, “Behold, who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” Exodus 3:11 NASB Who am I? – God rarely chooses those who clamor for the assignment. In fact, the Bible demonstrates that God’s preference is for those who…
