Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NASB Will give you – What a great promise! Be greatly pleased with God and you’ll get everything your heart desires, right? Take pleasure in God and you’ll be guaranteed divinely provided health, wealth, and happiness (unless, of course, you desire…
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” Matthew 7:6 NASB Before pigs – It surely seems as if Yeshua is instructing us to avoid sharing what is holy with the undeserving. …
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NASB Eternal life – “Man’s task is to make the world worthy of redemption.”[1] But wait! Why should I worry about making the world worthy of redemption when I’m waiting to…
“Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [a]completely destroy…
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV To pray – “The purpose of prayer is not the same as the purpose of speech. The purpose of speech is to inform; the…
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV To pray – Perhaps it would help a bit to know the etymology of proseuchomai, the usual word for “to pray” in the Greek…
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV Us – Have you discovered that you don’t have the right words for prayer? You want to communicate with God, but when you actually…
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV Teach – Do you know how to pray? Do you know the purpose of prayer? Do you understand the importance of prayer? Great, you’re…
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV Teach us – Do you find it odd that the disciples asked Yeshua to teach them to pray? We know, of course, that they…
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV Teach us – “To live without prayer is to live without God, to live without a soul.”[1] When I first read Heschel’s words some…
