This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 NASB Day – Yom, the Hebrew word for “day,” is the most common word describing time in the Tanakh. You might think that this is to be expected. After all, the common experience of life is…
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. Ezra 8:23 (NIV) Petitioned – Ezra’s statement shows us the proper protocol for answered prayer. It does not guarantee that the answer we receive is the answer we hope to receive, but it tells us that answers do come. The proper…
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, Deuteronomy 13:1 NASB Sign – What is the difference between coincidence and sign? Answer—your point of view. If you are looking for a sign from God, you will find it. If you are not, you won’t….
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 NASB Clothed – Just in case you didn’t realize it, this verse has almost nothing to do with apparel. God’s actions following the first sin reveal an attempt to restore the original intention of Mankind. Davidson’s remark on…
So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. Joshua 6:23 NASB Outside – mihuts. That’s what you do with Gentiles. You save…
And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19 KJV Evil – Jewish psychology revolves around the power to choose. In spite of the fact that Freud was a Jew, the Jewish theology of the self is not…
But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:6 NASB When you pray – Silent prayer, the paradigm of Christian meditation, has always alluded me. No sooner…
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For You have delivered my soul from death, indeed my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living. Psalm 56:13 NASB From death – Was David saved? He certainly thinks so. In fact, he notes that as a result of being saved from death, he has the…
You have taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book? Psalm 56:8 NASB My tears – “How difficult it is to expose our heart’s core, our heart of hearts to anyone, even to God. So it is with God. He will not expose us to that…
