grip

  • In the Grip

    Immediately Jesus reached out with His hand and took hold of him, and *said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”  Matthew 14:31  NASB Took hold – “Hold on!  I’m coming!”  Rescue work.  That’s what’s needed.  Unfortunately, most of the time we don’t even know we’re falling.  We’re so caught up in the…

  • The Promise (6)

    “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  NASB Uphold– We are back to intensive interpretation.  “Surely,” (ʾap) is a word of force.  We saw it in the first…

  • Cenchrus incertus Curtis

    I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.  Psalm 101:3  NASB Fasten its grip – Let’s go walking in the fields by the dunes along the coast.  By the time we’re finished with our trip, you will have encountered…