Prayers of Desire

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…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide (23)

“What are your many sacrifices to Me?” says the Lord.  “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle; and I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.”  Isaiah 1:11  NASB I have had enough – The Hebrew word (śābēaʿ) has two connotations.  The first is about…

The Mother

Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.  Genesis 25:8  NASB With life – Irvin Yalom wrote, “Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, . . .”[1]  Clearly he’s right when it comes to religions we identify today.  Christianity and…

God’s Army

“Then I will make up to you for  the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust, My Great army which I sent among you.”  Joel 2:25  NASB Make up – Have you faced the great army of God?  It is an army that eats away…

Eden Revisited

And you shall eat and be satisfied, and shall bless YHWH your Elohim for the good land which He has given you.  . . . [less] that then your heart becomes lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, Deuteronomy 8:10,…

The World’s Desire

Then you shall eat and you shall be satisfied.   Deuteronomy 6:11 Satisfied – 840 million people will not experience sava’ today.  They woke up hungry.  They will go to sleep hungry.  You’re not one of them.  You probably don’t even know a single one of these.  840 million people will not experience sava’ tomorrow either….