yāraš

  • Hole in the Heart

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is my portion, so that I will not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?” and that I will not become impoverished and steal,  Proverbs 30:8b-9a  NASB Impoverished – What does it mean to be impoverished?  Poor?  Financially destitute?  The Hebrew is yāraš, in the…

  • Now the Enemy Shows Up

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength.  Psalm 31:4  NASB Net– Caught!  Tangled up!  Trapped!  In the mind-body-spirit combination of nephesh (person), feeling captured in one area always affects the rest of life.  Often we have freedom of movement but are imprisoned inside.  We struggle to…