Today’s Word
Pay Attention—Please
Listen to my prayer, God; and do not hide Yourself from my pleading. Give Your attention to me and answer me; Psalm 55:1-2a NASB Attention – Do you want God to pay attention to you? Be careful how you answer. What will it mean if God really takes a look at you? Will He find that obedient servant,…
Prayer Perspective
Jesus wept. John 11:35 NASB Wept – “And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,” (Luke 19:41). Why do we need to read both of these verses in order to understand the divine perspective? Because the translation hides the fact that there are two very different meanings here. When Yeshua encounters…
Prayer Wheel
In the beginning, God . . .” Genesis 1:1a NASB God – How do you read those first words of the Tanakh? In Hebrew, berēʾšît bārāʾ ʾĕlōhîm. Most modern Westerners imagine that this is the opening statement of a cosmology, that is, a pre-scientific story of origins. Creationism proceeds from this assumption to propose an…
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 Balancing Act
“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. …
Promises to Keep
“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…
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