WORD STUDY – A HEART LIKE GOD’S I Samuel 13:14: “But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord has sought him a man after his own heart.” If there has been one theme for my life in the last ten years, it has been to learn and understand God’s heart. Oddly, I am still
WORD STUDY – CASTING השׁלק Psalms 55:23: “Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved (collapse) .” There is the story in Rabbinic literature of a poor man who had no wagon or donkey to carry his heavy bundles. He had to carry
WORD STUDY – A SIN TO THE LORD 1 Samuel 12:23: “Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:” “He who loves God does not demand that God love him.” Baruch Spinoza Ok,
Psalm 23:5b … He amounts my head with oil… the word “oil” is ” Shamen” . It does not simply mean olive oil as but an oil such as olive oil used as a carrier oil for essential oils. Distillation of flowers and plants is an ancient practice and essential oils would have been
WORD STUDY – AFFLICTION – אנה Psalms 119:67: “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.” I run into lot of teaching that God wants everyone healthy and that He never brings affliction on anyone. I mean people got pretty emotional if you were to even suggest that God
WORD STUDY – FAT AS GREASE Psalms 119:70: “Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.” “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
WORD STUDY – I AM WEAK Ezra 4:4: “Then the people of the land weakened the hands of Judah and troubled them in building.” As I was growing up I would listen to my father sing his favorite to himself and to God. It was the old Country Gospel Song, Just a Closer Walk with
WORD STUDY – NOW I AM OLD – DAY 7 (RETURN FROM SILENCE)ח Psalms 37:25: “I have been young and am now old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken.” It’s over for another year. My week of silence has ended and I have returned from the Northwoods bearded and smelling like a wet
WORD STUDY – THE STONE HEARD ALL THE WORDS (Day 6 In Silence in the Northwoods) Joshua 24:27: “And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness
WORD STUDY: FAITHFULNESS AROUND YOU (DAY 5 IN SILENCE IN THE NORTHWOODS) Psalms 89:8: “O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?” In my moments of fear Through every pain every tear There’s a God who’s been faithful to me When my strength
