•   Hosea 6:5: “For I desire mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”   Genesis 4:1: “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.”   I am now on my sixth day of searching for

  • Hosea 6:5: “For I desire mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God  more than burnt offerings.”   As I enter into Day # 5 of my Journey of the Dark Night of my Soul and my search for the one whom my soul loves I find myself asking why I want to feel

  •   Psalms 13:1,2,5: “How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? forever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?  (5) But I have trusted in your mercy my heart will rejoice in

  •   Song of Solomon 3:4: “Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.”   “Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the

  •   Psalms 68:6:  “God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].”   As I enter Day #3 in my journey through the dark night of my soul in search of He whom my soul loves I have met up with

  •   Song of Solomon 3:1:  “By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.”   “I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft   Last evening as I sat alone

  • II Samuel 22:19: “They prevented me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay.”   Many years ago I taught English in a Middle School.  I was told the Middle School age group was the most difficult age group to teach.  There is good reason behind this logic.  Stop and think

  •   Psalms 25:16: “Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted.”   David is crying out to God because he is desolate.  The word desolate is yachad.  Curious but that second Yod makes this word an adjective, not a noun or verb. It means to be united, to

  •   Jeremiah 14:7: “O lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it, for thy name sake, for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.”   Judah is facing a time of real trouble because of their sin.  Actually Jeremiah is mentioning three things Judah has done against God.  One is their

  • Jeremiah 6:16: “Thus said the Lord, stand ye in the way, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein.”   Jeremiah’s mission as a prophet was to reveal the sins of