Nehemiah 7:5: “Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies.” I was reading the various commentaries on this passage and it seems all of them pretty much said the same thing and that was that Nehemiah recognized that if he had
Malachi 3:6: “For I am the Lord, I change not.” It seemed like a couple years ago I was on a roll. God seemed to be answering practically every prayer I prayed. I even joked to some people that I seemed to have hit a vein of gold and to give me your prayer request
Psalms 25:11: “For thy name sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity for it is great.” Why do you think David is using the word iniquity rather than sin? Are not iniquity and sin the same thing? Maybe in English we think they are the same but in Hebrew there is a real difference between iniquity
Psalms 145:8: “The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, [vacant] to anger and of great mercy.” Someone told me today that I should have patience. Considering the fact that I have always considered myself a patient person, I figured I may need to re-examine this word in light of Scripture. I seem to be
Psalms 119:130: The entrance of thy word gives light, it gives understanding to the simple.” I just hung up the phone. Well, there it is, decision time, crunch time. It is one of those life altering decisions and believe I am not about to make that decision until I have at least consulted with my
Psalms 119:17: “Deal bountifully with thy servant that I may live and keep thy word.” Yesterday I looked at Psalms 119:11 and the word for word was amar. Today, just six verses further down and the word word this time in the Hebrew it is the word devar. Both amar and devar are translated as
Psalms 27:8 “When thou saith, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee thy face, Lord, will I seek.” I have been in many circles where people talk about feeling the presence of the Lord. They have all sorts of ideas on how to seek God’s presence. Many suggest you need a background
Psalms 119:99: “I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditations.” I don’t recommend giving this verse to your favorite teacher on teacher’s appreciation day. King David was surrounded by some of the best teachers in the nation. The teachers he is referring to here are religious teachers. There
II Samuel 12:10: “Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house because thou has despised me and hast taken the wife of UriUriah the Hittite to be thy wife.” I have been on a seven year journey to discover the heart of God. This journey has taken me to a monastery where I
WORD STUDY – PASSION – קנא Exodus 34:14: “For thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God.” “O’ beware my lord of jealousy, for it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon. Shakespeare, Othello – Act 3,
