Psalms 1:1 “Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” What does it mean to be blessed? Is that to say that the man who does not walk in the counsel of the
Exodus 30:37-38: “And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord. Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall be cut off from his people.” When I was a student at
1Kings 19:2-4: “Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, so let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba,
Psalms 27:10: “When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” The first word in this verse in Hebrew is ki. Translators take a lot of liberty with this word. Generally it is rendered as a conjunction because (my mother and father forsake me) or a pronoun that.
Psalms 1:2: “But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” Last evening I spent some time talking with a friend who practices something I call meditative prayer. There is a lot of tears while she is meditating and praying. This morning
Psalms 1:2: “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night.” My father used to tell a story about a time when he was a boy living on a farm way back in the hills of Missouri. A stranger walked through
II Chronicles 32:31: “Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him that he might know all that was in His heart.” The question that surfaces here is what
Psalms 3:7: “Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou has smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.” “O this is poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death, O Gertrude, Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not single
Genesis 9:21: “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.” So this man of God, this one righteous person, the one who walks with God, and found favor in the sight of God, leaves the ark and the first thing he does is build a still
Job 38:22: “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow hast thou seen the treasures of hail?” This study is dedicated to all our friends on East coast who are buried in the worst snow storm of the century. We here in the Midwest, particularly Chicago, are thinking of you as we suffer
