Jeremiah 16:16: “Behold, I will send many fishermen says the Lord and they shall fish them and afterward I will send for many hunters and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.” I recently had someone write to me with the following
Genesis 28:16 “When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware of it.” In Jewish literature there is the story of a man who started to say some negative things about the king. After going through his list of nasty things
Psalms 51:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.” Unless you are really rank liberal you
I Kings 17: 9,12-13: “Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. And she said, As the Lord they God liveth, I have not a cake, but, an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a
Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Martin Luther, the sixteen century monk who started the Protestant reformation was a monk with an attitude. It was never his intention to split from the Catholic church
27:14:“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD The Azusa Street Revival of the early 20th Century ushered in many practices that are still around today. One practice that has pretty well died out is called the tarrying services and was
Psalms 27:13 “If I had not believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.” Different translations translate this in various ways such as: “I am confident to see the Lord’s goodness” or “I would have despaired had I not seen the Lord’s goodness,” “I believe I shall look
Psalms 61:7: “He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, [which] may preserve him.” Commentators are all over the place on this verse. Some say it is a reference to the Messiah, hence they render the word abide or yashav in Hebrew as to be enthroned. This is a
Psalms 93:4: “The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea than the mighty waves of the sea.” The literal meaning of this verse is clear. The sea was a place of terror to the landlocked Jewish people. Fishermen were the fearless iron workers of their day and even
Ps 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. Now we really get down to meat of this verse. We learn why the Psalmist is asking for God to teach him His way and lead him in His path, it is because of his
