Psalms 27:4: “One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.” Star light, star bright The first star I see tonight;
Psalms 130:4, “For with thee there is forgiveness (סלח), that thou mayest be feared.” I remember as a child there was a little Sunday School we would sing, practically every Sunday. Gone Gone Gone Yes my sins are gone Buried in the deepest sea That’s good enough for me Praise God, my sins are gone.
Psalms 100:4, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise.” The word in Hebrew for gates is sh’ar. When we hear the word gate we automatically think of a doorway that we pass through. Actually this word
Habakkuk 1:2: “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!” Habakkuk 3:18: “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” Many books have been written about
Psalms 149:5: “Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds.” “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene II “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Charles Dudley Warner The Psalm tells us to sing aloud upon our beds. This does not have quite
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 or a pronoun that. The KJV uses the word when. That’s
Amos 7:7-8, “Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the
Leviticus 19:10, “And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.” Most of us are familiar with the concept of gleaning from the story of Ruth (Ruth 2:2) who went out to
Zephaniah 1:18: “Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.” There was a conference in France for a large number of international engineers. During a break one of the European
Zechariah 4:6: “Not by might, not by power but by my Spirit says the Lord of Host.” “Preacher, you’re trying too hard.” From “The Cross and the Switchblade” by David Wilkerson. I remember as a teenager, I read the book “The Cross and Switchblade” by David Wilkerson at least a dozen times. Aside
