Psalms 20:5: “We will rejoice in thy salvation and in the name of our God, we will set up our banners and the Lord will fulfill all thy petitions.” This Psalm was written just before David went to war against the Assyrians. The Assyrians were considered invincible with their chariots and their specially bred
Job 1:20-22: Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Through
Exodus 35:1-2, “And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, these [are] the words which the LORD hath commanded, that [ye] should do them. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of
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Genesis 5:24, “And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.” Hebrews 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Jude 1:14, “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
Genesis 24:1, “And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.” In Wednesday night’s prayer meeting our pastor’s son gave the announcements before turning the service over to his father, the pastor, and as he put it, “the old man.” Our pastor had a few
Isaiah 7:11-12: “Ask thee a sign of the Lord, thy God, ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord.” Luke 12:48: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” Generally, we will not escape this holiday season
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Mark 10:25, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” This passage has proved to be very troubling to those seeking some interpretation. It is obviously impossible for a camel to go through the eye
Matthew 6:7: “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” I read this passage in the Aramaic this morning and discovered something very interesting. The word that Jesus used in the Aramaic for prayer it tsela. This
Deuteronomy 29:10-11: “Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:”
Psalm 17:5: “Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not.” “I thought I understood, but I do not understand His ways.” General Lee after the Battle of Gettysburg. Most modern translations render this as a statement of fact rather than a request. The word hold up is in
