ח WORD STUDY – CIRCLING THE MOUNTAIN Deuteronomy 2:3: “Enough of your circling this mountain, turn yourself north.” Years ago I saw a book in a Christian bookstore which was titled: “One More Lap Around The Mountain.” That title sure can strike home to many of us. The word mountain in the Hebrew is har.
WORD STUDY – THIS MATTER Daniel 3:16-18: “O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you in this matter. If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O King. But even if he does
WORD STUDY – THE TUNING FORK טוב Psalms 25:8: “Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.” There was a time some years ago we had a “God is good” explosion. All over Christian television you kept hearing “God is good,” It seemed in every church and church service
WORD STUDY – DRAW NEAR Isaiah 29:13, “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me…” I once taught drama in a high school and I would always tell my acting students that a
WORD STUDY – FORGIVE THEIR SIN 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” I have spent the last year
WORD STUDY – REMEMBER ME Psalms 25:7b: “Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’sake, O LORD.” The Psalmist is using this word remember quite a bit. He is asking God to remember His tender mercies, then he is asking God to not
WORD STUDY – MY -TRANSGRESSIONS Psalms 25:7: “Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’sake, O LORD.” The Psalmist wants God to forget the sins of his youth and his transgressions. I think like most people I thought the word sin was a
WORD STUDY – WAIT ALL THE DAY Psalms 25:5b “For thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.” As Christians our first instincts when we read the God of our salvation we automatically think of our soul salvation through Jesus Christ. Indeed He is the God of our
WORD STUDY – SORCERY – כשׁפ Exodus 7:11-12: “Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” Exodus 22:18: “Thou shalt
WORD STUDY – LEAD ME IN THY TRUTH Psalm 25:5: “Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.” Here the Psalmist is asking God to not only lead him in His truth but to teach Him truth as well.
