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
Deuteronomy 26:7: “And we cried unto the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cries and saw our affliction.” In some countries the study of the Gematria (study of numbers) is an academic discipline and studied in Universities. Not so much in the United States, we are more of
Isaiah 22:22: “And the key to the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder so he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open.” Matthew 16:19: “And I will give to you the keys to the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever you bind on earth
Deuteronomy 7:21: Thou shalt not be affrighted at them, for the Lord thy God is among you , a mighty God and terrible.” “The Lord said to me: ‘I know.’” Heavenly Man when asked how he endured his suffering. Lately as the cares of this world have been closing in on me, I
Amos 4:12: “Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.” I suppose like most people I read this passage about God telling Israel that he will rain destruction upon them like He did with their enemies and
