Psalms 91:5: “Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the arrow [that] flieth by day;” Taken literally this verse really has little concern for us today. How mean how many of us are really afraid of being shot by an arrow during the daytime? Actually, people in ancient times
Psalms 91:5: “Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the arrow [that] flieth by day;” night,terror Matthew 15:2: “Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.” I have read a number of commentaries on what they
Psalms 91:4: “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.” So what is a shield and buckler? What is truth? The word used in the Hebrew for truth is ‘emeth. This word is most often used to express the idea
Psalms 91:2: “I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.” We throw this word trust around all the time as Christians. It is one of those words that we use over and over and we never stop to think of what it
Psalms 91:4: “He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” It is interesting that in many species of birds both the male and female will cover their chicks with their feathers and wings. It is not just the mother bird.
Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence. The word for snare mipach could come from two different root words. It could be pachach or pachad. Pachach means to entrap, either by a net or a snare. It is also used to express the
Psalms 91:2: “I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.” I mean really, are not refuge and fortress the same thing? A refuge is a place of safety and so is a fortress. The only difference is that when you think of
Psalms 27:1: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid.” Ok, it is confession time. I shall reveal to you one of my deepest darkest secrets. I have a school boy crush on Hillary Clinton.
Psalms 28:1 “Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” Like them that go down into the pit. Many commentators feel that this is just a poetic expression for death. In
Hosea 5:15; “I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their offence and seek my face, in their affliction they will seek me early.” I counted up the number of times that God said in the Old Testament, in one form or another, that He would not leave us or
