Psalms 19:9 “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever.” I read a story in Voice of the Martyrs magazine about a pastor in Uzbekistan who was preaching from Hebrews 10:34. Nobody was listening to his sermon. Nobody was listening because no one was in his church, his congregation was too afraid
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. I had always found it strange that Jesus always talks about the Pharisees and the Scribes, but rarely mentioned lawyers. We assume these lawyers are
Psalms 41:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. I read through the first few verses of this Psalm and I mean there are a lot goodies involved for just giving the poor some consideration. It
Genesis 25:22-23, “And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one]
Genesis 12:10 “There was famine in the land.” Habakkuk 2:4: “The just shall live by his faith.” “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Jewish literature gives an interesting insight into Genesis 12:10. The word for there was is yehi which
Numbers 23:4, “And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.” It is interesting that the Bible says God met Balaam. The word that is used for met is vaykar. Jewish scholars render this as God
Genesis 15:7 “And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.” Acts 7:2-3 “And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before
Psalms 119:176: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments.” “I’m just a little lamb who is lost in the woods, I know that I could always be good, To someone who will watch over me. “- George Gershwin “Someone to Watch Over
Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousness’s [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” I remember as a child hearing an evangelist preach on Isaiah 64:6 and I recall how he dramatically described filthy rags,
Ezekiel 36:21: “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy names sake which you have profaned among the heathen, whether you went.” What is it that makes God great? Is it His great power,
