Judges 6:12,14: “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him. ‘The Lord is with you, O mighty warrior.’ And the Lord looked at him and said ‘Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” Did you ever have
Joshua 9:14: “And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of God.” If you read Joshua 9 you will see a story that takes one whole chapter in the Book of Joshua which has only 24 chapters to tell this story of Gibeon. Now there must be
Joshua 14:8: “Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God.” We all know the story of the twelve spies sent out to scout out the Promised Land. Ten returned with a bad report and a recommendation that they
Joshua 1:18: “Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not harken unto thy words in all that thou commandmandest him, he shall be put to death, only be strong and of good courage. There is an old Peanuts comic strip where Snoopy is looking so forlorn sitting out in
Amos 4:13, “For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.” A wounded deer leaps the highest. Emily Dickerson This
Joshua 1:5: “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you, I will not fail you nor forsake you.” There’s a somebody I’m longing to see I hope that he, turns out to be Someone who’ll watch over me, I’m just a little lamb Whose lost in the woods,
Jonah 2:7-10: “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple. They that observe laying vanities forsake their own mercy, But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed, Salvation is of
Song of Solomon 2:1 “I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys.” Isaiah 61:3: “To provide for the mourners in Zion, to give them beauty instead of ashes.” Let me show you something that is interesting. The word for beauty in Isaiah 61:3 is pe’er (Pei, Aleph, Resh)
John 21:11: “Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to the land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.” One can only wonder why the writer gave an exact count of the number of fish that were
Psalms 71:5: “ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.” I don’t know about you but somehow I cannot see David hoping God will come through. Our modern concept of the word hope implies a sense of uncertainty. In other words, “I hope the Chicago
