• Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Matthew 6:13: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Yesterday in church we all recited the Lord’s Prayer.  It is probably the most common prayer recited and is recited in every Mass around the world and throughout most of the Protestant churches

  • WORD STUDY: SWORD Isaiah 1:20; “But if you refuse and rebel you shall be devoured by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Sword – Hebrew: charav – sword, destruction, lay to waste, ruin, make desolate. Why does this say that we will be “devoured” by the sword and not killed by

  • Word Study – Obedience Isaiah 1:19: “If you be willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land. Obedience – Hebrew: shama – hear, to listen, to give attention, understand, submissive, obedience “One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”  Dietrich Bonhoffer Oddly, there is only one word in the Hebrew

  • WORD STUDY – PREVENTED II Samuel 22:19: “They prevented me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay.” Prevented – Hebrew: kadam – confront, attack early, ambush. Strange how words change over the years. Back in the day of King James the English word prevent meant to attack and today it

  • WORD STUDY:  GROW II Samuel 5:10 “And David went on and grew great and the Lord of host was with him.” Grow:  Hebrew: yalak: to proceed along, to go, to grow as you proceed. halak: to grow in a righteous walk gadol: to grow in greatness This verse has three different words that all mean

  • WORD STUDY – FORSAKE 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.” Forsake – Hebrew: azavu –

  • WORD STUDY – HUMBLED I Chronicles 12:7: “And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves the Word of the Lord came to Shemalah saying they have humbled themselves, therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance.” Humble: Hebrew – kana: to subdue, to bundle together in a package. After

  • WORD STUDY:  THING I Samuel 4:7 “And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp and they said: Woe unto us! For there hath not been such a thing heretofore.” Thing: Hebrew – shaleshim: thing, third day, third warrior, ultimate warrior. I find this verse very remarkable in that the

  • WORD STUDY – SUSTAIN I Kings 17:9 “Arise, get thee to Zarephath which is in Zidon, behold I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.” I Corinthians 10:13: “There hath not temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted

  • Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Luke 14:26: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Every pastor at some time in his career will be confronted with