Psalms 27:8 “When thou saith, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee thy face, Lord, will I seek.” I have been in many circles where people talk about feeling the presence of the Lord. They have all sorts of ideas on how to seek God’s presence. Many suggest you need a background
Ezekiel 39:25, 29: (25)”Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I bring the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name.” (29) “Neither will I hide my face anymore from them, for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of
Psalms 13:1 “How long Oh Lord will thou forget me forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?” We added two brand new buses to our disability bus fleet. I asked one of the lucky drivers who was assigned to one of these brand new vehicles how he liked it. He said he
Psalms 119:135: “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant and teach me they statutes.” “Rollin a sea, adrift on the water, Could it be finally, I’m turning for home? Finally a chance to say: ‘Hey I love you.’ Never again to be all alone, And you light up my life, you give
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
Ezekiel 39:25, 29: (25)”Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I bring the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name.” (29) “Neither will I hide my face anymore from them, for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of
Numbers 14:14: “And they will tell the inhabitants of this land, that they have heard that the Lord is among this people, that you Lord are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them in daytime in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of
Isaiah 50:7: “For the Lord God shall help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed,” Practically every translation I read this verse in will translate “‘azar” as help or helper. There are not too many
I Chronicles 16:11: “Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.” Whose doesn’t love hidden secrets from satires, allegories to metaphors. Who doesn’t love to search for hidden meanings. Hidden meanings has been a staple in literature from Jonathan Swift’s satire on human nature in Gulliver’s Travels, John Bunyan’s allegory of Pilgrims
Exodus 33:18: “O’ Let me see your Glory.” Do you ever find yourself asking something from God and then you stop and wonder, “What in the world am I asking for?” Asking to see the glory of God is something I find myself doing when in the heat of worship and then afterwards I
