WORD STUDY – WOUNDED HEART (ARAMAIC) Luke 9:55: “But he turned and rebuked them and said, ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.” I have sat through a number of Bible studies and Sunday School classes where a verse similar to this is read and someone raises their hand and says:
Psalms 139:23: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: “In the joy of this new relationship I said to Jesus Christ. ‘Lord, I want this heart of mine to be yours. I want to have you settle down here and be perfectly at home. Everything that
Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Martin Luther, the sixteen century monk who started the Protestant reformation was a monk with an attitude. It was never his intention to split from the Catholic church
Acts 3:19: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted (Aramaic – surrender, submit), that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;” I am completing a book with the working title: We Prayed for Revival and All We Got Was a Hug.
Jeremiah 3:14: “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:” There is a very interesting play on words in this verse with regard to the backslider. This verse
Proverbs 24:11-12: “If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to
Psalm 62:8: “Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.” In 1902 Adelaide Pollard was hoping to go to Africa as a missionary but was unable to raise the funds needed to pay for her missionary venture. She became greatly discouraged,
Psalms 139:17 “How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God, how great is the sum of them.” Today I was researching my book A Hebrew Teachers Explores God’s Heart in the Marriage Relationship.Listening to a story of a relationship where one’s love was betrayed, I could not help but think that no
Proverbs 23:7: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.” Something I have never understood in our Western culture are beauty pageants. I applaud the feminist movement for having successfully pointed out that beauty is very subjective
1Samuel 16:7: “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” With very few exceptions every modern
