WORD STUDY – TO SEE Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are those who are pure in heart for they shall see God.” To See: Aramaic – nihzon: experience, to see beyond normal perception. To see colors of emotions. God has no body and is invisible, so how can we “see Him.” “Seeing God” is a Hebrew idiom
WORD STUDY – WISE HEART Exodus 35:10: “And all the wise hearted among you shall come and make all that the Lord hath commanded.” Wise – Hebrew: Hacam – teachable, skillful, knowing. Heart – Levav – Heart in the physical sense, life, reasoning, understanding, will, judgment, design, affection, love, hatred, courage, fear, joy, sorrow. Wise
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim; Psalms 36:12: “Let not the foot of pride overtake me.” “I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.” Ronald Reagan One reason why so many people liked Ronald Reagan was that he could be intelligent without being an
WORD STUDY – CURSE Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus said the Lord; ‘Curse be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm whose heart, departeth from the Lord.” Curse – Hebrew: ‘aror – Curse, to remove the influence of God. Thank goodness this verse was written in Hebrew and not English. Just because some
Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O’God and renew a right spirit within me.” Rabbi Cohen, an orthodox Jewish rabbi, showed me a special room in his house. It was filled with books, all books about God. Commentaries on the Torah, the Talmud, the Mishnah. I remember how he picked up one book
Sleep – Hebrew: yishenah – sleep, to repeat, to change, to understand, divine revelation. Song of Solomon 5:2 “I sleep but my heart is awake, it is the voice of my beloved that knocks.” The word Yishenah comes from two possible root words. The first is Yishen which simply means to sleep. The second is often overlooked
WORD STUDY – WEEPING Weep – bakah: Weep, mourn, lament. II Kings 8:11: “And the man of God wept.” John 11:35: “Jesus wept” The Hebrew word bakah has its origins in the picture of dropping or dripping of water as in tears flowing from one’s eyes. What made Elijah and Jesus weep was the knowledge
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Malachi 2:2: “If you will not hear and you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of Host, I will even send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessings, yea, I have cursed them already,
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: I Kings 11:2: “Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel; You shall not go in to them neither shall they come in unto you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their god. Solomon clave unto those in
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Jeremiah 25:5: “They (the prophets) said: ‘Repent now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever.” Some translations render this passage as
