WORD STUDY – SEEK ME EARLY – משׁחרי Proverbs 8:17: “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.” Often our personal time of worship with God that we would call a quiet time or personal devotions takes place early in the morning. It seems this proverb tends
Haggai 1:4-6: “ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink;
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
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
Psalms 119:176: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments.” “I’m just a little lamb who is lost in the woods, I know that I could always be good, To someone who will watch over me. “- George Gershwin “Someone to Watch Over
Ezekiel 36:21: “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy names sake which you have profaned among the heathen, whether you went.” What is it that makes God great? Is it His great power,
Proverbs 8:17: “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.” This is a little odd in the Hebrew. “I love them” is in an imperfect form, hence it should correctly be rendered as I will love them. Of course no one will translate it that way because the following words are that love
Luke 11:9-10: And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone asking receives and the one seeking finds; and the one knocking, it will be opened. “That’s all I can stands, cause I can’t stands
Isaiah 55:6: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.” Yesterday I had one of those “Oh Lord, Oh Lord” days. So I decided to continue my study in Isaiah 55:6 as I felt there was another face to Torah here. If you are a
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
