WORD STUDY – INVINCIBLE עוז Psalms 29:11: “The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.” For thousands of years every Jewish child would begin studying Biblical Hebrew at the age of three. The idea was not to prepare them for their bar mitzvah although this is no
Psalms 39:13: “O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.” This is a very curious verse. What is the Psalmist saying when he asks God to spare him so he can recover strength before he is no more. All commentators agree the expression before I
Psalms 147:10: “He delighteth not in the strength of horses; he takes no pleasure in the legs of man.” This afternoon I listened to an amazing story told by a woman who related how she became a Christian as a teenager and was just so in love with God and was desperate to
Psalms 105:19: “Until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him.” Nehemiah 8:10, “Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength!” We assume that our strength comes for the joy God gives to us. Ever stop to ask where that joy comes from? Joseph
Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” There are three things mentioned here that occur in time of trouble. God is a refuge, strength, and a help. This sounds good, but my question is, how does this refuge, strength, and help come about. Christians are going through
Psalm 29:11: “The Lord will give strength to His people and the Lord will bless His people with peace.” In both cases where David says: The Lord he is using the name Jehovah (YHWH). When David uses the name Jehovah (YHWH) he is doing so to express his intimacy with God. In fact throughout
Judges 6:12,14: “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him. ‘The Lord is with you, O mighty warrior.’ And the Lord looked at him and said ‘Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” Did you ever have
Judges 16:18: “And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, come up at this once for he has shown me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her and brought money in their hand.”
Isaiah 40:29: “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Clarence Jordan, who was instrumental in the founding of Habitat for Humanity, was a gifted man who had two PhD’s in Greek and Hebrew and Agriculture. He could have become a rich and powerfully successful man. Instead he chose
WORD STUDY: LORD GOD Exodus 34:6: “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.” Lord God: Hebrew – Jehovah El In reading the Bible we are constantly running across the phrase “Lord God.” This verse should give us some
