HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENTERING HIS GATES

by | Dec 19, 2014 | Devotionals

Psalms 100:4: “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.”   This is a very familiar verse to those who attend church regularly.  We automatically associate entering his gates with passing through the doors of the church and his courts with...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CREDIBILITY

by | Dec 18, 2014 | Devotionals

Exodus 7:9: “When Pharaoh says to you: ‘Prove yourself by working a miracle.’ It is interesting to note that the word for prove here is not nacah which is your standard Hebrew word for prove.  Instead the writer uses an interesting word which is nathan. This was one...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE NURSING BABY

by | Dec 17, 2014 | Devotionals

Genesis 15:6: “And he (Abraham) believed the Lord and He counted it as righteousness.”   The Talmud teaches that trusting belief in God is more important than anything else.  One may keep all the laws of Torah, follow every ritual, but it is only trust that will...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – MERAPHIM – GIVING UP

by | Dec 16, 2014 | Devotionals

Ezra 4:4: “Then the people of the land weakened the hands of Judah and troubled them in building.”   As I read the news coming out of Israel today and I see the tensions growing between the government of the United States and Israel, I cannot help but wonder if...