HEBREW WORD STUDY – TEMPTING GOD

by | Nov 13, 2014 | Devotionals

Isaiah 7:11-12: “Ask thee a sign of the Lord, thy God, ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord.”   Luke 12:48: “To whom much is given, much is expected.”   Generally, we will not escape...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – TRAPPING GOD

by | Nov 11, 2014 | Devotionals

  Matthew 6:7:  “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”   I read this passage in the Aramaic this morning and discovered something very interesting.  The word that...

WORD STUDY – THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

by | Nov 10, 2014 | Devotionals

Deuteronomy  29:10-11: “Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE CIRCULAR PATH

by | Nov 9, 2014 | Devotionals

  Psalm 17:5: “Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not.”   “I thought I understood, but I do not understand His ways.”  General Lee after the Battle of Gettysburg.   Most modern translations render this as a statement of fact rather...