WORD STUDY – HOPE OR CERTAINTY

by | Apr 1, 2014 | Devotionals

  Psalms 71:5: “ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.”   I don’t know about you but somehow I cannot see David hoping God will come through.  Our modern concept of the word hope implies a sense of uncertainty.  In other...

WORD STUDY – GRIEVED TO THE HEART

by | Mar 31, 2014 | Devotionals

א   Genesis 6:6  “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”   It seems more and more I am being asked about the Nephilim or giants in Genesis 6.  I believe much of  the interest comes from the discovery of...

WORD STUDY – WHAT THE ENEMY HAS STOLEN

by | Mar 30, 2014 | Devotionals

  Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten, the canker worm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my great army which I sent among you.”   Very little is known about the prophet Joel.  He is mentioned only once, in the...

WORD STUDY – GOD IS IN OUR NOSES

by | Mar 28, 2014 | Devotionals

  Job 27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.”   Translators have really played around with this verse. No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God...