WORD STUDY – OY VEY

by | Dec 29, 2013 | Devotionals

Isaiah 6:5: “Then said I, “Woe is me for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips.”   I am quite baffled over the first word in the verse which is ’omar and not ‘omer. The word means to speak or say.  However, the word ‘omar is spelled with a patah under...

WORD STUDY – SPIKENARD

by | Dec 28, 2013 | Devotionals

Song of Solomon 1:12, “While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the smell thereof.”   Esther 2:12, “Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the...

WORD STUDY – SMILING AT THE RAIN STORMS

by | Dec 27, 2013 | Devotionals

Isaiah 4:6: “And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.”   Isaiah was a prophet to the nation of Judah.  His prophecies  were filled with double meanings and not...

WORD STUDY – SHEPHERD

by | Dec 26, 2013 | Devotionals

Luke 2:8 “And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.”   I remember as a child in church during Christmas time singing the song, While Shepherds Washed Their Socks By Night and wondering about...