Word Study: Flee From His Presence

by | May 12, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – FLEE FROM THE PRESENCE Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” KJV Jonah 1:3: “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.” NIV I remember as a six year old sitting in Sunday School in Beginner’s...

Word Study: Fair Trade For Profit

by | May 11, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – FAIR TRADE FOR PROFIT Philippians 1:21: “For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.” I have heard this verse all my life but I never really studied it out in its context nor examined it in the Greek and Aramaic. When I did I discovered the...

Word Study: DIsquietness Of My Heart

by | May 10, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – DISQUIETNESS OF MY HEART Psalms 38:8 “I am feeble and sore broken, I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.” Psalms 103:2: “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:” Sometimes it is really hard to bless the Lord. The old...

Word Study: Heard The Open Tent

by | May 9, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – HEARD THE OPEN TENT Genesis 18:10: “And Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him.” I was reading in one of the ancient rabbinical works this morning which is a Jewish commentary of this passage. It was noted that there was no preposition “in”...

Word Study: The Dead Bury The Dead

by | May 7, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD Matthew 8:22 “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.” “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.” Rudyard Kipling The above quote by Rudyard Kipling is from his poem The...