HEBREW WORD STUDY – FAMINE IN THE LAND

by | Oct 27, 2014 | Devotionals

  Genesis 12:10 “There was famine in the land.”   Habakkuk 2:4: “The just shall live by his faith.”   “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”  Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner.   Jewish literature gives an...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A HAPPENING OR A CALL

by | Oct 26, 2014 | Devotionals

  Numbers  23:4, “And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.”   It is interesting that the Bible says God met Balaam.  The word that is used for met is vaykar.  Jewish...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE BROWN PIGEON

by | Oct 25, 2014 | Devotionals

  Genesis 15:7 “And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.”   Acts 7:2-3  “And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LOST SHEEP

by | Oct 25, 2014 | Devotionals

  Psalms 119:176: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments.”   “I’m just a little lamb who is lost in the woods, I know that I could always be good, To someone who will watch over me. “- George Gershwin ...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FILTHY GARMENTS

by | Oct 23, 2014 | Devotionals

Isaiah 64:6,  “But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousness’s [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”   I remember as a child hearing an evangelist preach on Isaiah 64:6 and I...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – PROFANING HIS HOLY NAME

by | Oct 22, 2014 | Devotionals

  Ezekiel 36:21: “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy names sake which you have profaned among the heathen, whether you went.”   What is it that makes God great? ...