WORD STUDY – ONCE YOUNG BUT NOW OLD

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Devotionals

Psalms 37:25: “I have been young and am now old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken.”   Today feels like one of those days that I am being struck down (but not destroyed – II Corinthians 4:9) but still struck down on all fronts. It was just one of those...

WORD STUDY – DELIGHTING IN GOD

by | Aug 13, 2014 | Devotionals

      Psalm 37:3-4 “Trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and cherish faithfulness.  So shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”   “Dwell in the land…”   Does that not go without...

WORD STUDY – SHELTERED IN THE HEART OF GOD

by | Aug 11, 2014 | Devotionals

Psalm 139:5: “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.”   I suppose you could translate this verse a number of ways. What I find interesting in this verse is the word for beset which is sur. As a noun this is what Moses struck to get...

WORD STUDY – PEACE IS YOUR UMPIRE

by | Aug 10, 2014 | Devotionals

Psalms 120:2: “Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.”   At first reading it appears that the writer is saying: “Lord make those gossiping about me shut up, punch ‘em in the mouth.”  But upon closer examination, the writer is not...

WORD STUDY – BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER

by | Aug 9, 2014 | Devotionals

John 15:12-14, “ This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”   I was reading in the Aramaic Bible...

WORD STUDY – KNOWN ONLY TO HIM

by | Aug 8, 2014 | Devotionals

Psalms 77:10: “And this is my sickness, the years of the right hand of the most high.”   The writer of this Psalm is very troubled.  He has cried to God, but has found no peace.  Throughout the night, he is unable to sleep, his spirit feels overwhelmed.  He is so...