WORD STUDY – BRINGING PLEASURE TO GOD

  Psalms 90:16-17: “Let thy work appear unto they servants and they glory unto they children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”   This Psalm was...

WORD STUDY – THE ASAPHITES

Psalms 77:2: “In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.”   The title of this Psalm attributes it to Asaph.  Little is known about Asaph.  The traditional view is that he the chief...

WORD STUDY – THE SPIDER’S WEB IN YOUR EYE

Matthew 7:3, “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”   This was a well-known Jewish proverb during the time of Jesus found in Oral Tradition and can today be found in the...

WORD STUDY – A PSALM OF DAVID – HEEEELP!

Psalms 70:1 “To the chief musician, A Psalm of David,  “Make haste O God to deliver me, make haste O Lord to help me.”   “And he (Dirk Pitt) refused medical treatment and any food until he was sure the children were all taken care of and the dogs were fed.” ...

WORD STUDY – STRENGTH AND PEACE

Psalm 29:11: “The Lord will give strength to His people and the Lord will bless His people with peace.”   In both cases where David says: The Lord he is using the name Jehovah (YHWH).  When David uses the name Jehovah (YHWH) he is doing so to express his intimacy...

WORD STUDY – THE JEWISH GOD

Jeremiah  23:23-24 “[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?  Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.” This passage literally reads “I am a God that is from...