WORD STUDY – ROSE OF SHARON

by | Apr 4, 2014 | Devotionals

      Song of Solomon 2:1 “I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys.”   Isaiah 61:3: “To provide for the mourners in Zion, to give them beauty instead of ashes.”   Let me show you something that is interesting. The word for beauty in Isaiah 61:3...

WORD STUDY – DOES JESUS TITHE?

by | Apr 2, 2014 | Devotionals

John 21:11:  “Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to the land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.”   One can only wonder why the writer gave an exact count of the number of fish that...

WORD STUDY – HOPE OR CERTAINTY

by | Apr 1, 2014 | Devotionals

  Psalms 71:5: “ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.”   I don’t know about you but somehow I cannot see David hoping God will come through.  Our modern concept of the word hope implies a sense of uncertainty.  In other...

WORD STUDY – GRIEVED TO THE HEART

by | Mar 31, 2014 | Devotionals

א   Genesis 6:6  “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”   It seems more and more I am being asked about the Nephilim or giants in Genesis 6.  I believe much of  the interest comes from the discovery of...

WORD STUDY – WHAT THE ENEMY HAS STOLEN

by | Mar 30, 2014 | Devotionals

  Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten, the canker worm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my great army which I sent among you.”   Very little is known about the prophet Joel.  He is mentioned only once, in the...