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WORD STUDY – THE LORD WILL TAKE ME UP יהוי יאספני
Psalms 27:10: “When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” The first word in this verse in Hebrew is ki. Translators take a lot of liberty with this word. Generally it is rendered as a conjunction because (my mother and father...
WORD STUDY – MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT – יהגה יוממ ולילה
Psalms 1:2: “But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” Last evening I spent some time talking with a friend who practices something I call meditative prayer. There is a lot of tears while she is...
WORD STUDY – PLEASURE – חפצ
Psalms 1:2: “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night.” My father used to tell a story about a time when he was a boy living on a farm way back in the hills of Missouri. A stranger walked through carrying...
WORD STUDY – GOD LEFT HIM – עזבו האלהימ
II Chronicles 32:31: “Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him that he might know all that was in His heart.” The question that...
WORD STUDY – YOU HAVE SMITTEN – הכית
Psalms 3:7: “Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou has smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.” “O this is poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death, O Gertrude, Gertrude, when...
WORD STUDY – GOOD WINE – יינ
Genesis 9:21: “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.” So this man of God, this one righteous person, the one who walks with God, and found favor in the sight of God, leaves the ark and the first thing he does is build...
WORD STUDY – SNOW
Job 38:22: “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow hast thou seen the treasures of hail?” This study is dedicated to all our friends on East coast who are buried in the worst snow storm of the century. We here in the Midwest, particularly Chicago,...
WORD STUDY – OUR CRY, OUR AFFLICTION – קנלו ענינו
Deuteronomy 26:7: “And we cried unto the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cries and saw our affliction.” In some countries the study of the Gematria (study of numbers) is an academic discipline and studied in Universities. Not so much in...
WORD STUDY – BIND AND LOOSEN – אסר שׁרא
Isaiah 22:22: “And the key to the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder so he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open.” Matthew 16:19: “And I will give to you the keys to the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever you bind on...
WORD STUDY – IN CLOSE PROXIMITY – בקרבכ
Deuteronomy 7:21: Thou shalt not be affrighted at them, for the Lord thy God is among you , a mighty God and terrible.” “The Lord said to me: ‘I know.’” Heavenly Man when asked how he endured his suffering. Lately as the cares of this world have been...


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