{Let Your Heart be Your Compass}

Last week I shared from Psalm 119 (which is arranged in an acrostic style) with a verse that starts with the letter Aleph (א) and this week I’m going to continue with the letter Bet(ב). Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought Thee; Do not let me wander from...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD’S CORRECTING WAYS

Deuteronomy 8:5, “Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.”   During the Spanish American war  Captain Gridley mounted the conning tower of his ship and received the order from Admiral...

BEYOND THE DALETH – PREPARE YOUR HEART

Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”   You read about Ezra and the word that comes to mind is “fanatic.”   This old boy devoted himself to the Word of God. Jewish...

WORD STUDY – A DATE NIGHT WITH JESUS

Psalms 17:3 “Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night.”   The above passage was taken from the KJV.  It translates the phrase “thou hast visited me in the night” in a perfect tense (completed action). I checked through every translation I...

WORD STUDY – DAVID’S SPIRITUAL SECRET

Psalms 16:1-2  “Michtam of David.  Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee.  I have said unto the Lord: ‘Thou art my Lord; I have no good but in Thee.’”   The word michtam is a transliteration from the Hebrew and literally means from gold or from the...