WORD STUDY – PRESS ON

WORD STUDY – PRESS ON

I Chronicles 16:11: “Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.”   Whose doesn’t love hidden secrets from satires, allegories to metaphors.  Who doesn’t love to search for hidden meanings.  Hidden meanings has been a staple in literature from...

WORD STUDY – HE SHALL BE GREAT

Luke 1:32: “He shall be great and He shall be called the son of the highest, and the Lord shall give him the throne of his father David.”   Ok, it is Christmas and I am compelled to study the Christmas story.  This year I decided to read the story from the...

WORD STUDY – GOD’S THOUGHTS

Isaiah 55:8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”   The word for thought here is not sh’ar as it is in Proverbs 23:7:  Here the word is chashav.  Sh’ar has the idea of thinking to make a decision; this thinking...

WORD STUDY – STAND (IN RESPECT AND AWE)

II Kings 5:15-16:  Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company and he came and stood before him.  And he said: ‘Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a blessing from your servant.’  But he said: ‘As the Lord...

WORD STUDY – B’OUNI B’ONI

II Samuel 16:11b-12:   “Let him alone, let him curse for the Lord has bidden him. It may be that the Lord will look upon my affliction and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.”   “If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is...