WORD STUDY – TEMPT

by | Apr 15, 2014 | Devotionals

  Matthew 4:1: “Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.”   Every modern translation I read renders the Greek word peirazo as tempt as well they should as that is what it means. But in the ancient Greek, as used in the...

WORD STUDY – DEBER AND NAFAK

by | Aug 30, 2013 | Devotionals

Matthew 4:1 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”   Mark 1:12  “And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.”   Luke 4:1   “And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the...
{ Into the Wilderness }

{ Into the Wilderness }

by | Jun 23, 2013 | JotsAndTittles

I just returned home from a retreat at a Monastery in Iowa (pictured above) where I lived alone in the “Guest House”, located on 650 acres of managed woodlands. What a gift  I was given to get away with God in the wilderness…so quiet and peaceful....

{ My Soul Weeps }

by | Jun 16, 2013 | JotsAndTittles

Continuing in Psalm 119 with the letter “dalet” ד which is shaped like a door or a man bent over in humility. Dalet is spelled דלת and has two possible root words. Some of its meanings are: door, gate, doors to heaven such as a portal, and also to be...

Word Study: Feet Swell “Regal” “Basak”

by | Sep 19, 2012 | JotsAndTittles

WORD STUDY – FEET SWELL Feet – Hebrew: Regal – foot, to go about, to spy. Swell – Hebrew: Basak – to swell, soft, doughy Deuteronomy 8:4:”Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee.  Neither did thy feet swell these forty years.” For forty years Israel wandered...