Often it seems, that God tests our hearts like He did Abraham’s that day. He wants to know what we’re willing to lay down before Him before He opens the doors of provision and blessing. May we be found faithful. “So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this ...
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the upper room upon [Eglon] and locked them. BRG Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. CSB Ehud escaped by way of the porch, closing and locking the doors of...
1 [Psalm 111] A temple singer (⇒ Psalm 111:1) tells how God is revealed in Israel’s history (⇒ Psalm 111:2-10). The deeds reveal God’s very self, powerful, merciful, faithful. The poem is an acrostic, each verse beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. ...
“Yes,” Ehud said, “I have a message for you from God!”21Ehud pulled out the dagger with his left hand and shoved it so far into Eglon's stomach22-23that even the handle was buried in his fat. Ehud left the dagger there. Then after closing and locking the doors to the room,...
That’s when I looked up this verse in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”Right there at the end of the day with the new day dawning was this BIG truth: THIS was God’s will for me. He has something going on ...
Away they pass like many-coloured and many-toned anthems; but they come back again to the original note, and constitute in relation to the opening verse in the Bible one all-reconciling and all-contentful Amen. Listen to Paul's retranslation of the Bible's opening words: "God that made ...
“If I should say“My foot has slipped….”These are words from the Psalms that I learned long ago. But to be faithful to the Biblical picture painted by the Psalmist I must finish the verse. It’s not enough to just acknowledge that my foot slipped, that I’m embarrassed and frustrat...
Lord God, I ask You to do what You know to be the best thing to do to cause demonic bondage and torment from coming back. If it’s closing chakras, that’s fine. But we know, and we put it in Your hands, that You know what is best, and what action You deem ought to be ...
Closing the door on him, she went out 22 and called to her husband, “Let me have one of the servants and a donkey. I must go quickly to the man of God, and I will be back.” 23 He asked, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the sabbath.”...
15Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father’s family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.” 16But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your w...