Psalm 116:17“I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lord.“ This Psalm is an exuberant thanksgiving to the Lord for delivering the psalmist from death. It is difficult to be precise about the threat that hung over the psalmist, but he looks back to his cry […]
Acts 5:31 – “Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.” It is interesting when we read what happened from verses 12 through 41 of Acts 5. The Apostles were out there performing many miraculous signs; people were being healed; people began to […]
Numbers 6:26 – “The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” “To lift up the eye or the face upon anyone is to look upon that one with peculiar and tender interest.” (Pulpit Commentary). This statement is very true, we also look at people we care more for, we demonstrate interest and give […]
Isaiah 7:14 – “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” How would you accept the news that a woman who was very young, was not married, became pregnant, without being with a man? This would be difficult to accept, correct? […]
1 Corinthians 13:13 – “Now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.” It is easier to define faith and hope. The first: having complete trust in someone or something, a strong belief in God; the second: a feelling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen. But how do […]
Galatians 4:4-5 – “God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Did you know that under the Jewish Law, there were actually 613 commandments that had to be met? If one of the commandments were infringed, […]
Romans 15:13 – “Now may the God of hope fill you with all the joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” The dictionary describes hope as a ‘feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen”. We hope we will pass that test; get that […]
Psalm 34:3 – “Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.” It is good to magnify the Lord anytime we can. It is really good to do it when we get together in our small groups, when we all join in and praise His name. But it is really wonderful when the entire congregation joins together in one […]
John 1: 9 – 10: “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.” When the power goes out, our immediate reaction is to find a light source. Darkness makes us feel handicapped […]
Yahweh (Abba Father) is life. There is no life outside of Him. He is the source and sustainer of life. When He spoke, animal and plant life came into being. When He breathed His breath of life into Adam’s nostrils, man became a living being. Jesus and the Father are one, therefore, Jesus is also […]
