“Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.” Ruth 1:20 Mara . . Bitterly – Do you know why Naomi gives herself a new name? That is quite unusual, even in our own day. When someone decides to take a new first name, it usually signals…
The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, Genesis 8:21 Soothing Aroma – Can you imagine the scene? Noah brings the animals out of the ark. He takes one of each of the acceptable animals and birds and sacrifices them…
“If you will return, O Israel,” declares the LORD, “Then you should return to Me.” Jeremiah 4:1 Return – Perhaps the most important Hebrew word you can ever learn is shuv. Why? Because it is the verb for turning to God. It is used more than 1000 times in the Bible. God calls to every…
But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits that name of the Lord Jesus, saying Acts 19:13 Went From Place To Place – The single Greek word perierchomenon covers the entire thought “wandered from place to place”. Some translations use…
you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth Genesis 4:12 Fugitive and Wanderer – Aimless. Staggering. Terrified. Cursed. Are those the words that come to mind when you think of “the land of Nod”? I doubt it. These days the land of Nod is more often associated with children’s bedtime stories and…
You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing any more, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot Matthew 5:13 Salt – Is Jesus speaking about you in this sentence? Do you want to know how…
then you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you. For it will be repaid to you in the resurrection of the just. Luke 14:14 Will Be Repaid – Yesterday we learned that the state of blessedness is entirely up to us. When we give to those who cannot give back, we align…
But when you make a banquet, call the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; and then you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you. Luke 14:13-14 Blessed – All of the Beatitudes found in Matthew 5 and Luke 6 begin with the Greek word makarioi. It is the signal for a…
For a spirit of harlotry is within them, and they do not know the LORD Hosea 5:4 Harlotry – Hosea was a man none of us would aspire to be. He encountered the dangerous God. He obeyed the dangerous God. As a result, he spent his life in ridicule as the cuckolded husband of a…
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 Takes Away – How did Jesus “take away” your Sin? That’s Sin with a capital “S”. We’re not talking about all those individual misdeeds and rebellious acts and injuries. We’re talking about the big S, the guilt that you bear…
