Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! Psalm 141:2 ESV Sacrifice – Come and worship the King! Surrender your vanities, burn your insolence, abandon your bias.[1] But do not think that you will go away unscathed. Do not imagine His holiness will…
The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Fashioned – If you read the Genesis account of creation within the framework of covenant commitments, you might notice the following pattern. God makes a covenant of power with male…
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Isaiah 1:15 ESV I will not listen – We are often told that God hears all prayers, but the Bible says otherwise. Just as one must…
Pray without ceasing 1 Thessalonians 5:17 NASB Pray – “We do not refuse to pray. We merely feel that our tongues are tied, our minds inert, our inner vision dim, when we are about to enter the door that leads to prayer. We do not refuse to pray; we abstain from it. We ring the…
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. Psalm 109:4 ESV I give myself to – Reading this verse presents a dilemma. Are we to accept the gloss (the additional words) of the translation because it makes sense to us or are we to reject the gloss and end…
For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Colossians 1:9 NASB For this reason – Would you like others to pray that you might…
Today I will be traveling to Israel where I will be for 3 weeks, then on to Spain, then Greece and finally home 6 weeks from now. As you can imagine, writing Today’s Word every day while putting in these kind of miles is a bit daunting. So, here is an official “rewind,” a TW…
And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 NASB Intercedes – Paul’s word for intercedes is a very special word that he made up just to…
And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 NASB Weakness – Sick! That’s the usual meaning of the Greek word astheneia. It comes from the negative…
And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 NASB Intercedes – Paul’s word for intercedes is a very special word that he made up just to…
