After Moses died, the Lord spoke to Joshua, instructing and encouraging him. The Lord told Joshua that he would be with him. God said that he would not fail or forsake Joshua and that he should be strong and of good courage and observe the law (Joshua 1). The Lord told him not to…
Exodus 34:6-7The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on…
When life gets rough, and things don’t go the way we hope, we can feel defeated. But it’s exactly in these times when it feels the most impossible and hopeless that we must press forward and believe in the hope that God provides. We need to have that hope for what we cannot see….
When I listen to a song I really like I feel like music makes me weak. I can feel it through my body, under my skin and deeper than this body itself. This says to me that music affects me in a much deeper way than I can understand. After I accepted Jesus and my life…
Some scholars describe the golden calf incident in Exodus 32 as one of the worst sins committed by God’s people. Moses had gone up the mountain to meet God for 40 days and they didn’t know when he would return or if he was even alive and they were in the wilderness. The more…
And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for…
I noticed my toddler picked up the phrase “I can’t do it” and I started to think about it. When we feel defeated it’s easy to say I can’t do it. Even if we say it to ourselves we still do it. And we tend to get the advice that we shouldn’t say that…
Abraham was obedient to God. He left his home to go to a strange land because God called him to do so. God tested Abraham telling him to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering. Abraham obeyed God and proceeded to prepare for the sacrifice. But when Abraham was asked by his son where…
Psalms 118 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his hesed endureth for ever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his hesed endureth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his hesed endureth for ever. 4 Let them now that fear the Lord say, that his hesed endureth for ever. The Hebrew…
The Bible speaks about several people walking with God or walking before God and it tells us that these people were blessed in significant ways. I think this is the goal, that we should all want to walk with him. We get the first account of God walking in the garden looking for Adam….
