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….
Exodus 33 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.” … 15 And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how shall it be…
15 And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and…
The question I had about favour was this: does God favour us all the time? As children of God are we supposed to be in his favour always? The Psalms teach us to pray that God’s favour would be upon us and others. But for us to pray like this we need to understand…
