I have been thinking a great deal about prayer lately. Part of it has to do with the fact that I am studying the book of 1st Timothy in my own personal time in the Bible. 1st Timothy 2:1-5 says this in the English Standard Version, “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, [...]
I was reading in Luke 5:4-6 the other day. Jesus had been speaking to crowds from in a boat belonging to Simon Peter. When He stopped addressing the crowds, He said to Simon Peter, “Launch out in the deep and let down your nets for a catch”. Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we [...]
1 Chronicles 12:18 “Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, the chief of the captain” In the original language, the word “clothed” is used instead of “came upon”. As I read this, I saw this picture of a coat being put on-a coat that covered head to foot because it was very long and hooded. I [...]
Amos 7: 7-8 “Thus he showed me; Behold the LORD stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His Hand. And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see”? And I said, “a plumb line”. Then the LORD said; “Behold I am setting a plumb line [...]
Obeying the First Time! Jonah 3:1 “Now, the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time saying, ‘Arise, go to Ninevah…” At first blush (and if we didn’t already know the story), this would seem but a simple deal. God had obviously told Jonah a first time to go to Ninevah and it [...]