Ya’akov, You Worm

Scripture Have no fear, Ya’akove, you worm, you men of Israel! I will help you. ~Isaiah 41:14, Complete Jewish Bible Quote God humbles the great and He makes great the humble. ~Russ Resnik I am reading a Messianic Jewish devotional and yesterdays reading shocked me. I perked up when I read Isaiah 41:14 out of…

Brokenness

Scripture Meanwhile, Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon… While He was eating a woman came in with a beautiful alabaster jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume over his head. ~Mark 14:3, NLT Quote We throw broken things in the garbage but…

Living Water

Scripture Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “if anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.” ~John 7:37, NASB Quote Water is essential: There is no life without water. ~Ya’akov We are so blessed with good water that we seldom give it…

Assumption Or Presumption

Scripture When the messengers returned, they told Jacob, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is heading this way with four hundred men.” ~Genesis 32:6, CEV Quote Assumption is the mother of all mistakes. ~Eugene Lewis Fordsworthe What is the difference between assumption and presumption? The connotative distinction between these words is that presumptions are based more on…

What’s In A Name?

Scripture When they were still some distance from Bethlehem, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult…With her last breath ​— ​for she was dying ​— ​she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin. ~ Genesis 35:16-18 (CSB) Quote The sorrow which now grieves you will someday be turned into glorious…

Perpetual Hatred

  Scripture I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Because you maintained a perpetual hatred and gave the Israelites over to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster. ~ Ezekiel 35:4-5 (CSB) Quote I don’t have time to hate those who hate me; I’m too busy loving…

Truth Or Consequence

Scripture From Paul, the slave of God and messenger of Jesus Christ. I have been sent to bring faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know God’s TRUTH–the kind of TRUTH that changes lives. ~Titus 1:1 Quote I read through Titus today and I had never noticed Paul’s emphais on TRUTH.…

Omnipotent Protection

Scripture What if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us?  They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger. ~Psalm 124:2-3, NLT Quote Every child of God has an omnipotent guardian, and God will sooner empty heaven of angels as to leave a saint unguarded. ~Charles H. Spurgeon Psalm 124…

He Wraps Himself In Light

Scripture Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty, wrapped in light as with a garment. ~Psalm 104:1-2, NRSV Quote The LORD is my light and my salvation; in whom shall I fear or be afraid. ~King David   Psalm 104 is a…

What Is Success

Scripture They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. ~I John 4:5-6, NRSV Quote Success is the ability to go from failure to…