Archives for February 2014

Psalm 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. God blesses and makes happy those who consider the poor. What poverty should most move you—economic poverty or spiritual poverty. We should hurt for them. We should desire to see many people have help in their poverty. […]

Psalm 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. As they spoke evil he was as a deaf and dumb man. He did not hear and neither did he respond. There is a good lesson for the missionary or disciple trainer. Often […]

Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. The Psalmist prays and asks God to allow all the earth to fear the Lord. He wants the world to know. I wonder how often we pray and ask God to get His gospel […]

Psalm 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness ‘sake, O Lord. The psalmist asks God to not remember his past sins because he understands that God is good. He wants to be remembered for His goodness. He acknowledges that he did […]

Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. I want my meditation of my heart to be pleasing to God. I must admit, however, that I often have a very wrong thought life. To paraphrase a friend […]

Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. David knew that God heard and answered prayer in his day. He knew that he had been in trouble. He didn’t know […]

Psalm 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. This is a promise from the Father to the Son. He is not the God of the Jews and Israel alone but the God of the heathen also. The Son […]

Job 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and […]

Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Job was under harsh and intense testing. His life was literally falling apart. His family has basically been destroyed. Everything he owned has basically been lost. His friends and family have turned their backs […]

Job 19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. Job’s life has basically fallen apart. He has lost his glory. His family and friends don’t seem to respect him. […]

Job 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. Job’s friends were in many ways his tormentors. He is so tired of hearing their words that he responds to them harshly in these verses. […]

Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Job asks the age old, tremendously important, question. How can a man be right with God. There is nothing that a man […]

Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. Though these words are […]

Esther 1:5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace; Ahasuerus the king was an abusive husband. His story is found in the book […]

Nehemiah 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead […]

Nehemiah 2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. What has God put in your heart to do […]

Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is […]

Ezra 1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. Cyrus says that God has charged him to build a […]

II Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. They mocked God’s Word, His messengers, and His prophets till there was no remedy. They went too far! What is our attitude […]

II Chronicles 25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this. God’s people had hired foreign armies to protect them. […]

II Chronicles 20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: 36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber. 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, […]

II Chronicles 2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. Huram looked at the way God was using Solomon, the wisdom that Solomon had and gave him the highest possible compliment. He said, the […]

I Chronicles 28:2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready […]

I Chronicles 21:24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. There are no short cuts in the service of the Lord. We must not live off of […]

I Chronicles 15:13 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. No matter what good we are trying to do for God we must be sure that we do it the way He wants it […]

I Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; Salvation is forever. Salvation is by grace, totally undeserved and unearned. But to […]

II Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only. God was to answer the prayer to prove that He was and is the only God. There are […]

II Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. Hezekiah is doing the right thing. He is getting rid of the idols. He is loving God and only God. He hung on to God and would have no other. Right […]