Tag: faithful
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Roll Call
…Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 16Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks?Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships?Asher sat still at the coast of…
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Witness
34The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”–Joshua 22 Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh had land on the other side of the Jordan. After being released by Joshua to go home, they built an altar. Word got…
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Give Me the Hardest Journey!
10“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out…
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Building Trust with God
68You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.–Psalm 119 I journey with people who have been hurt by others. They face broken and messy situations. And to their credit, they actually WANT to trust God in the midst of all they go through. This individual loves the Gospel message. Ephesians 2… 8For it…
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The Generational Purpose
5He established a testimony in Jacoband appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,6that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,7so that they should set their hope in Godand not forget the works of God, but keep…
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Your Name Is Near
1We give thanks to you, O God;we give thanks, for your name is near.We recount your wondrous deeds.–Psalm 75 The oddness of the expression grabbed ahold of me this morning. God’s name is near. Let’s look at Hebrew word usage and see if we can figure this out. For it was something that the psalmist Asaph…
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The Father’s Love
6“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose…
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God Gives, God Remembers
5I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession…9I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot…