Job 9:33-34 (NIV) 33  If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, 34  someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.   Job was growing more and more exhausted with every new wave of affliction.  He longed for […]

December 11, 2018: When rest will not come. Job 7:13-15 (NIV) 13  When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, 14  even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 15  so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.   […]

  Job 4:12-16 (NIV) 12  “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it. 13  Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 14  fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. 15  A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on […]

December 9, 2018: There will be deliverance! Joel 2:32 (NIV) 32  And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls. Who is among the “Elect?”  I hear this […]

December 9, 2018: Rejoice and Be Glad! Joel 2:21 (NIV) 21  Be not afraid, O land; be glad and rejoice. Surely the LORD has done great things. Joel 2:23 (NIV) 23  Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends […]

December 7, 2018: Even now! Joel 2:12 (NIV) 12  ‘Even now,’ declares the LORD, ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.’   Perhaps you have heard this voice, “It is too late for you.  You have wasted too many opportunities and God is done with you now.” The people […]

December 6, 2018: A Day To Spend With God Alone. Joel 1:13 (NIV) 13  Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. […]

  Joel 1:2-3 (NIV) 2  Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers? 3  Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.   […]

November 28, 2018: Be Ware of The Wiles of our Enemy. Esther 3:15 (NIV) 15 Spurred on by the king’s command, the couriers went out, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa.  The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.   Haman had just bartered […]

November 30, 2018: The Day the tables were turned. Esther 9:1 (NIV) 1  On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned […]