“And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of that place, ‘The LORD will provide’; as it […]
“The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.” Genesis 21:1 The Lord chose Sarah as well. There is a lot of focus in Scripture about God’s choosing of Abraham to be the father of nations, the one through whom all families on earth shall be […]
“They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.” Psalm 92:14-15 My Lord is upright. Even when I don’t understand His plan, this does not change. He is upright and this […]
“But Moses said, ‘The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, “I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!” Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together […]
“This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.” Psalm 119:50 During the past few months I have been focusing a lot on prayer. Really wanting to strengthen that part of my spiritual life and to better understand prayer’s intricacies. And finding comfort in the knowledge that the Spirit intercedes for […]
“O LORD, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you… For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.” Psalm 88:1,3 The opening of this psalm, this prayer, strikes me this morning. “O LORD, God of my salvation.” The writer begins with this statement of who […]
“But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. I will thank You forever, because You have done it. I will wait for Your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.” Psalm 52:8-9 There is a […]
“God said to Jacob, ‘Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau. So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, ‘Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves […]
“For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’ ” Jeremiah 30:17 I love this declaration of God. His recognition that outsiders mock His people, believing them to be abandoned. His unequivocal statement […]
“For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future […]
In Pleasant Places 