Category: A Very Present Help

      Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;        all day long an attacker oppresses me;              2       my enemies trample on me all day long,        for many attack me proudly.              3       When I am afraid,        I put my trust in you.              4       In God, […]

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the […]

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is […]

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, 16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.  I have seen people who treat their pets like humans but […]

12 And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?” 13 So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 14 And the ark of God remained […]

Thus says the Lord GOD: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I […]

 You rule the raging of the sea;        when its waves rise, you still them.              10       You crushed Rahab like a carcass;        you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.              11       The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;        the world and all that is in it, you have […]

Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. 9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. […]

 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,                      “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,        who was and is and is to come!”  The Apostle John was in the Spirit and was shown […]

  How lovely is your dwelling place,        O LORD of hosts!              2       My soul longs, yes, faints        for the courts of the LORD;                    my heart and flesh sing for joy        to the living God.                3       Even the sparrow finds a home,        and the swallow a nest for herself,        where […]