The LORD is high above all nations,        and his glory above the heavens!              5       Who is like the LORD our God,        who is seated on high,              6       who looks far down        on the heavens and the earth?              7       He raises the poor from the dust        and lifts the needy from the…

Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, 2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall…

        LORD, you were favorable to your land;        you restored the fortunes of Jacob.              2       You forgave the iniquity of your people;        you covered all their sin. Selah              3       You withdrew all your wrath;        you turned from your hot anger.                4       Restore us again, O God of our salvation,        and…

7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.  If you like literature that cuts to the heart without excess verbiage, Ernest Hemingway is your kind of writer. He did not go in for florid descriptions but every word furthered the story. Galatians 4:7 is a verse that would…

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. Usually, when someone says, “I mean…”, the following words make everything clear. Read these two verses and be the judge….

 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven        and do not return there but water the earth,                    making it bring forth and sprout,        giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,              11       so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;        it shall not return to me empty,                    but it…