by David Keesling | Nov 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Judges 6:13 “Where are all His wonders?” (NIV). Observation: Israel was living under God’s judgment, having been overrun by the superior, oppressive power of the Midianites. Reduced to living in caves and mountain clefts, Israel watched helplessly as marauding enemy...
by David Keesling | Nov 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Judges 4:2 “So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan” (NIV). Observation: Ehud delivered Israel from its Moabite enemy. He had personally killed the Moabite king and then led the Israelite army to victory over Moab, ushering in an eighty-year...
by David Keesling | Nov 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Joshua 21:44 “The Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their forefathers. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the Lord handed all their enemies over to them” (NIV). Observation: The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had been in Canaan...
by David Keesling | Nov 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Psalm 47:2, 7-9 “How awesome is the Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth!…For God is the King of all the earth…God reigns over the nations…The kings of the earth belong to God” (NIV). Observation: This celebratory psalm demands universal...
by David Keesling | Nov 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
I Corinthians 8:12 “When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ” (NIV). Observation: In this short chapter Paul warned of problems caused when I act from my knowledge base without first bathing my actions in...