by David Keesling | Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Psalm 94:18 “When I said, ‘My foot is slipping,” your love, O Lord, supported me” (NIV). Observation: This Psalm embodies a plea from Israel’s oppressed for deliverance and protection. There are taskmasters who take pleasure in wrongdoing; the appeal of the weak is...
by David Keesling | Oct 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ruth 3:4 “He will tell you what to do” (NIV). Observation: Ruth told Naomi, her widowed mother-in-law, that Boaz had been extraordinarily kind to them. Ruth gleaned Boaz’s fields after harvesters had done their work, and Boaz had gone out of his way to be both...
by David Keesling | Oct 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 3:28 “But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see” (NIV). Observation: Moses has asked the Lord for permission to cross the Jordan into the Promised...
by David Keesling | Oct 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 24:4 “This is the day the Lord spoke of when He said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands to deal with as you wish’” (NIV). Observation: Saul has gone into a cave, apparently to rest from midday heat, unaware that David and some of his men were...
by David Keesling | Oct 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Jeremiah 13:1-7 “’Go and buy yourself a linen waistband…but do not put it in water…Take the waistband that you have bought,…and…go…hide it …in a crevice of a rock.”…After many days…“take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”…And lo, the...
