by David Keesling | Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Job 3:1 “Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.” Observation: Job had just experienced a series of catastrophes that could cause any of us to live as though in a darkened cave. His dearest family members, financial resources, even his own...
by David Keesling | Nov 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 30:6-8 “David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, . . . ‘Please...
by David Keesling | Nov 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
2 Chronicles 15:17 “But the high places were not removed from Israel; nevertheless Asa’s heart was blameless all his days.” Observation: Asa was a good king of Judah, a good man. His heart was to pursue the Lord wholeheartedly. Verses12-15 detail the national covenant...
by David Keesling | Nov 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
2 Samuel 5:19, 23 “Then David inquired of the Lord, saying, ‘Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?’ . . . When David inquired of the Lord, He said, ‘You shall not go directly up; circle around behind them in front of the balsam...
by David Keesling | Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Matthew 20:8 “’Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’” Observation: The workday was at an end, and it was time for the vineyard foreman to settle up. The owner had hired men at intervals throughout the day, promising...
by David Keesling | Nov 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Matthew 19:29-30 “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.”...
