by David Keesling | Jun 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Mark 4:9 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Observation: Jesus was teaching at the seashore. As the crowd grew, He moved His venue from the shore to a boat put out a short distance into the water. Presumably from there, both visibility and acoustics would be...
by David Keesling | Jun 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
2 Chronicles 9:12 “Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country” (NIV). Observation: This verse concludes the chronicle of the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solomon. Extensive trade was consummated and a warm personal relationship established before she...
by David Keesling | Jun 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
2 Samuel 5:24 “As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because that will mean the Lord has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army” (NIV). Observation: Word of David’s anointing as king had reached the...
by David Keesling | Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Matthew 14:1-2 “At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, and he said to his attendants, ‘This is John the Baptist, he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him’” (NIV). Observation: Jesus had been teaching...
by David Keesling | Jun 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
2 Kings 18:31-32 “Thus says the King of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me and come out to me and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and...
by David Keesling | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 23:4 “Then David inquired of the Lord once more.” Observation: David had heard God correctly the first time about going to war against the plundering Philistines, but people around him were fearful (1 Sam. 23:2–3). So he went back to God to reconfirm...
