Revelation 5:4 “I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll.” Observation: In Revelation 4 John reported seeing someone sitting on the throne, but the chapter’s focus is on what was occurring in its vicinity. Swirls of light and booming...

Joshua 17:14 “Then the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying ‘why have you given me only one lot and one portion for an inheritance since I am a numerous people whom the Lord has thus far blessed?’” Observation: All the tribes of Israel were being assigned by lot the...

2 Kings 5:11 “But Naaman was furious and went away and said, ‘Behold, I thought he will surely come out to me and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God and wave his hand over the place, and cure the leper.’” Observation: Naaman was a valiant warrior, honored...

Luke 1:41(b): “…and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.” Observation: Mary had learned from angel Gabriel that she who had never known a man sexually was to have a baby. Right away she left Nazareth for the home of her elderly cousin Elizabeth who had been...

Romans 1:12 “…each of us by the other’s faith….” Observation: Beginning in verse 11 Paul clearly tells the reasons why he wants to visit the saints in Rome: He wants to impart some spiritual gifts into the believers, thus obtaining fruit from his time among them (v....

1 Kings 13:24, 28 “Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it; the lion was also standing beside it. And he (a lying prophet) went and found his body; the lion had not eaten...

John 8:3-5 “And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the midst, they said to him, ‘Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women; now what do...

1 Samuel 1:22 “But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, ‘I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and stay there forever.’” Observation: Hannah was one of two wives of Elkhanah. The Lord had...

2 Samuel 10:6 “Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David….” Observation: Years earlier, when David had been a refugee from Saul, the Ammonite king had been kind to him. Now, the king had died and was succeeded on the throne by his son Hanun....

Judges 16:20 “And she said, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson!’ And he awoke from his sleep and said, ‘I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.’ But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.” Observation: As a Nazirite, Samson had vowed to...