Your Word is a Lamp....

 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.  The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;     his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning;     great is your faithfulness. Psalm 3:5 Lamentations 3:22-23

 #biblestudy  FindingJesus in the OT -  Psalm 84  1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!  (Psalm 23:6; John 14:2-3) 2  My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord;  (Psalm 27:4-6; Matt. 5:3) my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. 3  Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. *** Because God has chosen to make his home among us (John1:14; Rev.21:3):  He will protect…and He will provide!  (Matthew 6:25-30)*** 4  Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise!  (Psalm 27:4-6; John14:1-6) Selah 5  Blessed are those whose strength is in you,  (2Cor. 12:7-10)  whose heart are set on pilgrimage to Zion. (Isaiah 40:26-31; Colossians 3:2-4) ***Lord let our hearts be set on You: Let our sights - our hope - our treasure - be not on earth, but Heaven (Matthew 6:19...

 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, (James1:1) Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,(Jude1:1) There is no greater freedom in Me than to be My bond servant (Ps84:10). For through My vicarious death on the Cross, I have redeemed you…I have bought you back, as the master purchases the slave. For once you were bent beneath the load of your taskmaster, the prince of this world: But my Son took the weight of that burden upon His shoulders, and has given you His burden in exchange - which is light, and his yolk which is easy: Once you were slaves, to the power of sin and eternal death. You were by nature objects of My wrath. But now I say to you “Fear not! For I have redeemed you: I have bought you back, with the highest price imaginable: the Blood of My Son; And because I have purchased you, your life is no longer your own: I have called you out of this world and into my service…you are now mine; As My own personal possession you can confident...

 #biblestudy  The Bethesda Pool  Read John 5:1-15 This was a pagan (Godless) ‘healing center’ or ‘askelepion’ erected by a Grecian cult in honor of their god Asclepius - the god of healing. The fact that this man had been sitting in this God-forsaken place for 38 years, waiting on a mythical angel to stir up the water - waiting on pagan superstitions instead of on the One true God (Ex.15:26; Is.40:3031) - gives us some insight in to why, in vs. 14 Jesus tells the man to “stop sinning“. ***Note: The pool was in fact, stirred by an underwater spring; one of a few beneath Jerusalem.*** And yet, into this dark and God-forsaken place walks God Himself (ch.20:28) - Jesus the Messiah, the Light of the world (ch.8:12)…And, with an incredible combination of pure power and total undeserved mercy, demonstrates before everyone there, exactly who is the real and Living God! (in a subtle replay of 1Kings 18:20-40).  In this, He also sends a clear message:  There is no place t...

 Why Lord? “I had been asking the Lord for answers - on seemingly unanswered issues concerning my loved ones - on issues concerning me: “Why do you seem to move so powerfully for others, but not me? Why do you use me to minister so powerfully to others, yet my issues - my loved ones’ issues seem to remain unresolved?- where are you Lord?  I should have known that You would answer me directly through your Word - and you did… Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Hebrews 10:32-39 Think bac...

 Jeremiah 31:31-33 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  He wants to write the Law on our hearts…not hearts of stone - but of flesh (Ezekiel 26:36) Not the Law of the stone tablets - broken again and again…but the Law of Love, revealed, and completely and entirely fulfilled by Jesus Christ. A new covenant for a new heart - and a new heart for a fulfilled and accomplished Law.  Because the only Way we can keep this Law of God is through the heart of...

 Bible study#3 #WhereIsJesus? Psalm 16:8-11 - David’s revelation of Messiah  8 I have set the Lord always before me;     because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. **Right hand: Power & strength: And David knows Who is the source of his power and strength. (Psalm27:1; 61:2-4)** 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;     my flesh also dwells secure. (Psalm 18:2) 10 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol...(Isaiah 26:19; Matt. 27:51-53) Up until this point in the Psalm, David has been speaking about himself - and then...     ...or let your holy one see corruption. (Isaiah 11:1-5; Eph.4:8-10) **Now he speaks of Messiah; of whom he is the  forerunner and ancestor.** 11 You make known to me the path of life; **(You make known to me the Messiah - John14:6)     in your presence there is fullness of joy; (Hebrews 12:2)     at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 22 - David - A for...