Psalm 32: 8-11… God replies!

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;I will counsel you with my eye upon you.Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,which must be curbed with bit and bridle,or it will not stay near you.Many are the sorrows of the wicked,but steadfast love surrounds the one whoContinue reading “Psalm 32: 8-11… God replies!”

Psalm 32: 6-8… A plea for people to act!

Therefore let everyone who is godlyoffer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;surely in the rush of great waters,they shall not reach him.You are a hiding place for me;you preserve me from trouble;you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah Comment: ‘The rush of great waters’ means floods of trouble tumblingContinue reading “Psalm 32: 6-8… A plea for people to act!”

Psalm 32: 1-5….Confession.

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered.Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,and in whose spirit there is no deceit.For when I kept silent, my bones wasted awaythrough my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;my strength was dried up asContinue reading “Psalm 32: 1-5….Confession.”

Genesis 4: 8-16…..The first murder.

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voiceContinue reading “Genesis 4: 8-16…..The first murder.”

Genesis 4: 1-7….. Two sons with different natures.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the LORDContinue reading “Genesis 4: 1-7….. Two sons with different natures.”

Genesis 3: 20-24….Living under different circumstances.

The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach outContinue reading “Genesis 3: 20-24….Living under different circumstances.”

Genesis 3: 17-19….And as for Adam….

And to Adam he said,“Because you have listened to the voice of your wifeand have eaten of the treeof which I commanded you,‘You shall not eat of it,’cursed is the ground because of you;in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;and youContinue reading “Genesis 3: 17-19….And as for Adam….”

Genesis 3: 14-16….Judgement announced.

The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,cursed are you above all livestockand above all beasts of the field;on your belly you shall go,and dust you shall eatall the days of your life.I will put enmity between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring;he shall bruise your head,and youContinue reading “Genesis 3: 14-16….Judgement announced.”

Genesis 3: 7-13….A list of losses.

Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of theContinue reading “Genesis 3: 7-13….A list of losses.”

Genesis 3: 1-6….Is Satan a ventriloquist?

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in theContinue reading “Genesis 3: 1-6….Is Satan a ventriloquist?”