Dear All, Praise God!!! It’s a year of Abundance, Signs, and Wonders… Our Watchword shall be a COMPOUND WATCHWORD as follows: And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,…
To forfeit somebody’s position or profession in reparation for a deplorable approach or plan. Referred to custom as Salome, the young lady influences King Herod to have John the Baptist murdered. John had censured Herod for wedding his sibling’s better half Herodias, Salome’s mom. “And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.” Matthew 14:8 KJV
Normally alludes to an unending issue or trouble that mutts a person. Hoodlums conveyed their cross to the spot of execution. Jesus is mentioning that following Him may include being the butt of the disdain and extraordinary resentment of others. The expression may likewise have been affected by the tale of Simon of Cyrene being made to convey the cross of Jesus. “And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10:38…
To the individuals who are really wealthy (the haves) and the individuals who are not (the have-nots). Jesus is basically alluding to spiritual understanding seeing as opposed to material belongings. “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.” Matthew 13:12 KJV
Deriding somebody or talking about them despite their good faith. The third of the Commandments, this necessitates God’s name and character be treated with reverence and respect. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” Exodus 20:7 KJV see also Deuteronomy 5:11
Set aside hostility. In Isaiah’s prescience, God will bring harmony with the end goal that weapons will never again be required yet can be gone to agrarian use. “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Isaiah 2:4 KJV see also Micah 4:3
An impediment. God uncovers to Isaiah that he can be something constructive to the individuals or something negative contingent upon how they react. A stumbling block or hindrance was a stone set in a wrestling ring which soldiers could use to trip their rival. “And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of…
Typically used to propose that being ‘everything to all men’ is unthinkable, for example, that one can’t address the issues, wishes, and desires for everybody; likewise utilized of individuals who attempt to interest everybody. The Apostle Paul bent over backward to put no hindrance among himself and those with whom he was talking, meaning to discover shared opinion so he could clarify his faith in Christ. “To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I…
A reference to a gathering set up contrary to authority. Alludes to the cavern where David and his men avoided Saul. “David, therefore, departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.” 1 Samuel 22:1 KJV
Demonstrates the delicacy and brevity of human presence and achievement. The quick development and prospering of grass and blossom after a downpour in Israel and their similarly shriveling in the hot sun is a picture of human fragility against which is differentiated the perpetual quality of God’s promise. “For all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord…
Neglecting to meet desires. “Wanting” signifies ‘lacking’: here, ailing in everything God endorses. At Belshazzar’s dining experience, a strange finger composes on the divider what adds up to a judgment on the king. “Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” Daniel 5:27 KJV