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God’s Word for You – Acts 1:3 things about the kingdom of God

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 1:3 3 After his suffering he showed himself alive to them with many decisive proofs. Over the course of forty days he appeared to them and told them things about the kingdom of God. How quickly Luke passes over the suffering of Jesus here! Of course, there are whole chapters […]

God’s Word for You – Acts 1:2 instructions through the Holy Spirit

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 1:2 2 until the day when, after he had given instructions through the Holy Spirit to his chosen apostles, he was taken up. In this verse, Luke reminds us that Jesus has now ascended, and he is about to give a much fuller account of the ascension (1:4-11). Why does […]

God’s Word for You – Acts 1:1 In my first book, Theophilus

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 1:1 Introduction and Theme 1 In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus began to do and to teach, As in his Gospel, Luke addresses this book to Theophilus. This time, Luke doesn’t call his friend “most excellent Theophilus” (Luke 1:3), but just “Theophilus.” Since the honorific title […]

God’s Word for You – Colossians 3:16 Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 3:16 16 Let the word of Christ live within you richly as you teach and admonish yourselves with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. What does Paul mean by “the word of Christ”? By the time Colossians was […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:14-18 Darkness is my friend

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:14-18 14 O LORD, why do you reject me?     Why do you hide your face from me? 15 I have been afflicted from my youth     and am close to death.     I have endured your terrors.     I am in despair. 16 Your wrath […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:10-13 Do the ghosts of the dead rise up

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:10-13 10 Do you perform a miracle for the dead?     Do the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you?     Selah 11 Is your mercy declared in the grave,     your faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Are your wonders known in the darkness?     Is […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:6-9 in dark places, in deep places

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:6-9 6 You have set me in the pit of the lowest places,    in dark places, in deep places. 7 Your hot wrath presses against me.    You have battered me with all your waves.    Selah Heman compares his suffering with someone who is in the grave. The […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:3-5 my soul is full of troubles

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:3-5 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life approaches the grave. From here to the end of the Psalm, Heman complains that his life is rushing away toward the approaching grave. His troubles are overwhelming. This emotion of dread is very real and all-consuming; Solomon compared […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:1-2 God of my salvation

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:1-2 Psalm 88 Darkness Is My Friend A song. A psalm. By the Sons of Korah. For the choir director. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. This strange heading is unique in all of the Psalms. It seems to be a double heading, and in his […]

God’s Word for You – Colossians 3:15 the peace of Christ

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 3:15 15 Let what rules in your hearts be the peace of Christ, to which you were also called as one body. And be thankful. The sinful heart tends to let sin or unbridled emotion reign, to listen to the advice of Emily Dickinson: “the heart wants what it wants” […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:23-28 You laid the foundations of the earth

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:23-28 23 Along the way, he broke my strength; he cut short my days. 24 So I said: “Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days.” With these words, the afflicted king prays that God will not end his life so soon. Our time […]

God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:18-22 He set free those condemned to death

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:18-22 18 Let this be written for a future generation, that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD: Sometimes one hears the claim that wherever the Hebrew verb bara’ occurs with God as the subject, it always refers to something being created out of nothing. Since bara’ […]

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