PEACE IS A PRESENT FROM GOD
August 24, 2026Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron and his sons: This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: ‘May the LORD bless you and keep you; may the LORD cause His face to shineH215 upon you and be gracious to you; may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give you peaceH7965.’ So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.” Numbers 6:22-27 We wanted a better understanding of the word “shine,” so we turned to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible: H 215: 1) to be or…
THE BLESSING OF OBEDIENCE IS TO LIVE IN PEACE
If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Your threshing will continue until…
ADVICE TO KEEP THE PEACE
If you follow this advice and God so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people can go home in peace.H7965 Exodus 18:23 Exodus 18:23 (VOICE) If you do what I advise and God directs…
GO IN PEACE TO EGYPT
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peaceH7965,” Jethro replied. Exodus 4:18 A little history to preface…
JEALOUSY DISRUPTS PEACE
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more…
JACOB PROMISES TITHE TO GOD
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my…
COVENANT OF PEACE BETWEEN ISAAC AND ABIMELECH
Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army. “Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.” “We can plainly see that the…
GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAM
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will judge the nation they…
JOY IN THE LIGHT OF HIS GLORY
Now to the One who can keep you upright and plant you firmly in His presence— clean, unmarked, and joyfulG20 in the light of His glory— to the one and only God, our Savior, through Jesus the Anointed our Lord,…
THE GREAT JOY OF SPIRITUAL CHILDREN
The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth: Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers. For I was overjoyedG5463 when the brothers came and…
REJOICE TO SHARE IN CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoiceG5463 that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyedG21 at the…