"In Your presence is fullness of joy..." (Psalm 16:11 NKJ). The Hebrew word translated presence in this verse is paneh (paw-neh') which has several interesting meanings. One of these is "to turn one's face in a certain direction." The image is that determination...

"Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith..." (Heb. 12:2 NKJ). The word translated looking in this verse is very interesting. In the original Greek text it is aphorao (af-or-ah'-o) and has to do with attentive and concentrated vision. One...

"I will make the place of My feet glorious" (Isa. 60:13 NKJ). I had been fasting and praying for a miracle ministry of signs and wonders. My request was for the life and ministry of Jesus to be duplicated in me. After the fast was over, a godly person gave me this...

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13). For more than 2,000 years now the Church of Jesus Christ has waited for the return of her Lord. Since Jesus has promised to come back again, and...

"The chiefest among ten thousand" (Song of Solomon 5:10). Part Three The old gospel song, "The Lily of the Valley," refers to Jesus as "the fairest of ten thousand to my soul." This verse is the source of that expression. There are other definitions of the Hebrew...

"The chiefest among ten thousand" (Song of Solomon 5:10). Part Two The root definition of this word chiefest gives us a three-dimensional view of Jesus Christ not evident from its surface usage. In the original Hebrew version of this text, the word is dagal...

"The chiefest among ten thousand" (Song of Solomon 5:10). Part One How could anyone ever exhaust the list of titles given to Jesus Christ? It is so easy to use words from the Bible that describe Him. One time I was struck with an affliction that had all the...

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world..." (1 John 2:15). Demas, Diotrephes, and Demetrius each had a love, but each loved a different thing. DEMAS: "Demas has forsaken me, and has departed for Thessalonica..." (2 Tim. 4:9-10 NKJ). Paul was...

"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne..." (Isaiah 6:1 NKJ). In the sixth chapter of Isaiah, we see that the prophet received three distinct visions. As a result, his whole perspective and purpose was dramatically changed: Vision...

"I sleep, but my heart is awake; It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, 'Open for me...'" (Song of Solomon 5:2 NKJ). Part Two This verse is good news. The voice of the beloved who knocks is that of Christ, Who neither slumbers nor sleeps. He is waking up...

"I sleep, but my heart is awake..." (Song of Solomon 5:2 NKJ). Part One This verse indicates a restless state. The spiritual man wants to stay awake and alert to the Lord's visitation, but the fleshly man wants to sleep. There is a New Testament parallel in this...

"Know this, that in the last days perilous times will come" (2 Tim. 3:1 NKJ). Sometimes it is easier to understand a word when we see how it is used elsewhere in scripture. This is the case with the word translated here as perilous. In the Greek it is chalepos...