Shabbat Shalom,In our prior meditation we focused on gratitude and humility as keys to experiencing God’s favor. Let’s look at the other side of this reality: pride hinders knowing Father’s favor. It ...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 40:12 Adonai, do not withhold Your compassions from me. Let Your mercy and Your truth always protect me..  The Hebrew starts with “Atah YHVH” meaning “You are the Lord.”  ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:11 I did not hide Your righteousness within my heart. Rather I declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I did not conceal Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assemb...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:10 I proclaim good news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I am not shutting my lips—Adonai, You know!  The Hebrew Scriptures have a word for “the Gospel,” and here it is....  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:9 “I delight to do Your will, O my God. Yes, Your Torah is within my being.”  David is writing, but the Lord, Yeshua, is speaking.  Surely every verse of Scripture is a “life verse” fo...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:8 Then I said: “Here I am, I have come—in the scroll of a book it is written about me.”  Rabbi’s note: Significantly, these few verses of Psalm 40 are quoted in Hebrews 10:5-9.  The wr...  Read More

Shavuah Tov,Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans that I have in mind for you,” declares Adonai, “plans for shalom and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope.”In my last RR earlier this month, I ...  Read More

Shabbat Shalom,Gratitude is an essential aspect of humility’s foundation. Humility opens the door for increased favor. A nuance of charis is thankfulness.Sinners love (agape) those who love (agape) th...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 40:7 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire—my ears You have opened—burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.Well, well, well!!! What have we here?  These ne...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:6 Many things You have done, Adonai my God—Your plans for us are wonderful—there is none to be compared to You! If I were to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to count!Go ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:5 Blessed is the one who put his confidence in Adonai, who has not turned to the arrogant, nor to those who fall into falsehood.This “blessed” is not that “blessed.”  This “blessed” is...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 40:4 He put a new song in my mouth—a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and trust in Adonai.Wait a minute… a “new song?”  And why wouldn’t we sing a “new song?”Just yester...  Read More