2 Tim 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. I believe that the modern application of Paul’s advice to Timothy – to correctly handle the word of truth – has to do with …
Author Archives: Priscilla Koegelenberg
God’s name is holy
Deut 5:11 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. The original word translated here as LORD, is called the Tetragrammaton (Greek for “four letters”), the four-letter Hebrew name of God, יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH). This is where …
God’s promises
2 Sam 7:16 Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.’ I used to think that the meticulous lists of genealogies written up in the Bible were so boring. Not anymore! The above quote is God’s covenant with David. God promises here that there will aways be …
The Day of the Gift
1 Cor 1:22 it is He who has also put His seal on us [that is, He has appropriated us and certified us as His] and has given us the [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as a pledge [like a security deposit to guarantee the fulfilment of His promise of eternal life]. We recently celebrated …
Deception
Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Satan knew Who he was dealing with here. He knew that Jesus was his ultimate adversary, and therefore he decided to bring out his most effective weapons against Him, strategies that were proven to work successfully …
Eternal love
Ps 103:17 But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— We have all experienced a moment in our lives where we doubted that God could still love us – maybe after we had sinned against Him; or experienced a time where we …
Feet for Danger
Habakkuk 3:19 The Lord GOD is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, And makes me walk on my high places. Hinds are known for being highly agile and sure-footed, capable of navigating steep, craggy and dangerous mountain terrain. I recently watched videos of how they cross steep slopes, where there …
The mystery that is Israel
Gen 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— There it is. Clear and precise. God’s promise to Abram that the physical land which today is known as Israel, is only a …
A prophetic worm
Ps 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. When Jesus was nearing His death on the cross, He uttered these words: Matth 27: 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, …
The redemption price of the firstborn
Numbers 3:46-48 There are 273 more firstborn sons of Israel than there are Levites. To redeem these extra firstborn sons, collect five pieces of silver for each of them (each piece weighing the same as the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs). Give the silver to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for …