Good morning. I hope
everything is going well with you. My power was out for an hour and a half
yesterday during the storm. We are back in Psalms today. God be gracious to us
and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us. God blesses us that all the
ends of the earth may fear Him. When we walk in the presence of the Lord, His
face does shine upon us. And when it does, the blessings flow towards us. And
why does He bless us? One reason of course is that He loves us; but it is also
so that nonbelievers will see how He blesses us and will want to come to Him.
They see that He blesses us in the midst of all the crises going on around us.
We must serve an awesome God, they say, if He does that for us. Let God arise
and His enemies be scattered. He is a father of the fatherless and a judge for
the widows. He is with you to bring about justice and mercy. He will never
leave you nor forsake you. God makes a home for the lonely; only the rebellious
dwell in a parched land. That does not mean that we never go through a parched
land – we just don't dwell there. It's not our home. Blessed be the Lord, who
daily bears our burden. The God who is our salvation. God is to us a God of
deliverances; and to God the Lord belong escapes from death. He bears your
burdens and delivers you from all harm. The God of Israel gives strength and
power to the people. Blessed be God! Father thank You that You are a judge for
the reader. You guide and protect him/her. You bear his/her burdens and deliver
him/her. Give him/her and his/her family a great day.
When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives.
Good morning. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion. Notice that “we“ returns. Luke has not been mentioned during the entire two years that Paul was at Caesarea. I guess it is safe to assume that he was in the area during this time. We will leave out the names of a bunch of places where they passed. They had sailed for a good many days and began to have trouble with the wind. This was a warning of what was about to happen. When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast (Day of Atonement) was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives. The centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. They did not want to get stuck for the winter in the port where they were located. They actually were only g...
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