Michael Lewis

The Lord alone belong deliverances from death

Psalm 68:20 (ESV)
Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

Lord, I believe in You!

John 8:30 (ESV)
As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

Be Jubilant with joy!

Psalm 68:3 (ESV)
But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

1 Samuel 28:1

1 Samuel 28:1 (ESV)
In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army."

Great test for all teaching!

John 7:18 (ESV)
The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

Why God has been so good to us!

Psalm 67:1-2 (ESV)
May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah

Nabal - a very harsh and foolish man

1 Samuel 25:3 (ESV)
Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.

Living down to a poor name

1 Samuel 25:25 (ESV)
Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

1 Samuel 25:41 (ESV)
And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."

Great promise of prayer

Matthew 6:6 (NKJV)
But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

The God who sees

Genesis 16:13 (NKJV)
Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are- the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, Have I also here seen Him who sees me?

Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 6:5 (NKJV)
Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.

Arabs

Genesis 16:12 (NKJV)
He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every mans hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Nehemiah 2:12

Nehemiah 2:12 (NKJV)
Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

Malachi 2:15

Malachi 2:15 (NKJV)
But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.