Today’s Chef Special: “HOPE” Psalm 38:15, “For in You, O Lord, do I HOPE; You will answer, O Lord my God.” (AMPC) (Heb. yachal) Strong’s #3176 This Hebrew word signifies ‘to wait with expectation.’ Almost half of its occurrences are in Psalms, and it is especially frequent in Psalm 119. Sometimes the idea of hope…
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Today’s Chef Special: “SERVANT”
Today’s Chef Special: “SERVANT” Isaiah 42:1, “Behold my SERVANT, Whom I uphold, My elect in Whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice and right and reveal truth to the nations.” (AMPC) (Heb. ‘ebed) Strong’s #5650 This word is derived from a verb meaning ‘to serve,’ ‘to work,’ or ‘to enslave.’ While…
Today’s Chef Special: “DIVINE POWER; DIVINE NATURE”
Today’s Chef Special: “DIVINE POWER; DIVINE NATURE” (Gk. theios dunamis) 2 Peter 1:3, “For His DIVINE POWER has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).” (AMPC) Strong’s #2304; 1411 The Apostle…
Today’s Chef Special: “MORNING STAR”
Today’s Chef Special: “MORNING STAR” 2 Peter 1:19, “And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the MORNING STAR rises (comes into being) in…
Today’s Chef Special: “KNOWLEDGE”
Today’s Chef Special: “KNOWLEDGE” 2 Peter 1:5, “For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] KNOWLEDGE (intelligence),” (AMPC) (Gk. gnōsis) Strong’s #1108 This Greek word for ‘knowledge’ usually connotes progressive, experiential, and personal knowledge; it…
Today’s Chef Special: “CHURCH”
Today’s Chef Special: “CHURCH” 3 John 6, 9-10, “They have testified before the CHURCH of your love and friendship. You will do well to forward them on their journey [and you will please do so] in a way worthy of God’s [service]… I have written briefly to the CHURCH; but Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead…
Today’s Chef Special: “GOD”
Today’s Chef Special: “GOD” Genesis 1:26, “GOD said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon…
Today’s Chef Special: “HEAVENS”
Today’s Chef Special: “HEAVENS” Genesis 2:1, “Thus the HEAVENS and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” (AMPC) (Heb. shamayim) Strong’s #8064 The Hebrew word for ‘heavens’ may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the atmosphere of earth (Genesis 2:1, “Now at last the HEAVENS AND EARTH were successfully completed,…
Today’s Chef Special: “LAND”
Today’s Chef Special: “LAND” Genesis 12:1, “Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives and your father’s house, to the LAND that I will show you.” (AMPC) (Heb. ‘erets) Strong’s #776 The common Old Testament word ‘land’ possesses several nuances of…
Today’s Chef Special: “ALMIGHTY”
Today’s Chef Special: “ALMIGHTY” Genesis 49:25, “By the God of your father, Who will help you, and by the ALMIGHTY, Who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings lying in the deep beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.” (AMPC) (Heb. shadday) Strong’s #7706 This divine name in Hebrew is…
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