“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting.” Psalm 106:48   When God ‘blesses’ men, they are thereby helped and strengthened and made better off than they were before, but when men ‘bless’, God is not helped or strengthened or made a better off. Rather man’s blessing God is an “expression…

“So shall My word be which goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to Me void.” Isaiah 55:11 Israel was going through starvation as the Midianites were destroying their crops. When they cried out to God, He sent His word and promised Gideon to deliver them from their enemies. Even though Gideon had…

  “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free…” Galatians 5:1   When the people of Israel cried out to God in their bondage, He heard their cry and delivered them out of Egypt. During their journey to the promised land, they faced many battles, but God delivered them from…