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Do Your Garments Smell Of Lebanon?

Do Your Garments Smell Of Lebanon? (This was written a year ago for one of my friends, but I had not posted it until now. I added a couple of more verses now that fit the theme.) When I was praying for you, I was thinking of something I shared in our study last night: Song of Songs 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. We are to give our Lord the pleasant fruits, the best of our garden, of our lives. It is a really good exhortation - but what if you are struggling? Can you still give Him your best? He is the one that works through you to produce fruit in you. Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsufferi...
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Seven Books That The Lord Has Written

Seven Books That The Lord Has Written: I believe the book of Job was the earliest book of the Bible ever written, approximately about 1800 BC, before Moses wrote the Pentateuch. It is interesting to read his desire for the Scriptures, for a written record, before there was ever one word penned (though, according to the Psalms 119:89, God's Word has already been recorded in Heaven from eternity - as hard as that may be to understand). Psalms 119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Job 19:23-24 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! Job 31:35-36 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 1) The Book of the Lord, the Scriptures, the Word of God: Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read : no one of...
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Trials Are Not An Easy Thing By Lori Tremblay

Trials Are Not An Easy Thing - by Lori Tremblay This was written by my sister a couple of days ago. Guess she learned some wisdom along the way. Wise words, for sure. Trials are not an easy thing to go through. It seems as though the longer they last the harder it gets. Like a pressure pot, it builds and builds until it’s time to turn the heat off and allow the pressure to decrease without burning what’s inside the pot or having the pressure explode and all the contents of what is inside splatter everywhere and burn the outside of the pot. But praise the Lord, there is an end! Though I have not reached the end of these trials I am currently in, there are lessons that God is teaching me. One lesson above all the lessons the Lord is showing me is to keep my eyes on Jesus. Life is hard enough without the Lord but when our eyes are not fixated on our Saviour, that’s when the overwhelming floods of despair and feelings of defeat seem like they will overturn us. But they don’t because God IS...
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The Miracles Of Elijah And Elisha, Compared With Jesus

The Miracles Of Elijah And Elisha, Compared With Jesus For years I have been intrigued by the statement that Elisha performed twice as many miracles as Elijah because a double portion of God’s Spirit was upon Him.  2 Kings 2:9-11 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. I wondered if that was true, but some of the lists that I found were contradictory. Time to dig in deeper today. I found 7 miracles performed by Elijah and 14 by Elisha. Some have counted ot...
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Jesus Goes To Jacob’s Well

Jesus Goes To Jacob’s Well I have to admit that for many years, Jacob has been one of my favourite Bible characters. I love preaching about parts of his life, can really relate to the battle between the flesh and the Spirit, the battle between the old nature and the new nature. I love his fear of the Lord, love the covenant the Lord God made with him, the two camps (men and angels) we see in Genesis 32:1-2, his wrestling with the Angel of the Lord until the breaking of the day , and the transformation God made in his life. So much I can identify with. Last year, I got a new appreciation for him as a type of Christ as my Bible study group worked through the book of Genesis. I would love to share that with you today. Most of us are no doubt familiar with his story. If you need any reminders of the early part of his life and his interactions with his brother Esau and with his parents, please go back and read through Genesis chapters 25-27. Our study begins from the moment his parents deci...
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