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Dream Word – CONSIDER Joshua 4:4-7 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe; and Joshua said to them: "Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, that this may be a sign amon...

  Dream Word –   BECOME James 3:11,12   Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both saltwater and fresh. NKJV At the time of my writing, I believe that Britain still currently holds the abysmal record of producing the worst serial killer ever to the stalk the earth. That Doctor...

  Dream Word – COST 2 Samuel 24:24,25 Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. NKJV Now, an examination of the Old Testament use of the received tithe, that fictitious ten percent the...

Dream Word – REAL Luke 3:7,8 Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by Him, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? NKJV I might have said this before, but like it or not, intended or not, the Paul Newman film classic, ‘Cool Hand Luke’ is a veritable mine of Christian Metaphor. Taking note of the crucifixion-like posturing of the character 'L...

Dream Word – CONNECT Luke 3:7,8 Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? NKJV Like it, or not, intended, or not, released in 1967, the Paul Newman film classic, ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ is a veritable mine of Christian Metaphor. In 2007, Donn Pearce, the writer of both the novel and the majestic screenplay fo...

Acts 9:36-37 At Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did. NKJV . And she died . The death of Dorcas, the old Christian Gazelle, had a profound impact upon the community in which she lived. So much so, that the Saints decided that they would go and fetch an apostle to see what could be done! Pe...

Dream Word – SEE Ruth 2:2-4 Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter." So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. Just then, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The Lord be with you!" NIV I love the Old Testament Book o...

Dream Word – SEE Ezekiel 8:17,18 And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose. Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity;...

Dream Word – CONSIDER Psalms 8:3-4 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? NKJV. Ever and always, the Scriptures present the angelic creation as occupying higher realms, as being higher beings possessing higher powers, indeed, in every respect their capac...

  Dream Word –   HAPPY Ephesians 5:19   …..speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord….NKJV Many evenings, my wife and I take an hour’s walk together. It is always good to walk in the Kentucky countryside, past all the entrances to the 'hollers' where the blacktop ends, and up amongst the brush and on the green hil...

  Dream Word –   OBEY Titus 1:5 , For this reason, I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you — NKJV 'Boondock' is a word originating in the Tagalog language of the Philippines and originally meaning being that of,  ‘Mountain.’ This word has been adopted by American contemporary culture to mean any re...

Dream Word – DESIRE Genesis 30:14-16 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." But she said to her," Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" And Rachel said, &...

Dream Word – OBEY Jeremiah 18:15 "Because My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths…” NKJV Today, I was again reading one of the best unintentional 'devotionals' ever written, it was Nicholas Albery’s, ‘Poem for the Day.’ In it, I came again across a piece by British poet...

  Dream Word – CHANGE Amos 4:6   "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the Lord. NKJV The little term, ‘Cleanness of teeth,’ has always seemed to me to be a most humorous way to describe the ravages of famine! Yet, I think a most descriptive way as well, for after a fine Sunday lunch with frien...

Dream Word – PREPARE Jonah 4:6 And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant. NKJV As is my usual routine, I got up early this morning, acquiesced to the instant ablutions of a man in his later years, clicked on the kitchen light, and placed some heavily caffeinated rich...

Dream Word – HAPPY Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. NKJV One of my favorite websites is dedicated to the practice of Socratic irony to expose the silly failings of the corporate encouragement machine and it tries to replace it with caring reality. 'Despair.com' makes its money by selling its ironic products and m...

Dreamword:  Hope Genesis 37:9-11 NKJV Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, "Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me." So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and...

 Dream Word – HOPE 1 Samuel 9:12,13 "And they answered them and said, "Yes, there he is, just ahead of you. Hurry now; for today he came to this city, because there is a sacrifice of the people today on the high place. NKJV I once heard of a man who divorced his wife because of her infidelity. It was nearly two years later, having got his head and his heart back to together again, that h...

Dream Word – OBEY Luke 21:25-28 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud wi...