Passage -  since he delivered us and called us to a life of holiness as his people. It was not because of our deeds, but because of his own purpose and the grace which he gave to us who are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He did this before the beginning of time, 2 Timothy... Continue Reading →

Passage - (the Good News) has made its presence felt among you, just as it is also being fruitful and multiplying throughout the world in the same way as it has among you since the day you heard and understood the grace of God as it really is. Colossians 1:6 Restated in my own words - The Gospel... Continue Reading →

Passage - So, having perceived what grace had been given to me, Ya‘akov, Kefa and Yochanan, the acknowledged pillars of the community, extended to me and Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship; so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcised. Galatians 2:9 Restated in my own words - The leaders... Continue Reading →

Passage - “‘Now therefore, our God, great, mighty, fearsome God, who keeps both covenant and grace: let not all this suffering seem little to you that has come on us, our kings, our leaders, our cohanim, our prophets, our ancestors, and on all your people, from the times of the kings of Ashur until this very day. Nehemiah 9:32 Restate... Continue Reading →

Passage - they refused to listen and paid no attentionto the wonders you had done among them.No, they stiffened their necks, and in their rebellionappointed a leader to return them to their slavery.But because you are a God of forgiveness,merciful, full of compassion,slow to grow angry and full of grace,you did not abandon them. Nehemiah... Continue Reading →

Passage - For we are slaves. Yet our God has not abandoned us in our slavery, but has caused the kings of Persia to extend grace to us, reviving us, so that we can rebuild the house of our God, repair its ruins, and have a wall of defense in Y’hudah and Yerushalayim. Ezra 9:9... Continue Reading →

Passage - They sang antiphonally, praising and giving “thanks to Adonai, for he is good, for his grace continues forever” toward Isra’el. All the people raised a great shout of praise to Adonai, because the foundation of the house of Adonai had been laid. Ezra 3:11 Restated in my own words - Finishing the foundation for the temple had... Continue Reading →

Passage - Na‘omi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Adonai, who has never stopped showing grace, neither to the living nor to the dead.” Na‘omi also told her, “The man is closely related to us; he’s one of our redeeming kinsmen.” Ruth 2:20 Restates in my own words - Naomi told Ruth that... Continue Reading →

Passage - and I will pour out on the house of Davidand on those living in Yerushalayima spirit of grace and prayer;and they will look to me, whom they pierced.” They will mourn for himas one mourns for an only son;they will be in bitterness on his behalflike the bitterness for a firstborn son. Zechariah... Continue Reading →