... you feel my hand, know that I will not leave you. If you need anything, just squeeze my hand. I'm going to be holding it." David said, “She did and it was tremendous comfort to me." The Holy Spirit is that kind of comforter. The Holy Spirit of God is present with ... understand. The Holy Spirit helps us communicate. IV. THE HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERS US During the Great Depression a man by the name of Yates owned a sheep ranch in West Texas. Day by day he grazed his sheep and wondered how he was going to pay his ...
... conniver” or “supplanter,” and he lived up to it, or down to it, as the case may be. David was a man after God’s own heart, and yet David was an adulterous murderer. Peter was Jesus’ closest disciple and most outspoken friend, yet Peter denied him with a ... across the coast of Asia. Perhaps the most heartbreaking of all were the scenes of mothers and fathers weeping over lost children. Yates writes, “I can’t get out of my mind the image of one gentleman who, having lost his parents, his wife, his ...
... living in Egypt. It also shows that matters can still get worse for the Jewish people and specifically for Jeremiah. G. Yates (“New Exodus and No Exodus in Jeremiah 26–45”) has uncovered the use of exodus imagery in chapters 40–43 that ... the others. The band overtook Ishmael at the great pool in Gibeon. This pool had been the location of an earlier fight between the men of David and those, including Abner, who for the moment were still loyal to the house of Saul (2 Sam. 2:8–3:5). The present fight, ...
... which you can do in any occupation, it doesn’t matter what else you do or how well you do it. When the great missionary David Livingstone was asked if he didn’t fear that going to Africa was too difficult and dangerous, he answered, “I am immortal until the ... a canon than a pistol, or the sneering invitation to ‘Make my day?’ But long before he was Dirty Harry, Eastwood was Rowdy Yates on the TV show Rawhide. I can still sing part of the title song. Do you remember it? “All the things I’m missin ...
