by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 13, 2023 | Blog, Reflections From 1st Samuel
1 Samuel 7:12 (NKJV) “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’” Human beings have a bad habit of forgetting. I’m not sure if it’s the product of our sinful nature or if...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog, Reflections From 1st Samuel
1 Samuel 7:10 “Now as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the LORD thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel.” Wait for the...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Reflections From 1st Samuel
1 Samuel 13:2“Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the mountains of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent away, every man to his tent.” God is...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Reflections From 1st Samuel
1 Samuel 7:5,8-9 (NKJV) “And Samuel said, ‘Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.’…So the children of Israel said to Samuel, ‘Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.’…Then...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 10, 2023 | Blog, Reflections From 1st Samuel
1 Samuel 7:3 (NKJV) “…If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” We all want to...
