Category: Bible Study

My SOAP entry isn’t as SOAP-y as usual. Today I’m still pondering. So I thought I’d just present the passage that spoke out to me and leave it at that. Feel free to share your own observations, applications or prayers… I think there is a lot here. Scripture: Ezra 8:22-23 22I was ashamed to ask…

Scripture: Luke 18:7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? Esther 3-8 Esther learns of an edict against the Jews and approaches the king after fasting, praying and asking others to fast and pray with her. She…

Scripture: Luke 14:11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Observation: Those who seek fame will ultimately be shown for their motives. Those who serve others before themselves will be truly honored. Application: It is so hard to not get caught up in seeking status of…

Scripture: Zechariah 7:5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, “When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? Observation: When you said you were doing those things for me, were your actions really for me, or…

Scripture: Luke 12: 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Observation: Whatever it is that you regard as having value, your heart and life will be built around. Application: Take a look at where your time, effort and energy are focused. What is your life built around? Do you spend…

Scripture: Luke 11:34-35 34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Observation: Your eyes can either shine the light of…

Scripture: Luke 8: 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Observation: When the seed fell on the good soil, good things happened and the…

Scripture: Luke 6: 12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. Observation: This was just before Jesus decided who his 12 closest disciples would be. He was intentional in setting aside a big block of time just for prayer and went out of…