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Micha Jazz is Director of Resources at Waverley Abbey, UK.

Did God Say?

Genesis 3:1–4 ‘He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”’ (v1b) The very start of the fall of humanity came with a question. The narrator tells us of...

Incomprehensible

John 17:25–26 ‘I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.’ (v26) The New...
Nahum 1:1–8 ‘But with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.’ (v8) Around 760 BC, God sent Jonah to warn the people of Nineveh, the Assyrians, that...

Judge Wisely

Jude 17–23 ‘Be merciful to those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy...’ (vv22–23a) This letter by Jesus’ half-brother doesn’t mince its words, as Jude feels the need to ‘contend’ for the faith...

Loved

Ephesians 3:14–19 ‘And I pray that you... may... know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.’ (vv17–19) Our English word ‘love’ is how translators typically translates each...

The Simple Things

1 Kings 19:1–8 ‘Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.’ (v7) God provides for the overwrought Elijah. Having won a major victory against King Ahab and his evil wife Jezebel, Elijah has fled from them,...

Filled To Overflowing

Ephesians 3:14–19 ‘I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being...’ (v16) Depending on what you count, there are forty-three occasions when Paul’s prayers are recorded in the...

Beware of Left-handers

Judges 3:15–30 ‘Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer – Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite.’ (v15) You would think Israel would have learned their lessons. ‘The evil’ they...

Unassuming

Judges 3:9–11 ‘But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.’ (v9) The book of Judges relates the story of twelve Judges. The...

Enemy Battles

Judges 3:1–6 ‘He did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience...’ (v2) The book of Judges outlines the way God provides a series of deliverers to rescue God’s people...