Psalm 18:1-3“I love You, O LORD, my strength.” I am to remember to whom I am praying! You, O LORD, are my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. You are the one I am to turn to when I am confronted by unbelief. You are my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge. […]
Joseph remembered his brothers as they were when they sold him into Egypt, many years before. The only person who could tell on them and their actions, was dead, or so they thought. Joseph was not “getting even” but finding out if they had changed in the past 22 years. The Test Joseph instructed his […]
Being teachable… sounds easy! It is not! Many times it is a hard way to learn. Have you prayed to be teachable? I have. And the way the answer is given sometimes hurts my ego. Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.”… After David sinned, […]
What ten brothers did not know: Joseph could understand their foreign language. They could not understand Egyptian so there was an interpreter. They said, we saw the distress of our brother when he pleaded with us, we didn’t listen to him. For this reason we are in deep trouble. Genesis 42:18-23 Joseph went out of […]
Jacob moved his household, his children, wives, servants and livestock to Bethel… because God told him to. The LORD told Jacob to build an altar to God who appeared to him years before as he was running away from Esau, his brother, 20 years before. Genesis 35:1 Jacob knew some in his household had brought […]
Genesis 35:1-29 Have you made any circles in your life? Going back to where you started? Jacob was told by God to go back to Bethel, where Jacob first encountered God as he was fleeing from Esau, 20 years before. God told Jacob to build an altar to Him, the living God. Jacob told his […]
Psalm 103:1-5 Bless the LORD, O my soul… with my mind, with my emotions and with my will, with all my being, bless the LORD. All that is within me, bless His holy name. The name which saves me, the name in whom I trust, His name is Jesus Christ. Bless the LORD, O my […]
The world is filled with all kinds of people, people who deceive and take advantage of those first stepping out on their own. Jacob was about to meet such a person, a close relative at that! Beware, and be aware, of people and their promises. Genesis 29:1-35 Jacob was looking for his mother’s people. He […]
Genesis 28:1-22 When you finally leave your family, that first night out can be liberating, or filled with fear. For Jacob, it probably was a relief to get away from his brother’s anger. It may have been relief mixed with fear. After all, he was going far away to where his mother’s family lived. He […]
Today is Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the cross for your sins and mine and Jacob’s. Deception and lies are sins. Real sins for which Jesus died. He took the punishment our sins deserve before the Holy God. God the Father never took away the pain and suffering Jesus endured for you and […]