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This is an amazing chapter as God shows His faithfulness even to a servant of Abram's wife Sarai. This servant is named here in the Bible and to this day, her descendants live
Side note, this is the …
God gives Abram a hint of what he is going to do in and through Abram. God is still active today working in and through peoples lives. What is he doing in and through you?
Abram here at the end of Genesis 14, shows that not only is he depending on God Almighty, but that he is not looking for handouts or wealth, he is simply leading his people and relying on God.
Going back to Genesis 14, and looking at some of the details of Abrams counterattack to get back his nephew Lot.
Who do you need to win back? What ground have you given up?
Genesis 14 tells us the story of the mission of 4 Kings to destroy 5 Kings and in this little war, Lot, the nephew of Abram is taken as a prize. Abram says, not on my watch, and puts together the fi…
Would you give up the greater or better land to settle a family dispute? Abram and Lot are family, and there is strife, so you see it is not knew. Abram prefers his nephew, and God blesses Abram fo…
Here we see Abram being a lot like us... sure I believe in God, but I think I know how to handle these things better than God
History was passed down very well, long before media and politics... ok, there was politics back then:)
Shem lived long enough that he could have know Isaac when Isaac was in his 30s.
God made mankind. He did not make different races and we are not evolving into such... we are mankind, and we have gone different ways creating nations, tribes, languages and tongues, but not new ra…
Genesis 9 gives us a variety of things to think about and test. Could 3 families just 4000 years ago be enough to 1. Populate the planet? 2. Would there be enough variation of their genes to creat…
Noah and his family is on the ark for 373 days. That is about how long we have been in the Pandemic. Putting your trust in God is not always easy. With Him, though we can make it through.
What are you going through right now? Can you trust God to get you through it? Noah built an ark as God told him to... for 100 years. Then when God told him to load it, he did, and then he told hi…
So much to get out of this story, but lets not miss the key element right here in chapter 6. Man is evil, man has covered the earth, so judgment is coming, but for the one who is righteous, God make…
Patrick was an English man, captured by Irish bandits that made him a slave for six or seven years until he escaped by walking 200 miles. He would return just over 12 years later, a priest, bringing…
Through the 1500 years of mans history to this point, (Noah building the Arch), we have a lot of evil things happening. The number of people could easily be well over a billion people, and demons ha…
God is about the details. He has made us in His imagine, and He is working His plan to bring about the Messiah.
John is back, and ready to continue helping men walk through the Bible and capture the richness of God's Word, His grace, and mercy.
Psalm 39:4-5 helps us keep our eyes on eternity. C.S. Lewis said…
We, male and female, are made in the likeness (image) of God. All of us humans are.
God's word is so rich... get into it. Get into it like a favorite song... read a part of it over and over... Psalm…
Do you call on the name of the LORD? Do you call on Jesus?
Here we see how maybe, just maybe Cain had an identity problem, right off the bat. His worth was in his job, not that he was made in the image of God. Glad no one does that today.