SCRIPTURE: Genesis 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai…
the faith God honours
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness. [Genesis 15:6] God makes an amazing promise to Abram, and guarantees it by making a covenant. Abram trusts God, and God is pleased, for this is all that God asks of us – to trust Him! It…
blessed by the King
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.”…
wherever we walk!
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like…
called like Abram
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through…
not so impressive afterall
There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: Genesis 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a…
what am I spreading?
There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: Genesis 10 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood. [Genesis 10:32] Just like God originally intended, the people are spreading out. God blessed them…
we will survive!!!
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant…
symbols of peace and hope
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. [Genesis 8:11] The dove, just a bird, yet for Noah this bird came to represent something more. The dove…
left behind
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was…