Category: Genesis
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Joseph
Genesis 49:22 “Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.” Are there any Bible characters that you especially look up to? Are there any of whom you’ve thought “I want to be like that person”? I can think of quite a few of them, for there are…
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Who Knows?
Genesis 18:25 “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” I don’t know about you, but there are many things about God and the Word of God that I don’t understand. That bothers some people – a lot! Does it bother you? I suppose one way of looking at this is…
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The Judgment that Tarries
Genesis 6:5 “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. Then the LORD said, ‘I will blot…
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Shadows
Genesis 50:15-21 “When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: ‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive…
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A look back
Genesis 47:9 “And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “. . . Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life.” Genesis 48:15-16 “God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from all evil.” In the verses above we have two accounts that Jacob…
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Wonderful grace
Genesis 45:4-5 “So Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come near to me, please.’ And they came near. And he said, ‘I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.’” The grace of God…
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The whole truth
Genesis 40:20-22 “On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph…
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Boxed in
Genesis 32:24-30 “And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day . . . So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” Have you ever been in a situation that you dreaded? …
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The prayer of faith
Genesis 32:11-12 “Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’” What…
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Immanuel
Genesis 31:3 “Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” When God told Jacob that He would be with him in the verse above, what did He mean? Is it the idea that He would be “with him in spirit” as…
To Encourage You 