September 8 | Genesis 16:13 “So she called the Lord’s name Who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen the One who looks after me.”” (Genesis 16:13) Have you ever felt like everyone was taking advantage of you? At work,…
September 7 | Psalm 23:1-3 “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shellacked nothing. He makes me lie down in luscious green pastures; He leads me beside restful waters. He restores my soul. He leadsme in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” (Psalm 23:1–3) I would love to take care…
September 6 | Job 38:4-7 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who established its measurements – for you must know. Or Who stretched out the measuring line on it? On what were its foundations sunk, or Who set up…
September 5 | Isaiah 40:21-23 “Do you not know? Do you not see? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out…
August 28 | Deuteronomy 8:4; 20:5 “Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell these forty years.” (Deuteronomy 8:4) “And I have led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, nor have your sandals worn out…
August 27 | Exodus 16:35 “And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years until they came to a habitable land. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.”(Exodus 16:35) You can’t trust everybody. Some people have let you down in the past.…
We’ve been gleaning life lessons from Abraham, and this time, when Abraham meets with God. This is a special time when the Lord physically comes to Abraham and Sarah in preparation for a year from now when Sarah will bear Isaac. Last time we discussed how Abraham tried to make…
God’s covenant with Abraham was already in motion when Abraham tries to fulfill God’s promise by himself. Of course, he had some help. In the last issue, we discussed God’s covenant with Abraham and how God promised to give him an heir through Sarah and land for his descendants. But…
There are seven fascinating moments in the Gospels where Jesus was like a revolutionary, healing on the Sabbath. This is my best attempt at understanding why He liked doing it. In my last post, I discussed how healing and casting out demons are used side-by-side by the New Testament authors.…
I took a small detour from Life Lessons from Abraham to talk about Life Lessons from Lot, but now that we’re back on Abraham’s life, we will be talking about God’s covenant with Abraham. You can also go back to the last issue on Abraham’s life. In this issue, we…