Grow in Dependence

Genesis 35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. I suppose all of us have known someone in their forties who wished they were still a teenager or in their twenties. The way they talked,...

Leave It to God

Genesis 33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. I believe it is Warren Wiersbe who said, “Faith is living without scheming.” It is amazing how...

The Easiest Person to Deceive

Genesis 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him. Every morning you open your eyes, you are faced with a choice. You can trust yourself, you can trust others, or you can trust God. Every day, we...

God Will Finish What He Starts

Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren. Have you ever started a project that you never...

Yield the Future to God

Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. Does God ever seem to be out of character to you? Has He done something in your life that just doesn’t seem to be the kind of thing that...