Memorable Scripture: No buffers on Holy Ground

Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” Exodus 3:5

Before I enter someone’s home I wipe my feet. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: People of faith seek life and to preserve life.

But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. Exodus 2:3

Men and women of faith trust in God during difficult times. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: A respect of God gives life and brings a blessing.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.  And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them. Exodus 1:20-21

Pharaoh wanted all newborn males killed Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: Forgetting the blessings of the past for the sin of the present.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. Exodus 1:8

I seriously doubt someone in Egypt did not know Joseph. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: Trust God for today and twenty years from now.

And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. Genesis 45:4-5

God has a plan for you but most of the time you do not understand it. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: Dad always loved you more!

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. Genesis 37:3-4

Jealousy and hatred lead to other problems when not kept under control. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: Make your name mean something good.

And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.” So He called his name Israel. Genesis 35:10

Names have meaning. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: Burying the past to move forward for the future.

And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments. Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.” So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem. Genesis 35:2-4

When I turned thirteen years old I bagged up all my toys and rid myself of them. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: You love more than you think!

Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.” Genesis 29:18

Love is a strong force. Continue reading

Memorable Scripture: The Lord is in this Place

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” Genesis 28:16

Jacob had left home for the first time. Continue reading