Israel

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Memorable Scripture: The Scarlet Cord of Salvation

So the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear, unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home. So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him. Joshua 2:17-19 Continue reading →

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Memorable Scripture: Time does not remove the problem.

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” Numbers 13:30 Continue reading →

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Memorable Scripture: God provides THE way of escape.

So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Exodus 14:22 Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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God has a plan – 1

It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Rom 8:34 Continue reading →

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He did it first!

When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.” Hos 1:2 Continue reading →