your mother’s father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples
so God had to speak to the simpleton with simpleton language, but this objection would be ignorant of the covenant from Gen 22:17 “I will surely bless you and make your descendents as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore”, yet God did not communicate...
In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, an American soil scientist, would visit the land of Israel and remark that what the Jews had done in water reclamation and agriculture was “the most remarkable work he had seen in all the world.” (Even today the nation of Israel remains the most innovative in...
I began listing all the ways our family had been blessed in recent days, pausing between each point until another memory came to mind: a sunny rental home for an adult child; protection from injury in a car accident for another; some promising job interviews for our uni graduate; the warmt...
During his first day of work, the town preacher stops by to bless the man’s work, saying, “May you and God work together to make this the farm of your dreams!” A few months later, the preacher stops by again to call on the farmer. Lo and behold, it’s like a completely diffe...
pasture … be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” It is not hard to imagine such language coming at the arrival of good fortune (earned or by chance) or the view of a mountain vista. It’s obvious to most of us, once again, that thanksgiving is another primary language of ...
When we chase after wealth, power, prestige, glory, and fame instead of choosing to love, give, bless, and forgive, we are following the Satanic Messiah. Instead of helping people in hopeless situations, we give them authority figures who tell them what to do. ...
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and...
Of course I can be thankful and bless His name, that part is easy, I mean I can do that. Doesn’t mean I always do, if I’m going to be honest, so I can totally relate to Paul’s lament in Romans 7:24 when he exclaims, “What a wretched man I am!” What do I do? My...
needs to be involved in genuine worship. Jerry Kerns[2] Kerns would have us fully engaged–first to bless God’s heart and then to elevate the experience for us also. How? Seethe majesty and splendor of God on his throne–in your imagination.Thisis who you are worshiping[3]!