Why Did God Choose AbrahamBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksD. DesilvaBible Review
There are, of course, a thousand possible answers to this question. Maybe God’s apparent delay had something to do with God’s perfect timing. Maybe God did immediately answer our prayer request, but Satan temporarily stopped us from receiving God’s answer (cf. Daniel 10:12-13). Maybe ...
(Abraham) said to him: Should we not then worship the human, who withstands the wind? (Nimrod) said to him: You are merely piling words; we should bow to none other than the fire. I shall therefore cast you in it, and let your God to whom you bow come and save you from it!
God handpicked shepherds with a proven record of trustworthiness in caring for their sheep to be the patriarchs and first leaders of Israel, most notablyAbraham, Isaac,Jacob,Moses, andKing David. What is it about shepherds that they can slip so easily into a leadership role?
who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death....
GOD'S WORD® TranslationThe men from Ephraim strongly protested Gideon's actions. They said, "Why did you do this to us? You didn't invite us to go fight Midian with you."Good News TranslationThen the people of Ephraim said to Gideon, "Why didn't you call us when you went to ...
It is repeated several times and begins with God’s promise to a man called Abraham who was eventually to become the grandfather of a man called “Israel:”” “[2] AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION, AND I WILL BLESS THEE, AND MAKE THY NAME GREAT; AND THOU SHALL BE A ...
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. . . Look to Abraham your father. Jesus here makes Peter a true “father” over the household of faith, just as God made Abraham our true “father” in the Faith (see Rom. 4:1-18, James 2:21). Hence, it is fitting that Peter’s successors are called “pope” or “papa,” ...
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. / So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Psalm 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her ...