Genesis

“Blessed Beyond Limitation” Text: Genesis 17:15–16 Scripture Focus 15  And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16  I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”   Devotional Insight In Genesis 17, God does something unexpected—He shifts the focus of the covenant promise directly onto Sarah. Up to this

God’s Faithful Protection in Our Failures Scripture: Genesis 12:17-20 (NIV) “But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. So Pharaoh summoned Abram. ‘What have you done to me?’ he said. ‘Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? Why did you say, “She is my sister,” so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!’ Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way

Genesis 8:1-5 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2  The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3  and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4  and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on

1. The Text (English Standard Version) 17 For forty days the flood continued on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. 21 And a

"Not Good to Be Alone"   Genesis 2:18–25 (ESV) Scripture Reading Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” … And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the ma