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Day 5- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 17: God Meant It For Good: Trusting God’s Hand When You Cannot See It- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 37-45

Day 5 — God Meant It for Good Scripture: Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.  Reflection: Joseph’s story ultimately points us beyond Joseph. It points us to Jesus. Like Joseph, Jesus was beloved by His Father. Rejected by His own. Betrayed for silver. Falsely…

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Day 4 - Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 17: God Meant It For Good: Trusting God’s Hand When You Cannot See It- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 37-45

Day 4 — Choosing Redemption Over Revenge Scripture: Genesis 45:5 “And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.” Reflection: Years ago, I found myself carrying a bitterness I didn’t want to admit. During my time in the Navy, a group of fellow sailors lost their lives when a ship in the battle group who relieved us…

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Day 3- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 17: God Meant It For Good: Trusting God’s Hand When You Cannot See It- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 37-45

Day 3 — Trusting the God Who Sees the Whole Picture Scripture: Genesis 41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.” Reflection: When Joseph finally stood before Pharaoh, he was not the same young man who had once boasted about his dreams. Years of hardship had changed him. The arrogant teenager had become a humble servant. The waiting had…

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Day 2- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 17: God Meant It For Good: Trusting God’s Hand When You Cannot See It- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 37-45

Day 2 — The God Who Is With You While You Wait Scripture: Genesis 39:21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. Reflection: Waiting may be one of the hardest spiritual disciplines. Yet Scripture repeatedly reminds us that waiting is not passive. Consider the promise of Isaiah 40:31: “But they who wait for the…

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Day 1- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 17: God Meant It For Good: Trusting God’s Hand When You Cannot See It- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 37-45

Day 1 — When the Pit Doesn’t Match the Promise Scripture: Genesis 37:23–24 22 And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father. 23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore. 24 And they took…

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Day 5- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 16: Wrestling with God-From Striving to Surrender- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 25-32

Day 5 — Limping into Grace Scripture: Genesis 32:29–32 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore…

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Day 4- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 16: Wrestling with God-From Striving to Surrender- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 25-32

Day 4 — The Night Everything Changed Scripture: Genesis 32:24–28  24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go…

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Day 3- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 16: Wrestling with God-From Striving to Surrender- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 25-32

Day 3 — When God Uses Sandpaper Scripture: Genesis 31:41–42 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my…

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Day 2- Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 16: Wrestling with God-From Striving to Surrender- A Five-Day Devotional based on Genesis 25-32

Day 2 — Grace Finds Us While We Are Running Scripture: Genesis 28:13–15 13 And behold, the Lord stood above it[c] and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14 Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to…

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Day 1-Genesis- Creation to Covenant- Week 16: Wrestling with God-From Striving to Surrender

Day 1 — When Appetite Becomes Your Master Scripture: Genesis 25:29–34 29 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.) 31 Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” 32 Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to…

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Day 5- Genesis-From Creation to Covenant- Week 15- Jehovah Jireh: The God Who Provides- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 22

Day 5 — The Greater Mountain: From Moriah to Calvary Scripture: Romans 8:32 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Reflection: Imagine as a parent, watching your child be subjected to great cruelty, and be put to death for a…

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Day-4- Genesis-From Creation to Covenant- Week 15- Jehovah Jireh: The God Who Provides- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 22

Day 4 — Discovering God on the Mountain of Surrender Scripture: Genesis 22:14–18  14 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” 15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven 16 and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have…

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Day 3- Genesis-From Creation to Covenant- Week 15- Jehovah Jireh: The God Who Provides- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 22

Day 3 — The God Who Provides a Substitute Scripture: Genesis 22:9–14 9 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said,…

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Day 2: Genesis-From Creation to Covenant- Week 15- Jehovah Jireh: The God Who Provides- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 22

Day 2 — Walking by Faith Without Full Understanding Scripture: Genesis 22:3–8  3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. 5 Then Abraham said to…

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Day 1: Genesis-From Creation to Covenant- Week 15- Jehovah Jireh: The God Who Provides- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 22

Day 1 — When Faith Is Tested Most Deeply Scripture: Genesis 22:1–2 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” Reflection: There are moments in life when…

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Day 5- Genesis- From Creation to Covenant Week 14: Marked By Covenant- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 17

Day 5 — Transformed by Grace Scripture: Colossians 2:11–14 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your…

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Day 4- Genesis- From Creation to Covenant Week 14: Marked By Covenant- A Five-Day Devotional Based on Genesis 17

Day 4 — Grace, Not Striving Scripture: Genesis 17:15–21 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.” 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall…

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