Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.” And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before. Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of yourContinue reading “Genesis 31: 1-8….Frustration leads to Fleeing”
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Genesis 30: 37-43….The desired result obtained!
Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bredContinue reading “Genesis 30: 37-43….The desired result obtained!”
Genesis 30: 28-36….Sneaky, sneaky!
Name your wages, and I will give it.” Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me. For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provideContinue reading “Genesis 30: 28-36….Sneaky, sneaky!”
Gen 30: 19-28…..A complex situation.
And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun. Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.Then God remembered Rachel, andContinue reading “Gen 30: 19-28…..A complex situation.”
Acts 20: 17-25…..Handing over the baton.
Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. And when they came to him, he said to them:“You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility andContinue reading “Acts 20: 17-25…..Handing over the baton.”
Acts 20: 7-16…..A long talk!
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window,Continue reading “Acts 20: 7-16…..A long talk!”
Acts 20: 1-6….An encouragement program.
After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as heContinue reading “Acts 20: 1-6….An encouragement program.”
Acts 19: 35-41…..Common Sense wins out!
And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky? Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought toContinue reading “Acts 19: 35-41…..Common Sense wins out!”
Acts 19: 28-34….Purposeful confusion!
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s companions in travel. But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd,Continue reading “Acts 19: 28-34….Purposeful confusion!”
Acts 19: 11-20….The gospel affects Ephesian life style.
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of theContinue reading “Acts 19: 11-20….The gospel affects Ephesian life style.”
As I read it! 