“And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.”
One of the things that I love about Abraham is that he knew the importance of having a right direction, and he never allowed
“And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.”
The sons of Laban fell for the age-old excuse as to why someone else had more than them,
“Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.”
God never said that doing the right thing would always be easy.
“And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.”
One of the saddest incidents in the Scriptures is the story about Joseph being accused of doing a woman wrong.
“And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.”
There is nothing worse than having to work or live with
“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Nobody is blessed on accident. Whenever you see a person who is blessed, you must never
“And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.”
Convenience is what everyone desires, but it is rarely convenient to
Acts 15:39
“And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed
asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto
Cyprus;”
Disagreements are a part of life, but contention is the result when
Satan could not defeat the Saviour. He tried to tempt Him in the wilderness only to fail. His next attempt to defeat the Saviour was by using the ruling religious class of Jesus’ day to try and get Jesus to flee in fear. The Pharisees told Jesus that
John 6:9
“There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?”
In this story, there was a great need. The Scriptures say that there was a