Tag: desire
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When the Answer Still Doesn’t Satisfy – Genesis 30:21-24
Genesis 30:21-24 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me…
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When Beauty Isn’t Enough – Genesis 30:1-2
Genesis 30:1-2 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister… … and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? For the…
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Two Wives, One Drift – Genesis 4:19
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. This is a telling moment in the line of Cain. Here, for the first time in Scripture, polygamy appears. And it does not appear in a healthy line, a godly revival, or…
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What the Heart Is Really After – James 4:1–2
James 4:1, 2 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. James has been stripping things…