Tag: sovereignty
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God Was Writing Another Story – Genesis 50:20
Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. This is one of the richest verses in Joseph’s story. Joseph does not deny what his brothers did. He does not paint it over…
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The Lord Does Not Need Our Arrangement – Genesis 48:12-13
Genesis 48:12-13And Joseph brought them out from between his knees…… and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him. The boys were clinging to…
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The Empty Pit and the Gentile Hands – Genesis 37:24-27
Genesis 37:24-27 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,…
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Bought for a Night, Blessed by God – Genesis 30:16-17
Genesis 30:16-17 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob…
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He Shall Be Blessed – Genesis 27:30-33
Genesis 27:30-33And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said…
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The Sound of Heaven – Revelation 19:5-6
Revelation 19:5-6 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for…
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The King Who Rules Over Kings – Revelation 17:17
Revelation 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. This verse pulls the curtain back and shows us something we need to remember when the world looks completely out of control. These kings…
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When the River Moves Aside – Revelation 16:12
Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. The Euphrates has always mattered in the biblical story. It marked the far boundary of the land promised to Abraham, a…
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Who Is Really on the Throne — 1 Timothy 2:2
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Paul tells Timothy to pray for kings and all who are in authority. That would have sounded strange in his day. The emperor was not sympathetic to Christians. Rome…
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When Grace Turns to Praise — 1 Timothy 1:17
1 Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. Paul cannot talk about mercy for long without lifting his eyes. He has just remembered who he used to be. A blasphemer. A persecutor. A violent man convinced he was right. Then…
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Strength in the Waiting – Philippians 2:24–27
Philippians 2:24–27 (a) But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,…