Seeking Revival (2 Chronicles 34:1-3)
When you permit God to generate revival in your life, He will not only use your actions to positively impact those in your sphere of influence; but, God will transform culture through you!
Heroes Are Not Born (Proverbs 24:11-12)
We don’t normally think of the Scots in terms of those who rescued Jewish people from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. We’re more familiar with Corrie Ten Boom born in the Netherlands and the German Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonheoffer. But, when the name, Jane Haining, from Dunscore, Dumfriesshire in Scotland recently came to my attention, I determined to know more about her courageous selfless life.
Unshakable Faith (Psalm 16:7-9)
As he wrote this psalm, David’s life was focused on the Word of God. The godly principles he internalized not only provided guidance during waking hours, but also came to mind and actually instructed him between sleep cycles when he awakened at night.
Be Strong; Have Courage (Joshua 1:6-9)
People of faith make God’s Word part of their thought process 24/7, integrate it into their very being and share it with those around them.
Prayer Priority (Nehemiah 2:4-6)
When God burdens your heart for a specific job, success is assured when you prepare for action by going to Him in prayer and allowing Him time to arrange the details.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 35:1-3)
Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
FOUNDATION (Genesis 33:8-11)
Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me . . . So he (Jacob) urged him (Esau), and he took it.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 33:1-7)
Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 32:24-28)
While the uniqueness of the situation cannot be overstated, his new name, Israel, is a powerful testimony of Jacob’s character, influence and struggle with God.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 31:36-42)
During his 20 years serving Laban, God sharpened Jacob’s mind, reinforced his faith and greatly prospered him with a large family, unparalleled experience and great wealth!
FOUNDATION (Genesis 28:10-17)
How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!
FOUNDATION (Genesis 28:1-5)
So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 27:30-33)
Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed.”
FOUNDATION (Genesis 27:1-4)
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be an assembly of peoples; and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land in which you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 27:27-29, 39-40)
Isaac’s blessing of Jacob confirmed God’s choice and his place as the covenantal son. Although Isaac resisted, the details in the biblical text underscore God’s control of the situation and his ability to assure fulfillment of His promises.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 25:20-26)
Whatever knowledge they had of God’s covenantal plan, Jacob and Esau possessed diametrically different views of God’s promises to Abraham.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 24:1-7)
So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house . . . swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites . . . go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 23:16-20)
Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. So the field and the cave that is in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as property for a burial place.
FOUNDATION (Hebrews 11:11-12, 17-19)
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac . . . concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead . . .
FOUNDATION (Genesis 22:11-14)
So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, ‘In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.’
FOUNDATION (Genesis 21)
And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 20:1-7)
So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech . . .
FOUNDATION (Genesis 18)
Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.
FOUNDATION (Genesis 18:10-14)
. . . behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, and said, “my Lord” . . .
FOUNDATION (Genesis 17)
God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.”
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