FOUNDATION: So Isaac Sent Jacob Away
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.
SUNDAY MEDITATION (Psalm 93)
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea.
FOUNDATION: Indeed He Shall Be Blessed
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: Make Me Savory Food, Such As I Love
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.
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FOUNDATION: The Birthright
Whatever knowledge they had of God’s covenantal plan, Jacob and Esau possessed diametrically different views of God’s promises to Abraham.
SATURDAY FOCUS (Psalm 97:10)
Those espousing biblical principles need not have a head-in-the-sand mentality. We must recognize evil as evil, identify evil as evil and denounce evil as evil.
Swear By the Lord, the God of Heaven (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.
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