We're inviting everyone to read the Bible this year. We all need to hear God's Word and those we minister to also need us to share His Word with them. Feel free to add your own post or comment on someone's post.
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Genesis!
Welcome to reading the word together!
Here is where we can share ideas, questions and what we learn.
The God who works through difficult situations also worked through another ancient story; a story of a single mother who was treated unfairly and how God saved her. A man and his wife were having trouble getting pregnant. They were sure that they were supposed to have a baby. They wanted more than anything to have a baby. So one day, since the woman wasn't conceiving, she told her husband that they should ask their maid if she would be a surrogate mother. The husband agreed and since this was before artificial insemination, the husband went and had sex with the maid and she conceived. After the maid became pregnant, the wife started treating her badly; so badly that the maid ran away into the wilderness. But an angel appeared to the maid who had run away into the wilderness. She was sitting by a spring of water. And the angel asked her what she was doing, and she told him. The angel said, "God has heard your cry of affliction." He told her that her son would grow t...
Notice something about Adam and Abraham. Adam sinned when he listened to the voice of his wife. Abraham was told by God to listen to the voice of his wife. In both cases,listening to God's Word is the path of life.
Have you ever tried to read the Bible and got bored when you hit the later chapters of Exodus, then Leviticus and Deuteronomy? Did you get bogged down in all the laws and temple building? Well, they don't call it the Wilderness of sin for nothing. God gave them the law in the wilderness. The law was tedious, but the law was given to reveal sin. That's what Paul said in Galatians. It's in the deserts of life that our sin is revealed the most. It's in the daily grind of life that we are tempted to discount God in search for the miraculous. But if you really want to know God, keep going through what you feel is boring and you will be surprised as He reveals Himself through His Word.
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