Category: family
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Faithful as Father Figures
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4 God doesn’t desire us to be parents who provoke our children. That’s not God’s way. That’s not what He desires for us. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.– […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 55
So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.- Genesis 50:26 (NIV) The last word in the book of Genesis is Egypt. It seems appropriate that this book of the Bible would end in such a place. Right after the death of Joseph, one […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 54
15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 53
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left […]
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From Eden to Egypt-Day 52
Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come. . . All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. […]
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From Eden to Egypt Day 51
And Israel said to Joseph, “I had not thought to see your face; but in fact, God has also shown me your offspring!”- Genesis 48:11 (NKJV) The father who had shown Joseph favoritism was old and sick. That was the report that had reached Joseph. Joseph gathered up his two sons and took them to […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 50
And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families. – […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 49
Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and […]
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From Eden to Egypt Day 48
3Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; does my father still live?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence. 4And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 47
>Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. – Genesis 42:6 (NIV) Did you remember that Joseph had a dream? Yeah. I am talking about the dream that he shared […]
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