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Abraham was now old (140), getting on in years, and The Lord had blessed him in everything. Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh, and I will have you swear by The Lord, God of heaven and earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaananites among whom I live, but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac." The servant said to him, "Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me back to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?" Abraham answered him, "Make sure that you don't take my son there. The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, "I will give this land to your offspring- He will send His angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there. If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free f...

Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the days of her life. Sarah died at Kiriath-Arab (Hebron) in the land of Caanan, and AbrHam went to mourn for her and weep for her. Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites: "Iam a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead. The Hittites replied to Abraham, " Listen to us, lord. You are God's chose n one among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead." Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hittites, the people of the land. Genesis 23:1-7 What a good reputation Abraham had. The Hittites knew him to be a man of God, yet he did nothing extraordinary, he merely lived among these people. Abraham did not own land, he was a sojourner in a foreign land. Nonetheless he was a respected leader and  he was not too proud to offer to pay full price for the land he wanted. The owner of t...

"By Myself I have sworn, this is the Lord's declaration: "Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son, I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. A your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies. And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed My command." Genesis 22:16-18 Much of the above blessing is a confirmation of the previous blessings God spoke to Abraham with one, exciting exception. Previously in Chapter 12, when God called Abram, as he was called then, he was told that should he choose to accept the mission and follow The Lord then he would be blessed, his name would be great, those who cursed him would be cursed, those who blessed him would be blessed and all the people of the earth would be blessed through him. However, he is now told that his offspring would possess the gates of their enemies. This is one pro...

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered. "Take your son, " He said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about." So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. Then Abraham said to the young men, " Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship, then we'll come back to you." Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac? in his hand he took the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together. Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, "My father." Abraham replied, "Here I am my son." Isaac siad, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the sacrificial lamb for the burnt offering?" Abraham replie...

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of the army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do. Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign resident." And Abraham said, "I swear it." But Abraham complained to Abimelech about the water that Abimelech's servants had seized. Genesis 21:22-24 Abraham's household, by this time, was large and probably a threat. However, Abraham endeavoured to live honourably. Abimelech also endeavoured to live honourable yet his servants did otherwise. Abraham was right to complain. Abraham had a similar problem with Lot's shepherds, water was a big issue. Abraham goes on the cut a covenant with Abimelech. Abimelech may never had this happen before, Abraham had, with the Lord. He was now doing things by God's book. As...

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a water skin, put them on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. she left and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bow shot away, for she said, "I can't bear to watch the boy die!" So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly. God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What's wrong Hagar? Don't be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from the place where he is. Get up, help the boy up, and support him, for I will make him a great nation." Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. so she went and filled the water skin and gave the boy a drink. Genesis 21:14-19 This is the second time God had spoken to Hagar about her son. The first was when she ran away after Sarah had treated her roughly be...

The child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw Ishmael mocking- the one the Egyptian slave had borne to Abraham. So she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!" Now this was a very hard thing for Abraham because of Ishmael, who was his son. But God said, "Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac. But I will also make a great nation of the slave's son because he is your heir." Genesis 21:8-10 Ishmael was conceived through a lack of faith, Isaac through faith. Not long before Isaac was conceived Abraham had allowed Abimelech to take Sarah into his harem, all because he lacked faith that God would protect him and his household. However, perhaps this was just what Sarah needed to believe she was indeed young enough to conc...

The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him. Genesis 21:1,2 Even though, a bare three months after God had promised Abraham a son, Abraham had allowed Abimelech to take Sarah into his harem, God provides a son to him by Sarah. God is faithful even when we mess things up. Again and again Abraham acts in his own understanding and messes things up, especially when it comes to his wife and his future son, yet God called him a man of faith. If I look at my own life I can see how I have not walked in faith at times, even though the Lord met me in a dream and told me I was a woman of faith. Just as God told me I was something He was in the process of creating I imagine Abraham was a man of faith in the making. The times I mess up and realise it and repent, I then give Him room to be what He is, GOD. I want to see Him act, so I am learn...

Now Abraham siad of Sarah his wife: "She is my sister." And Abimilech, king I of Gerar sent and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night and said to him, "indeed you are a dead man because of the woman you have taken for she is a man's wife." But Abimelech had not come near her, and he said, "Lord, will you slay a righteous nation also? Did he not say to me, "She is my sister".? And she, even herself said, "He is my brother." In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this." And God said to him in a dream, "Yes, I know you did this in the integrity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours." Genesis 20:2-7 Acting out of fear...

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square." But Lot insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then Lot made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Now before they lay down, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally." So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! See now, I hav...

And the Lord said, "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." Genesis 18;17-19 God was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, their sin was a stench in his nostrils. God was going to give Abraham an opportunity to intercede for the cities, and Abraham does. He bargains with The Lord for not destroying the cities for a number of righteous inhabitants. Abraham starts with 50 and takes the number all the way down to 10. The fact that God did destroy the cities is evident that there were not even 10 righteous people in them, The Lord removes Lot and his family, 4 individuals. God uses us, His people, to intercede on behalf of our cities. ...

Then the Lord appeared to Abraham by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. So he lifted his eyes and looked, and 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, if I have found favour in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. and I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant." Genesis 18:1-5 Here we see what manner of man Abraham is. In the heat of the day he was at rest. He sees need, he sees God, welcomes and makes room. Many visits from God are ordinary. God sends people to us, do we see the divine visitation? Those in need, are they men or angels? Does it matter? A divine interaction is still a divine interaction. Having eyes t...

  And then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" And Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!" Then 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. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget 12 princes, and I will make him a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year." Genesis 17:17-21 Imagine having God make a promise and falling on your face in laughter. God did not strike Abraham down, in fact He chose the name Isaac (which means laughter) for Abraham's son, perhaps He was sharing ...

God said to Abraham, "As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name. I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her." Genesis 17:15,16 Golly! God can be slow! why did he take so long to provide the promised son? Perhaps Abraham and Sarah were not ready until this time. I look at my own life and know the desires I have deep within and God is taking His own sweet time. Why? I was not ready yesterday let alone a year ago for the plan He has for me. I would have settled for a less than experience and He wants a great one. My challenge is the same as Abraham's, Can God use a 60 year old woman to bring all this to pass. Obviously He does not look on the external but rather His own ability to perform. I must remind myself that if he can use a bunch of rattling bones (Ezekiel 37) and put flesh on them and raise them to life I am sure He can use me just as...

And God also said to Abraham, "As for you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant. This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised. You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you. Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. Genesis 17:9-12 Now I wonder if Abraham had ever heard of circumcision. I would like to have been a fly on the wall and watched Abraham's face. A 99 year old man was being told he had to face a painful demonstration of his loyalty and relationship with God. Why do we buck when God requires us to have a circumcised heart? What is that? A heart only for Him, a heart not tainted with worldly pleasures. Having stuff is not the concern it is whether the stuff has us. We know the answer to this when someone breaks our stuff, takes ...

Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him. When Abram was 99 years old The Lord appeared to him, saying, "I am God Almighty. Live by my presence and be blameless. I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly." Then Abram fell face down and God spoke with him: "As for Me, My covenant is with you: you will become the father of many nations. Your name will no longer be Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings from you. I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you. And to your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing-all the land of Canaan-as an eternal possession, and I will be their God." Genesis 16:16-17;1-8 I want to look at a few things in this pass...

and the Angel of The Lord said to her: "Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son. You shall call him Ishmael, because the Lord heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, and every mans hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." Then she called the name of The Lord who spoke her, 'You are the God Who Sees; for she said, "have I also seen Him who sees me?" Genesis 16;11-13 Hagar was an Egyptian slave in Abram's house yet here the God of Heaven bothers with her and seeks her when she runs away from her mistress, Sarai. Not only does He seek her, to save her and her son to be born, He gives her a face to face meeting, something He did not give Sarai. What sort of God reaches out through race and creed and begins to walk with them? We cannot say that God was only interested in one nation, he chose a man from Ur and called him to a land and then he develops his reach in...

Then Sarai mistreated Hagar so much that she ran away from her. The Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. He said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She replied, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai." Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment." The Angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be many to count." Genesis 16:6-9 I wonder did Hagar willingly have sex with Abram? She had scorned her mistress when she became pregnant. She was mistreated because of her behaviour to her mistress. The Angel of the Lord said, "I will bless you." I wonder if this was the Lord Himself. Usually when an angel visits he says, "The Lord will bless you." Hagar needed to change her attitude to Sarai rather than run away. Go...

Abram's wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, "since The Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family." And Abraham agreed to what Sarai said. Genesis 16:1,2 Now it was Sarai's turn to learn about The Lord and His promises. She had doubted herself, doubted He could use her barren womb, and wanted to help a him and Abram out. After all in had now been 10 years since they had lived in the land of promise. Have you had a word from God, a dream, a promise that you have waited for for 10years and still nothing? Yes? I have as well. What do we do? Begin to doubt God and create our own solutions? Sarai's solution turned on her. Her slave Hagar did indeed become pregnant but then began to despise her mistress. Having her husband be intimate with her slave was bad enough but now the slave looked down on her. This passage brings a warning. When...

God also said to Abram, "I am Yahweh who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans yo give you this land to possess." But Abram said, " lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?"Genesis 15:7,8 Aren't you grateful for Abram? I am! His humanity gives me hope. As I watch The Lord draw him into a relationship I am mindful of how my God draws me. I see it more when I am not listening to the noise, but rather am quiet before Him. God answers Abram. He tells him to bring various animals as a sacrifice and Abram lays them out, cut in half. They stay there, with birds and flies wanting their part and Abram drives them away. Eventually he falls asleep and when he wakes it is dark and he sees a fire pot and flaming torch appeared and passed between the parts of the animals and God made a covenant with Abram. Abram did not believe automatically, God had to woo him. Just as God wooed Abram, He woos us. Yesterday I had been selling a young recruit the vision of my business....

But Abram said, "Lord God, what can You give me since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" Abram continued, "Look, You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir." Now the word of the a lord came to him: " This one will not be your heir, instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir." He took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "Your descendants will be that numerous." Abram believed The Lord and He credited it to him as righteousness. Genesis 15:2-6 For a man who had longed for children all his life and to now have the God of heaven promise to give him a multitude of children, how would this be? Would Abram have struggled to believe? Or did he eagerly believe? God had mentioned a blessing to Abram and his offspring before but now Abram wanted to know, the question was out, Do you judge your...

After these events (Abram defeated Chedorlaomer); met Melchizedek and refused spoils from the hand of the king of agomorrah) the word of The Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be great." Genesis 15:1 Abram had turned down the reward from the king of Sodom preferring one that came from God. Abram had good success in the way he defeated Chedorlaomer, God was his shield and now would be his reward. God has been my shield and now he is being my reward as I praise Him for what is to be, it comes to pass. I cannot assume that bad things that happen around me are aimed at me. I am watching them from the shadow of His wings. As I stay focus and fix my eyes on Him, blessings flow freely. Amen! I had a woman come to me in distress. Her husband has cancer and he had a lot if business debt. She was fearful. I said to her, " do not be afraid, you will come out of this, step by step." Today, 12 hours later I was able to giv...

The four kings (Chedorlaomer, Tidal, Amraphel and Arioch) took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on. They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on. Genesis 14:11,12 Lot was finding out what went with living in Sodom, bondage. It is amazing how something or someone can look so good but be so wrong. Lot chose to live near Sodom in the well watered plains. I wonder if he knew the history and that the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah plus a few others were in bondage to Chedorlaomer and planned to rebel. Their rebellion ended up in war and Lot ended up a spoil of the war. Abram was informed and took 318 men from his camp, trained in warfare, and they pursued Chedorlaomer and surprised him and was able to bring Lot and all the possessions taken back.  Abram was met on his return by two kings: the king of Sodom and Melchizedek. Melchizedek suddenly appears out of no where, to us that is, and blesses Abram with...

After Lot separated from him, The Lord said to Abram, "Look from the place where you are. Look North and South, east and west, for I will give you and your descendants forever all the land you see. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count he dust of the earth, then your offspring can be counted. Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you. So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to The Lord. Genesis 13:14-18 Abram had just settled land on Lot yet that same land God was giving to him. However, Abram got up and moved his tents to Hebron at the oaks of Mamre where he first built an altar to The Lord. What was the significance of this place? As Abram had travelled from his father's land into the land The Lord has called him to, this was the first place where The Lord appeared to Abram and told him He was giving him all the land. This w...

Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev- he, his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him. Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold. He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been, to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there. Now Lot, who was travelling with Abram,  also had flocks, herds and tents. But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together, and there was quarrelling between the herdsman of Abram's livestock and the herdsman of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let's not have quarrelling between you and me, or between your herdsman and my herdsman since we are relatives. Isn't the whole before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right;...

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all his possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Cannaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanite were in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. Genesis 12.4-7 Abram went with all he had. then the Lord appeared to Abram in Shechem, at the oak of Moriah and because God had appeared to him, he built an altar there and made a sacrifice. Abram did not stay where he built the altar but kept moving, this was probably because he had large flocks and, much like the Australian farmer, in dry spells, moves the herd to where he can find food for them. late...

The Lord said to Abram: "Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who treat you with contempt, And all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you. So Abram went, as The Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Genesis 12:1-4 I am ready to go. How about you? In may be 20kms away, 100kms away or further but what does it matter? Abram was secure in The Lord. I returned home to the land of my fathers for a time to completely heal and am now ready for an adventure. Abram went on an adventure. He met people he had never met before, he experiences things he had never experienced before, all because he went. I don't quite know how this will unfold as I have just signed a 12 month lease on an office building and sign...

These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad  two years after the flood..... Genesis 11:10 Shem had Arpachshad Arpachshad had Shelah Shelah had Eber Eber had Peleg Peleg had Reu Reu had Seug Serug Nahor Nahor had Terah Terah had Abram Terah took Abram and Lot and set out towards Canaan but got as far as Haran and stopped there. We all have a genealogy and some of us can trace our parentage way back. God sees our bloodline and we all go way back to one of the sons of Noah. How cool is that? However, for me the most important bloodline began at 19, when I became born again. I stepped into a new family. My children and grandchildren may or may not appreciate their natural bloodline. For what can it do for them? However, my prayers is that they come to know their spiritual bloodline and know it personally. As a Christian, there are no spiritual grandchildren other than those I see come into the Kingdom of God. My God meets each of us personally. Th...

At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary. As the people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let us make oven-fired bricks." They used the bricks for stone, and asphalt for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth." Then The Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, "if they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech." So from there The Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city, Genesis 11:1-8 Is God a spoil-sport? ...

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked. When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him, he said: Canaan will be cursed. He will be the lowest slave to his brothers. He also said: praise The Lord, the God of Shem; Canaan will be his slave. God will extend Japheth; he will dwell in the tents of Shem; Canaan will be his slave, Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood. So Noah's life lasted 959 years; then he died. Genesis 9:20-29 Noah uncovered himself; nakedness was associated with shame. Adam's nakedness caused him shame. Noah's sin was Ham's stum...

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority. Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything. However, you must not eat meat with it's lifeblood in it. But you be fruitful and multiply; spread out over he earth and multiply on it." I confirm My. Covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth." And God said, " This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations: I have placed my bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and he earth. Whenever I form cl...

Noah was 600 years old when the floods came and waters covered the earth. So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths opened, the floodgates of the sky opened, and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights. On that day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his three sons's wives entered the ark with him. Then The Lord shut him in. Genesis 7:6,7;11-13; 16 Noah was a new Adam. He had charge of all the animals, plants, birds, reptiles. God liked Noah and trusted him. Imagine building an ark when you are in your 500s. The ark was finished by the time Noah is 600. Noah is the last of the long-livers. Noah had a heart after God. God saved Noah and his family, God shut them in the ark. God saves His people as they trust Him completely and sp...

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God. And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. God saw hoe corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. Then a God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. This is how you are to make it: the ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Genesis 6:9-15 God always has a plan to rescue His people. Seek Him for His plan, His best plan. I had thought I would stay in my private accommodation with family for at least another year, but longing for my own space. I think he time has come. Exciting! He always gives me His bes...

Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. Adam lived 800 years after the birth of Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters. So Adam's life lasted 930 years; then he died. Genesis 5:3-5 It is as if Adam started again. Abel was dead and Cain banished. It is amazing that A man lived so long on the earth. We now struggle to stay alive past 100 yet 900, phew! Adam was made to live forever but the loss of the tree of life ensued a time of death. As he was the first man I wonder what he did, thought about the future and his part in it. We are not told anything other than he fathered Seth and then more sons and daughters, probably many sons and daughters over a 900 year life span. With the birth of Seth men again began to seek God. Yet by verse 28 we see one of Adam's great gradsons fathered Noah and when he was named 'Noah', he said,"this one will bring us relief from the agonising labour of our hands,...

So when they had come together, they asked Him, " Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?" He said to them, It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:6-8 When my marriage first fell apart my emotions wanted to dictate how things should go. I had my own ideas on how God could bless me but found He had different plans. Every home He gave me was a blessing. Every person who came into my world was a blessing, even the difficult ones. I am stepping into my future and am amazed how He has prepared the way. All things, all things, all things have worked together for my good. The disciples wanted Jesus to restore Israel and woop the Romans, but that was not he plan. We can be frustrated, incredibly frustrated, by not getting things o...

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gve birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, " God has given me another son in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of The Lord as Yahweh. Genesis 4:25,26 The birth of Enosh began a new beginning, his named meant humanity. Cain went east of the garden of Eden and produced his own group of people, they were without God. As the New Year dawns we can step into a new beginning or a continuation of the old. Unless the is a change in the old, the old remains in a new year. However, for a new experience we must do something new. Many begin the year with new year resolutions. Many many of these last but a short while. If my God is leading me into a new experience then I must have a change of thinking to embrace the new. I cannot walk in my flesh, be it insecurity or negative speech and expect a different result. My thinking has to...

Then The Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" I don't know, " he replied, "am I my brother's keeper?" The God said, "What have you done? your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground! So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened up its mouth to receive your brother's blood you have shed. If you work the ground it will never again give you it's yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." But Cain answered the L ord: "My punishment is too great to bear! Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me."  Then The Lord replied, "in that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over." And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. Then Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east ...

Adam was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have a male child with the Lord's help. Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground. In the course of time Cain presented some of the land's produce as an offering to the Lord and Abel also presented an offering- some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent. Then The Lord said to Cain, "why are you furious?" And why do you look despondent?" If you do what is right, won't you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin crouches at the door. It's desire is for you, but you must rule over it." Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out into the field." And while they were there Cain attacked Abel and killed him....

The Lord God said, "Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever." So The Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life." Genesis 3:22-24 The tree of life was to guarantee eternal life. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was His tree, which only He could partake of.  Knowledge of good and evil required a special being, one that would not be corrupted by it, one that could handle it. Adam and Eve were created beings and the fact that they had been deceived by evil showed they were not fit to handle it. I watched an excellent message by Pastor TD Jakes yesterday. He was saying that God's power is His and not to be used by me for my own gain. I need to know where the power of God operates in my...

Then The Lord God said to the serpent: because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. I will put hostility between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel. He said to the woman: I will intensify your labour pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you. And He said to Adam, " Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it': The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. You will eat bread by e sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it, For you are dust, and you will return to d...

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of The Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from The Lord God among the trees of the garden. So The Lord God called out to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" And he said, "I heard You in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid." "Then He asked, "who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" Then the man replied, "The woman You gave to be with me- she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." So The Lord God asked the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate it."Genesis 3:8-13 What a devastation! To suddenly fear the One who spent every evening walking in the garden in fellowship with you. Adam and Eve knew evil, they had sinned, accepting the first evil from the serpent. Sin makes yo...

For The Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding. He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity so that ahe may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His loyal followers. Proverbs 2:6-8 This morning I looked at how Adam and Eve were deceived by the serpent into eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(Genesis Chapter 3) in the end all they understood was they had no clothes on. Yet even Solomon, who wrote Proverbs, understood that wisdom came from The Lord God in the first place. They had already been in the very best position to obtain all the wisdom they needed. God did not need their help. I have been spending my holiday week between Christmas and New Year (and the two on the other side of New Year) reading books to help me in business. However, I know they are only tools. Today I did a painting so I could switch off the whirr click and allow my spirit room. I know it is good to read but I...

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that The Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, " You can't eat from any tree in the garden?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden, but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.' "No! You will not die, " the serpent said to the woman. In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."  Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of the fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. Genesis 3:1-7 Cunning indeed! ...