Monthly Archives: June 2021

. “Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book.” (2 Chronicles 34:31) The covenant that the people of God made with the God of Israel was not a contractual agreement that people had to follow to maintain its benefits.  Rather a covenant is…..

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Love will overlook offenses, forgive, let them go and move on.  Love will not remain focused on a harm done to them or a desire to do harm.  Rather, Love will remain focused on what is good, refusing to hold resentment in our hearts.   Writing last week about Joshua, he reflected this kind of love for his brothers.  He refused to take offense and pay them back for the wrongs they had done to him.  Rather, he knew he was…..

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Genesis 45:1-2, “Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, ‘Send everyone away from me!’ So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.” Can you imagine Joseph telling you the story of his life and how it was brought to this place of being able to forgive, release the…..

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“He [Isaac] went up from there to Beersheba.   The Lord appeared to him that same night and said, ‘I am the God of Abraham your father.  Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.’  He built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there.  And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.” (Genesis 26:24) Isaac met God in Beersheba…..

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