"The Lord had said to Abram, 'Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.'" (Genesis 12:1, NIV) How would we respond to our Heavenly Father if He asked us to leave our families and friends behind? We might not even know...
"So Isaac stayed in Gerar. When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, 'She is my sister,' because he was afraid to say, 'She is my wife.' He thought, 'The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.'" (Gen...
Gen 37:3 "Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind...
Last time we left off our story with Joseph as Potiphar's slave. Potiphar was fascinated by Joseph, especially because he noticed that the Lord was with this particular servant: "The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian...
Thanks to Potiphar's wife, Joseph ended up in prison like a common criminal. Nonetheless, his Heavenly Father was with him: “But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden....
The Pharaoh had a dream. He saw 7 cows that were very fat.After these 7 healthy, fat huge cows came out of the Nile, 7 skinny, ugly cows appeared, and the ugly cows ate the healthy ones.The Pharaoh had another dream that same night. This time he saw 7 healthy, full...
The Pharaoh had been given two dreams, and no one could interpret them (See Gen 41:8).The head cupbearer remembered a prisoner who had interpreted not only his dream, but the dream of the head baker as well two years earlier. Because both dreams came true in exactly...