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The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

In today’s lesson in Genesis 26, Isaac will be confronted with a famine in the Promised Land much like his father faced decades earlier. But instead of running to Egypt like Abraham did, he will obey the voice of the Lord and go to Gerar in Canaan and he will be blessed beyond measure. By observing the Lord’s work in Isaac’s life during this famine we can learn a lot about how God can bless us even in midst of […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested. 1 Chronicles 4:10

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Today we will be looking at the story in Genesis 25 in which Esau clearly “despised his birthright”– and at what a great cost! In the postlude to this story the Lord says in Romans, “Jacob I have loved, and Esau I have hated.” Did that mean that Esau’s fate was set before he was born, no matter what choices he made? No!. God hated Esau because he foreknew that Esau would hate him. A lot of people who teach […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

The Archbishop of Trent once had this to say about prayer, “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of his higher willingness.” What kind of prayer lays hold of the Lord’s “higher willingness.?” Prevailing prayer. That’s the kind of prayer we will see in play today as we look at Genesis 25 as both Isaac and Rebekah get their prayers answered by God. George

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

American novelist Michael Ventura described marriage as a journey toward an unknown destination where people discover as much about themselves as they do about their spouse. Today as we revisit chapter 24 of Genesis we will see how the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah serves as a great type of the Christian’s marriage to Christ. For the bride it is a great journey into the unknown where we learn as much about ourselves as we learn about Him. George

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

We live in a culture today in which many of the people are involved in some sort of meditation. But the practice of meditation is nothing new; it has been practiced by every culture since the time of Adam and Eve. Today we will see Isaac meditating over the prospect of his servant finding him a bride, and as we look at this passage in Genesis 24, we will consider the art of meditation he practiced and compare it to […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Blaise Pascal once wrote, “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust God’s providence to lead him aright.” Abraham no doubt trusted God’s providence “to lead him aright” when he sent his servant Eliezer off to find Isaac a bride. And as we will see in today’s study in chapter 24 of Genesis, Abraham’s trust was well-founded, for the Lord by a miracle of providence led Eliezer to the bride He had chosen […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Thomas A Kempis in his work Imitation of Christ had this to say about the believer’s preparation for death, “Thou oughtest to order thyself in all thy thoughts and actions as if today thou wert about to die. Labor now to live so that at the hour of death thou mayest rather rejoice than fear.” In today’s text, Sarah dies and Abraham prepares for her burial. Abraham mourns for his wife, but his actions demonstrate that his mourning is not […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

In today’s lesson, we will hear Abraham call upon the Lord for the very first time as “Jehovah Jireh,” which simply means “The Lord Will Provide.” There is not a better name to remember and use when calling upon the Lord than this, because throughout the Christian life there never comes a time when we are not in need of the provision of God. In fact, there is no salvation without the sacrifice provided for us when the Lord gave […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Everybody faces trials, and some of them are so difficult that they seem like insurmountable mountains. In today’s lesson Abraham is going to face the most difficult of tests as the Lord tells him to take his son Isaac to the top of Mount Moriah, and once there, to offer him up as a burnt offering. Abraham will pass the test, and from observing his experience we will learn how we too can have faith that conquers mountains. George