God's Image: You are Very Precious to God
on July 13th, 2021
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. . . . Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. And for your lifeblood I will surely demand . . . an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of... Read More
The Power of a Generous Offering
on July 12th, 2021
Then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. . . . So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. . . . Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart: "Never again will I curse... Read More
When God Shuts You in, God Will Remember You.
on July 11th, 2021
The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. . . . In the six hundredth year of Noah's life . . . all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. . . . On that very day Noah and his sons . . . together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. . ... Read More
One Person Can Make All the difference
on July 10th, 2021
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. . . . Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. . . . So ma... Read More
Finding Divine Favor Amidst Wickedness
on July 9th, 2021
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth . . . the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever . . . The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that He had made humans beings on the earth, and His heart was deeply troubled. ... Read More
"Do Not Let Me Fall Into Human Hands"
on July 8th, 2021
David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for His mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands."So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destro... Read More