Category Archives: Genesis

Genesis 30:25-31:55 After all these years, Jacob was still serving Laban (Rachel’s father). Laban believed that Jacob brought him prosperity in that the Lord had blessed him on Jacob’s account, and he didn’t want to see him go. Jacob was ready to go home, however. They struck a deal in which Jacob would pasture andContinue reading “The Lord Protects Us”

Genesis 29 Jacob went on a journey and met Rachel while she was tending her sheep. He fell for her instantly and asked her father, Laban, for her hand in marriage. They made a deal that Jacob would serve Laban for seven years, then he would be allowed to marry Rachel. After seven years, theContinue reading “Genesis 29-30:1-24”

Genesis 28:10-22 Following his parents’ instructions, Jacob headed out toward Haran in his journey for a proper wife, but the sun was setting so he stopped for the night. He lay on the ground and used a stone for a pillow. Then he had a dream, but not just any ordinary dream. This dream wouldContinue reading “Jacob Has a Dream”

Genesis 27 through 28:9 Rebekah (wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau) forms a plan for Jacob to trick his father into giving him the blessing saved for his eldest son (Esau). Jacob goes along with it and steals his brother’s blessings: heaven’s dew, the earth’s richness, an abundance of grain and newContinue reading “God Uses Bad for Good”

Peaceful Isaac Isaac sowed in the land of Gerar and reaped the same year a hundredfold. The good Lord blessed him mightily, and Isaac became an extremely wealthy man. The Philistines grew jealous and filled up his ancestral water wells with dirt. Abimelech (the king) told Isaac to leave for he was afraid of Isaac’sContinue reading “Genesis 26:12-35”

Like Father Like Son A famine in the land forced Isaac to head to Gerar. The Lord appeared to him and told him to sojourn in this land and he would receive the blessing promised to Abraham. God would give Isaac all the lands there, and by his descendants all the nations of the earthContinue reading “Genesis Chp. 26:1-11”

After Sarah’s death, Abraham married Keturah. She bore him several more children whom he sent to live in the east, away from Isaac. Though he gave gifts to these children while still living, Isaac was the one to whom he left everything. Abraham lived to the ripe old age of 175 years, satisfied with hisContinue reading “Genesis Chp. 25 Don’t Be an Esau”

Here’s Your Sign… Abraham was getting along in age, and after the death of his wife Sarah, he wanted to secure a proper wife for his son Isaac. Unfortunately, they lived among the Canaanites, who were worshippers of idols and lived outside the covenant of God, so he decided to send his servant to hisContinue reading “Genesis Chp. 24”

Sarah lived to be 127 years old then died in the land of Canaan. Abraham mourned and wept for her. He was a stranger in the land and needed a burial site for his wife, so he asked the sons of Heth for help. They wanted to give him one of their sepulchers, but heContinue reading “Genesis Chp. 23 (Debt is no good)”

What would you give up for God? Would you give up your favorite sin? Would you give up your family? Would you even give up Sundays? Most of us are too weak to give up any of these, even Sundays.  There once came a day when God asked Abraham to give up the most preciousContinue reading “The Ultimate Sacrifice My Bible Blog: Genesis 22”

While Hagar and Ishmael were wandering in the wilderness of Beersheba, Abraham and King Abimelech were having their own squabbles. Apparently, unbeknownst to him, Abimelech’s men had seized Abraham’s well. They worked out their differences, however, and made a covenant with each other at Beersheeba. Abraham planted a Tamarisk tree to mark the spot andContinue reading “My Bible Blog: Genesis 21:22-34”

Abraham’s Sarah was finally given a son, the son God had long-promised. Her happiness knew no bounds until jealousy reared its ugly head when Ishmael, (Abraham’s son with Hagar), was caught mocking Sarah and her new child. As a result, Sarah demanded Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away.  Abraham was hesitant—after all, Ishmael wasContinue reading “My Bible Blog: Genesis 21:9-21”

God finally fulfilled a long-awaited promise to Sarah. The promise of a child. In their old age, she conceived and bore Abraham a son, in God’s own appointed time. This son was Isaac, whose name means laughter. Abraham circumcised him at eight days old, as God had commanded.  Sometimes it’s hard to wait on God’sContinue reading “My Bible Blog: Genesis 21:1-8”

We’ve heard it said that history repeats itself. Well, only twenty chapters into the first book of the bible, Abraham is already repeating his mistakes. Remember back in Genesis 12 when Abraham told his wife to say she was his sister so that the Egyptians wouldn’t kill him and take her (they would just takeContinue reading “My Bible Blog: Genesis 20”

            The two angels that had been visiting with Abraham and the Lord went into Sodom. Abraham’s nephew, Lot, was sitting at the gate when they entered. He rose to meet them and invited them to stay at his home for the night. That night the men of the city surrounded the house and demanded thatContinue reading “My Bible Blog Genesis 19”

       One day, Abraham was hanging out in front of his tent on a hot sunny day when the Lord appeared to him. He looked up and saw three men. (God in human form plus two angels.) He ran to meet them and bowed himself to the earth. He then scurried around to bring them foodContinue reading “My Bible Blog Genesis 18”

       In chapter 17, Abram is 99 years old. God tells him to “walk before Me and be blameless,” and establishes a covenant with him—that He would multiply him exceedingly. Abram didn’t say, Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard it all before. No. Abram fell on his face before God, and never lost faith that God would carry through withContinue reading “My Bible Blog Genesis 17”

Genesis 16 God had been promising an heir for Abram and Sarai, but as usual, God was on His timing, not theirs. To this point, Sarai had been unable to bear children, so she had this horrible idea to allow Abram to impregnate her Egyptian maid Hagar.  Maybe Abram had faith in God, but his wifeContinue reading “My Bible Blog: Genesis 16”

In this chapter, Abram had a vision in which God told him to fear not, that he would receive a great reward. Abram questioned God about the fact that he was still childless, and God assured him he would have his own biological child who would be his heir, that his descendants would be likeContinue reading “My Bible Blog: Genesis 15”

In Genesis 13 & 14, Abram left Egypt, taking his wife, his nephew Lot, and all of their livestock, silver, and gold.  He went back to the place where he had built an altar then called on the name of the Lord.  Lot also had livestock, so much so, that the land could not sustain them both,Continue reading “My Bible Blog Genesis 13 and 14”