Daily Devotional from Genesis 14--Verses 18-20And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.God is a giver, and if we want to be more like ...  Read More

Daily devotional from Genesis 13--Verses 14-16Look as far as you can see in every direction–north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession. And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted! NLTAbraham was walking in God’s promise. He knew that wherever he went, G...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 12--Verse 4So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.  (NIV)My Great-Grandmother was 90 years old when she became a Christian. She loved Jesus with everything she had during the last year of her life. Before she passed away, she loved reading the Bible and praying, and donating her croc...  Read More

Daily devotional from Genesis 11--Verse 4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”In Genesis 9, God commanded “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” But in Genesis 11, we see the people actively opposing this command. Today, if you’re feeling tem...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 10--Verse 32These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.I love different cultures, languages, food, traditions. They are so unique and beautiful and this verse describes when the nations divided and spread. In Bible college I was in a zoom call 3 days a...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 9--Verses 13 and 16I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.Do you think that God really needs help remembering his promises? Of course not! Signs are for our ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 8--Verse 1God remembered Noah…Sometimes we are in the midst of crazy storms. The waves are high, the rain seems to fall…and fall…and fall…and it seems as if the storm is never going to end.Right now, it may feel like you’re in the middle of a storm, much like Noah and his family. But God has remembered you, just like he did with Noah.You are not forgotten and left to ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 7--Verse 16And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.The entrance to the ark must have been pretty good-sized, to be able to fit giraffes and elephants inside. Just imagine being with Noah the day the flood began – when it says ‘all the fountains of the great deep BURST forth, and the windows of th...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 6--Verse 9Noah walked with God.Have you ever taken a walk with someone? For some it may seem a bit nonessential, unless you have time to waste. Most of us have things to do and people to see. We have busy schedules, major commitments, and pressing deadlines. So a walk may seem a bit impractical.But that’s exactly what a walk with a friend is - impractical. You’re not ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 5--Verse 22Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.I've always loved this verse - it's in the midst of a list of 'this guy lived this long and fathered this guy, and then died at this age'...literally, over and over. But there are a couple extra details given about Enoch: he walked with God (the footnote in my Bibl...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 4--Verses 3-5In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.This passage may seem confusing. Why would God accept Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s? Hebrew...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 3—Verses 4-5But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."The first lies, the first deception. The master deceiver was determined to take his rightful place as the bad guy of all. Not even Eve who had walked in the garden with the Almighty Go...  Read More