Daily Devotional from Genesis 21--Verse 17What troubles you, Hagar?People may abandon you or kick you to the curb, but God never will.Take Hagar for example. After getting tangled up in a sticky situation, she and her son get dumped in the middle of a wilderness with only a loaf of bread and a skin of water. Discarded and rejected. No comforting voices, no encouraging touches. None but one…What tr...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 20--Verse 6Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.” There have been many times in life when I have made a plan to do this or that, and something has gotten in the way, preventing me from doing it. I can recall times ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 19--Verse 26But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.I could see this happening so easily in America. Judgement is on the way and Lot’s family is dithering and delaying. The sons-in-law thought it was a joke (verse 14), Lot was dragging his feet (verse 16), and now we see Lot’s wife casting her eye back to what used to be. It’s like the...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 18--Verses 3-5aAnd [Abraham] said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves…”Abraham humbly offered hospitality in the form of water to wash their feet, rest under the tree and a bite ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 17--Verse 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless…"“Be blameless,” said God Almighty to Abram. Blameless is defined by Strong’s Concordance as without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright (-ly), whole.Did Abram succeed a...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 16--Verse 13So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, ‘You are a God of seeing,’ for she said, ‘Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.’Have you ever tried to take matters into your own hands, instead of letting God write the story of your life? I know I have many times, and we see here how Sarai and Abram did the same, even though God had promised t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Genesis 15–Verses 17-18aWhen the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land.”God actually took the time to walk through the carcasses to make a covenant. Walking through the torn carcasses was symbolic in ancient time...  Read More

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