by AUMCWebAdm | Jan 12, 2021 | W.I.S.H. Post
Read: Genesis 43-44 Out of concern Joseph sought news of his father, Jacob, and his brother, Benjamin. Out of compassion for his family Joseph provided his brothers with grain to take home to sustain the family in the famine. Framing his brothers by planting the grain...
by AUMCWebAdm | Jan 7, 2021 | W.I.S.H. Post
Read: Genesis 42 Paybacks are … well you know, some say golden opportunities to extract revenge. After 2 years of drought Joseph’s brothers traveled from Canaan to Egypt, the only place in the world that had a surplus of food. Their father, Jacob, had sent...
by AUMCWebAdm | Jan 4, 2021 | W.I.S.H. Post
Read: Matthew 2:14-15, 14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt...
by AUMCWebAdm | Jan 4, 2021 | W.I.S.H. Post
Read: Isaiah 41:2, “Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service[]? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to...
by AUMCWebAdm | Sep 10, 2020 | W.I.S.H. Post
Read: Genesis 14:17-20 The Bible follows the faith story of what God is doing in the lives of Abraham and Sarah, and their descendants. That does not mean that God was not active in the lives of other people in that day; we just don’t know their stories. Melchizedek...
by AUMCWebAdm | Sep 10, 2020 | W.I.S.H. Post
Read: Genesis 15:12-16For years I’ve closed my WISH posts with, “Shalom”, a Hebrew word that is translated in the Old Testament as “peace”. Genesis 15:15 is the first place the word “shalom” occurs in the Bible. It comes as a word of hope, promise, and reassurance...