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The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested. 1 Chronicles 4:10

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Today we will be looking at the story in Genesis 25 in which Esau clearly “despised his birthright”– and at what a great cost! In the postlude to this story the Lord says in Romans, “Jacob I have loved, and Esau I have hated.” Did that mean that Esau’s fate was set before he was born, no matter what choices he made? No!. God hated Esau because he foreknew that Esau would hate him. A lot of people who teach […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

The Archbishop of Trent once had this to say about prayer, “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of his higher willingness.” What kind of prayer lays hold of the Lord’s “higher willingness.?” Prevailing prayer. That’s the kind of prayer we will see in play today as we look at Genesis 25 as both Isaac and Rebekah get their prayers answered by God. George

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

American novelist Michael Ventura described marriage as a journey toward an unknown destination where people discover as much about themselves as they do about their spouse. Today as we revisit chapter 24 of Genesis we will see how the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah serves as a great type of the Christian’s marriage to Christ. For the bride it is a great journey into the unknown where we learn as much about ourselves as we learn about Him. George

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

We live in a culture today in which many of the people are involved in some sort of meditation. But the practice of meditation is nothing new; it has been practiced by every culture since the time of Adam and Eve. Today we will see Isaac meditating over the prospect of his servant finding him a bride, and as we look at this passage in Genesis 24, we will consider the art of meditation he practiced and compare it to […]