GOD IS EVER PRESENT WITH THOSE WHO HAVE CALLED ON JESUS! Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” —Genesis 31:3 Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him…  “Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.” —Genesis 31:14,16             When our Lord directed Jacob to go back home “to the land of your fathers and to your kindred,” Rachel and Leah agreed that “whatever God has said to you, do.”  Our Lord doesn’t just direct individuals in a family, but He desires the family to be in agreement.  Rachel and Leah were…

GOD ENABLES WOMEN TO HAVE CHILDREN! When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” —Genesis 30:1-2             In the above verses, Jacob states the truth that it is God who gives the ability to have children or not.  God’s plan from the beginning was to be “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish…

LABORERS IN THE HARVEST ARE NEEDED! Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” —Matthew 9:37-38              First, Jesus said that the harvest is plentiful.  2nd, He said that the laborers are few.  3rd He tells us to pray earnestly.  4th, He said our prayer should be that He would send out laborers into His harvest.  This is such an important communication our Lord has given us.  Few laborers, little harvest.  We need more laborers in His harvest!  Are you one of those?  Are you willing to be…

SPENDING TIME WITH THOSE WHO NEED JESUS As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.  While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but…

BELIEVE/OBEY THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS!  When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”  When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who…

TRUST THE WILL OF GOD After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” —Genesis 22:1-2 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” —Genesis 22:5 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold,…

IF GOD IS NOT YOUR TOP PRIORITY, THEN JUDGMENT WILL COME! For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.” —Genesis 19:13 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. —Genesis 19:24-25 If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and…

GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM ABOUT THE LAND Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” —Genesis 12:6-7 At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land… Abram settled in the land of Canaan… The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, for all the land that you see I will give to you and…

FELLOW FOLLOWER OF JESUS— YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD— SHINE! You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. —Matthew 5:14-16 `           Jesus is speaking to His disciples and plainly said to them, “You are the light of the world.”  That is true of His disciples today.  You and I…

GOD’S WORD IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY!  NOT MAN’S… Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. —Genesis 9:3 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it.” —Genesis 9:6-8 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy…