Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
Elkanah is an Ephrathite and has two wives. The first is Hannah, who is childless, and the second is Peninnah, who has children. {1 Samuel 1:1-2} Each year they go to Shiloh to offer their sacrifice. To Peninnah and her children, Elkanah gave a portion but to Hannah he gave a double portion “because he loved her”. However, Peninnah enjoys […]
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Ruth is a widowed woman living in her home country of Moab, when we first meet her. She decides not to return home to her parents but to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to her homeland. She makes the impassioned promise of “Where you go I will go and your people will be my people” to her mother-in-law. When they […]
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Jochebed was the daughter of Levi. {Numbers 26:59} She is the wife of Amram and also believed to be his aunt. {Exodus 6:20} Amram and Jochebed had three children Aaron, Miriam and Moses. The little we know about this couple comes from Moses birth story. Pharaoh decreed all baby boys thrown into the Nile. He feared the Jewish people would […]
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Leah was the oldest daughter of Laban. However, by the time she met Jacob he was already in love with her sister, Rachel. Leah is described as having “weak” eyes. {Genesis 29:17} As the older daughter, she should have been married first. So, when it came time for Rachel to marry Jacob, Laban replaced the younger sister with older. Jacob […]
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When Jacob arrives at his Uncle Laban’s, the first person he meets is his cousin, Rachel. {Genesis 29} Rachel is the younger of Laban’s two daughters. Rachel is described as “beautiful in form and appearance.” {Genesis 29:17} Jacob loved Rachel and agreed to work seven years for her. “But they seemed to him but a few days because of the […]
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Abraham decided his son needed to marry but did not want him to choose among the women where they were living. So he sent a servant back to his {Abraham’s} kindred to find a wife. The servant went to the city of Nahor and prayed the woman who was meant to be would also offer to water the camels. Rebekah […]
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Abram is ten generations from Noah. He is one of three sons to Terah and lived in Ur of the Chaldees. Abram married Sarai, his half-sister through his father. {Genesis 20:12} The Lord told Abram to go to the land he would show him and that he would make him a great nation. At this time Abram and Sarai had […]
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Adam and Eve are the first couple in the Bible. They are included in the creation story. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” {Genesis 1:27} They walked with God in paradise in the Garden of Eden until the serpent tempted Eve to eat the […]
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The Lord God is the ultimate Father. He is the Alpha and Omega and creator of the world. Time and time again he refers to himself as our father, our loving and heavenly father. Jesus Christ refers to God as his father and he {Jesus} is God’s son. When referring to the trinity, we are told we have the Father […]
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Today, we are going to visit with two kings no one would want to be the child of. Ahaz means one that takes or has held. He was the son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah. He was the 12th king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. “Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned […]
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Samuel was the son of Hannah and Elkanah and raised by Eli. He served God his whole life The name Samuel means heard, asked of God, and appointed by God. Sadly, Samuel , the great prophet was an equal failure as Eli when it came to fatherhood. “When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.” {1 Samuel 8:1} […]
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We first meet Eli when Hannah prays for a child. He believe her to be drunk because of her fervent prayers. When Samuel is weaned, Hannah takes him to Eli at the temple. From there, Eli serves as his teacher and a father figure. However, Eli also has sons of his own. The name Eli means “jehovah is high or my god”. […]
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Moses had two sons during his years of exile. He married Zipporah, the daughter of Reuel or Jethro. While there they had two sons: Gershom—meaning a sojourner there Eliezer—meaning help of my God “After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her 3 and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in […]
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Job was a man who greatly loved God and his family. The name Job means persecuted or hated. “In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job.” {Job 1:1} “The country he lived in was the land of Uz, in the eastern part of Arabia, which lay towards Chaldea, near Euphrates, probably not far from Ur of […]
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Ruth watched helplessly as her mother-in-law lost her husband and then her two sons. Naomi became bitter and disheartened. {Ruth 1:13} However, when Naomi tried to send Ruth away, she refused to go telling her “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I […]
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While living in Egypt, Joseph took a wife and had two sons. His sons were Manasseh which means to forget and Ephraim, meaning fruitful. The most we learn about Joseph as a father, is when he takes them to visit his own father Israel {Jacob}. “The time drawing nigh that Israel must die… Joseph, hearing of his father’s sickness, goes […]
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Although David has already been anointed to be King, he has to wait until the proper time. {1 Samuel 16:13} He could have taken matters into his own hands, but this would be going against the Lord. Instead, he served King Saul faithfully. However, there’s a problem. King Saul hates David and wants to kill him. He tries several times […]
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Judah was one of the sons of Jacob and is the line from which the Messiah descends. But, what do we know about him as a father? “here Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua {means cry for help}. He married her and made love to her.” {Genesis 38:2} She had three sons: Er—means watchman Onan—means pain, force […]
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Have you ever longed for something the ache was unbearable? Hannah did. She longed to be a mother. Matters were only made worse when her husband’s other wife kept having children and taunting her for it. {1 Samuel 1:1-8} When they went to the temple for House of the Lord, Hannah had been provoked so much she wept. {! Samuel […]
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Isaac was the favored and long promised son of Abraham and his wife, Sarah. The name Isaac means laughter. “Isaac is one of the few cases in the Bible in which God selected a name for a child and announced it before he was born.” {All the Men of the Bible} He marries Rebekah, but like his parents they wait […]
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