Fear, Failure, and the God Who Faithfully Keeps His Promise…. Genesis 20 — Fear Revisited, Grace Repeated.. Abraham’s Fear Resurfaces (Genesis 20:1–2) Shockingly, Abraham repeats the same failure we saw in Genesis 12 — presenting Sarah as his sister. Why does this happen again? Because: “The fear of man lays a snare” (Proverbs 29:25) Even after encounters with…
The Personal God Who Visits, Intercedes, Rescues, and Judges… Genesis 18 — The LORD Who Comes Near The LORD Appears with Two Others (Genesis 18:1–2) The chapter opens with “The LORD (Yahweh) appeared to Abraham”, yet Abraham sees three men standing nearby. Who are they? This is not explicitly called the Trinity, but it is a visible revelation of God…
From Promise to Identity, From Faith to Formation… El Shaddai appears (Genesis 17:1) When Abram is ninety-nine years old, God appears again — but this time, He introduces Himself differently: “I am El Shaddai — God Almighty.” Previously, God revealed Himself primarily as YHWH / Adonai, the personal, covenant-making God (Genesis 15).Now He comes as El Shaddai, the All-Sufficient, All-Powerful God….
This chapter opens with impatience, pain and a long silence (Genesis 16:1–3). Years have passed since God’s promise in Genesis 15, and Sarai remains barren. Time has a way of pressing on faith. Sarai looks at her age, her body, and her circumstances—and concludes that perhaps God’s promise needs human help. She proposes a solution that…
Victory, Fear, and a Covenant God Keeps… Genesis 14 and 15: One shows us Abram after a great victory; the other shows us Abram in quiet fear..Together, they reveal a God who not only rescues, but reassures—and who binds Himself to humanity in grace. Genesis 14: Victory Without Possession.. In this chapter, for the first time Abram…
When Blessing Grows, So Do Choices.. Genesis 13 opens with a quiet but powerful reality: “So Abram went up from Egypt… and Lot went with him.” What follows is not just a story about land and livestock—it’s a story about how blessing tests relationships, and how character is revealed not in scarcity, but in abundance. Lot became…
When God Calls, Faith Begins Without a Map… Genesis 12 feels like a quiet but decisive turn in Scripture. Up to this point, the story has been wide-angle: creation, humanity, nations, dispersion. Suddenly, the narrative narrows—from everyone to one man. Why Abram? Why move to Abram’s family line now? After Genesis 11, humanity is scattered, divided by language,…
From Defending Himself to Seeing God… After God’s sweeping questions about creation, strength, order, and wisdom, something profound happens. Job stops talking. And in Scripture, silence is often where the deepest work begins. 1. Job’s Humility: When Words Finally Fall Away (Job 40:1–5) God invites Job to respond. Job answers—not with arguments, not with questions—but with humility:…
When God Speaks, but Not the Way We Expected… After chapters of human voices—Job’s anguish, his friends’ certainty, Elihu’s passionate reasoning—God finally speaks. And when He does, He does not explain suffering.He reveals Himself. God’s Personal Response (Job 38:1) “Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…” This matters more than it may first appear….