Babylon built beautiful houses with stolen stone, and God says the walls themselves will testify: "For the stone will cry…Babylon built beautiful houses with stolen stone, and God says the walls themselves will testify: "For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber will answer it." Nothing stays silent forever. What did it cost someone else for you to have what you have? Your house knows. So does God.
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Why did Sarah laugh at a promise from God?
The answer is in Genesis 18:12 ↓
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Father, make me the kind of person who opens the door, sets another place, and sends people on their way…Father, make me the kind of person who opens the door, sets another place, and sends people on their way with what they need. Let my hands help carry what I cannot carry alone, so that your truth moves forward and we share the work together.
For this they willfully forget," Peter writes. Not that they never knew. They chose to misplace it. There is a…For this they willfully forget," Peter writes. Not that they never knew. They chose to misplace it. There is a kind of forgetting we do on purpose, because remembering that God spoke the world into being would mean He can speak into our lives too. What have you let yourself forget lately, simply because it asked too much of you?
Thank You for the line of Perez, name after name, Hezron and all who followed. You were quietly at work…Thank You for the line of Perez, name after name, Hezron and all who followed. You were quietly at work in every ordinary generation, keeping Your promise alive. Thank You that my small place in the family story matters to You too.
An unjust man detests the righteous, and those who are upright in their ways detest the wicked." Two lives that…An unjust man detests the righteous, and those who are upright in their ways detest the wicked." Two lives that cannot sit comfortably together. So when your honesty makes a room go quiet, don't rush to apologize for it. But ask the harder question too: what still looks attractive to me that God calls wicked?
Father, there's something tender about those hands wrapping Jesus in linen and spices, love given when nothing could be undone.…Father, there's something tender about those hands wrapping Jesus in linen and spices, love given when nothing could be undone. Teach me that kind of faithfulness, the sort that keeps caring in the silence, before I see what You will do next.
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